According to movement, a story in ten chapters (chapter 2) (Cinédanse film) Multidisciplinary artist Béatriz Mediavilla merges dance movement and film movement so that the audience can feel with their own bodies the gravity and motion as if they were dancing in a film too. Chapter 2 of her award-winning documentary, According to movement, a story in ten chapters, will open the festival. Learn more →
Clarity is a movement essay about the physical experience of performing. “Delicate, subtle, vulnerable, and simple,” writes Juan Jesús Guiraldi. “The continuum, a life which is born, death immediately after, and rebirth. The clear feeling of eternity which remains just a feeling.” Guiraldi is a 2022–23 LiftOff Resident Artist. Learn more →
Brooklyn-based choreographer Juli Brandano investigates the body as both material and dramatic subject in Some Other Material. A collaborative and research-based process, the work utilizes repetition, minimal music, and continual movement to forge a continuity between dancing bodies and the natural world. Initial inspiration was developed on Rockaway Beach, where the dancers studied and embodied the movement of tides and coastal erosion. Learn more →
In Black Girls Who Don’t Like Watermelon Unite, Morgan Amirah Burns explores the nature of seeing people as trees. An exploration in acceptance, she shape-shifts, responding to her 2019 work A Tree Named Kevin, utilizing text, movement, and video art to merge her faith and feeling as she situates herself in a forest. Burns is a 2022–23 LiftOff Resident Artist. Learn more →
Award-winning Iranian-Canadian director and musician Kaveh Nabatian presents Prison of the Sun (Cinédanse film), a reaction to the pandemic and social unrest, as told through the street dance of “waacking”, by world-renowned dancer Axelle Munezero. Learn more →
North Carolina-based choreographer Ayan Felix brings their latest work, the queen has died… to the festival. The work is an apparatus to achieve distinct flavors of Black queer joy. Backed by a mix of Southern classics, it is a collaborative effort between three dancers and a DJ to stay afloat and avoid the news. Felix is a 2023 Black Artists Space to Create Resident Artist. Learn more →
Autonomía de lo soñado/Autonomy of the dreamt (working title) • Rafael V. Cañals Pérez’s latest work is an organized series of improvisatory states of being in a movement journey of self-realization. A figure in space taking control of its own weight, surrendering to gravity in a balancing dance that always goes and never arrives. Cañals Pérez was a 2021–22 LiftOff Resident Artist. Learn more →
Once I Saw a Hummingbird by Bessie Award-winning choreographer Raúl Tamez has been described as a ritual of ancestral souls. The work is the liminal space where two spirits embrace in another dimension. A sublimation of death. A clamor of magic. Learn more →
“It was a pleasure and an honor to be part of Performance Mix Festivals #31 (Infinite Corridor) and #36 (Meeting the Moai: Head Over Heels.) In both instances, the artists were made to feel welcomed and truly celebrated for their work, as reflected by attention to publicity, technical needs, and convivial gatherings.This festival truly practices diversity, equity, and inclusion, as manifested in their roster of performing artists each year. Big thanks to New Dance Alliance, Karen Bernard, and the entire Performance Mix Festival team who make it such a fulfilling and joyful experience for artists and audiences alike.”
– Hortense Gerardo
New Dance Alliance
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