In direct response to this call and the greater performing arts ecosystem’s loss of festivals, residencies and funding, the 2024 Live Artery will expand and include for the first time co-presentations with partner Under the Radar, and off-site performances at The Chocolate Factory, Gibney Presents and Collapsable Hole. As the annual start to the spring season, the festival will proudly present 18 events over the course of 12 days, supporting 26 lead artists and their works.
For three nights only, the Limón Dance Company will present Women’s Stories centralizing the female perspective and highlighting women who shaped our founder’s canon and influenced the fields of dance and art.
Born Dancing will revisit some of its existing work and present them with a twist; some with different performers, others with a different version of the music or added new choreography.
Life Jacket invites you to an all-star benefit reading of THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS, a new musical dramatizing the true-life stories of 6 inmates in the “Fag Ward” at NYC’s Penitentiary during the 1930s.
Located in the Live Arts lobby, The Ford Foundation Live Gallery welcomes a new exhibition from visual artist Nate Lewis. Lewis explores history through patterns, textures, and rhythm, creating meditations of celebration and lamentations.
An annual partnership between New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and Live Arts, the exhibition features and supports participants of NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.
As a lead-up to the premiere of UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL, an installation by MX Oops will be on display for the month in our Live Artery Gallery.
As the window to reverse climate change narrows, every action (and non-action) matters. Climate policies on the national and international front are crucial, but so are our individual choices. The Green Initiative was formed in Fall 2022 to examine, evaluate, and change every aspect of our organization in our aspiration towards a more sustainable future.