This June, we presented numerous indoor and outdoor performances as part of our 36th Annual Performance Mix Festival held at Abrons Arts Center, as part of the @Abrons Series. The festival featured 12 shows between Thursday and Sunday, featuring work from more than 35 artists. We saw a variety of exciting and innovative works from New York-based and international artists. Thank you so much to everyone who helped make this weekend successful!
“All in all, a thoroughly entertaining night at a performance festival whose work feels necessary, not only for an audience but also for the development of the presenting artists.”
Noah Witke Mele, Eye on Dance
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“David Lee Sierra opened with Public Structures of Feeling, a rich and disturbing endurance performance… Pounding techno music and droning synthesizers accompanied Sierra mounting a piece of scaffolding, where she found precarious balances and excruciating holds tangled among the bars.”
“Striking moments included a verbally guided dance solo that evolved with the inflection of the repeated choreographic directions and the final dance, set to Lead Belly’s “Pick a Bale of Cotton”, that had the dancers executing repetitious motions as they moved up and down the stage.”
“In the performance’s climactic moment, a shining cape was lifted into the air by a fan. The billowing fabric evoked a queer jellyfish, under which a dancer churned and rolled about the floor.”
Bernstein Family Foundation, Cultural Services of the Quebec Government, Harkness Foundation for Dance, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Consulate General of Canada in New York, Cultural Services of the Quebec Government Office in New York, National Endowment for the Arts, and Mertz-Gilmore Foundation.
Leadership Circle: Caterina Bartha, Mollie O’Brien, Robert Knowles, Thea Little, Fernando Maneca, Helen Mills and Gary Tannenbaum, Lisa Parra and Tim Fujiko, David Shapiro and Ellen Rubin, Don Shea and Diana Freedman-Shea, Jill and Patrick Rousseau, Ellynne Skove, Cornelia T. Winthrop.
Friends of NDA: Arthur Aviles, Barbara Bryan, Karen Carr, Contact Quarterly, Diana Crum, Charles Dennis, Ori Flomin, Bonita Franklin, Rie Fukuzawa, Wendy Greene, Jil Guyon, Barbara Mahler, Jackie Margolis, Judith and Steven Mathews, Johanna Meiers and Aaron Landsman, Maja Lorkovic, Jackie Margolis, Judith Miller, Emily Morrison, Denisa Musilova, Susie Nielson, Doug Post, Emma Rivera, Betsy Ryan, Janet Stapleton, Brianna Taylor, Rosie Trump, Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, Helene Bass-Wichelhaus, Alex Wixon, Cydney Wixon, and Travis DeMello, and Nathaniel Wixon.
NDA in collaboration with FARM Projects presents WORKSESSION 2.0, an event that supports experimental dance and interdisciplinary performance. This event includes a film screening of Garden in the Shape of Dreams, by visually impaired immigrant choreographer and educator Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez. The film will be followed with a dance performance by Lisa Parra, a creator of body image, identity and the effects that ritual, culture and language have on movement.
A discussion with both Parra and Núñez will complete the program. Exploring the parallels between memory, erasure, and immigration as embodying identities, Lisa and Christopher use digital and analog technologies as a reference point to create post-colonial portraits. These portraits are influenced by cultural surroundings and orientation generating works that use archival materials to re-imagine and trace physical, social and political histories.
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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
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