New Dance Alliance in association with Joyce SoHo presents the 26th Annual Performance Mix Festival six days, thirteen events and twenty eclectic experimental dance and performance artists. “The Performance Mix Festival offered me the crucial opportunity to develop new material in front of a live audience. The art of live performance is truly experimental, because [...]

New Dance Alliance in association with Joyce SoHo presents the 26th Annual Performance Mix Festival, six days, thirteen events and twenty eclectic experimental dance and performance artists. Check out the festival schedule, artist biographies and videos.

FIRKIN CRANE  Created and performed by Karen Bernard Movement Research at the Judson Church (55 Washington Square) Monday, December 5th @ 8pm / Free a piece about bangors and mash, swashbuckling heroes and the art of performance On shared program with: Jo Pollitt & Rhiannon Newton, Melanie Maar, Laurie Berg Firkin Crane was developed in residencies at the [...]

I am on my last leg of a three week Blank Canvas residency. When I first arrived it felt lonely – now I am savoring the moments. The staff at Firkin Crane are so gracious and helpful.  I soon felt at home.  The studio I chose is small and quirky, but what it makes up for in [...]

From August 19 through September 10, Karen Bernard will be developing work at Firkin Crane in Cork, Ireland through their Blank Canvas Residency program. Stay tuned to this space for Karen’s diary from Ireland!

(R)evolution reviews Karen Bernard’s Ouette as part of Femmes. “Karen Bernard… has delivered her development of a performance, Ouette, engaging the  feminine shadow into a new dialectic surrounding dark energy dark/kundalini with her unveiling of Femmes.” Read the article: Karen Bernard’s “Femmes” & the Birth on R(evolution)

Ms Magazine Blog reviews Femmes (Karen Bernard, Jil Guyon, Dana Michel AKA Charlie Heatherington, Johanna S. Meyer) performance at Dixon Place. Guelda Voien writes: “The evening was a welcome throwback to a time which unapologetically valued all things queer, provocative and new.” Read the article, Feminist Performance Art Blooms Anew at Dixon Place (PDF)

Presented by Dixon Place Otherworldly shamanistic intensity, dangerous sexual fantasies, hyper-personal states and spectacle works-in-progress: Karen Bernard’s Ouette (excerpt), Jil Guyon’s Widows Veil, Johanna S. Meyers’ Stroll 2, and Dana Michel AKA Charlie Heatherington 1976 (excerpt). June 16, 2011 @ 7:30pm 161A Chrystie St. (between Rivington and Delancey) New York, NY Tickets: Purchase tickets online [...]

Robert Tyree writes of Karen Bernard’s solo, Ouette, “… an exquisitely crafted solo piece, visually gorgeous and thoroughly intriguing, emotionally captivating, a shot in the arm of audience imagination”. The review appears in Ultra, a Portland-based forum and platform for contemporary art, dance, and performance. Read the entire article on Ultra‘s website.

Thank you to Dixon Place, our season artists, audience members, Board of Directors, our partners Dance New Amsterdam, Studio 303 and the Community Education Center, volunteers, in-kind donors, funders and NDA’s team who made the 25th Anniversary Performance Mix Festival a stunner! The highlight of the festival was 25×3.  Twenty five past Performance Mix artists created three minute works [...]