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 Chapman, 50collectiVe, and Jana Jevtovic!
Reminder: Applications for the Performance Mix Festival are DUE June 1st! Click here to download!
“What an awesome group. You all are rockers! Thanks Karen for keeping NDA a powerful force.”
-Jody Oberfelder
“Yes thank you Karen for having a dream 25 years ago that we got to live in yesterday and last night. To Sally Silvers for inviting me to roller derby with her, I dreamt about it last night. And for all of us and you who can show so much of who we are in 3 minutes. We actually did 9 minutes each with three runs. Very cool stuff. Thanks and Continue On!”
-K.J. Holmes
“Nothing like a love fest! Hey Karen thank you so much for helping to keep us all on our toes butts and back bends 25! strong! Remember? you took this ghetto Puerto Rican out of the country for his first time. Off to the Edinburgh fringe fest with Jean Churchill in 1987! Great love and thanks to you we can all come together again and again.”
-Arthur Aviles
“That was amazing fun! Karen – beautifully conceived and … held together by everyone working together! Wow, what could be better. Thank you everyone for this totally cool experience!”
-Tina Croll
“Kudos to you all for a wonderful show, hearty thanks to the sure-footed and quick-thinking crew, thanks to Karen for thinking of this and for creating and guiding NDA’s first 25 years. I hope I get to dance at NDA’s 50th anniversary too.”
-David Parker
“From idea to post-show party, what a momentous, energizing event! Wanted to chime in with my thanks to Karen (I’d pick you for chancellor), Here’s to the 25th and the anniversary celebrations in between.”
-Wendy Blum
“It was a pleasure to share the stage with each of you, to see your work, to have a reunion with some and to meet others for the first time. Karen, it was a brilliant idea and it was brilliantly executed by everyone involved. I wish you all continued growth and joy in your work and look forward to the next time we get to dance together.”
-Ariane Anthony
“Dear Karen, it was great, you are great. It was all so well organized. Big thank and big hug.”
-SOULOWORKS/Andrea E. Woods & Dancers
MOLLY&NOLA
“This current global situation is immensely sad and challenging, including the necessary cancellations/ postponements/ restructuring of opportunities, but we are so grateful for how you and the Performance Mix #34: Remotely Yours team has honored all of the artists involved – artistically, financially, and emotionally. In these uncertain, confusing times, we feel taken care of & clearly communicated with. Thank you.”
–MOLLY&NOLA
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