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

ASBURY PARK DANCE FESTIVAL at the Carousel Building and at the House of Independents in Asbury Park, N.J. (Sept. 13, 6:30 and 7 p.m.; Sept. 14, 7 p.m.). In the year following Paul Taylor’s death, many of his longtime dancers retired from his company, but not from dance. Two of them, Laura Halzack and Michael Trusnovec, are launching this festival, along with the film executive V J Carbone and Michelle Fleet, a current Taylor company member who will retire this fall. This inaugural Jersey Shore outing includes works by Pam Tanowitz, Caleb Teicher and Bryan Arias, as well as performances by Doug Varone’s company and a Martha Graham duet featuring a current member and a former member of the Graham company. A wait list is available for Saturday’s sold-out show, but two short, free performances will take place on Friday at Asbury Park’s Beaux-Arts carousel.

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FOR THE MOMENT at Gibney (Sept. 19, 7 p.m.). The esteemed writer, curator and community educator Eva Yaa Asantewaa recently came on board as Gibney’s new senior curatorial director, and this first season fully under her stewardship begins with the series “For the Moment,” which proposes a subject or idea that artists respond to in short solos. This iteration’s theme, “Untranslatable … Over the Roofs of the World,” comes courtesy of Walt Whitman, and the participating artists are Joey Kipp, Troy Ogilvie and Jaimé Yawa Dzandu.

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