LiftOff

Space for creation and project development

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2020 Artists

About LiftOff

LiftOff takes place at NDA’s Studio in Tribeca and provides physical-based performance artists with a minimum of 30 hours of rehearsal space to be scheduled in November, December, and January. LiftOff artists are invited to attend the end of the month Work Session.

Past Artists

Thea Little

2019: Denisa Musilova, Maho Ogawa, Emily Smith, Erik Abbott-Main, Susanne McHugh, Javier Padilla, Catie Leasca, Elena Rose Light, Stuart Meyers
2018: Dorian Nuskind-Oder, Stacy Grossfield Dance Projects, Christopher Unpezverde Núñez, Moriah Evans
2017: Oren Barnoy, Millie Kapp, Antonio Ramos, Gabrielle Revlock, Urša Sekirnik
2016: Ashley A. Friend, Alice Klugherz, Thea Little, Yara Travieso
2015: Lindy Fines, Barbara Mahler, Mersiha Mesihovic
2014: Sita Frederick, Malcolm Low, Johanna Meyers, Christopher Williams
2013: Diana Crum, Rebecca Lloyd Jones, Prentice Whitlow
2012: Michael Freeman, Jil Guyon, Michael Samama

LiftOff receives support from New York State Arts Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation.

Daniel Linehan, photo by Bart Grietens

The Performance Mix Festival was an important part of my early career in New York. As one of the first venues where my dances were presented in New York, it was a laboratory where I could experiment with new ways of working. I was very happy to take advantage of the other opportunities connected to the festival–the rehearsal space, the Breakfast Mix meetings with other artists, the chance to take my work on tour to Philadelphia and Montréal. What’s special about NDA/Performance Mix is that it is not only concerned with presenting the final product, but it really aims to meet the needs of the artist at every stage of the process.

—Daniel Linehan, choreographer/performer (Brussels, Belgium)