Upcoming Performances

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks performance and residency program continues its commitment to bringing new voices to the forefront. Fresh Tracks artists present excerpts of new work in development. Featuring works from the five incoming Fresh Tracks artists.

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. CORPS is a new work by Los Angeles-based choreographer Milka Djordjevich examining labor and the feminine body through the lens of regimented movement, and reveals similarities across traditional, militaristic, ritual, athletic, and folk movement forms. The work is a...

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. The Live Feed creative residency program is a laboratory for the development of new commissioned work directed toward our theater. This informal workshop showing offers a sneak peek into resident artist Daniel Alexander Jones’s process and ideas before they...

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. RACE: Talc & Ash (RTA) is a dance duet about gentrification staged as a sporting event. The original iteration was set in Washington, DC, while this newest iteration will explore West Chelsea and specifically Hudson Yards. Community workshops on...

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. “Indeed, Blackness provided the occasion for self reflection as well as for an exploration of terror, desire, fear, loathing, and longing.” – Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Race and American Culture) chameleonbiomyth | the hold...

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. Transition. Change. Going nowhere. Perception. Perception is 2/3rds of the law. This piece is about women artists during fascist times. Oppression. Going backwards.

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. The “Feminist Dinner Party” merges feminist theory with design to create an immersive dining experience where participants discuss and explore feminist futures.

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. Radioactive Practice is the newest evening length work by choreographer Abby Zbikowski and her company, Abby Z and the New Utility. This genre-bending dance for ten performers breaks down the physicality, socio-cultural functions and psychological states of an eclectic...

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. CU*T C*NTEMPORARY is a queer tourist attraction, featuring trans-regurgitated contemporary dances, costumed gay characters & queer baiting soundtracks. It’s a destination wedding between queer nationalism and the American assimilation of trans bodies. The Live Feed creative residency program...

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. You keep flying forward but it’s the image of you, now, this moment, that I need. Are you there? You ask as you crawl through shards which are ice which are glass. It’s so cold there, in that space...

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. Alexandra Chasin and Zishan Ugurlu’s Fragments, Lists & Lacunae is a multi-media production focusing on three college students who are grappling with their own blind spots as well as the (resonant) concepts in a course entitled “Fragments, Lists, & Lacunae.” In each scene,...

Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. Raja Feather Kelly is the 2019 – 2020 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA). Raja has also been awarded a New York Dance Performance “Bessie” Award, a Bessie Schonberg Fellowship at The Yard, a DanceWEB Scholarship,...

Full lineup to be announced in the Fall/Winter season. Tickets for the Spring 2020 season will become available in December 2019. New York Live Arts’ dynamic platform of new and recent works by resident commissioned artists and curated guests. Presented during the annual Association of Performing Arts Professionals conference, Live Artery...

A fully produced evening of the auditioned works by the five incoming Fresh Tracks artists. Live Arts’ legacy Fresh Tracks performance and residency program continues its 55-year commitment to bringing new voices to the forefront. The program provides five emerging artists with a 50-hour studio residency, a...

Bill T. Jones in conversation with Elizabeth Diller (world renowned artist/architect of projects including The High Line and The Shed, partner/founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro) about their collaboration on the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s upcoming work premiering in Spring 2020.

FIVE is a multimedia performance that abstracts the art of Vogue Femme, a dance form originating from the African-American and Latino LGBTQ community of 1970s Harlem. In the performance five dancers represent the five elements of Vogue Femme—hands, catwalk, floor performance, spin dips, and duck-walking. As each dancer takes the...

Since 2013, Rashaad Newsome has staged his annual King of Arms Art Ball, a live performance event that brings together renowned figures from the LGBTQ+ ballroom community with luminaries from the worlds of art, fashion, music, literary, and activism. For The Champion Ball

Presented as part of Open Spectrum: Ballroom Has Something to Say 5 PM Ballroom: Trans Sounds of Black Freedom A Lecture / Performance / Discussion exploring the history of the House | Ballroom community as a Black Trans-Womanist theological discourse, a freedom movement, and its spiritual formation responses to race, class,...

Presented as part of Open Spectrum: Ballroom Has Something to Say Voguing Class co-taught by FX’s Pose cast member Jason A Rodriguez (Vogue New Way) and Ballroom Icon Pony Zion (Vogue Fem). Open Spectrum provides a space for community dialogue on the most vital issues facing our community today,...

