Broaden your dance horizons at New York’s Engendered Dance Festival. Hosting works by Indian, Pakistani, British, Canadian, and American choreographers, the festival, April 20-25, explores gender, sexuality, ritual, and religion in South Asian Dance and its diaspora. lt includes discussions, master classes, workshops and performances. The festival runs April 20–25. Student tickets are only $25.

You’ve seen his dances, now hear him speak! Alonzo King will be featured April 26 at San Francisco’s Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab. The salon-style session are followed by an audience Q&A . Price tag? Free!

For an evening of exciting, diverse—and cheap—dance theater, go to North Carolina Dance Theatre’s first annual Director’s Choice series, featuring Balanchine’s Apollo, Mark Godden’s Constructing Juliet, and a world premiere by Complexions Ballet artistic director Dwight Rhoden. May 13–15. Tickets start at $20.