The Joyce Theater Announces Fall ‘26/Winter ‘27 Season, Featuring Sinéad O’Connor Tribute

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See performances from intimate theatrical works and culturally rooted traditions to virtuosic ballet, flamenco, social dance, and contemporary circus.

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The Joyce Theater Foundation has unveiled its Fall ’26/Winter ’27 season, an expansive celebration of daring contemporary voices, internationally acclaimed companies, iconic returning favorites, and artists pushing dance into thrilling new territory. Taking place in The Joyce’s Tino & Rajika Puri Auditorium, the season reflects the extraordinary breadth of movement flourishing across today’s global performance landscape, from intimate theatrical works and culturally rooted traditions to virtuosic ballet, flamenco, social dance, and contemporary circus.

September 16-27 Wed-Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm Curtain Chat: Thursday, September 17 Tickets: $17-$72 (including fees)

Tony Award-winning choreographer and director Sonya Tayeh (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) brings her singular vision to The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O’Connor. A Joyce Theater Production, co-produced by Factory International in Manchester, UK, the work makes its North American premiere at The Joyce this fall. Fierce, unflinching, and tender, Tayeh draws on Sinéad O’Connor’s uncompromising voice and spirit to create a powerful meditation on voice, protest, and the courage to live a life that defies the norm. Performed by a company of ten fearless women, The Surge cuts through the notion of age as something to fear and affirms the passage of time as a privilege that carries beauty and experience with it.

September 29-October 4 Tue-Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm Curtain Chat: Wednesday, September 30 Tickets: $17-$82 (including fees)

The Sarasota Ballet lands at The Joyce with a program honoring three of Britain’s great choreographers—Sir Frederick Ashton , Antony Tudor, and Sir Peter Wright . Coinciding with the 90th anniversary of its premiere, Tudor’s emotional and poignant masterpiece Lilac Garden opens the show with a tale of a young woman, her lover, and the man she must marry. Considered one of the pre-eminent exponents of the ballets of Sir Frederick Ashton , the program continues with a rich selection of Ashton divertissements, including the Balcony Scene from his seldom seen Romeo and Juliet. Finally, bringing the performance to a close and in celebration of the choreographer’s 100th Birthday, Sir Peter Wright ’s ethereal and exquisitely beautiful Summertide displays a unique and rare example of his abstract choreography.

October 6-11 Tue-Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm Curtain Chat: Wednesday, October 7 Tickets: $17-$82 (including fees)

The Limón Dance Company’s 80th anniversary celebration bridges legacy and innovation through landmark new work commissions and powerful cultural partnerships, solidifying the Company as one of the most vital voices within the landscape of American and global dance. The program kicks off with José Limón’s 1958 Mazurkas, featuring live piano accompaniment and performed in its entirety for the first time since 1964. Born from his journey to Poland after World War II, Limón crafts a world of exuberant movement and rich musicality as a tribute to his dancers and the indomitable vitality he witnessed abroad. The program closes with the 2025 commission of Aszure Barton ’s Join, created in collaboration with Grammy-nominated composer Ambrose Akinmusire. Together, they take José Limón's vivid, poetic description of a lost Doris Humphrey work and create a new world of spellbinding movement and transcendent storytelling.

October 13-18 Tue-Fri 7:30pm, Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2pm Curtain Chat: Wednesday, October 14 Tickets: $17-$72 (including fees)

Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, India’s foremost Odissi dance company, invites audiences on a luminous journey across time with KHAṄKHAṆĀ—the sound of dancing feet. This evocative program is a tribute to the fertile red earth that nurtures the company’s home—the Nrityagram Dance Village—just outside Bangalore, India. Bringing together a constellation of acclaimed works, both new and beloved, KHAṄKHAṆĀ features the choreographic vision of Surupa Sen, internationally renowned Odissi artist and recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2018). Her work reveals a singular language of movement, at once meditative and dynamic, rooted in tradition yet deeply contemporary. Performed to an original live score, KHAṄKHAṆĀ memorializes rhythm and remembrance, an offering that echoes with movement, memory, and a shared hope for our world.

October 27-November 1 Tue-Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm Curtain Chat: Wednesday, October 28 Tickets: $17-$82 (including fees)

The award-winning London City Ballet, former resident company of Sadler’s Wells, returns after its successful revival tour in 2024 with two mixed programs of enticing new ballets and cherished legacy works. Former director of Hamburg Ballet for over five decades, John Neumeier, presents his recent work Ghost Light, offering a glimpse at the spirits of artists who once inhabited our stages, with world-renowned ballerina Alina Cojocaru guest starring in select performances. In this centenary year of American choreographer Glen Tetley , the company pays homage by reviving his gothic retelling of The Firebird, and, for the first time since 1991, re-introduces Jerome Robbins ’ Quiet City to the New York stage. Other highlights include enticing new ballets by Ashley Page, Florent Melac, and Tasha Chu.

