Pictured: Liony Garcia photographed by Alexey Taran.
Liony Garcia is a dancer and choreographer from Miami, FL.
About the Work Blending the aesthetics of punk music with physical theater, Up in the Clouds examines the shadow self through dynamic movement and structured improvisation. The piece utilizes body language, costume, and raw physical expression to externalize the characterâs internal conflict, mirroring the unrestrained intensity of punk performance.
Pictured: Julie Mayo photographed by Anja Hitzenberger.
Julie Mayo has been making dances and performing for over 25 years.
About the Work FĂȘte is a party of one. With a piquant edge, the question of what to wear and the exceptionally mundane task of getting dressed is the main event.
About the WorkáșžfĂșnyáșčmĂâs Journey intersects the mortal body with the ĂrĂŹáčŁĂ (Yoruba deity) of the human experience and creativity – á»bĂ tĂĄlĂĄ. By ascertaining one’s spirit and alignment with á»bĂ tĂĄlĂĄ, one goes on a magical late-night/early-morning club journey. The wooden floors unite humanity & creativity with ancestral magic and electronic beats.
Joshua Fried is an icon of the Lower East Side music scene since the glory days of CBGB.
About the Work In his latest work, NYC’s celebrated musical trickster Joshua Fried evokes the spirit of East Village cultural hub the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, where he performed and worked on staff 1981-1984. âHattieâs Danceâ channels Pyramid punk-drag absurdism through polyrhythmic House grooves and mid-tech wireless controllers.
Muyassar Kurdi is a Palestinian-American New York City-based interdisciplinary artist.
About the Work Through the sonic topographies of memory, the body recalls the rhythms of migration and the resonance of place. Body Poetics, an immersive embodied sound performance unfolds as an aural tapestry, woven from the threads of displacement and longing, where the body becomes a vessel for the stories that travel through time and geography.
Pictured: Film still from It Cries Too Loudly (2021).
Dolly Sfeir is a director and choreographer who grew up in Lebanon and moved to the States at the age of 19.
Synopsis Devastated and powerless as she watched the 2020 Beirut explosion and its aftermath from afar, Lebanese American choreographer and director Dolly Sfeir set about creating a work to express her delicate state of mind. It Cries Too Loudly is a dance film exploring the overlap between joy and tragedy in her tumultuous home country and the experience of being an emigre.
Emily Kyoko Shari is an artist from New York City working in movement and sculpture.
About the Work circle:bloom consists of a bespoke circle fabricated from felt and rope which the artist interacts with using short movement phrases stemming from Laban/Bartenieff floorwork. Her body becomes a tool that activates the sculpture, transforming its presence and generating a symbiotic relationship between her body and the sculpture, giving form to a series of abstract emotional states.
Joy Norton is a versatile movement artist based in Brooklyn.
About the WorkReveries of Metanoia: Who All Gon’ Be There unfolds as a heartfelt ode to Black sensuality and the radiant tapestries of love, weaving a vision of Black Queer futures and technology blooming in the boundless expanse of space. The audience will enter the realm where community nurtures liberation, and the subtle whispers of privilege challenge us to awaken to the unseen dimensions of spatial awareness.
We are so excited to share a weekend full of compelling art with you!
Pictured: PMF 39 Finale Artists Prostalgia HD, photographed by Pat Plush.
New Dance Alliance, along with hundreds of fellow arts organizations in the United States, recently lost any and all funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The budget cuts to NEA will slash access to the arts keeping our communities thriving. We share in grief with all our colleagues in the arts, but we also pledge to be resilient. NDA remains steadfast in our commitment to fostering inclusivity and diversity in the arts, and support for BIPOC performance artists in NYC.
We urge the community to come together in these troubling times to celebrate the values we hold dear. Support the artists in your community today â and always.
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Other Festival happenings
Breakfast Mix
Friday, June 6th 10:00 am â 12:00 pm The Breakfast Mix is a convivial meeting and informal discussion with the international artists of the festival. The Breakfast Mix is free and held at the NDA studio. RSVP to admin@newdancealliance.org.
Unfolding Time, A Creative Workshop with Lara Kramer
Friday June 6th 12:00 pm â 2:00 pm This year the breakfast will be followed by a free workshop from Lara Kramer:
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. RSVP toadmin@newdancealliance.org.
“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 90âs, 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, itâs 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. Karenâs 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.
