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2011 Performance Mix Festival: Thank you! »

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 to unique scores by Alexis O’Hara.  Without pauses the work flowed with the most beautiful transitions. Check out all the great things that the 25x 3 artists had to say (below), and watch these interviews with reflections after the festival of Owen Chapman50collectiVe, and Jana Jevtovic!

Reminder: Applications for the Performance Mix Festival are DUE June 1st! Click here to download!

Check out what the artists of 25×3 have to say about the Festival: Read more »

Performance Mix Festival reviewed in the NY Times and InfiniteBody »

The 25th Anniversary Performance Mix Festival was a blast! Read about the highlights:

Thanks to all who performed, helped, and attended! Hope to see you all again next year.

The 25th Anniversary Performance Mix Festival opens TONIGHT »

Get your tickets here if you haven’t already, check out how to get more for less,  and we’ll see you soon!

Owen Chapman by Patryk Stasieczek

Want MORE PERFORMANCE for LESS MONEY?

Grab a festival pass here, and see any 3 performances from Tuesday, April 26 – Saturday, April 30 for only $30!

Use discount code 25×3 and receive get $25 off tickets to the 25×3 for Closing Night Celebration – that means you get to see 25 amazing artists followed by Tapas and Dancing with DJ Winslow T Porter III, all for just $50!

Karen Bernard in conversation with Michael Helland »

Karen Bernard in conversation with Michael Helland in Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence. Read the full interview on movementresearch.org»

Karen Bernard Ouette. Photo by Ella Veres

Curator and Choreographer Karen Bernard speaks with dancer and choreographer Michael Helland. Karen discusses the Performance Mix Festival, which takes place at Dixon Place April 26-May 1, 2011.

Read the full interview on movementresearch.org»

The Performance Mix Festival closes on Sunday, May 1 with a Bang! »

Sally Silvers by Eileen Travell

Tickets are $75
Use discount code 25×3 and receive a $25 discount! Read more »

Karen Bernard interviewed on Keep It Real, Hot & Fresh »

Karen Bernard talks about Performance Mix on Keep It Real, Hot & Fresh with Zachary Bullock.

Listen to the interview here!

Balkan Express, April 29th… »

Ivo Dimchev

Ivo Dimchev (Bulgraria)

“Dimchev understands “performance” in the largest possible terms. It consists of whatever you do to feel alive.”  Apollinaire Scherr, FT.com

Last seen at the Perforiation Festival at LaMama in March, Ivo Dimchev, returns to present his solo, Som Faves based on his favorite topics from a list of 100 topics (subjects, objects or people).  Armed with a wig and keyboard, Dimchev presents us with a seemingly incoherent collection of topics, which nevertheless gradually build up an intimate portrait and a tragic-comic demonstration of various ways of dealing with form and content within the context of contemporary dance and theater.  Dimchev is a choreographer and performer from Bulgaria. Read more »

Don’t miss 50collectiVe on April 26th and 27th! »

50 Passes Through New York

photo by Anja Hitzenberger

50collectiVe is an international dance collective of 50 artists from 29 countries, which formed in 2010, after collaborating with David Zambrano on his “50 Days of Flying Low and Passing Through” project in Costa Rica.  The artists come from different cultural, educational and artistic backgrounds.  They celebrate their individual creativity while pursuing a common passion: to perform, teach and share their love for dance by using the Passing Through technique. Read more »

Apply for Performance Mix 2012 »

The application for the 2012 Performance Mix Festival is now available! Apply by June 1, 2011. See more information or open the PDF application form now!

Performance Mix 2011 Video Featurettes »

We’re posting videos of a few of the Performance Mix Festival Artists on their process.

Visit the video page to see the interviews!

Get to know them online. And then, take the leap and see them live!