ABOUT THE SERIES:

The critically acclaimed E-Moves Festival: A Movement will close out the season at Harlem Stage with leading choreographers, including Bebe Miller, Michela Marino Lerman, and Eiko Otake, featuring Dancing in History’s Long Shadow: Talks and Screenings with Dancers and Choreographers of Color, curated by Ronald K. Alexander and Dr. JuYeon Ryu. This year’s festival will add a holistic wellness component for all ages with movement and yoga classes, meditation, healthy food and beverage offerings, and wellness workshops and screenings for the community.

DANCE

THU, MAY 8 – FRI, MAY 9 | 7PM

BEBE MILLER
Location: Harlem Stage

The Bebe Miller Company makes its Harlem Stage debut with an evening that celebrates the company’s 40 years of creating exquisite physical language to explore the human condition. In a new ensemble work Indifferent Forests (2025), learnings from the forest inspire new approaches to interdependence and dancing on shared ground. Two powerful solos from Miller’s canon of work Rain (1989) and Rhythm Studies (1999), express Miller’s faith in the moving body as a record of thought, experience, and beauty.

DANCE

FRI, MAY 16 – SAT, MAY 17 I 7PM ET

MICHELA MARINO LERMAN
Location: Harlem Stage

Renowned tap dance artist Michela Marino Lerman guest curates an evening of performances to celebrate the legacy of International Tap Dance Day. Featuring works by tap dance luminaries and a new work by Michela, the evening pays homage to the past, present, and future of tap dance. Michela hosts jam sessions at Harlem Stage leading up to the showcase.

DANCE

FRI, JUN 13 – SAT, JUN 14 I 7PM ET

EIKO OTAKE + DONCHRISTIAN JONES
Location: Harlem Stage

E-Moves presents the premiere of SOAK, a place-specific work created at Harlem Stage by interdisciplinary artists Eiko Otake and DonChristian Jones. It was with Jones in 2017, that Otake started her ongoing The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable, an evolving series of experiments in collaboration. In their new work SOAK, they explore water as a shared origin, and the body as rivers of memories. Drawing upon their singular and dynamic history of collaboration, they collide toward many tomorrows.