Dance Now Festival

Dance Now's 24th season offers a massive festival of short works by 40 dance makers of every stripe, all challenged to mount five-minute pieces on the teeny stage at Joe's Pub. TruDee (Deborah Lohse) hosts the fest, which includes performances by the Bang Group, LMnO3, Brendan Drake, Zvi Dance, Doug Elkins, Nicole Wolcott, Caleb Teicher & Company, Tsiambwom M. Akuchu, Alice Sheppard, Loni Landon Dance Project, Claire Porter/Portables, HUMA, Cleo Mack, Adam Barruch, Orlando Hernández, Ruckus Dance and many more. The best of the fest, as chosen by the producers, return for special encore performances on Sept 26 and January 12.