Submit your application for your work to be considered for PMF41, happening June 3-6, 2027. We will be back at the Underground Theater at Abrons Arts Center this year!
All works selected from the application will be short works up to 15-20 minutes. These works will be performed Thursday, June 3rd, Friday, June 4th and Sunday June 6th.
Please see our application form for more information and eligibility requirements.
The deadline to apply is November 27th, 11:59pm ET.
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Last year marked 40 years of Performance Mix Festival and we are grateful to have celebrated with you all. PMF40 brought back legacy Performance Mix artists, as well as fresh new voices in the downtown performance art scene.
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PHOTO CREDITS: PMF41 BANNER – graphics by Natalia Fernández Slideshow – All photos by Elyse Mertz. PMF40 Artists in order of appearance: Marie Lloyd Paspe, Kat Sotelo, Imani Gaudin/gaudanse, Dorian Nuskind-Oder and Simon Grenier-Poirier with Elena Lev, lumenbodies (Benja Thompson and Akane Little), Morgan Gregory, Anya Liftig, Stacy Grossfield, James Barrett, Nami Yamamoto.
NDA warmly welcomes this season’s LiftOff Artists, who will be working on exciting projects at NDA’s studio in Tribeca in the coming months. We are looking forward to some fruitful and dynamic feedback sessions with this year’s artist recipients!
Keep reading to learn more about the 2026/2027 LiftOff Artists. Click on the artist’s name or photo to read their full artist statements.
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NDA is accepting applications for the 2026/27 LiftOff Residency cohort!
The LiftOff Residency takes place at NDA’s Studio in Tribeca and provides six physical-based performance artists with 30 hours of rehearsal space each, an introductory meeting, and two feedback sessions. This residency is for artists looking to join a small cohort of artists to share and give feedback on each other’s work.
You must be a New York City based artist in order to apply.
Past LiftOff residents are eligible to apply after two years of their program participation. The residency is only available for solo artists, or groups with up to 4 artists.
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Just like that, we close our 40th year of Performance Mix Festival. Thank you for joining us!
We had the best time putting on our 40th annual Performance Mix at Abrons Arts Center this year, and hope you got to experience some of the outstanding performance art that was shared in the Underground Theater.
NDA deeply thanks you for coming out to support the 30+ performance artists that presented a wide range of works, pushing the boundaries of genre and discipline.
Keep scrolling for more opportunities for artists!
Looking back on a whirlwind of performance happenings…
Thursday kicked off the Festival…
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
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