In the midst of these trying times, New Dance Alliance has been able to respond with resilience and optimism.
This is where you come in. Now we are asking for your help to continue this work.
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.
Black Artists Space to Create
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.”
Our Performance Mix Festival 35th Anniversary will be celebrated in Spring 2021. Stay tuned for updates!
NDA Studio Programs
LiftOff
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.
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!
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.”
This is where you come in. Now we are asking for your help to continue this work.
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.
Where should I begin? Performance Mix provided a consistent (year after year after year!) performance venue for works in progress that was just the right mix of openness and curation. Audiences were always plentiful and varied, not the usual downtown dance scene in crowd but truly filled with different sorts of people. Performance Mix also provided employment in the form of teaching in the public schools which was a lot of work for you, and a little much needed income for me. You’ve always been out there making opportunities for others. It made a huge difference in the arc of my career.
—Clare Maxwell, dancer/teacher of the Alexander Technique (New York City)
New Dance Alliance
182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
