Your support enables us to sustain and adapt our programming to support the ever-changing needs of artists. Please consider donating to keep our programs moving forward in this great time of need for so many artists. No donation is too small and all donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
Leslie Cuyjet and Johnnie Cruise Mercer at Modern Accord Depot this fall. Photos courtesy of the artists.
This summer we launched the Black Artists Space to Create (BASC) Pilot Program. We offered talented dance artists, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Leslie Cuyjet and Angie Pittman each a residency at Modern Accord Depot in Accord, NY, and hired Angie Pittman as Residency Director. Each artist received a two-week residency with unlimited access to a dance studio, full living space, and a stipend of $2,000. NDA offered this space for resting, dancing, creating, healing, grieving, laughing, and breathing. There was no expectation of production and artists did not have to present new work at the end of the residency. It is important to continue this program well into the future. Learn more about the BASC artists and the program here.
“We wish to radically reimagine what it means to serve Black artists right now and to do so in the specific spirit of reparations.”
– Fernando Maneca
Quoted in The New York Times
Read the full New York Times article here!
“Remotely Yours” by Degenerate Art Ensemble; created by Haruko Crow Nishimura and Joshua Kohl specifically for the festival.
While the live, weeklong festival of experimental dance and performance was canceled, we honored the artists during a month-long digital initiative in May as Performance Mix Festival #34: Remotely Yours – a reimagined stay-at-home festival. The artists’ biographical pages, complete with videos, writings, and more are available to view here.
Our Performance Mix Festival 35th Anniversary will be celebrated in Spring 2021. Stay tuned for updates!
Nami Yamamoto, photo by Ryutaro Mishima.
Our LiftOff Residency program provides physical-based performance artists with a minimum of 30 free hours of rehearsal space each and creative and project development Work Sessions.
This Fall, we have been able to adapt to safely continue offering this program! This season’s artists include: Nami Yamamoto, Marion Spencer, Anh Vo, Camilo Godoy, and Molly&Nola.
Learn more about LiftOff and the artists!
João Costa Espinho, photo by Tazzio.
The Satellite Residency is a space grant program at NDA’s Studio at the loft in Tribeca. One Satellite Artist per month receives up to 20 hours of space. The residency is free with a suggested donation to support the continuation of the organization and programs. Stay tuned – applications open in January!
Learn more about Satellite here.
Photo by Kathryn Butler at Douglas Dunn’s Studio
Karen Bernard’s Lakeside confronted the memory of trauma and its lasting impact on the body. It had a great run in February at Douglas Dunn’s Studio; accompanied by a performance/ installation/ reception at ChaShaMa and performance at Judson Memorial Church. Original material developed with Lisa Parra, dramaturg Andi Villa Stover and digital composer Boris Billier with support from residencies L’Annexe-A and Obras Foundation.
“…she is transported to a time of childhood dance recitals while maintaining the rage of lived womanhood.”
– Jonathan Matthews, Eye on Dance
Your support enables us to sustain and adapt our programming to support the ever-changing needs of artists. Please consider donating to keep our programs moving forward in this great time of need for so many artists. No donation is too small and all donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
K.J. Holmes, photo by Elyse Mertz
“Performance Mix Festival has its own life, and Karen and the staff continue to evolve with the times in a way I appreciate…it was tremendous to be a Liftoff AIR and then get to show the work I had continued to explore as an AIR a year later at PMF!”
– K.J. Holmes
New Dance Alliance
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