Performance Mix Festival #39 is around the corner!
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While the PM #39 Artists are putting in the hours to prepare for this year’s Festival, we are giving you a sneak peek of some of the work you’ll see at Abrons Arts Center this June…
Pictured: Cristina Moya-Palacios presents a work in progress version of ‘All Immerican Dream Girl!’ for the 2025 Leadership Brunch Audience.
Cristina Moya-Palacios’s All Immerican Dream Girl! aims to shine a light on the complexity of the immigrant experience in the United States by commenting on “The American Dream” from the perspective of a Latina “Dreamer” or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. Through overwhelming bouts of extreme physicality, gestural sequences, and social dance sections that never seem to settle, viewers enter a simulation of the taxing cycles, frustrating resets and restarts, unraveling, and inability to move forward that the immigration process entails. She takes us on a journey to nowhere with completely pathless attempts at assimilation that ultimately lead to a reckoning of the crumbling facade this empire has tried to sell us.
Don’t miss Cristina’s work on Sunday, June 8th, Program D.
The Ghetto Shaman: That Which Lurks in the Shadows is a visceral dance-theater work that delves into the mental and emotional landscape of the radical and wayward spirit. It explores themes of fragmentation, conjure, trance, and exhaustion as they manifest in the reckoning with social and political shadows.
Don’t miss Ja’Moon’s work on Sunday, June 8th, Program C.
Reminder: FREE Workshop with Lara Kramer
Pictured: Lara Kramer, photographed by Stefan Petersen.
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. Option to join Breakfast Mix only. Inquire with admin@newdancealliance.org. Workshop: June 6th, 2025, 12pm-2pm. NDA Loft, 182 Duane Street. RSVP today!
New Dance Alliance views the function of supporting experimental performance works as carrying forward a distinct heritage of art in America. 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!
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“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.
