Dance New Jersey

Experience the magic of Roxey Ballet's Spring 2024 season, featuring captivating performances of and Carnival of the Animals.

Battery Dance will celebrate the 42nd Anniversary of its free summer festival from August 12-18, 2023, in partnership with Battery Park City Authority.

Dance New Jersey has announced that twenty vibrant and diverse artists from across the state of New Jersey will receive the Dance New Jersey 2022 Mini-Grant.

Applications are open for Dance New Jersey's Mini-Grant 2022: Covid Relief for Individual Dance Artists through June 6th, 2022.

In association with Dance New Jersey, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)presents a one-night only showcase on Friday, June 10, 2022, featuring world premiere works by five, young female New Jersey-based choreographers.

Ariel Rivka Dance presents their Spring Season from May 19-21, 2022 at 7:30pm, with an additional family matinee performance featuring ARD students and company on May 21, 2022 at 2pm, at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, 248 W. 60th Street, NYC. The finale performance on May 21, 2022 at 7:30pm will also be livestreamed on YouTube.

10 Hairy Legs will grant its net assets following dissolution to Dance on the Lawn, via Dance NJ Inc. as their fiscal agent. It will specifically support the annual DOTL NJ Emerging Commissioned Choreographer award.

Students and adult leaders will receive the state's most prestigious award in the arts, at the 40th Anniversary of the New Jersey Governor's Awards in Arts Education on June 26 at 5pm. This event will recognize 70 students and 15 adult leaders who have demonstrated excellence in and dedication to arts education.

 Thanks to generous support from The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Dance/NYC has announced its new partnership with Dance New Jersey, a dance service organization committed to advocating for the excellence of dance and dance education in the state of New Jersey.

The world renowned Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has received funding from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to facilitate the Dance to Learn curriculum in Elizabeth's Dr. Orlando Edreira School #26. Dance to Learn is a four-year interdisciplinary and inclusive dance curriculum with the goal to advance dance education in schools and community settings. Dance New Jersey and Young Audiences Arts for Learning (YA) will work with the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company to develop a new, creative and fun curriculum for the third graders of the school that is infused with Asian American artistic values. Through this unique collaboration, teaching artists of the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Ms. Akila Chetan, an expert in Indian Classical Dance will work with School #26 to offer an original curriculum that is diverse, inclusive, arts based and arts integrated.

Art House Productions (Executive Director Meredith Burns) and Friends of the Loew's are proud to announce the 10th Annual Your Move Modern Dance Festival sponsored by The KRE group, Harwood Properties, and Point Capital Development. This year's four-day festival will return to the Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre (54 Journal Square Plaza, Jersey City), a historic venue in Jersey City which will celebrate its 90th anniversary this year. The festival will run from November 13-17, 2019. Single tickets are now on sale at www.arthouseproductions.org. Single tickets are $18 in advance and $25 at the door. Additional discounts are available for groups of 10 or more. Tickets for TEN: A Panel & Party are $10.

Jersey NEW Moves!, a joint program of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and Dance New Jersey, has returned  for its fifth year, giving six young Garden State choreographers the opportunity to create and present new work while they are mentored by established artists.

A city rich in history and diversity, St. Louis is also becoming the "capital" of Indian classical dance. From April 19, 20, 201st 2019, the city will once again host Indian dancers from around the world at the 11th American Natya Festival.  

10 Hairy Legs will provide the Dance to Learn program to all second grade students at iPrep Academy and George Washington School #1 in Elizabeth, NJ in Fall 2018. The Creative Movement Residency includes 14 consecutive weekly classes during the school day taught to 100 students by 10 Hairy Legs Teaching Artist Shawn Brush. Brush works actively as a professional dancer as well as a Teaching Artist. Brush graduated Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University earning BFA's in Dance. The professional company will perform at Jerome Dunn Academy on Thursday, December ­­20 at 9:30 am with students participating in the program. The performance is free and open to the community.