FIVE is a multimedia performance that abstracts the art of Vogue Femme, a dance form originating from the African-American and Latino LGBTQ community of 1970s Harlem. In the performance five dancers represent the five elements of Vogue Femme—hands, catwalk, floor performance, spin dips, and duck-walking. As each dancer takes the...

Set to Nikolai Tcherepnin’s ballet score Narcisse et Echo composed in 1911 for the Ballets Russes, Narcissus is an original evening-length work reappropriating themes of the eponymous ancient Greek myth on which it is based to re-imagine the original ballet through a contemporary queer lens. Choreography: Christopher Williams Costume Designs: Andrew...

“Armitage’s work is vivid, ideas tearing through bodies and escaping.” — London Financial Times  RETURN ENGAGEMENT FOLLOWING SOLD-OUT SHOWS AT JAPAN SOCIETY You Took a Part of Me is a mysterious and hypnotic display of erotic entanglement and unresolved attachment by “punk ballerina” Karole Armitage. Modeled after Noh,...

In | Between is a group showcase co-curated by Yanira Castro and Martita Abril that assembles artists from the New York Foundation for the Art’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. In this showcase, alumni of the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program are gathering to share ideas on Live Arts stage....

Rashaad Newsome in conversation with To Be Real curator Jasmine Wahi at Rhoden Arts Center/PAFA. Interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome’s multipart project, Black Magic, at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and New York Live Arts, is a holistic reflection on agency, Blackness, and the futurity of intersectional identities and...

Last Audience is a work embodied by its audience–a live laboratory for the communal work of conjuring. Comprised of a set of unique scores written for each performance, the piece grapples with agency and manipulation, negotiating the individual and the collective inside a theatrical context. Drawing on language and...

2019 – 2020 Season Opener, tickets available exclusively to Live Arts members before August 9th. Want first dibs on this blockbuster show? Become a member today! Tickets become available to the general public on August 9th. In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker had her international breakthrough with Rosas danst...

Rosas dancers Yuika Hashimoto and Laura Maria Poletti will give a workshop based on the Rosas performance Fase (1982). Participants will learn the basic material of Fase and explore choreographic tasks like phase shifting – the main dance technique that the performance builds on.

2019 – 2020 Season Opener, tickets available exclusively to Live Arts members before August 9th. Want first dibs on this blockbuster show? Become a member today! Tickets become available to the general public on August 9th. Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, choreographer Anne Teresa...

Ford Foundation Live Gallery Lobby installation featuring collages and sculpture generated from FIVE’s performance process. FIVE SFMOMA Prints An expansion of the digital data captured during his 2016 FIVE SFMOMA performance. Using 3D data obtained during the live performance, he translated the fierce, spiraling movements of five vogue dancers...

In Partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Please join us for a reception at 5:30 PM. Bill T. Jones, legendary choreographer and artistic director of New York Live Arts joins Elizabeth Alexander, renowned poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, cultural advocate and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to discuss...

Interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome’s multipart project, Black Magic, at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and New York Live Arts, is a holistic reflection on agency, Blackness, and the futurity of intersectional identities and oppression. To Be Real is an exhibition of all new work in collage and sculpture. At the conceptual center...

Back by popular demand, New York Live Arts presents the return of Tony Award® -winning playwright and performer Sarah Jones (Bridge & Tunnel) to kick off the 2019-20 season. Jones plays a dazzling medley of characters in Sell/Buy/Date, an exuberant show inspired by the real-life experiences of people...

Presented in partnership with NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Wild, Wild Earth is a group exhibition co-curated by Yanira Castro, Martita Abril, and Dain DeltaDawn that assembles artists from the New York Foundation for the Art’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program who are re-imagining and re-assigning the world in which they...

World Premieres by Larry Keigwin and Adam Barruch A World Premiere score by Roarke Menzies will accompany Mr. Barruch’s work These World Premiere works were underwritten in part by a Major Grant from The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation. Bud

Crossroads is an evening-length work that explores forging into unchartered waters and that tumultuous process of self-discovery. Inspired by the work of Magritte and Escher, Selwyn and scenic & costume designer, Anna-Alisa Belous will shape a surrealistic landscape that highlights these lingering moments at the crossroads, choosing one path or...

