Rehearsal Space
NYC Dance Spaces
This NYC Dance Spaces website is a free information source of available rehearsal and performance spaces in New York City for dancers, dance companies and choreographers. We do not book the space for you; that's up to you! We reach out as broadly as we can to find spaces suitable for dance. Our database covers spaces in the five boroughs. Rehearsal spaces range from small (up to 600 square feet) to large (over 1,200 square feet). Performance spaces have audience capacities up to 2700.
New York City Center
New York City Center provides special services to the many companies that perform here annually including Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and American Ballet Theatre. City Center presents, co-presents, and commercially rents the Mainstage theater, and is the long-time home for Manhattan Theatre Club, with its full season of plays and "Spring Boards" series in City Center's Stage I and Stage II theaters.
Movement Research
http://www.movementresearch.org
movement research is one of the world's leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms. Valuing the individual artist and their creative process and vital role within society, Movement Research is dedicated to the creation and implementation of free and low-cost programs that nurture and instigate discourse and experimentation. Movement Research strives to reflect the cultural, political and economic diversity of its moving community, including artists and audiences alike.
Dance Theater Workshop
One of America’s preeminent performing arts institutions, Dance Theater Workshop maintains an uncompromising mission to identify, present, and support independent contemporary artists and companies to advance dance and live performance in New York and worldwide. Dance Theater Workshop is a center for the development and presentation of contemporary dance and performance, and for the artists who create it. Dance Theater Workshop fully presents over 110 performances by some 45 different artists and companies each year.
Chez Bushwick
Chez Bushwick, an artist-run organization based in Brooklyn, is dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary art and performance, with a strong focus on new choreography. Since its inception in 2002, the organization has been acknowledged as a new model for economic sustainability in the performing arts, offering New York City's only $5 subsidy for rehearsal space, and thereby fostering the creation, development, and performance of new work.