Pictured: Nubian Néné and NYX photographed by Suarfotos.
We’re Mixing it up! Experience dance, live music, film – and more – this June.
Performance Mix Festival #39 is fast approaching! Join us June 5th-8th at Abrons Arts Center for a weekend full of live performances and Ciné-Corps film screenings.
As the artists gear up for show day, allow us to introduce a few of the incredible performers at this year’s Festival.
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 character’s internal conflict, mirroring the unrestrained intensity of punk performance.
Pictured: Friends of NDA at the Performance Mix Festival 2024 reception, photo by Elyse Mertz.
It’s a party! Extended program + a reception to follow…
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Join us at Abrons Arts Center June 5th at 7:00pm for performances by NDA Executive and Artistic Director Karen Bernard and Lisa Parra, and June 7th at 7:30pm for the Saturday Night Special, an extended program including Karen Bernard, Lisa Parra, Montréal-based artist Lara Kramer, and a celebratory reception.
Meet the Artists
Karen Bernard
Pictured: Karen Bernard in Fleeting Glimpse, photographed by Jenna Westra.
About the Work A black wooden chair. A black sequined curtain. A black faux fur blanket. A black laptop. A woman with white hair dressed in black sequined shorts and a matching black top. Choreographer Karen Bernard offers these disparate visual elements to the viewer in her latest work, Fleeting Glimpse, only to connect them by revealing their hidden inner vitality. Through surprisingly spare and inventive movement, Bernard demonstrates that movement itself is life, and despite its fleeting and transitory nature, we experience its pulse through gestures, sideways looks, and subtle shifts that reflect an internal light. Fleeting Glimpse will be performed at PM39 by Johanna S Meyer.
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…
Pictured: Cristina Moya-Palacios presents a work in progress version of ‘All Immerican Dream Girl!’ for the 2025 Leadership Brunch Audience.
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.
Pictured: Performance Mix Festival Artist Muyassar Kurdi
The Annual Performance Mix Festival #39 Lineup is here!
Our highly anticipated Performance Mix #39 brings together 40 artists working in experimental performance, sound, and film this June at the Abrons Arts Center Underground Theater.
“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.
