Full reviews of recent dance performances: nytimes.com/dance.
Carrie Ahern Dance (Thursday, through May 13) To illuminate just what “farm to table” means, Carrie Ahern gets straight to the point: her new solo, “Borrowed Prey,” involves the butchering of a lamb (in a proper butcher shop), with meat for sale after the performance. The choreographer intends to get us thinking about our capacity for empathy and our relationships to what we eat. While the squeamish (or vegetarian) may want to opt out, you have to admire Ms. Ahern for daring to show us what we might rather not see. At 9 p.m., Dickson’s Farmstand Meats, Chelsea Market, 75 Ninth Avenue, between 14th and 15th Streets, Chelsea, brownpapertickets.com; $25 to $60. (Siobhan Burke)
★ Ailey II (Friday through Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday, through April 29) The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s vibrant second company celebrates its final season under its director, Sylvia Waters, and looks ahead to the future with a season featuring two programs of dances old and new, among them premieres by Stefanie Batten Bland, Mina Yoo and Troy Powell, Ms. Waters’s successor. Friday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 and 7 p.m., Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, Clinton, (866) 811-4111, alvinailey.org; $49. (Jack Anderson)
BAC Flicks (Tuesday) Next up in this delightful film series is the documentary “Carmen Geoffrey” — that’s Carmen de Lavallade, the ever-elegant dancer and choreographer, and her husband, Geoffrey Holder — which chronicles the couple’s intertwined artistic and personal lives. Married since 1955, Ms. De Lavallade and Mr. Holder have many good stories to tell. At 7 p.m., Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, Manhattan, (866) 811-4111, bacnyc.org; $15. (Burke)
★ Ballet Hispanico (Friday through Sunday, and Tuesday through Thursday, through April 29) The company pays tribute to its diverse Latino and African roots. New productions include Ronald K. Brown’s “Espiritu Vivo,” to music by the Afro-Peruvian singing star Susana Baca; and “Asuka,” the first work for the company by its new artistic director, Eduardo Vilaro. Friday and Thursday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 242-0800, joyce.org, $10 to $59. (Anderson)
Ballet Next (Wednesday) So far this company seems to be running mainly on star power. Founded last fall by Michele Wiles and Charles Askegard — former principal dancers of American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet, respectively — the troupe’s third choreographic workshop, a showing of works in the final stages of rehearsal, features the stunning Misty Copeland of American Ballet and City Ballet’s Georgina Pazcoguin, among other guest artists. The program, which will be live-streamed at balletnext.com, includes dances by Margo Sappington, Brian Reeder, Mauro Bigonzetti and Mr. Askegard. At 8 p.m., Manhattan Movement Arts Center, 248 West 60th Street, Manhattan, (212) 787-1178, manhattanmovement.com; $30. (Burke)
★ Barcelona Ballet (Friday) The company directed by Ángel Corella, admired by New York audiences from his years as a principal dancer of American Ballet Theater, brings a program that includes “Pálpito,” a new work by Angel Rojas and Carlos Rodriguez that integrates classical ballet and traditional Spanish dance; Christopher Wheeldon’s “For 4,” a quartet to Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden”; and Clark Tippet’s “Bruch Violin Concerto.” At 8 p.m., City Center, 131 West 55th Street, Manhattan, (212) 581-1212, nycitycenter.org; from $25 to $100. (Anderson)
Alexandra Beller/Dances (Saturday) Alexandra Beller’s “other stories,” to a commissioned score by the rock musician Robert Poss, is part of the Joyce SoHo’s In rep series, a rotating program of three companies. At 7:30 p.m., Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, (212) 242-0800, joyce.org; $20, or $15 for students and 65+. (Roslyn Sulcas)
Camille A. Brown, With J. Michael Kinsey (Friday and Saturday) If you like soul music and the dancing it inspires, this is your week. While David Zambrano brings his “Soul Project” back to St. Mark’s Church, Camille A. Brown joins forces with the actor J. Michael Kinsey to create a musical theater-style production, “One Second Past the Future,” to songs by the Jackson 5, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Parliament and other soul and funk artists. At 9:30 p.m., Joe’s Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village , (212) 967-7555, joespub.com; $15 in advance or $20 at the door. (Burke)
Chunky Move (Wednesday and Thursday, through May 6) On recent visits to New York, this Australian company has arrived with dizzying, multimedia productions in tow. For a change of pace, Gideon Obarzanek, in his final months as the troupe’s artistic director, brings “Faker,” a more pared-down solo by and for himself. In this show about an unfinished show, the choreographer invites us to peer into his creative process as he confronts the doubts and frustrations therein — but not without his characteristic glimmers of humor. At 7:30 p.m., Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, (212) 242-0800, joyce.org; $22. (Burke)
