Dance in NYC This Week

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Our guide to dance performances.

AMERICAN BALLET THEATER at the Metropolitan Opera (through July 8). The swans haven’t left the lake just yet: This weekend is your final chance to catch performances of “Swan Lake.” (And Saturday night, Misty Copeland is scheduled to dance.) Beginning Monday, another love story consumes Ballet Theater when John Cranko’s “Onegin,” based on Pushkin’s novel in verse, opens with Diana Vishneva in the first of her final two performances with the company. That remarkably lush dancer will pour her emotions into the part of Tatiana opposite the debonair Marcelo Gomes. On Tuesday and Thursday, Alessandra Ferri, the veteran ballerina, performs as a guest artist with Roberto Bolle.
212-362-6000, abt.org

LORI BELILOVE & THE ISADORA DUNCAN DANCE COMPANY at the Joyce Theater (June 19, 7:30 p.m.). In “The Art of Isadora,” Ms. Belilove and her dancers celebrate what would have been Isadora Duncan’s 140th birthday with a selection of early solos and group works created in homage to Apollo and Dionysius, as well as more tragic solos created during Duncan’s final years. Any chance to see Ms. Belilove’s refined company is worth it, but this time, there’s an extra incentive: Appearing as a guest artist is Sara Mearns, the New York City Ballet principal, who will perform Duncan’s “Narcissus.” No, she’s not a modern dancer, but Ms. Mearns, fearless and dazzling, is alway up for stretching the boundaries of her art.
212-691-5040, isadoraduncan.org

ESMÉ BOYCE at the 92nd Street Y (June 16-17, 8 p.m.; June 18, 3 p.m.). The choreographer Esmé Boyce, a Juilliard graduate, presents “Interrobang,” a new work inspired by Dada. (The title refers to a nonstandard punctuation mark used to pose questions in a tone of excitement or disbelief.) It’s no surprise that in the work she experiments with elements of humor and absurdity. The premiere is paired with Ms. Boyce’s “Dark and Pretty Flat” (2014), which is inspired by the horizontal landscape and explores the idea of feeling like a stranger in one’s homeland. The program is also a family affair: Kit Boyce, Ms. Boyce’s father, is its set designer; Cody Boyce, her brother, composed the music.
212-415-5500, 92y.org

BRYANT PARK PRESENTS at Bryant Park (July 16, 6 p.m.; through July 14). For the opening of its Friday evening summer dance series, Bryant Park Presents offers a program devoted to ballet including David Fernandez’s neoclassical Some Dance Company, which includes members from New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater; Gabrielle Lamb’s Pigeonwing Dance; Da’ Von Doane & Artists of the Shift, led by that Dance Theater of Harlem dancer; Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance; and Bennyroyce Dance, which will present dances by Norbert De La Cruz III, Bennyroyce Royon and the former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater principal Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish. Coming performances in this weekly mixed bill include the Ashley Bouder Project, HopeBoykinDance and the Limón Dance Company.
bryantpark.org

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