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Founded in 1990, The New York Dance Festival is one of the most unique, refreshing, and inspired international dance festivals!

35 Years and counting, New York and around the Glo 35 Years and counting, New York and around the Globe! Join us in celebrating globally recognized choreographers, directors, dancers, and dance companies of the 2025 New York Dance Festival’s, International Stage! International Stage is an invitation-only curated online concert, and features an incredible array of choreography and culture for a global audience. This year’s International Stage Honorees represent work from the United States, Brazil, Canada, Belgium and Malaysia!

Congratulations to all the choreographers, directors, producers, dancers, and guests from around the globe that joined together for this year’s International Stage. This years honorees:

– Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre @kaleidoscopedancetheatre_kdt , Sean McLeod @seanmcleodofficial – New York
– Gregory Livingston @gregory_livingston_dance – Belgium & New York
– Ana Carolina Martinez Silva @carol.martinezsilva – Brazil
– Ballet Creole @balletcreole , Arsenio Andrade – Canada
– Ramli Ibrahim, Mazlan Othman, Victoria Fong – Malaysia 
– Lindsay Clipner @awethewhile , Katerina Beckman – New York
– BaKari Ifasegun Lindsay @a_feereeinc , – Canada

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When good hearted people come together, and act to When good hearted people come together, and act together on a common goal, anything is possible. At the 35th New York Dance Festival we again proved, “Dance is not our goal, it is our vehicle”. It was an incredible 35th “A Day in Dance” Concert Showing at New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center. Thank you to Jonathan Stafford, NYCB, SAB, Lincoln Center Security, and everyone who shared in this experience. That includes participants, faculty, esteemed guests, New York Dance Festival Choreographic Fellows, New York Dance Festival Film Fellows, Executive Track Cohort, and the audience from around the globe.

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Presenting our 2025 New York Dance Festival Fellow Presenting our 2025 New York Dance Festival Fellows! Through our continued partnership with Jonathan Stafford, Artistic Director of New York City Ballet and School of American Ballet, we continue to share the incredible resource of working at the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center. As Black and women run organizations, we know we can’t be here alone. A huge congratulations to this cohort of world class honorees!

Choreographic Fellows:
Christian Warner 
Olivia Holston
Christopher Page-Sanders
Ariel Rivka Dance

Film Fellow:
Lindsay Clipner
35th Year! The New York Dance Festival has Emotion 35th Year! The New York Dance Festival has Emotional Development and Personality Development central in all Master Classes. 

Here, this group demonstrates sharing joy during a McLeod Technique Musical Theater combination. Join us at New York City Ballet this week! 

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2025 New York Dance Festival Film Fellow: Fellow L 2025 New York Dance Festival Film Fellow: Fellow Lindsay Clipner working at the New York City Ballet with collaborators Bryan Reeder and Zui Gomez.

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The 35th New York Dance Festival starts Monday at The 35th New York Dance Festival starts Monday at Lincoln Center! Enjoy this clip from the archives:

Featuring Festival Executive Producer Sean McLeod and Rusted Roots’ Jim Donovan, the Drum Orchestra fills the room with rhythm and the dancers fill it with soul! 

Come celebrate 35 Years! Join us at any point for one class, or all of them. July 28-August 8! Link in bio.

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Learning Repertory is woven throughout the New Yor Learning Repertory is woven throughout the New York Dance Festival. Whether it’s historic repertoire from famed choreographers, McLeod Technique repertory, or new work set during the two week festival, participants, faculty, and special guests share with audiences the final “A Day in Dance” Concert Showing our closing night. Above is a McLeod Technique work that premiered in England.

Join us August 8, 2025 at Lincoln Center for the 35th “A Day in Dance” Concert Showing! A limited number of tickets are available.

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Excitement is everywhere as the 35th New York Danc Excitement is everywhere as the 35th New York Dance Festival at Lincoln Center draws closer! Join us at the New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center July 28-August 8th for incredible master classes, a world-class concert series, panel discussions, and to “Refuel Your Soul”! Whether it’s a few master classes, a day, a week, or the full 2 weeks, we cannot wait to see you. 

Look at the link in bio or DM our family of collaborators for more information. See you soon and follow along for more!

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Join the 35th New York Dance Festival at Lincoln C Join the 35th New York Dance Festival at Lincoln Center this summer! Directed and Choreographed by Sean McLeod @seanmcleodofficial , this excerpt featuring Kierstyn Zaykoski @kierstyn.zaykoski and Gregory Livingston @gregory_livingston_dance is from the 2023 Work in Progress “If All the People”. Each year, several new works are created during the Festival by World-class faculty! Registration is Open, festival runs July 28 - August 8 at New York City Ballet. The link is in the bio!

