Ashanti stars as Dorothy in The Wiz, the 1974 rock and soul musical based on the beloved L. Frank Baum story about Dorothy and her adventures in Oz, which won seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Choreography.

For ten exhilarating days each year, feel the rush…the exuberance…the sheer joy that is dance, from New York City, across the country, and around the globe!

Fresh from Argentina, Tanguera is the first tango musical ever. A provocative, sensual and visually entrancing production, Tanguera tells a story of unrequited love in turn-of-the-20th-century Buenos Aires through a unique combination of song, music, and dance.

4 POR 4 is a collaboration between dance and visual art. Works by Brazilian artists of different times and genres are transformed into dance. Cantos (Corners), based on Cildo Meireles; Mesa (Table), Chelpa Ferro; Povinho (Some People), Victor Arruda; and Vasos (Vases), Gringo Cardia, are choreographies that bring images to life.

Presented by Rolex and with a star studded cast, AMERICA DANCES! celebrates a variety of entertainment that defines our American Culture—past, present and future. Artists from hit TV dance competitions will also be performing.

The critically-acclaimed Kings of the Dance are back onstage at New York City Center! The three-act performance will include choreography by Frederick Ashton, José Limón, Nacho Duato, Roland Petit, Anton Dolin, Boris Eifman, and Christopher Wheeldon.

In the depths of the Great Depression, the brothers Gershwin decided the American people needed a little pick-me-up. Instead, they hit a grand slam.

Based on Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy Marius, Fanny and Cesar and set in Marseille, this 1954 musical is among Broadway’s greatest love stories – a tale of a young girl’s passion for a young man so in love with the sea that he leaves her, little realizing that she is pregnant with his child.

Stephen Sondheim’s and Arthur Laurents’ experimental mid-‘60s satire of any and every target on the American cultural scene of the moment – conformity, psychology, race relations, greed, religion, politics – divided the critics, thrilled the emerging counter-culture, baffled the masses and closed quickly, becoming an instant legend that has grown over the years as Sondheim’s reputation has soared.