This holiday season, we want to celebrate our steadfast and inspiring arts community.
Dear Friend of NDA,
As the holiday season is in full swing, we wish to reflect on the joys and challenges brought by this year. We saw a wonderful year of programming and community engagement, most notably with a jam-packed celebration at the 39th annual Performance Mix Festival in June! NDA was also able to continue our Satellite space grant Program, LiftOff Residencies, BASC (Black Artists Space to Create) and WORKSession.
NDA thanks you for your support, in any capacity, of our unwavering commitment to creating career development opportunities for artists and diversity in the arts. In these times, when funding for the arts becomes increasingly at risk, we need our communities to be as resilient as ever. As we enter our 40th year of Performance Mix Festival programming, your support is as vital as ever before.
Join us in supporting NYC performance artists by making a contribution today!
After 4 decades of devotion to the performance arts community in NYC and beyond, New Dance Alliance hopes to continue providing programming and opportunities for performance artists to develop their voices and craft. Your gift will go towards funding our residencies, space grants, annual Performance Mix Festivals, and more.
With gratitude, Karen Bernard & NDA staff
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A special thank you…
New Dance Alliance is proud to announce that we’ve received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). NDA was awarded $69,500 to fuel our programming for 2026.
We are accepting rolling applications for our Satellite Program!
Satellite provides donation-based rehearsal space at NDA’s Studio in Tribeca. Satellite artists must book a minimum of 8 hours from November to January and February to April. Additional hours as available.
This program operates on a donation-based payment system, suggested $5 per hour. Donations can be made by NDA’s Venmo @New-Dance-1 with the subject: Satellite.
Satellite rehearsal space is available upon request, on a first-come, first-serve, rolling basis. Please fill out this interest form, and we will contact you pending studio availability.
“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.
