The festival continues to take chances by presenting NYC-based artists and national and international artists. We take chances on artists not familiar to NYC audiences and hope they will take a chance on us.
Karen Bernard, on the continuation of Performance Mix Festival over 36 years
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ChristinaNoel & The Creature’s Funnel of Love explores themes of mortality and the potential emotional and physical risks/rewards of loving and living. The work juxtaposes playful storytelling and large athletic movement within an eerie sonic container. Learn more →
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I was moved by Benjamin Kamino’s performance of Daina Ashbee’s ‘Laborious Song.’ I experienced fear, self-doubt, then resolution. The work just caught my breath.
Karen Bernard, Artist & Executive Director, New Dance Alliance
Drawing on an imagery imbued with her personal history, Canadian choreographer Daina Ashbee traces the contours of a vulnerability that transcends genders. 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 a 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. Learn more →
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gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata) will present Yonsei yeah yeah. Through butoh and recontextualized Buddhist rituals, Yonsei yeah yeah imagines a future where the cultural erasure associated with Japanese internment camps has been overcorrected and distorted into a value system in which anime and Japanese junk food have been assimilated into the pantheon of buddhas and bodhisattvas. Learn more →
Jade Manns’s new work uses collage and gesture to create shifting environments. It displays an obsession with symbols, interpersonal dynamics, psychological landscapes, and ambiguous meaning-making. Learn more →
In its new work, SHA Creative Outlet looks at playing with time, and asks: Is playing with time the connection between beings? If I am faster than time, can I draw you closer? Learn more →
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Jill Rousseau’s new work, Expecting Greatness, explores the very real intersection between multi-level marketing schemes and the mothers they ensnare by asking the absurd question, “What if motherhood itself were an MLM?” Through this preposterous high-pressure sales pitch, Rousseau explores the alienating experience of modern motherhood and how it relates to capitalism and community. Learn more →
on a tangent by Mariam Dingilian is a solo or a dance or a dream. It follows a winding road, traversing through the emotions of grief, isolation, and doubt with humor, satire, and song. Learn more →
Sarah Star Sterling is the One Note Clown who is immeasurably sad because she can’t do anything right. Including getting you excited for the show. Learn more →
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parts by Xan Burley + Alex Springer is a series of reluctantly postmodern episodes entwining textual anti-analysis (or) anti-textual analysis, bodies rendered figural and autofictive at once, and self-referential failure. A group of performers dance in flurries that distort their perceptions of time, intimacy, and effort. Learn more →
Bernard Brown/bbmoves will present Cravings, an excerpt from Processing Sugar Notes. With notions of desire at its core, the work examines how health disparities, addiction, and the lasting effects of colonialism continue to infiltrate the lives of the global majority (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) through the lens of the world’s largest crop, sugar. Ubiquitous in contemporary life, sugar corners us, driving us to reckon with our choices, with ourselves. Learn more →
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Nick Alselmo/The Pocket Fuel Groovers’s Headnod Scrimmage is an experiment in which the tracks that make up the score are determined by a chance procedure. The order in which the piece takes place will be determined the day of the performance. Nick Alselmo is a 2021 NDA LiftOff Resident Artist. Learn more →
x and co. will present noon: 30 or midnight: 45, a conceptual and abstracted dreamscape that recalls memories of childhood trauma. This serves as an exploratory case study on complex PTSD, on how childhood trauma affects individuals as they grow into adults, as told through movement, text, and bright colors. x is a 2021 NDA LiftOff Resident Artist. Learn more →
Purchase Tickets!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 Lee 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
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“The festival was such a wonderfully supportive community of artists to perform amongst and a generous audience as well. The performances were inspiring and exceptionally well-run, which I appreciated.”
– ankita sharma
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