New Dance Alliance

Applications due tomorrow: LiftOff Residency! Deadline: Saturday, January 15th at 11:59pm. Apply now: https://newdancealliance.org//last-days-to-apply-for-lift/

Degenerate Art Ensemble, photo by Bruce Clayton Tom Just 25 days to go We are halfway to our goal! This year, we are entering a new endeavor to hold the Performance Mix Festival live outdoors. It is important to us to continue providing adequate payment and free space to artists participating in our programs. With your support and our established history, we know we will overcome these challenges, continue to strengthen our infrastructure and run necessary programming, and provide meaningful fees to the artists. Contribute now New Dance Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.Your contribution is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. https://newdancealliance.org//support-our-35th-anniversar/

NDA is taking steps to reach out to communities of color. We seek to engage a consultant to identify press and organizations. If you are interested, please contact Karen Bernard at newdancealliance.org. https://www.newdancealliance.org photo: Johnny Cruise Mercer film PM6 still by Torian Ugworji

Our Fundraiser endsTONIGHT at 11:59pm Any amount helps! Donations make a huge difference in our ability to continue programming amazing artists like the ones featured in this year's Performance Mix Festival. Donate We will not receive funding unless we meet our goal!... https://newdancealliance.org/20//13/can-we-reach-our-goal/

we are: Anna, Kimiko, s., Symara, Tara, Taylor, Ogemdi and marion June 13th, 2PM ‘to love the rise/ pt 2’ is an ongoing multimedia dance project including performers Ogemdi Ude, Symara Johnson, Kimiko Tanabe, Tara Sheena, s. lumbert, and slowdanger. Taking lessons from liminality, abolition, and Donna Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto,’ we offer visions of a world built from the detritus of our current one - collectively moving and grooving, sensing and sounding, finding and lo...sing order to arrive together in a transformed state of sensing, imagination and action. We are anna, Kimiko, s., Symara, Tara, taylor, Ogemdi and marion (@marionspencer). We collectively make work that pushes the limits of time, space and understanding through movement, sound, light and voice using both improvised and choreographic structures. Through this collective structure, marion facilitates how we come together- Get your tickets to the live festival at the link in our bio! #PerformanceMix35 #NewDanceAlliance by Jessie Young

Remembering Performance Mix Festival: Remotely Yours featuring MAYDAY!

Rachel Thorne Germond Performance Collage (RTGPC) June 13th, 2PM Enigma of an Afternoon is a visual and movement installation - with no intended beginning, middle or end - that addresses various physical and psychic states that have emerged and escalated during the Covid 19 pandemic. Rachel Thorne Germond and Tasha Taylor perform a sort of metaphysical dreamscape, inspired by a trip to the beach on a cold March afternoon in 2021. In this work, we ask ourselves, as we are ...coming tentatively out of our year of isolation, "How has the world changed? How have we changed?" We are trying to comprehend an enigmatic new reality, and exploring how we can move within it. Rachel Thorne Germond (@rtgpc) is a performer, dancer, teacher, choreographer, and visual artist and has been creating dance/performance work since the late 1980’s. Based in New York City from 1986-1998, she presented her choreography at notable venues such as St. Mark’s Church Danspace, Dixon Place, and The Joyce Soho, amongst others. In 2000 she achieved an M.F.A. in Choreography from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and afterwards founded her Chicago-based company, RTG Dance. From 2010-2014 she taught in Southeastern Virginia at Old Dominion University and Christopher Newport University and was part of a multidisciplinary performance troupe, ArtPile. Since returning to New York in 2014, she has performed with Alice Klugherz and Karen Bernard, and continues to create and present multidisciplinary performances that incorporate visual art, dance, video, and photography via Rachel Thorne Germond Performance Collage. Get your tickets to the live festival at the link in our bio! #PerformanceMix35 #NewDanceAlliance by Steven Pisano

Last chance to seePerformance Mix Festival: 35! Sunday, June 13th Last day to meet our goal! Please consider giving to our Kickstarter Campaign - we are $1,231 away! We won’t receive funding unless we meet our goal! Donate... https://newdancealliance.org/2021/06/13/last-chance/

Kick off our Kickstarter by supporting New Dance Alliance’s 35th Anniversary Performance Mix Festival! Especially this year, we ask you to dig a little deeper. The pandemic has put NDA in an incredibly precarious financial position. We had to cancel the live Performance Mix last year and instead hosted a free virtual event, Performance Mix Festival 34: Remotely Yours. This year, we are entering a new endeavor to hold the festival live outdoors. It is important to us to cont...inue providing adequate payment and free space to artists participating in our programs. With your support and our established history, we know we will overcome these challenges, continue to strengthen our infrastructure and run necessary programming, and provide meaningful fees to the artists to donate, visit the link in our bio! #NewDanceAlliance #PerformanceMix35 See more

