PERFORMANCE MIX IN THE BROOKLYN RAIL

April 9, 2010  | Karen  | News

PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL, NOW IN ITS 24TH YEAR

by MJ Thompson

“A model of survival in good times and bad, the Performance Mix Festival returns in its 24th incarnation to New York this April, despite a recession that’s meant cutbacks this year of about $7000. “For a festival our size, that’s a lot of moneys,” says producer/curator and New Dance Alliance Director Karen Bernard. Never mind. This year’s event brings together a raucous mix of over 30 artists, known and unknown, with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary and the in-between, and continues to hone its service mission of providing rehearsal space, marketing help and chances for networking and touring.

“People look at what we’re doing this year,” says Bernard, “and say it looks so much bigger.  It’s about the same amount of days but I think it’s richer in terms of diversity, in terms of where people are coming from, their backgrounds…people from across the United States, Canada and Europe. Geographically, it’s expanded. And it’s more substantial, in terms of being able to show artists from away and artists from here and being able to have them communicate with each other.”

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