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Join the 35th Annual New York Dance Festival this Join the 35th Annual New York Dance Festival this Summer! The fun is contagious! This MT Afro Hip Hop Archive clip captures people living in the groove. Secure your spot for this summer at the link in our bio, and may the groove be with you!

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At the New York Dance Festival, we seriously belie At the New York Dance Festival, we seriously believe “Joy should be the standard”. 

Looking through our archives, we found a fantastic Musical Theater master class taught by Sean McLeod! At the festival even faculty participate, exampling letting go of fears. In this 2004 clip, he is joined  by Ann Whitbeck, Jacob Mora, and Thomas Warfield! 

We look forward to dancing with you this summer at our 35th Anniversary! 

Register! July 28-August 8, check out the link in the bio.

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The 35th Annual New York Dance Festival at Lincoln The 35th Annual New York Dance Festival at Lincoln Center is approaching July 28 - August 8, 2025! 

Take a look at this moment from the archives! Dance can push people, but it can also be a door to self exploration, group experiences, and learning to grow without limiting others. Joy can be the standard and old traditions can give way to new ideas of treating one another. 

In this clip American Producer, Director, Choreographer, Professor, and director of Dance at RIT/NTID Thomas Warfield leads a daily multi-level Master Class where beginner dancers see where they could go, and more advanced dancers are reminded where they come from. What is exchanged are good mental heath lessons about what is important which is people and relationships, not getting every step right. See you in July! 

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Preparing for the 2025 New York Dance Festival! Preparing for the 2025 New York Dance Festival! 

Preparing for the New York Dance Festival 2025 at Lincoln Center! In this clip Kierstyn Zaykoski rehearses American Director and Choreographer Sean McLeod’s work “Reaching Too”. A principal with the Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre, whether it’s a dramatic of comedic role, Kierstyn shares from her soul. Created in the vocabulary of McLeod Technique and classical ballet, this excerpt performed by Kierstyn is wonderful! See you in July! 

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Snippets of Joy from the 34th “A Day in Dance” Snippets of Joy from the 34th “A Day in Dance” Concert Showing at the School of American Ballet, Lincoln Center. The concert featured some of the festival participants, professional dancers, new works from 2024 New York Dance Festival Choreographic Fellows, the @kaleidoscopedancetheatre_kdt , and the launch of two new projects:  Nationally “Two Black Voices” with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Nationally & Internationally with “Tale of Two Lands: From Formosa to New York” with incredible support from New Music USA and the National Parks Arts Foundation. 

Thank you to the @neaarts , @nyscouncilonthearts , @newmusicusa , @nationalparksarts , and @jonathanstafford_nycb , artistic director for New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet for your support of these Black and Women run projects. 

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In studio with New York Dance Festival Choreograph In studio with New York Dance Festival Choreographic Fellow, and foundational faculty member Gregory Livingston @gregory_livingston_dance during the 34th New York Dance Festival at the School of American Ballet, Lincoln Center. 

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Tonight! The 34th “A Day in Dance” Concert sho Tonight! The 34th “A Day in Dance” Concert showing, 8:00 PM at the School of American Ballet, Lincoln Center. Concert features festival participants, new works by New York Dance Festival Choreographic Fellows, works by Festival Faculty, “Two Black Voices”, the Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre, and a special premiere of a collaborative work with Grammy Nominated Taiwanese Composer Chihsuan Yang and celebrated African American Composer, Director, and Choreographer Sean McLeod.

Thank you to @neaarts , @newmusicusa , @nyscouncilonthearts , @nationalparksarts , and @jonathanstafford_nycb for making this year’s event possible. 

Ticket Link in bio - join in person or virtually!
The 34th New York Dance Festival is underway at th The 34th New York Dance Festival is underway at the School of American Ballet, Lincoln Center! 

A look into the repertory Master Class on day 1 featuring @kierstyn.zaykoski 

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What is your favorite technique? Are there any tec What is your favorite technique? Are there any techniques you’d like to explore? The New York Dance Festival covers a variety of techniques for all ages and abilities. Check out this MT Afro Hip Hop Master Class that was filled with laughter!
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Musical Theater and a touch of soul. Blending several feels of movement Ballet to Hip Hop and more so these dancers could find a brand new day! Can you guess the year? 

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Emotional Development is at the core of the New Yo Emotional Development is at the core of the New York Dance Festival. Our mission has been to answer the question, “What good is it to be a world-class dancer, but to live daily with a broken soul?” With McLeod Technique as a foundation to enhance your ability in other techniques, the New York Dance Festival can offers steps that reintroduces laughter in class and reminds us why we love to dance. 

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