The Lincoln Center’s summer-long celebration of dance continues in as the BAAND Together Dance Festival returns for its sixth year, reuniting five of NYC’s most iconic dance companies—Ballet Hispánico New York, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem—on one stage from July 28-August 1, 2026 at the David H. Koch Theater as part of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City.

To make the arts more accessible, tickets are available on a Choose-What-You-Pay basis here starting at $5. All tickets are offered for Choose-What-You-Pay, reflecting Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ commitment to making world-class artistry as accessible as possible.

The BAAND Together Dance Festival is made possible by CHANEL, a supporter of the festival since its debut in 2021, and offers the rare chance to experience programming curated collaboratively by the artistic directors of each company, including repertory favorites. The Festival began when the performing arts were coming back after the height of the pandemic in 2021 as a new form of collaboration in celebration of the return to live performance.

Performances: Tue-Fri at 7:30pm, Sat at 4pm

PROGRAM:
American Ballet Theatre – Zephyr pas de deux by Claire Davison

Dance Theatre of Harlem – Passage of Being by Jodie Gates

New York City Ballet – Each In Their Own Time pas de deux by Lar Lubovitch

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – A Case of You by Judith Jamison

Ballet Hispánico New York – Trança (Braid) by Cassi Abranches

For the second year, audiences will get an off-stage perspective of the extraordinary creative collaboration between these five renowned NYC dance companies during a free panel discussion on Tuesday, July 28 at 5:00pm in the David Rubenstein Atrium, featuring the artistic leaders of all five companies: Eduardo Vilaro, Ballet Hispánico New York; Alicia Graf Mack and Matthew Rushing, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Susan Jaffe, American Ballet Theatre; Wendy Whelan and Jonathan Stafford, New York City Ballet; and Robert Garland, Dance Theatre of Harlem, moderated by Donald Borror, Director, Pasculano Collaborative for Contemporary Dance.

Each afternoon , one of the companies brings its unique teaching style to participants of all ages with free dance workshops in the David Geffen Hall lobby. The series will offer a variety of dance forms, appropriate for all ages and abilities.