November 4-8 Wed-Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm Curtain Chat: Wednesday, November 5 Tickets: $17-$72 (including fees)

The Rochester-based Garth Fagan Dance comes back to The Joyce Theater for its 55th anniversary season with its signature fusion of modern, post-modern, Afro-Caribbean, and ballet influences. Honoring Distinguished Artistic Director Emeritus Garth Fagan , recipient of the 2025 Bessie Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Tony Award-winning choreographer behind Disney’s The Lion King, the company presents an electrifying evening of rhythm, rigor, and soul. Program highlights include Fagan’s seminal Prelude: Discipline is Freedom and a revival of the evocative Never Top 40 (Jukebox). Expanding the company’s bold artistic vision are two NYC premieres: Priestess Hill by Artistic Director Norwood ‘PJ’ Pennewell and Messages To The Storm by Executive Director Natalie Rogers -Cropper.

November 11-15 Wed 7pm, Thu-Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm Curtain Chat: Thursday, November 12 Tickets: $17-$82 (including fees)

As GALLIM approaches its 20th anniversary season in 2027, the company returns to The Joyce Theater with a repertory program that honors its past while looking boldly toward its future. Featuring new creations by founder and artistic director Andrea Miller alongside GALLIM’s first-ever commissioned work by another choreographer, former company member Sean Howe , the evening reflects the company’s enduring commitment to innovation, collaboration, and artistic evolution. The program includes state and YEAR, two acclaimed works by Andrea Miller originally commissioned through a creative partnership with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham . Together, these works embody the fearless experimentation and restless imagination that have defined GALLIM for nearly two decades. Audiences will experience the extraordinary physicality and virtuosity of the GALLIM dancers in a world where movement, music, and visual design converge to create performances that are visceral, immersive, and unforgettable.

November 17-29 Week One: Tue 7:00pm, Wed-Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm Week Two: Tue-Wed 7:30pm, Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm Curtain Chat: Wednesday, November 18 Tickets: $17-$82 (including fees)

Complexions Contemporary Ballet returns for its homecoming season under the direction of Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson . This two-week engagement features three dynamic programs celebrating more than three decades of the company’s groundbreaking contemporary ballet repertory, including world premieres by Rhoden, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Tommie-Waheed Evans, and Co-Associate Artistic Director Jillian Davis, alongside signature works that embody Complexions’ genre-defying blend of virtuosic ballet, contemporary movement, theatricality, and cultural influences from around the world. Opening night features a special tribute honoring legendary artist and former Complexions Artistic Advisor Carmen De Lavallade , highlighted by the return of Desmond Richardson to the Complexions stage for the first time in eight years alongside former Dance Theatre of Harlem principal dancer Christina Johnson and former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater principal Sarita Allen in Rhoden’s It All, set to music by Björk. The program also includes the beloved Testament, featuring traditional African American spirituals including “The Lord’s Prayer” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.”

December 1-6 Tue-Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm Curtain Chat: Wednesday, December 2 Tickets: $17-$72 (including fees)

It wouldn’t be winter at The Joyce without A Very SW!NG OUT Holiday. The hit show is back for its seasonal encore run with new surprises yule surely not want to miss! Created by Caleb Teicher and their all-star team of collaborators (Evita Arce, LaTasha Barnes, Nathan Bugh , and Eyal Vilner), this spirited twist on the acclaimed show SW!NG OUT unites festive cheer and the best of Lindy Hop together onstage in a joyful revelry of social dance. Ring in the season with jubilant holiday classics played live by the Eyal Vilner Big Band, such as “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve,” “Christmas Night in Harlem,” “Winter Wonderland,” and more. Don’t get too cozy—during the second act, fa-la-la your way onstage and swap your ugly sweater for your dancing shoes for a post-show jam session!

December 8-13 Tue-Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2pm Curtain Chat: Wednesday, December 9 Tickets: $17-$72 (including fees)

Founded in Beijing in 2008 by choreographer Tao Ye, Duan Ni, and Wang Hao, TAO Dance Theater has built a singular reputation for pushing the boundaries of physical expression. The company makes its Joyce debut this winter with the melding of two works from the company canon: Numerical Series 13 and 14. In 13, the individual becomes distinctive, expressing emotion and forging relationships while remaining faithful to the communal body, costumes shifting in subtle gradations from off-white to blue-gray. Then, 14 ignites a chromatic explosion, energizing unison movement in a sinuous, contemplative dance. By combining the two numbers, Tao Ye injects a new meaning into the work, mirroring an idiom on eternal curiosity of the body.

December 15-January 3 Week One: Tue-Fri 7:30pm, Sat 3pm & 7:30pm, Sun 3pm Week Two: Tue 7:30pm, Wed 3pm & 7:30pm, Thu 3pm, Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3pm & 7:30pm Week Three: Tue-Wed 7:30pm, Thu 4pm, Sat 3pm & 7:30pm, Sun 3pm No Performances on Christmas Day (Dec 25) and New Year’s Day (Jan 1) Curtain Chat: Wednesday, December 16 Tickets: $17-$82 (including fees)

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is back in New York City at The Joyce for three weeks over the holidays! As the world's foremost gender-skewing comic ballet company, the Trocks surprise and delight audiences as they perform brilliant combinations of skillful pointe work and hilarious parodies of classical ballet favorites, such as Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, and Paquita, as well as modern works, including the Trocks' New York debut of Seán Curran's Metal Garden, and more. The Trocks are perfect for ballet and

_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-SURGE-An-Ode-to-Sinad-OConnor-and-More-Set-for-The-Joyce-Theaters-Fall-26Winter-27-Season-20260609)._