Women choreographers are the pioneers of contemporary dance and WOMEN / CREATE! – A Festival of Dance reconnects with those roots to present a season of strong works by seven visionary female choreographers. During this 8th season, Armitage Gone! Dance, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, The Francesca Harper Project, Jennifer Muller/The...

Culminating a year’s work with world-renowned dance educator and choreographer Ellen Robbins, each student creates his or her own dance solo, steeped in the unmistakable individualism that resides in every child. Their works span a variety of theater experiences: humorous, dramatic, lyrical, minimal, abstract. Music selections also cover a broad...

Designed by Avram Finkelstein, co-creator of SILENCE=DEATH, and Rodrigo Moreira. The installation is produced in conjunction with Visual AIDS’ 2019 Pride Broadsheet project and in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and NYC/World Pride.  What Is 21st Century Liberation? highlights quotes from...

A full-length contemporary dance experience using biblical references to explore humanity, existing, living, loving, and sharing light in this world. Like the elements we can never walk this life alone. We are more powerful together than we are apart.

The Steps Conservatory is proud to present our dance artists in their end-or-year showcase. The range of pieces presented exemplifies the diverse training offered in the program as we prepare dancers to meet the demands of today’s dance industry.  From contemporary to Broadway, the choreographers represented in this...

The Showcase concludes a year’s work for the pre-professional dancers of Steps on Broadway’s Youth Program by celebrating the accomplishments of Steps on Broadway’s dedicated young students. Showcase includes two defined performances, one with all ballet levels and another with all other disciplines including theater dance, Horton-based modern,...

For tickets, please email lisab@stepsnyc.com The Showcase concludes a year’s work for the pre-professional dancers of Steps on Broadway’s Youth Program by celebrating the accomplishments of Steps on Broadway’s dedicated young students. Showcase includes two defined performances, one with all ballet levels and another with all other disciplines including theater...

The Mimi Garrard Dance Company will present a concert of live dance and video at New York Live Arts May 26, 2019. Three premieres will be presented: a new work by Austin Selden and two new works by Mimi Garrard: Selfie and Cosmic Man, featuring Austin Selden. Also on the...

CONSERVATORY OF DANCE AT PURCHASE COLLEGE, SUNY The Purchase Dance Company is thrilled to debut the next generation of leading dance artists during their fourth New York City season at New York Live Arts. Cast members are selected from the highly competitive Conservatory of Dance BFA program at Purchase College, SUNY,...

Simultaneity is the expression of a multi disciplinary collaboration between contemporary dance, visual arts, poetry, music and multi-media. Miriam Barbosa, former Martha Graham Dancer and former USC Dance Professor, presents her most recent work Simultaneity premiered in Boulder, Colorado performed by Ms. Barbosa and former Martha Graham Principal Dancer Jennifer...

Tabula Rasa Dance Theater’s minimalistic, explosive, and provocative work is performed by a diverse company of 12 dancers, from 9 different countries. Felipe Escalante’s choreography, which incorporates elements from a variety of dance techniques, embraces the human body, in all its pain, beauty, poetry, and ugliness. With powerful lines and designs...

Want to learn more about Neil Postman? Read the digital archive and watch the videos below! When new technologies are introduced to the public, much is said about the benefits they will bestow upon us, and the brave new world that will result. Very little is mentioned about what they...

This hands-on workshop demystifies machine learning and explores how machine learning tools have been and can be used for artistic expression. Participants will learn about the concept of machine learning, its history and critical issues, examples of art projects that use ML, and explore resources that allow them to continue...

Get access to this symposium and our amazing other panels at a reduced rate with our Panel Pass! Art and Technology have always been bedfellows. How are artists, technologists, administrators, curators using AI to create, communicate, disseminate art? How is AI changing the dialogue around creativity, equity, inclusivity...

Robotics for Juniors (Ages 5 – 7), 11 AM – 12:30 PM Robotics for Apprentices (Ages 8 and up), 12:30 – 2 PM With a growing economy that has a higher demand for STEM fields, it’s important that the next generation learns how they can make a difference in their...

Experiments with AI, machine learning and other algorithmic techniques Featuring: Scorpion Mouse CIBO + Ulysses Popple Colonel Panix + Doc Mofo Koala Tokki+ Zach Krall Codie

Get access to this panel and more at a reduced rate with our Panel Pass! Is Reality still Real? A discussion on the fragility of truth and reality in the age of deepfake videos and synthetic images. Examining the tension between democratic scientific openness and the need to defend...

