92NY Harkness Dance Center Presents Swing Out Loud: Women Move the World

The 92nd Street Y and New York’s 2025/26 Harkness Dance Center are proud to announce the opening of their mainstage series with Swing Out Loud: Women Move the World, a swing party with LaTasha Barnes and One BadA** Swing Band. Lindy hop lesson begins at 7 pm, party starts at 8 pm. Tickets from $25 at https://www.92ny.org/event/swing-out-loud.

In a season dedicated entirely to works curated, created, and choreographed by women, Swing Out Loud is a night of joy, rhythm, and resistance. Led by multi-Bessie Award winner and internationally renowned artist-scholar LaTasha Barnes, this Swing Dance Party is a lesson, a tribute, and a celebration.

The evening begins with dance instruction and unfolds into a community social — a space for acknowledgment, sharing, and improvisation. With a powerhouse, all-women swing band and surprise performances by guest artists like Gaby Cook, Reyna Nunez and “The Keepers of the Beat,”, the evening is set to be an electrifying celebration of swing, sisterhood, and the brilliance of a collaborative community.

Swing, Lindy Hop, Jazz — in LaTasha Barnes’ world, they are not relics. They are living, breathing practices, born of lives deeply lived, containing histories and holding blueprints for both future expressions and the tools to choose how we exist in our present moment. Bring friends, dancing shoes, and your whole self (in your most dapper fit) — and swing into the new season of Harkness Dance Center.

“Dance is liberation. It is hope embodied.” — LaTasha Barnes

About the Harkness Dance Center

The Harkness Dance Center was founded at 92NY in May 1935, with Doris Humphrey as the first director. Right from the start, the center focused on the power of art to promote self-expression, creativity and societal engagement. The original faculty, including Martha Graham, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm and Anna Sokolow, both performed and taught classes in modern dance techniques to 92NY members, expanding the art’s reach to non-professionals.

For more than 90 years, the Harkness Dance Center has been a hub for a global community of dancers who gathered here to dance through the rhythm of their times, exploring fundamental questions of identity, society and humanity — and in doing so, created iconic works of American modern dance. Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, José Limón, Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham, and Alvin Ailey are just a few of the legendary artists who created and premiered work on 92NY’s stage.

Today, the Harkness Dance Center connects artists, audiences and students of dance like nowhere else in New York city. World-class dancers and choreographers in our Performances season lead classes and workshops for students. Our School of Dance is recognized as the premiere destination for holistic dance instruction in New York City. The artist-in-residence program puts audiences at the leading edge of new ideas in movement and the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) leads the way in dance education by providing training and support so educators can experiment, create, learn and innovate.