3 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend

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Our guide to dance performances happening this weekend and in the week ahead.

DANCE NOW FESTIVAL at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater (Sept. 5-8, 7 p.m.; Sept. 27, 7 p.m.). This long-running annual dance showcase and competition is a fun and easy way to sample a variety of flavors from the New York dance scene in a spirited club setting. Over four consecutive nights beginning on Wednesday, 40 local artists will take the festival’s challenge to present a “clear and complete artistic statement” in five minutes or less on the postage-stamp-size stage at Joe’s Pub. The results can be funny, sweet and/or strange. After this week’s performances, producers will select the 10 they feel best met the challenge, and those performers will then return for an encore on Sept. 27, when an overall winner will be chosen. But every night of Dance Now is a buffet worth visiting.
212-967-7555, joespub.com

SAVION GLOVER at Lumberyard in Catskill, N.Y. (Sept. 1-2, 6:30 p.m.). As part of the highly anticipated opening of Lumberyard’s residency and performance site about two hours north of New York City, the organization welcomes this tap virtuoso to its new campus for two performances that explore the range of rhythm. Mr. Glover is joined by Marcus Gilmore, a prodigious drummer who has been involved in his own investigation of rhythm with musicians like Vijay Iyer and Chick Corea. Together, Mr. Glover and Mr. Gilmore use their respective instruments to create a thrilling percussive soundscape. (The performance on Sept. 1 is sold out.)
lumberyard.org

WATERFRONT WEDNESDAY at 52-10 Center Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens (Sept. 5 and 19, 7 p.m.). Since summer is the season to get out and about, why not pair your dance viewing with some actual dancing? The Martinez Dance Studios of Long Island City has partnered with the Hunters Point Park Conservancy to present riverside performances by the studio’s students and professional dancers and also provide free classes in salsa, house, hustle and Zumba. After class, put those skills to use at a public party while a D.J. spins under the late-summer sky.
martinezdancestudio.com/community-outreach

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