Decadancetheater (Saturday and Sunday) A part of the theater’s In rep series, this Brooklyn-based all-female group offers high-energy hip-hop dancing. Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 7:30 p.m., Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, (212) 242-0800, joyce.org; $20, or $15 for students and 65+. (Anderson)
Faye Driscoll (Friday and Saturday) As performers seduce, role-play, gaze and crave in rapid succession, “You’re Me” ponders ways in which people can be made up and undone by each other. At 8 p.m., the Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 255-5793, Ext. 11, thekitchen.org; $15, or $12 for students and 65+. (Anderson)
Fridays at Noon (Friday) All great artists need a summer retreat where their brilliant ideas can run wild. For modern dance pioneers of the 1930s and ’40s, that place was the Bennington School of the Dance. As part of the 92nd Street Y’s free Friday series, students from Montclair State University perform works by some of the many choreographers who passed through that historic festival and school. Elizabeth McPherson, a Montclair State professor, will read from her book in progress, “Voices from the Bennington School of the Dance.” At noon, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, (212) 415-5500, 92y.org; free. (Burke)
Trajal Harrell (Wednesday and Thursday, through April 28) Mr. Harrell’s contemporary take on Sophocles, “Antigone Sr./Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L),” is the latest installment of a five-part series that asks (a bit long-windedly), “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmodernists at Judson Church?” Like the garments flaunted at those voguing balls, each of the works is labeled by size (XS through XL), though Mr. Harrell’s ideas are far less classifiable. At 7:30 p.m., New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 924-0077, newyorklivearts.org; $24 in advance or $30 day of performance; $15 on Thursday. (Burke)
★ Studio Series: RoseAnne Spradlin (Friday and Saturday) After witnessing the dark, feverish intensity of her work titled “beginning of something” at the Chocolate Factory last spring, you can’t help but wonder what RoseAnne Spradlin is dreaming up next. This informal showing, followed by a discussion with Ms. Spradlin, features new material — perhaps the beginning of something else — developed with the dancers Rebecca Serrell Cyr, Natalie Green and Rebecca Wender. At 6 p.m., New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 924-0077, newyorklivearts.org; $5. (Burke)
★ Katie Workum (Friday and Saturday) In “Fruitlands,” the whimsical Ms. Workum builds up and breaks down tensions between enclosed spaces and boundless ones, between private rituals and group dynamics. The piece takes its title from the failed utopian experiment of Bronson Alcott, an American transcendentalist and the father of Louisa May Alcott, whose “Little Women” has also been on the choreographer’s mind. Shades of those fictional sisters might appear in Ms. Workum’s four insightful performers: Marilyn Maywald, Molly Lieber, Weena Pauly, and Katy Pyle. At 8 p.m., Chocolate Factory, 5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, (212) 352-3101, chocolatefactorytheater.org; $15; (Burke)
Youth America Grand Prix: Final Round (Thursday, through April 28) If you notice an unusual number of svelte, leotard-clad teenagers wandering around Manhattan this week, it’s because the New York City finals of the world’s largest student ballet competition, the Youth America Grand Prix, are under way. At the final round, which is open to the public, tensions will be running high as 60 exceptional young talents vie for a total of $250,000 in scholarships to prestigious ballet academies. This is just the beginning of a fanfare-filled weekend that continues with two star-studded galas. At 7 p.m. David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 496-0600, davidhkochtheater.com; $25 to $45. (Burke)
★ David Zambrano (Friday and Saturday) A not-to-be-missed highlight of New York’s spring dance season, “Soul Project,” by the Amsterdam-based Mr. Zambrano, returns to Danspace Project, where it had its premiere in 2010. In a wild succession of solos, Mr. Zambrano’s fabulous performers (the choreographer included) work themselves into ecstatic, almost possessed states, not unlike the soul singers who provide the soundtrack. The audience, migrating with the soloists through the space, is encouraged to get close to the action. Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 6:30 and 9 p.m., Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, 131 East 10th Street, East Village, (866) 811-4111, danspaceproject.org; $20. (Burke)
