Programs | Live Artery

Engaging with the current socio-cultural climate, Liana Conyers deconstructs her experience as a Black woman in America.  #ImFxckingFunny explores the levels of consciousness, healing, hiding, and coping that technology provides. Through her autobiography, Conyers unmasks the authenticity that might otherwise be concealed by digital representations of oneself.  As...

Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space is a shared rite of passage—a conjuring of the transformative powers of presence, and of absence. Space unfolds within an intimate installation, wired for sound and upheld by pulleys, ropes and the weight of others, where Driscoll appears alone with the...

Body Comes Apart is a declaration of love, commitment, catharsis, and rage. Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith continue their ten year challenge of making work based in abstraction but in response to trauma, the work uses the potentialities of our bodies to challenge perceptions of female identity and...

 Choreographer Kathy Westwater reprises portions of Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part, her latest evening-length work. For this Live Artery showing, Westwater extends her exploration, which began over twenty years ago, of pain and the body, including the pain of others. Westwater invites the dance artists in the work...

Sassafrazz is an original composition of structured improvisation for four Breakers and four musicians. It focuses on the three stages of Break Life: birth, life, and death, that are represented by three styles of Breaking: Top, Footwork, and Ground Text.  Ken Swift, a pioneering B-boy from NYC, will...

RACE: Talc & Ash is a movement duet piece about gentrification, race and class. The original performance focused on Washington, DC. New iterations will explore Chelsea/Hudson Yards in New York and Detroit, MI. The performance is set up like a sporting event, complete with a pre-show tailgate party...

This showing includes work-in-progress excerpts of CORPS, 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 continuation of Djordjevich’s ongoing...

What makes an Emcee? Is it the lyricism, their performance, or the way they’ve lived their lives? 7 Names draws attention to the life journey that shaped the thinking of who we lovingly refer to as “cultural alchemists”, ministers of a globally transformative form, whose lives epitomize ingenuity...

Colleen Thomas will show two small works- Diane. Still. and a collaboration with Adriane Fang tiltled, Wake Up! Also on the program is an excerpt from light and desire where Thomas joins five women artists from Venezuela (Carla Forte), Hungary/Germany (Ildiko Toth), Poland (Joanna Lesnierowska), Albania/ Greece (Ermira...

RADIOACTIVE PRACTICE is the newest evening length work by Bessie award winning, choreographer Abby Zbikowski and her company Abby Z and the New Utility. This group work brings together a mosaic group of movers versed in forms ranging from hip-hop, modern dance, West African, tap, synchronized swimming, and ice skating...

Trailblazing transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey returns to New York Live Arts for the NYC premiere of BOYS IN TROUBLE – at New York Live Arts for 3 performances only as part of a 20-city international tour. Sean Dorsey Dance’s timely and urgent commentary on contemporary masculinity places...

Enacted specifically and uniquely with and by each audience, Last Audience is a live laboratory for the communal work of what it means to conjure. Comprised of a set of unique scores written for each performance, the piece grapples with agency and...