Announcing LiftOff Creative & Project Development Workshop: Fall/Winter 2015

August 17, 2015  | emily  | General

Facilitated by Jil Guyon

September 1-December 29

Every other Tuesday evening 6-9 PM (total of 10 sessions)

Three invited guest artists spaced out during the workshop (TBA). Past invitees have included Vicky Shick, Yvonne Meier, Craig Peterson, Kathy Kaufmann, Merideth Boggia, Mathew Lyons, and Brian Rogers.

Cost of LiftOff is $250 and each participating artist receives 20 hours of discounted rehearsals space at $5 per hour.

Artists must have produced two works.

For more info and to sign up contact Karen Bernard at
(646) 510-1824. There are limited spaces available on a first come first served basis.

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Thank you for all of your support for New Dance Alliance throughout our season!

July 1, 2015  | emily  | General

Performance Mix Festival: 29

Thank you for making Performance Mix: 29 a success! To all the performers, audience members, NDA Board of Directors, Advisory Board, Artist Advisory Committee, our production team, interns, volunteers, staff at HERE, our funders, individual contributors and in-kind donors: you were all instrumental in making it such a great festival!

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Halfway through Performance Mix Festival and so much more to see!

June 7, 2015  | emily  | General

Haven’t made it out to see a performance yet? There’s still time!
Check out the lineups:

Sunday, June 7th at 8:30 PM – TONIGHT!

• Amanda Loulaki
• Athena Malloy
• Johanna S. Meyer
• Maré Hieronimus/ Cory Neale/ Nicole Nigro
• Shandoah Goldman/ Carte Blanche Performance

And just added: My Erotic Body, a film by Michele Beck!
Saturday night’s show sold out, so we added a second screening of this film tonight!

Monday, June 8th at 8:30 PM

• Barbara Mahler
• Erin Carlisle Norton/ The Moving Architects
• Gabrielle D’Angelo
• Jordan Fuchs
• Sara Porter (Liftoff resident artist)

Tuesday, June 9th at 8:30 PM
Closing performance & reception

• Erick Hawkins Dance
• Leslie Parker
• Mersiha Mesihovic/ CircuitDebris
• Regina Nejman & Company
• Valerie Green/ Dance Entropy

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Opening Night Performance and Reception Tonight!

June 4, 2015  | emily  | General

Thursday, June 4th, 8:30 PM
@ HERE, 145 6th Ave.
(Enter on Dominick, 1 Block South of Spring)

Purchase tickets here
Join the Facebook event

See work from:

devynnemory/ beastproductions

devynn emory presents Wait for the picture, while I wait for the wave, a destruction, blending, renewal and revision of prior evening length works made by two artists. This work is an honesty of labor, an unveiling of essences, dynamics, and unknowns.

Dominique Porte/ Système D [LiftOff Resident Artist]

Dominique Porte presents Hors JE, in which the creator and performer is haunted by the fear of endlessly repeating of the same schemas, of rambling on gesturally. Fiery choreographer Dominique Porte re-examines her approach to creation. Between a filmed segment of some thirty experienced dancers and neophytes – and its live reinterpretation, we take a troubling plunge into her intimate world, where we find ourselves front row and center during the elaboration of both the piece and of the larger work itself.

Emilie Roberts in collaboration with George Stamos

Emilie Roberts presents Rematch. Roberts has commissioned Montreal choreographer George Stamos to create this solo exploring her roller derby persona, legs.

Malcolm Low/ Formal Structure

Malcolm Low presents Speakeasy/DEVOTION, an abstract multidisciplinary dance on the themes of faith, ritual and passion – in religion, sports, art, sex – and our devotion to all of it. With dance, video, music, text and puppetry, the work is rooted in his experience as an African American Pentecostal gay man. We will explore the parallels and contrasts of the various ecstasies experienced by these followers and believers, fans and players. Malcolm Low is happy to be collaborating with Onome Ekhe as Art Director/Dramaturg and Ben Coleman as sound designer.

Sita Frederick/ Areytos Performance Works

Sita Frederick/Areytos Performance Works presents Otro Lado, an excerpt from their latest site-specific project Why Did the Pollo Cross the Calle?…To get to the Otro Lado, for three performers dancing in chicken-wire fences. APW has developed sections of the work at artistic residencies at Casita Maria Center for the Arts and Culture (Spring 2014) and New Dance Alliance LiftOff Creation and Business Residency (August 2014) and will be in residence this August as part of LMCC’s Process Space. Read more