BREAKING THE STIGMA AROUND MENTAL ILLNESS In partnership with FINE ACTS and NAMI NYC, National Alliance of Mental Illness. ACT = Art x Change x Technology What Eight pairs of carefully selected and matched Fellows, an artist and an AI technologist, take part in a two-day HACK-ART-THON to work on prototype...

Rational Numbers: Music and AI, featuring Yuka C. Honda and Angélica Negrón Artificial Intelligence software can compose symphonies at the push of a button, but this fact has overshadowed its significant but largely untapped potential as a tool to support human composers—without dominating the creative process—in their search for new means...

Get access to this panel and more at a reduced rate with our Panel Pass! “Foxconn’s Terry Gou says the company plans to replace 80% of workers with robots in 5-10 years.”  – Samson Ellis  “According to our estimate, 47 percent of total US employment is in the...

As part of Live Ideas 2019, AI: Are You Brave Enough for the Brave New World, the Ford Foundation Live Gallery hosts four interactive installations including Portrait on the Fly, See Sound, and Xoromancy through May 28th. Free and open to the public, an opening reception will be...

Opening Keynote and Lecture Performance to the 2019 Live Ideas Festival. A LECTURE in the form of a PERFORMANCE, a PERFORMANCE in the form of a LECTURE to give the audience an overview of AI’s past, present and future. Composer and vocalist Nick Hallett

New York City premiere of discrete figures 2019 by Japanese companies Rhizomatiks Research and ELEVENPLAY, and American media artist Kyle McDonald as the feature performance of the 2019 annual Live Ideas.  This year’s festival, titled AI: Are You Brave Enough for The Brave New World? runs...

Music Community Lab presents an afternoon of artist talks from three pioneering live visual artists. They’ll discuss their techniques, their collaborations with musicians, and the analog and digital live performance tools they have invented. Joshua White is best known for the improvised abstract visuals he created and performed with his...

Lust. Power. Impropriety. Jealousy. Scandal… Francis Patrelle’s “Madame X” brings the famed John Singer Sargent painting to riveting life. A proud young society woman, Amelie Gautreau, embarks on a love affair with the infamous philanderer, Dr. Samuel Pozzi. Rumors of their liaison become the talk of Belle Epoque Paris, especially after...

A Letter to My Nephew, Bill T. Jones’ latest dance theater work, is an intimate, impressionistic collage for nine dancers, setting a portrait of Jones’s beloved nephew Lance T. Briggs—a talented dancer who struggled with illness and addiction—against the political landscape of the present. Composed like a series of postcards...

A unique evening with prestigious New York choreographers and dance companies to benefit pediatric cancer research. Avery Dudasch succumbed to a brain tumor at the tender age of 11. A’Very Special Night of Dance honors Avery with 100 percent of the proceeds being donated to the Morgan Adams Foundation for...

Developed by Bill T. Jones with Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong, Analogy Trilogy is based on oral histories and inspired by W.G. Sebald’s award-winning novel The Emigrants. Part One, Analogy/Dora: Tramontane, recounts the story of Dora Amelan, a French Jewish nurse, social worker, and World War II survivor. Part Two Analogy/Lance:...

TICKETS   Save the Date | 2019 Live Ideas Gala | Monday, March 25th CO-CHAIRS MATTHEW PUTMAN AND SLOBODAN RANDJELOVIĆ & JON STRYKER HONORING Award-winning actor JEFFREY WRIGHT for his profound commitment to using art as a catalyst for social and political change, and for his award-winning role in Westworld,...

The Giving Tree 19 is a series of concerts by a collective group of New York City choreographers. In our 7th season, we’re uniting to raise awareness and funds for Pediatric and Breast Cancer. With over 16 artists, we are giving 100% of the proceeds to: St Jude’s Research Center...

Smoke & Mirrors, Sasha Velour‘s first one-woman show, is an effortless blend of drag, visual art, and magic. Velour introduces audiences to a whole new side of her artistry, through 12 dazzling and genre-busting lip-synch performances. You’ll be on the edge of your seat as she explodes into rose petals,...

Inspired by Netta Yerushalmy’s project Paramodernities.   THINGS AREN’T WHERE THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE  IN QUICK SLICE   A Fosse inspired dance plague contaminates a pizza shop in this anti-disciplinary film installation. Traces of the choreography from his Sweet Charity are undressed from their historic narrative and resummoned inside a quintessential NYC locale. Yerushalmy’s movement...

