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ON VIEW: MARCH 17-APRIL 30
OPENING RECEPTION ON MARCH 17, 5:30pm
@ New York Live Arts Lobby
 
In/Between 2023: Lush Friction

NYFA Immigrant Artist Exhibition Daily viewing hours from 10am-9pm This year’s exhibit features work by David Benjamin, Jin-Yong Choi, Katerina Ganchak, Laura Garcia Serventi, Emilija Gašić, Isabel Hamdan, Bipasha Hayat, Hsiao-Chu (Julia) Hsia, Pilar Lagos, Yi Hsuan Lai, Carlos Morales, Himeka Murai, Xinan Helen Ran, Linda Sok, Johanna Strobel, Hong...

April 1st
@ Meany Hall, Seattle, WA
 
Saul Williams: The Motherboard Suite: BECOMING: AT HOME IN THE WORLD

CURATED BY BILL T. JONES AND PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Robyn Orlin, Abby Z and The New Utility, Holland Andrews, The Motherboard Suite by Saul Williams with Maria Bauman, Jasmine Hearn, Kayla Farrish, Marjani Forté-Saunders, d. Sabela Grimes and Shamel...

APRIL 6-8, & 13-15 at 7:30PM
@ New York Live Arts Theater
 
Faye Driscoll: Weathering

WORLD PREMIERE 2021-2022 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist “Being in a place, being in an era, for instance an era of mass extinction, is intrinsically uncanny. We haven’t been paying much attention.” -Timothy Morton, All Art is Ecological Faye Driscoll’s newest work Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents,...

APRIL 17, 7PM
@ New York Live Arts Theater
 
Howard W. French: BILL CHATS: HOWARD W. FRENCH

Live Arts Artistic Director, Bill T. Jones in conversation with journalist, author, and photographer, Howard W. French. For this season, the popular series includes a partnership with The New School, where Jones has been named a 2022-2023 Presidential Visiting Scholar. The New School’s Presidential Visiting Scholars program brings major thinkers of...

April 20 & 21 at 7pm
April 22 at 1pm & 7pm
@ New York Live Arts Theater
 
Flight Path Dance Project: Flight Path Dance Project Spring Concert 2023

The Flight Path Dance Project dancers (ages 14-20) will be performing new choreography from guest choreographers Blakeley White-McGuire, Zachary Kapeluck, and Winston Dynamite Brown, as well as existing repertory from previous guests Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Caili Quan, Nina Flagg, and Jaclyn Walsh, ranging from contemporary to house/hip-hop. Artistic Director Michael McGowan,...

APRIL 27-29, 2023
@ New York Live Arts Theater
 
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED
May 17th-21st
Programming to be announced
@ New York Live Arts Theater
 
Live Ideas Festival: 2023

The New York Live Arts Live Ideas Festival of art and ideas returns May 17th-21st, in partnership with co-curator Slow Factory, an environmental and social justice nonprofit organization. The multi-day festival is known to present performances, conversations, workshops, installations, and more. The 2023 season staple is titled PLANET JUSTICE. It calls...

May 17, 18 & 20, 730PM

Here For It Package includes:
- 1 Ticket to Altamira 2042
- 1 Ticket to hello, buffalo
- 1 Ticket to Study Hall
- Free Drink at Outdoor Party!
@ New York Live Arts Theater
 
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha: Altamira 2042

New York Premiere Since its construction in 2012 at the epicenter of the Amazon, the planet’s so-called ‘green-lungs’, the giant Belo Monte Dam has earned its rightful place as the emblem of man’s destruction of nature. In Altamira 2042, an interactive performance installation by Brazilian artist Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, a...

Opening Party May 17, 6pm
On view until May 31st
@ New York Live Arts Lobby
 
Beyond the drumroll, a wake up call

Beyond the drumroll, a wake up call — a performance and interactive exhibition by Collis Browne, Slow Factory and guest collaborators, urging guests to reckon with the necessary climate action needed before reaching irreversible climate disaster. The drum is the oldest instrument, representing our connection to the...

