Women Move the World, 92NY Harkness Dance Center’s 2025/26 Mainstage Series, closes with An Evening with Aszure Barton on Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 7PM at Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10128. Tickets start at $45 and are available at https://www.92ny.org/event/an-evening-with-aszure-barton.

Aszure Barton is among the most sought-after choreographers of her generation — a singular voice whose work has stirred audiences around the world, from Nederlands Dans Theater to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. As director of Aszure Barton & Artists | AB&A — a multidisciplinary dance hub founded in New York in the early 2000s — has reimagined what it means to build a body of work, “a mobile home for trusted humans,” as she says. 92NY’s Women Move the World 2025/26 Harkness Mainstage Series closes with a landmark event that celebrates this holistic vision.

“Choreographer Aszure Barton speaks a language of raw emotion: a punch to the gut, a tightening heart. Her works tell the never-ending story of what it means to be human.” — Carmen Kovacs, dramaturg

The evening takes shape as an intimate, living portrait of Aszure’s creative practice, a celebration unfolding at 92NY — not a retrospective, but a gathering of some of her favorite people. Joy, humor, heart. Solos, duets, and trios alongside ensembles of both new and existing work, forged through deep collaboration and a lifetime of making together. Artists whose connection to Aszure transcends any single company or continent — her longtime AB&A collaborators and stagers Jonathan Alsberry, Tobin Del Cuore, James Gregg, and Taylor LaBruzzo, and other fierce independents Rena Butler, MJ Edwards, Jennifer Florentino, and Isaac Hernández of American Ballet Theatre — alongside artists from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Gauthier Dance | Theaterhaus Stuttgart, and Limón Dance Company, brought together here thanks to the sweet spirit of collaboration with their directors.
Among them is the U.S. Premiere of human undoing, a duet distilling ‘sloth’ as physical aversion, set to the music of pianist and composer Craig Taborn, shared by the Gauthier Dance artists who first brought it to life. Woven throughout: new work made for this night alone, bringing these worlds into conversation in real time. The evening culminates in the New York premiere of LubDub, a new work currently in creation with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, where Aszure has made another home over the last three seasons as Artist in Residence, set to music anchored by JLIN.

For Aszure, this is also a homecoming — it was in New York that she spent nearly twenty formative years and founded AB&A, and there is nowhere more fitting to celebrate it than 92NY. A love note — to the people who made her braver, to the process that made the work possible, and to the audience who shows up to meet them.