Join us for an evening of experimental and boundary-defying music featuring work by Bora Yoon. This event is co-presented with National Sawdust.

As part of its Uptown Nights music series, Harlem Stage collaborates with Harlem-based Sugar Hill Salon — one of the first chamber music series and artistic collectives that centers on black and brown woodwind artistry in classical music — and Concert Artists Guild.

Join us for an evening of experimental and boundary-defying music featuring works by yuniya edi kwon and SUN HAN GUILD. This event is co-presented with National Sawdust.

In this culminating WaterWorks Emerging Artists program work-in-progress showcase, Harlem Stage presents works by the 2023 WaterWorks Emerging Artists cohort: interdisciplinary performing artist and painter Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson; singer/songwriter Hannah Lemmons aka LEMMONS; choreographer and dancer Bobby Morgan; interdisciplinary artist, composer, and pianist Mary Prescott; and trumpeter and composer Kalí Rodríguez-Peña.

Harlem Stage presents Afro-Dominican bandleader and guitarist Yasser Tejeda performing a combination of traditional folkloric music, jazz, rock, and Caribbean rhythms. Keeping us moving before and after the performance, DJ Sabine Blaizin (Oyasound) will spin Global House and Soul, Afrotech, Afrobeat, and other diasporic Afro-Caribbean dance music with a nod to her Haitian roots.

Latin GRAMMY winners Flor de Toloache, New York City’s first and only all-women mariachi group, make their Harlem Stage debut, presented in collaboration with Carnegie Hall.

In the Court of the Conqueror features a solo performance by george emilio sanchez and visual storytelling by his collaborator, visual artist Patty Ortiz. Together, they confront the history of how the U.S. Supreme Court has diminished the Tribal Sovereignty of Native Nations.

GRAMMY-winning Cuban-born drummer, composer, bandleader, and 2011 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Dafnis Prieto presents the New York debut of his heralded 2022 album, Cantar.

GRAMMY-winning Cuban-born drummer, composer, bandleader, and 2011 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Dafnis Prieto presents the New York debut of his heralded 2022 album, Cantar.

Trombonist, composer, and sonic shaman Craig Harris presents TONGUES OF FIRE (in a harlem state of mind), a concert of music, poetry, and movement.

Trombonist, composer, and sonic shaman Craig Harris presents TONGUES OF FIRE (in a harlem state of mind), a concert of music, poetry, and movement.

First presented at our previous home, Aaron Davis Hall, in 1998, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE returns for two nights of not-to-be-missed performances featuring dances that are “pure Brown: otherworldly, charged, urgent in their undulating sweep and unaffectedly fervent” (The New York Times).

First presented at our previous home, Aaron Davis Hall, in 1998, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE returns for two nights of not-to-be-missed performances featuring dances that are “pure Brown: otherworldly, charged, urgent in their undulating sweep and unaffectedly fervent” (The New York Times).

Join us at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse for a block party that will be a blast of community fun and flavor! Don’t miss the FREE bites and the DJ dance party.

Kicking off the new Uptown Nights Latin Music Series is Pablo Mayor and his powerhouse 13-piece Folklore Urbano Orchestra.

Co-presented by Harlem Stage and Bryant Park on the occasion of Harlem Stage’s 40th Anniversary, James performs On & On: José James Sings Badu, his latest record honoring the legendary high priestess of neo-soul, singer-songwriter Erykah Badu.

Ahead of its premiere on July 5th at Lincoln Center, Tamar-kali discusses the inspiration behind Sea Island Symphony: Red Rice Cotton and Indigo, her orchestral love letter to her roots in conversation with artists who share the legacy, land stewardship and language of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.

Afro-Dominican bandleader Yasser Tejeda performs a combination of traditional folkloric music and jazz, rock, and Caribbean rhythms. Haitian DJ Sabine Blaizin (Oyasound) spins African diasporic dance music before and after the performance.

The 2023 Annual Gala kicks off Harlem Stage's 40th Anniversary. The evening will be a start to our yearlong celebration of the transformative artists we showcase and a forward look to the groundbreaking artists that will shape Harlem Stage's future.

A documentary that captures the mid-pandemic culmination of Harlem Stage’s Afrofuturism series featuring Craig Harris’ Nocturnal Nubian Ball for Conscientious Ballers and Cultural Shot Callers. The film is a mix of behind the scenes, concert, and historical footage that highlights Craig Harris’ reunion and performances with legendary free jazz instrumentalist and fellow Sun Ra Arkestra Member, Marshall Allen.

The final day of the Black Arts Movement: Then And Now Conference has a rich offering: a screening of Portrait of Jason, a discussion about the Afro-Latinx relationship with the Black Arts Movement, an analysis of historian Harold Cruse's controversial book, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, closing statements by Carl Hancock Rux, and a concert curated Carl Hancock Rux, Tavia Nyong’o, and Vernon Reid.

The 2nd day of the Black Arts Movement Conference begins with a discussion on Black Masculinity, moderated by Jonathan McCrory, a discussion on the feminist perspective of the Black Arts Movement with Angela Davis, Nona Hendryx, and Toshi Reagon, a conversation between Carl Hancock Rux and Sonia Sanchez, and a closing performance featuring Henry Threadgill, Craig Taborn, and Dafnis Prieto.

The Black Arts Movement Conference, imagined by Carl Hancock Rux, opens with a Keynote presentation delivered by poet, writer, arts administrator, and activist, A.B. Spellman, a response by Quincy Troupe & David Henderson, moderated by Pat Cruz, and reception.

The week prior to the conference, Harlem Stage and MDC screen Jason and Shirley, the 2015 docudrama by Stephen Winter inspired by Portrait of Jason.

Bessie and Herb Alpert Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and Harlem Stage WaterWorks Established Artist, nia love, and her company present the premiere of UNDERcurrents, a dance/installation work which invites audiences to probe the seam between catastrophic history and quotidian memory and tend the textures of generational care.

Bessie and Herb Alpert Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and Harlem Stage WaterWorks Established Artist, nia love, and her company present the premiere of UNDERcurrents, a dance/installation work which invites audiences to probe the seam between catastrophic history and quotidian memory and tend the textures of generational care.

Bessie and Herb Alpert Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and Harlem Stage WaterWorks Established Artist, nia love, and her company present the premiere of UNDERcurrents, a dance/installation work which invites audiences to probe the seam between catastrophic history and quotidian memory and tend the textures of generational care.

Medicinally together. Traditionally one. Conversations on the art of healing and teamwork is a roundtable, kitchen-like conversation about ancient medicines that live deep in the body and can be accessed through an active and ongoing mediation of art and science. 

 As part of the Uptown Nights series, Harlem Stage celebrates Louis Hayes’ forthcoming album, Exactly Right, to be released on Savant Records, as well as his being named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2023, which will be officially bestowed on him just a few weeks prior to his arrival at the Gatehouse.

This special presentation on the visual arts features two scholars, Michael Sawyer, in a free Zoom event and discussion moderated by Artistic Director & CEO Pat Cruz that will examine the impact and legacy of the visual arts during this period and the resonant artistic responses to the Black Power and Black Lives Matter movements.