Annie Heath by Cameron Kelly McLeod
“I’m really glad that Performance Mix #34: Remotely Yours turned out to be so productive for me. I was able to wrap my head around the ideas that were all circling in my head.”
–Annie Heath
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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…
LiftOff Artist: Cristina Moya-Palacios
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.
BASC Artist: Javon Ja’Moon Jones
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
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!
Thursday, June 5th
Program A 7:00p
Program B 8:30p
Elle Sofe Sara, Egbésola Efunyemi, jay beardsley, Jo Warren, Muyassar Kurdi
Friday, June 6th
Breakfast Mix 10:00a
Workshop with Lara Kramer 12-2p
Event will take place at NDA, 182 Duane St., NYC.
Program A 7:00p
Andrea Soto + Co., Ariana Speight, Fu Le, Liony Garcia, PixelTongue
Program B 8:30p
Barr Bodies/Dahlia Qumhiyeh and Bev Vega, Das Besties/Travis Amiel, Cosimo Pori, Arzu Salman, and Nina Lucia Rodriguez, Dolly Sfeir, Joshua Fried, Nicole Bindler
Saturday, June 7th
Saturday Night Special: 7:30-9:30p
Lara Kramer Dance, Karen Bernard, Lisa Parra
Reception to follow program.
Sunday, June 8th
Program A 12:00p
Isabella Thorpe Woods & Zhangxinan Wu 吴张⼼安, Jo Warren, Lindsey Barlag Thornton, Mitchell Rose
Program B (LiftOff) 1:30p
Hadi Moussally, Joy Norton, Julie Mayo, Justin Cabrillos
Program C (BASC) 3:00p
Ja’Moon and The Dancing Spirit, Nubian Néné/A Lady in the House Dance Company, Raphael Chatelain & Nicolas Huchard
Program D (LiftOff) 4:30p
Cristina Moya-Palacios, Emily Kyoko Shari, Makayla Peterson/Monét Movement Productions: The Collective, Zara Naber
Finale
Performance Mix Festival Vision Statement
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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All venues are wheelchair accessible.
