The clock is ticking until we kick off this year’s Performance Mix!
PM40 Artists have been in the studios, cooking up some fabulous works for you. Join us June 4th-7th at Abrons Arts Center for riveting performances by local and visiting artists.
We kick off the celebrations with IV Castellanos, chameckilerner, and commissioned work by Ursula Eagly!
💫Vibes: sculptural and living set, activist livelihoods, imprints, dreamwork, collective imagination.
Julia Antinozzi, CoCoMotion, Antonio Ramos & The Gangbangers in collaboration with Saúl Ulerio
💫Vibes: Postmodern ballet, parenthood, hurricane aftermath vs postcard paradise.
Tatiana Desardouin & K’niin Abbrey / Passion Fruit Dance Company, Rosy Simas, Nami Yamamoto
💫Vibes: music as living presence, dances between the earth and stars, aging bodies as vessels for soulful movement, body memoirs.
James Barrett, Stacy Grossfield, Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez
💫Vibes: crooning, fleshy landscapes, grotesque beauty, geopolitical hauntings.
Karen Bernard Projects, Dorian Nuskind-Oder and Simon Grenier-Poirier
💫Vibes: cover band jams, embodiment through chronic illness, hoop tricks, questioning one’s “final stage”.
…And a party to follow!
Join the celebratory reception from 8pm-10pm following the program. All are welcome to enjoy food, drinks, mingling with the Festival Artists, and music by DJ Rectum.
binbinFactory / Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa, Imani Gaudin/gaudanse, Ime Soul (fka Immanuel J.)
💫Vibes: playful world-making, comedic plea for success (and relief) to New York City, financial negotiations with a credit union.
Martita Abril (Pichu), Molly Ross, Emilio Wettlaufer
💫Vibes: FUnCKy nICE ideas, search for hope, sibling collaborations.
Natalia Fernández, Jil Guyon, Anya Liftig, lumenbodies (Akane & Benja)
💫Vibes: sticky, bittersweet hauntings, seduction and cunning, fragile memories, “falling fabrics, intimacies of the flesh, looks from cats.”
Morgan Gregory, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Kat Sotelo, Anh Vo
💫Vibes: challenging capitalist superstructures, Philippine babaylan rituals, hardened memories, desperate pageantry, seduction and satire.
Friday, June 5th 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.
Friday June 5th 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
This year the breakfast will be followed by a free workshop from internationally renowned artist Elena Lev:
Join Elena Lev, circus artist and performer in ‘Looper’ for an introduction to her unique approach to hoop manipulation. This workshop is for adult dancers and movers who are interested in exploring the basics of Lev’s technique. Participants will learn how to turn the hoop on their hands and body: a precise, playful and meditative challenge. Please wear comfortable, close-fitting clothes to move in (socks and leggings are ideal). Hoops will be provided.
RSVP to admin@newdancealliance.org.
PHOTO CREDITS: Photo 1 – Marie Lloyed Paspe, photo by Erica MacLean. Photo 2– Julia Antinozzi duet, photo by Alice Chacon. Photo 3 – Stacy Grossfield, photo by Maria Baranova. Photo 3 – Anh Vo, photo by Albert Yee courtesy of Asian Arts Initiative.
K.J. Holmes, photo by Elyse Mertz
“Performance Mix Festival has its own life, and Karen and the staff continue to evolve with the times in a way I appreciate…it was tremendous to be a Liftoff AIR and then get to show the work I had continued to explore as an AIR a year later at PMF!”
– K.J. Holmes
New Dance Alliance
182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
(646) 510-1824
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