The Ballet Academy East 2019 Winter Performance presents the talented dancers of the BAE Pre-Professional Division in a diverse program, which promises to delight and inspire audience members. The joyful and exciting program includes two ballets by George Balanchine, Valse-Fantaisie, staged by Darla Hoover and Elégie, staged by Deborah Wingert, as well as...

Whether you’re from Down Under, the Cradle of Civilization, the Motherland, or just Below the Border, you’re welcome to attend our newest and most illustrious dance performance ever! Hop “over the pond” to the magnificent New York Live Arts theatre and prepare to be amazed by a host of incredibly talented...

2019 SEASON IN COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DANCE Be prepared for a blast of fresh air when Michele Wiles’ BalletNext returns to New York Live Arts, February 19-23. Look out for the debut of a crop of new dancers hand-picked from the University of Utah’s professional ballet program, where Wiles...

A co-presentation with Lumberyard Center for Film & Performing Arts In her latest evening-length work Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part choreographer Kathy Westwater extends her exploration, which began over twenty years ago, of pain and the body, including the pain of others. Here Westwater invites the dance artists in the work...

Developed by Bill T. Jones with Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong, Analogy Trilogy is based on oral histories and inspired by W.G. Sebald’s award-winning novel The Emigrants. Part One, Analogy/Dora: Tramontane, recounts the story of Dora Amelan, a French Jewish nurse, social worker, and World War II survivor. Part Two Analogy/Lance:...

Please join us for an open reading and book signing of Emily Coates and Sarah Demers’ exciting new book, Physics and Dance, in the Live Arts Theatre. Featuring demos from Yvonne Rainer, Patricia Hoffbauer, Lacina Coulibaly, and Daniel Ulbricht. Free to the public – please...

Presenters please RSVP here. Live Artery studio showing, for the full theatre performance later this season please click here. Yerushalmy’s acclaimed PARAMODERNITIES series returns to Live Artery with a showing of three installments (75 minutes, Open to presenters only). In this unique project, iconic modern choreographies are deconstructed and performed alongside contributions...

Presenters please RSVP here. Founded by McKersin Previlus, Lakaï Dance Theatre showcases The Block: An Afro-Musical with influences of Jazz, Hip-Hop, and Afro-Diasporic styles. As the street becomes a stage for self-reflection, the ensemble displays the realities of an inner city life–the toxic masculinity, the racial profiling, and the violence–through...

Tickets are sold out to the general public. Waitlist is available starting at 10:30 AM on day of show and will be called 15-30 minutes prior to show. Please call our box office to put your name on the waitlist. Presenter reservations are still available with qualifying credentials. Presenters please...

Tickets are sold out to the general public. Waitlist is available starting at 10:30 AM on day of show and will be called 15-30 minutes prior to show. Please call our box office to put your name on the waitlist. Presenter reservations are still available with qualifying credentials. Presenters please...

Tickets are sold out to the general public. Waitlist is available starting at 10:30 AM on day of show and will be called 15-30 minutes prior to show. Please call our box office to put your name on the waitlist. Presenter reservations are still available with qualifying credentials. Presenters please...

Sold out to the general public. Presenter Reservations still available with proper credentials. Presenters please RSVP here. Sean Dorsey’s timely and urgent commentary on masculinity places a trans and queer frame onto intersectional questions of embodiment, violence, Black queer love, whiteness, shame and posturing in BOYS IN TROUBLE....

Presenters please RSVP here. Live Artery showing, presenters please RSVP here. For the theatre showing of Body Comes Apart later this season, click here. Body Comes Apart is a declaration of love, commitment, catharsis, and rage. Continuing our 10-year challenge of making work based in abstraction but in response to...

Tickets are sold out to the general public. Waitlist is available starting at 10:30 AM on day of show and will be called 15-30 minutes prior to show. Please call our box office to put your name on the waitlist. Presenter reservations are still available with qualifying credentials. Presenters please...

Presenters please RSVP here. Live Artery showing, for the NYC premiere of another piece apart earlier this season, click here. Jennifer Nugent and Paul Matteson, both Bessie Award-winning performers and former Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company dancers (2008-2014), are known for their phenomenal partnering work, creating duets that are intense,...

