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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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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:...