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
📣One Week Left! 📣Performance Mix Festival #39 is almost here!
The countdown begins… 7 days until Performance Mix Festival #39 lights up the Lower East Side!
The clock is ticking until we kick off this year’s festival!
The Artists have been working hard to bring their craft to you and the downtown scene. Join us June 5th-8th at Abrons Arts Center for a weekend of riveting dance, film, music, and performance art by local and international artists.
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Don’t wait ‘til the last minute… ⏰
Purchase ticketsCome and be inspired. We’ll walk you through the full festival, you choose your own adventure!
Thursday, June 5th
7 pm Program A
We kick off the celebrations with Karen Bernard and Lisa Parra!
💫Vibes: gestural, minimalist, memory, resonance, observing heritage.
8:30 pm Program B
Elle Sofe Sara, Egbésola Efunyemi, jay beardsley, Jo Warren, Muyassar Kurdi
💫Vibes: Lestadian trance, Yoruba ancestral magic, AI & intimacy, suburbia+Christianity intermingled, aural tapestry.
Friday, June 6th
7 pm Program A
Fu Le, Andrea Soto + Co., Ariana Speight, Liony Garcia, PixelTongue
💫Vibes: Pachuco culture, emergent strategy & spontaneous compositions, elusive bodies, punk shadow self, high-tech mystical sects.
8:30 pm Program B
Dolly Sfeir, Das Besties/Travis Amiel, Cosimo Pori, Arzu Salman, and Nina Lucia Rodriguez, Joshua Fried, Nicole Bindler
💫Vibes: hedonism & delicate hesitancy, coexistence of joy and grief, punk-drag absurdism, anti-war reverse strip tease.
Saturday, June 7th
7:30 pm Saturday Night Special
Lara Kramer Dance, Karen Bernard, Lisa Parra
💫Vibes: Indigenous transmission & futurity, gestural, minimalist, memory, resonance, observing heritage.
And a party to follow!
Sunday, June 8th
12:00 pm Program A
Mitchell Rose, Isabella Thorpe Woods & Zhangxinan Wu 吴张⼼安, Jo Warren, Lindsey Barlag Thornton
💫Vibes: remote intimacy, suburbia+Christianity intermingled, loneliness and longing, expanded seeing.
1:30 pm Program B (LiftOff)
Hadi Moussally, Joy Norton, Julie Mayo, Justin Cabrillos
💫Vibes: mid-pandemic birthday dance, Black sensuality and Queerness, unhinged Nicolas Cage, what shall I wear to the party?
3:00 pm Program C (BASC)
Raphael Chatelain & Nicolas Huchard, Ja’Moon and The Dancing Spirit, Nubian Néné/A Lady in the House Dance Company
💫Vibes: dark history and trance states, Black Queerness & W*acking, “this is what freedom feels like, baby.”
4:30 pm Program D (LiftOff) + Finale
Zara Naber, Cristina Moya-Palacios, Emily Kyoko Shari, Makayla Peterson/Monét Movement Productions: The Collective, Prostalgia HD
💫Vibes: the American Dream [read: nightmare], moving sculptures, poetry, Afro Caribbean liberation and joy, Arab liberation.
Finale: Brothers’ Grimm musical extravaganza.
We can’t WAIT to share the works that over 40 artists have been cooking up for you.
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New Dance Alliance, along with hundreds of fellow arts organizations in the United States, recently lost 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 — and always.
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Other Festival happenings
Breakfast Mix
Friday, June 6th 10:00 am – 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 – 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 to admin@newdancealliance.org.
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