Tickets are sold out to the general public. Waitlist is available starting at 10:30 AM on day of showing (January 5). To put your name on the waitlist, please call (212) 691-6500. Presenter reservations still available with qualifying credentials. Presenters please...

Presenters please RSVP here. Live Artery showing of Y by RoseAnne Spradlin. For information on the world premiere of Y at Live Arts earlier this season, click here. New York Lives Arts’ 2017-19 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA) RoseAnne Spradlin presents  her latest work “Y”. Spradlin, an alumnus of Fresh Tracks (1990)...

Tickets are sold out to the general public. Waitlist is available starting at 10:30 AM on day of showing (January 5). To put your name on the waitlist, please call (212) 691-6500. Presenter reservations still available with qualifying credentials. Presenters please...

Presenters please RSVP here. Live Artery studio showing of Bill Shannon’s “Touch Update,” for Live Feed theatre showing click here. Known for creating groundbreaking choreography that explores the social constructions surrounding disabled bodies, Bill Shannon’s latest work combines movement, wearable projection technology, and video installation to explore the significant and...

Presenters please RSVP here. what will we be like when we get there premiered at Live Arts in March 2018. Choreographer Joanna Kotze is accompanied by dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi, visual artist Jonathan Allen, and composer/musician Ryan Seaton (2018 Bessie Nominee) in the newest iteration of this charged collaboration. Through their...

“One does not just watch a dance by Zvi Gotheiner. One enters a world with its own internal logic, a sensual, organic world of movement, language, and images where one is pulled along by currents unseen and inevitable.” (Dance Magazine) ZviDance’s 2018 Home season at New York...

Free with purchase of ticket to “Touch Update,” $10 without ticket. The Condition Arriving is an entertaining yet academic lecture that details through storytelling the evolution of Bill Shannon’s invented movement form that he uses for walking, dance, skateboarding and performance art on crutches. Shannon’s framing of a specific subset of his...

LIVE DANCE AND VIDEO: Mimi Garrard and Marcus Jarell Willis 2 premieres by Mimi Garrard will be presented and a solo by Marcus Jarell Willis. “Mimi Garrard and Dancers at the New York Live Arts displayed her creativity and a mind that is ever open to experimentation” Joel Benjamin United States...

World premiere OUI DANSE with special guest artist Christine Dakin: A challenge to the body, a dare to the imagination, a reconnection with humanity. OUI DANSE in French, means “yes dance”. “YES” for positivity, OUI / “WE” for universality. Artistic director/choreographer Brice Mousset explores the OUI DANSE award- winning first work Travailler in...

“Memory, often strikes me as a kind of dumbness. It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view...

The block is much more than a strip of pavement in an urban neighborhood. It’s a stage for both good and bad to flourish in a community and for its residents to express their hardships and triumphs. Lakaï dissects topics like toxic masculinity, racial profiling, mental health and violence as...

A Letter to My Nephew, Bill T. Jones’ latest dance theater work, is an intimate, impressionistic collage for nine dancers, setting a portrait of Jones’s beloved nephew Lance T. Briggs—a talented dancer who struggled with illness and addiction—against the political landscape of the present. Composed like a series of postcards...

A Letter to My Nephew, Bill T. Jones’ latest dance theater work, is an intimate, impressionistic collage for nine dancers, setting a portrait of Jones’s beloved nephew Lance T. Briggs—a talented dancer who struggled with illness and addiction—against the political landscape of the present. Composed like a series of postcards...

A toolbox of methods for partnering. We explore negative space, interdependent support, responses to touch, and various ways of harnessing momentum. By a quick bridging of improvisation into set work—followed by imaginative reconstruction steps—we develop dances that embolden personal voice within kinetic collaboration.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Prayers of the People is a secular liturgical performance of Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” This participatory performance, directed by Bill T. Jones, takes the structure of an Episcopal liturgy to bring to life his words, written...

Derrick Adams: The Journey Continues emerged from Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams​’s continued research into the archive of the influential African-American fashion designer Patrick Kelly​ (1954–1990), housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Featuring abstract collage works on paper framed with glazing. At the center of The Journey Continues is Adams’s...

Featuring cast members from Hamilton, Bandstand, Finding Neverland, and Cats: “When Change Comes: A Movement Forward” is a powerful dance musical that asks one question: Can the act of “seeing” each other without judgment or fear break the cycle of intolerance? When Change Comes transports audiences through a century of music, movement,...