“Provocative, boundary-busting dancer-choreographer Daina Ashbee has been named one of 25 to Watch in the influential American publication, Dance Magazine.”
Janet Smith, 2018, Straight
“Daina Ashbee, a Montreal choreographer by way of British Columbia, has risen fast since moving here. Certain circles seem to think she could be the next big thing.”
Victor Swoboda, 2016, The Gazette
“Ashbee’s work is unafraid, brutally honest, and unequivocally effective.”
Didier Morelli, for ESSE on Ashbee’s “Serpentine” at La MaMa
“Daring her audience to intervene, edging beyond the limits of discomfort, Ashbee and her dancers ask us why, after all this horror, we remain seated, fixed, and unwilling to step in.”
Didier Morelli, for The Brooklyn Rail
Laborious Song, created in 2020, explores the interstices between the angst and playful jubilation of a peripheral and naked body. Performed by Benjamin Kamino, who abandons himself to an obsessive, repetitive, and accumulative leitmotif almost like a summoning of self-destructive violence that brings about temporary relief. Gianni Bardaro’s music infiltrates the hollow spaces of all present bodies, and its throbbing drone slowly dissipates the collective pain.
To read more about Bessie Award winner Daina Ashbee, see bio here.
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Meet outside B/Q Train Prospect Park Subway Station on Lincoln Road at 12pm! Pre-registration required for this free event.
Produced in partnership with New Dance Alliance, TheREDprojectNYC is happy to share the second curational year of their BAPTISM series. This year’s curated artist is Mikaila Ware, a maker who worked with TRPNYC in 2019 and a current member of The Urban Bush Women. With the support of Artistic Coordinator Adrianne Ansley, Mikaila prepares to take a self-guided metamorphosis toward physically, emotionally, and spiritually letting go.
Featuring Music by dj Om-Amari.
This event will also be streamed live on New Dance Alliance and TRPNYC’s IG: @newdancealliance, and @jcm_redprojectnyc.
Register Here!Bob Eisen • Mia Martelli* • Liz Oakley • Hortense Gerardo • Julio Medina • Gabrielle Revlock & Sarah K Williams • Anna Thérèse Witenberg • Ashley A. Friend: Outside the Outside • Ma’at Works** • Indygo Afi Ngozi • Nate Yaffe • Blaze Ferrer • Kayla Hamilton** • David Sierra • Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDprojectNYC • binbinFactory/Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa • Daina Ashbee • ChristinaNoel & The Creature • gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata) • Jade Manns • SHA Creative Outlet • Mariam Dingilian • Jill Rousseau • Sarah Star Sterling • Bernard Brown/bbmoves • Xan Burley + Alex Springer • Nick Alselmo/The Pocket Fuel Groovers* • x and co.*
*Fall 2021 LiftOff Resident Artist / **2022 Black Artists Space To Create Resident Artist
Full Performance Schedule
MAYDAY, photo by Christian Brault
“Congratulations on your Performance Mix #34: Remotely Yours initiative. I hope you all feel delighted with the experience. I must admit that it challenged me to do something a little bit out of my zone. But I am quite happy with the outcome. The first project featuring my son! It will be an unforgettable moment when we will look back at it in a few years.”
– Mélanie Demers
New Dance Alliance
182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
(646) 510-1824
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
