Pictured: Performance Mix Festival Artist Muyassar Kurdi
The Annual Performance Mix Festival #39 Lineup is here!
Our highly anticipated Performance Mix #39 brings together 40 artists working in experimental performance, sound, and film this June at the Abrons Arts Center Underground Theater.
Montreal-based artist Lara Kramer will be hosting Unfolding Time: A Creative Workshop following this year’s Breakfast Mix!
Working with temporality, we will give time to deceleration to allow new and old embodied knowledge and awareness to unfold, exploring a personal rigorous approach to minimalism. Underlying the creative workshop is a desire for experiential play, storytelling and sharing between us will strive to be open-ended, offering an invitation for reciprocity.
Space is limited, so an RSVP is mandatory. Please email admin@newdancealliance.org to reserve your place for both the Breakfast Mix and workshop.
Breakfast Mix: June 6th, 2025, 10am-12pm. Workshop: June 6th, 2025, 12pm-2pm. NDA Loft, 182 Duane Street. RSVP today!
Performance Mix Festival Vision
Pictured: Performance Mix Festival Artists Isabella Thorpe Woods and Zhangxinan Wu 吴张⼼安.
New Dance Alliance views the function of supporting experimental performance works as carrying forward a distinct heritage of art in America. From Isadora Duncan and her shoeless dances to John Cage and his amplified toasters to Jennifer Monson and her migration projects, American artists have been privileged in their Constitutional right to defy conventions. NDA continues this American legacy by making an explicit commitment to equity and inclusion and creating programs that center the work of artists from historically marginalized communities of color, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities. As testimony to its efforts, NDA claims a roster of over 1,000 artists who have pioneered new methods in artistic creation. These artists have distinct voices within shared genres and have often gone on to become award-winning leaders in the field.
The festival has grown to include artists from around the globe, including South Africa, Canada, Europe, and South America. This year, we have partnered with Québec-based Ciné-Corps to bring international film to our Lower East Side community.
By holding annual Performance Mix Festivals, NDA brings together artists of diverse backgrounds and aesthetics to connect with the downtown art scene, year after year. Our community continues to expand, encompassing an ever-widening perspective of the artistic experience!
Get your tickets today!
Pictured: Performance Mix Festival Artists Andrea Soto & Co. Purchase tickets
Learn more about this year’s artists and performance schedules:
“My creative history with New Dance Alliance goes a way long. Since my friend, Chivas Sandage brought me to New Dance Alliance to rehearse in early 90’s, the place has become a part of my creative life. The long time existence of the studio and Performance Mix Festival are vital to the artists who seek and explore deep into their process. Whenever I step into the studio, it’s a new space with a lot of memories. I lie down on the floor, listen to my body, and I dance. It is valuable. The time in the space nurtures my practice and artistic vision. Karen’s vision of Lift-Off residency, feedback sessions, providing peer to peer connections are more significant than ever. It has been helping us to get through 2020 and we are going into 2021.”
– Nami Yamamoto
New Dance Alliance
182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
