Our guide to dance performances.
AMERICAN DANCE PLATFORM at the Joyce Theater (Jan. 12 at 8 p.m.; Jan. 13 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Jan. 14 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.). This festival, programmed by Christine Tschida, the director of Northrop at the University of Minnesota, wraps up this weekend with programs featuring shared performances. The newest pairing explores rhythm and showcases Ensemble Español Spanish Theater, which performs flamenco and folkloric dance, and Trinity Irish Dance Company. Other programs offer classic modern dance by Philadanco! alongside hula by Halau O Kekuhi; Jessica Lang Dance with, in its Joyce debut, Backhausdance; and BODYTRAFFIC with the tap ensemble Caleb Teicher and Company.
212-242-0800, joyce.org
AMERICAN REALNESS 2018 at various locations (through Jan. 16). This jam-packed festival shines a spotlight on innovative dance and performance. Highlights include the Jan. 12 premiere of Michael Portnoy’s “Relational Stalinism — the Musical,” which was born from, as press notes state, “dancers in museums moaning and leaning against walls, pestering visitors with boilerplate philosophical questions and busting their kneecaps on punishing concrete floors.” (Well put.) Also opening this weekend are “Everything Fits In the Room,” by Simone Aughterlony and Jen Rosenblit, with Miguel Gutierrez and Colin Self on sound, and “(do not) despair solo,” a performance-lecture by Marissa Perel that explores choreography, disability, queerness and intimacy.
646-837-6809, americanrealness.com
ASTANA BALLET THEATER at Alice Tully Hall (Jan. 17). This company hails from the Republic of Kazakhstan and presents a free program: “Kazakhstan Astana Ballet Gala.” Along with “Heritage of the Great Steppe,” a work made up of sections from traditional ballets, the engagement showcases two works by Ricardo Amarante. “Love Fear Loss” is choreographed to the songs of Edith Piaf and inspired by her life, while “A Fuego Lento” takes a look at first love.
212-707-8566, lincolncenter.org
MALPASO DANCE COMPANY at the Joyce Theater (Jan. 17 through Jan. 21). This Cuban contemporary dance company — formed in 2012 and led by its three founders, Fernando Sáez, Osnel Delgado and Daileidys Carrazana — returns to the Joyce with the premiere of “Indomitable Waltz” by Aszure Barton. Set to music by Alexander Balanescu, Michael Nyman and Nils Frahm, the new work features eight dancers. The program also highlights Mr. Delgado’s duet “Ocaso” (2013) and “Face the Torrent,” a premiere by Sonya Tayeh.
212-242-0800, joyce.org.
NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA at N.Y.U. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (Jan. 12-13 at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 14 at 2 p.m.). As part of the Under the Radar Festival, Nature Theater of Oklahoma explores the notion of the American dream in “Pursuit of Happiness,” a collaboration with the Slovenian dance company EnKnapGroup. In this production, Nature Theater and EnKnapGroup’s six dancers take the viewer on an especially raucous ride, in which they chase their dreams in dark corners of the world, where lust and greed sprout like weeds, and ultimately end up — where else? — in Hollywood.
212-967-7555, undertheradarfestival.com
OPEN DOORS: 92Y HARKNESS DANCE CENTER ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE SHOWCASE at the 92nd Street Y (Jan. 12, 8 p.m.; Jan. 13, 4 p.m.). As part of its Dig Dance Weekend Series, the 92nd Street Y hosts a program of works from its artists in residence. The lineup includes some of today’s most evocative contemporary choreographers: Joanna Kotze, Kensaku Shinohara, Pam Tanowitz, Larissa Velez-Jackson and Jillian Peña.
212-415-5500, 92Y.org
OUT OF ISRAEL: 70 YEARS OF ISRAEL, 70 YEARS OF DANCE at the 92nd Street Y (Jan. 12, noon; Jan. 13, 8 p.m.). This series celebrates its eighth season with a look at Israeli dance. Curated by Dana Katz, the program includes a work by Itzik Galili and Roy Assaf performed by Troy Ogilvie; a solo by dance artist Roni Chadash; a premiere by DANAKA collective; and a screening of films by Joseph Bach and Shamel Pitts.
212-415-5500, 92Y.org
2018 COIL FESTIVAL at Performance Space 122 (through Feb. 4). The final Coil Festival continues this week with the Australian dancer and choreographer Angela Goh’s “Desert Body Creep,” in which she undergoes a transformation by means of decay. The solo, as described on Ms. Goh’s website, “falls in slow motion through black holes, plot holes and worm holes, only to arrive again exactly where we already were.” The festival continues with Dean Moss’s “Petra” (Jan. 23–27) and David Thomson’s “he his own mythical beast” (Jan 31–Feb. 4).
212-352-3101, ps122.org