Our guide to dance performances happening this weekend and in the week ahead.

GERMAINE ACOGNY AND MIKAËL SERRE at the Ellen Stewart Theater at La MaMa (Sept. 26-28, 7 p.m.). Referred to as the “mother of contemporary African dance,” Acogny has been a formidable force on that continent for decades, in particular through the establishment of an influential school in her native Senegal. She is also a commanding and mesmerizing presence onstage. In the coming week at French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line Festival, Acogny, now in her 70s, presents a solo called “Somewhere at the Beginning,” created with Serre, a theater director. The work weaves tropes from Greek tragedies into Acogny’s personal journey from Africa to Europe and back, while tracing the arc of African history.

212-352-3101, lamama.org

IVY BALDWIN at Manitoga, the Russel Wright Design Center, in Garrison, N.Y. (Sept. 21-22, 12:30 and 4:30 p.m.). About 50 miles north of New York City sits Manitoga, a lush, wooded estate that was owned by the industrial designer Russell Wright, who died in 1976, and whose minimalist, ecological home illustrates his views on living in harmony with nature. In her site-specific work, “Quarry,” Baldwin takes inspiration from Wright’s ideas and designs, as well as the landscape, to encourage audience members to reconsider and repair their relationship with the environment. She enlists seven performers in the effort, who dance among trees, on mossy roofs and in the titular quarry. Saturday’s performances have sold out, but tickets are still available for Sunday.

visitmanitoga.org

MARIA BAUMAN-MORALES at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (Sept. 25, 27 and 28, 8 p.m.). Yards of taut string create a weblike installation that becomes something of a character in Bauman-Morales’s new work “re(source).” Navigating that knotty set, which she created with the interdisciplinary artist Nontsikelelo Mutiti, and surrounded by the audience, Bauman-Morales sings, speaks and dances throughout the space, sharing the story of her own family as an entry point to an exploration of race relations in the United States during the Trump presidency. This performance is presented by the Chocolate Factory and the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.

718-482-7069, chocolatefactorytheater.org

JÉRÔME BEL at Florence Gould Hall (Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m.). Since 2004, Bel, an experimental choreographer, has created several biographical works based on the lives of living dancers. “Isadora Duncan,” debuting in the United States at the Crossing the Line Festival on Wednesday, is his first dance portrait of a historical figure. Drawing from her autobiography, Bel explores Duncan’s art, politics and persona. The work is performed by Catherine Gallant, a New York-based dancer and historian who has also researched Duncan extensively. Together they paint a moving, breathing picture of the free-spirited woman who paved the way for modern dance.

212-355-6160, fiaf.org