May 18 & 19, 8PM

Here For It Package includes:
- 1 Ticket to Altamira 2042
- 1 Ticket to hello, buffalo
- 1 Ticket to Study Hall
- Free Drink at Outdoor Party!
- 1 Ticket to hello, buffalo
@ New York Live Arts Studios
 
Daina Ashbee: hello, buffalo

World Premiere A new work by the Bessie Award winning Canadian artist of Cree, Métis and European descent whose radical works articulate a deepening of consciousness and awareness through body-based investigation in order to uncover our connection to the environment, the earth and ancestors. hello, buffalo is presented with support from the Québec...

May 19, 2:30pm - 5:30pm

Here For It Package includes:
- 1 Ticket to Altamira 2042
- 1 Ticket to hello, buffalo
- 1 Ticket to Study Hall
- Free Drink at Outdoor Party!
@ New York Live Arts Theater
 
Study Hall

A climate and social justice summit examining art, design, education, performance, science, technology and fashion’s role in collective liberation. SCHEDULE Land acknowledgement & labor acknowledgment Opening Talk An intergenerational perspective on Climate Justice & Human Rights featuring aja monet and more. A panel...

May 20 & 21, 8:30 PM
Tickets start at $30
Co-presented offsite at Pioneer Works
@ Pioneer Works
 
Dynasty Handbag: Titanic Depression

World Premiere Curated by David Everitt Howe Dynasty Handbag’s Titanic Depression—made in collaboration with video artist SUE-C—sends up James Cameron’s 1997 Hollywood hit, reimagining it as a hilariously bleak parable of human arrogance in today’s era of runaway, consumerism-driven climate change. Titanic Depression is Dynasty Handbag’s first major institutional commission in nearly...

May 20
1pm - 6pm

Here For It Package includes:
- 1 Ticket to Altamira 2042
- 1 Ticket to hello, buffalo
- 1 Ticket to Study Hall
- Free Drink at Outdoor Party!
Outdoor Party

An open air celebration with live musical performances, workshops, farmers market and more Performances by: Mykki Blanco Collis Browne Pierre Kwenders Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Fogo Azul Drum Parade  DJ...

Monday, May 22, 2023 Chelsea Factory 547 W 26th Street New York, NY 10001
THE 2023 LIVE IDEAS GALA: PLANET JUSTICE Are You Here For It?*

THE 2023 LIVE IDEAS GALA: PLANET JUSTICE Are You Here For It?* *Social and environmental justice for collective liberation. Radical justice and human rights for all living beings on Mother Earth.Save The Date: Monday, May 22, 2023 Please mark your calendars for the annual Live Ideas Gala, which will be...

5/23 - 5/25, 7:30 pm
Runtime: 1 hour and 30 mins
@ New York Live Arts Theater
 
FJK Dance: FJK Season 2023

FJK Dance Season 2023 features the company’s signature work in cross-cultural dialogue. Fadi J Khoury, the Arab-American Artistic Director, brings his Middle Eastern heritage to the stage through choreography in a multimedia program combining contemporary dance and visual art; Breaking down stereotypes and expectations of gender roles and expression. His...

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Time Square Perfomance

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will be performing at Time Square this Summer! Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more updates!

JUN 16 & 17, 7:30PM
Fresh Tracks 2022/23 Cohort

The five amazing artists selected for the 58th year of the Fresh Tracks in Our Season of Anniversaries are (alphabetical by last name):   Kristel Baldoz Malcolm-x Betts Miguel Alejandro Castillo

JUNE 25
Programming To Be Announced
Live Arts Pride '23

Live Arts’ Pride ’23 epic celebration embodies and honors the historical importance and unwavering power of houses, collectives, and chosen family in LGBTQIA culture. Both legendary and young families from NYC’s queer nightlife and art scene come together under one roof to serve up the city’s most colorful and fierce...

June 29th-30th
American Dance Festival Tickets On Sale Soon
@ American Dance Festival Durham, NC
 
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Curriculum II

Curriculum II applies the ideas of Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe, Nigerian-born writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, and Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter. Curriculum II explores the historical and persistent connection between race and technology and the pursuit of what is human. In The Sound of Culture:...