Support New Dance Alliance’s 35th Anniversary Performance Mix Festival! Especially this year, we ask you to dig a little deeper. The pandemic has put NDA in an incredibly precarious financial position. We had to cancel the live Performance Mix last year and instead hosted a free virtual event, Performance Mix Festival 34: Remotely Yours. This year, we are entering a new endeavor to hold the festival live outdoors.... https://newdancealliance.org//05/06/kick-off-our-kickstar/

LOOKING BACK: Highlights from Performance Mix Festival 1986-2020 Come TONIGHT to see this film celebrating our 35th anniversary, in addition to performances by @degenerateartensemble and @jcm_redprojectnyc! A few tickets still left, link in bio

Check out Leslie Cuyjet's article in the New York Times! Congrats. We can't wait to have Leslie perform on June 13th at 4pm for Performance Mix Festival 35. Leslie was also an artist in our Black Artists Space to Create Residency pilot program. https://www.nytimes.com///leslie-cuyjet-choreographer.html

Co-creation Hadley Smith/Johanna S. Meyer June 13th, 2PM A performance experiment by two dancers, two computers, and gravel. .. is a new dance, and first co-creation by Hadley Smith and Johanna S Meyer, who have worked together for 12 years in different capacities. . is an experiment made with improvised scores and set material, performed both live and online, using rudimentary "Zoom features." We are framing this work through the "eye" of the computer camera for det...ail and perspective, while performing the dance in person, outside at the same time. . Sees drawing as three-dimensional. Our work together foregrounds fragile technology and a fluid femininity between screen and body. Johanna S. Meyer (@johannas.meyer) is a New York City choreographer, performer and educator. Her four full-length dance works include Every Hotel TV Plays On, Teaser, piece.piece, and MAPS; she has also created 18 short pieces. Comedic and intricate, her dances often draw on historical material such as burlesque routines, medical textbooks, and vintage films, and build collages of abstract, rigorous theatrical moments woven through physicality and character. Hadley Smith (@foxtrot_topknot) is a New York based dance artist. Her work deals generally with systems of order, and in particular with the schematics of gender. She seeks to disorder the structures of power written upon our bodies through visceral and absurdist action. Hadley’s choreographic practice is strongly influenced by her work in other disciplines; her slide-shows, meditation tapes and zines can be found at hadleysmithdance.com and @sublime_materiality on Instagram. Hadley has presented work in New York, Chicago and Toronto. In 2016 she graduated with an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Most recently she presented a first edition of ongoing project 1000 Moves for Back Up Dancers at Danspace in 2019 and released SSTEMS: the zines in Spring of 2021. Get your tickets to the live festival at the link in our bio! #PerformanceMix35 #NewDanceAlliance by Scott Shaw

New Dance Alliance, in partnership with @MovementResearch, presents: PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL 35th Anniversary June 10-13, 2021 Experience the work of these diverse artists representing the history of the Performance Mix Festival along with new voices in this 35th Anniversary celebration. Showing in-person outdoor performances, live stream, installations, and video/film screenings at Movement Research at 122 Community Center in the studio and the Courtyard. Featuring wo...rks by: Leslie Cuyjet Degenerate Art Ensemble Rachel Thorne Germond Camilo Godoy Jil Guyon Yvonne Meier Johnnie Cruise Mercer Dana Michel and Tracy Maurice MOLLY&NOLA Sari Nordman Christopher Unpezverde Núñez Alethea Pace Lisa Parra and Daniel Pinheiro Rosy Simas Hadley Smith and Johanna S. Meyer Andrew Tay Anh Vo Nami Yamamoto we are: Anna, Kimiko, s., Symara, Tara, Taylor, Ogemdi, and marion Looking Back: Performance Mix Festival 1986-2021 (film), Edited by Charles Dennis #PerformanceMix35 #NewDanceAlliance : Nathaniel Wixon

Join us today forPerformance Mix Festival: 35! Saturday, June 12th... https://newdancealliance.org///12/celebrate-with-us-today/

New Dance Alliance in partnership with Movement Research presents PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL 35th Anniversary June 10 - 13, 2021 ... https://newdancealliance.org//announcing-35th-anniversary/

Christopher Unpezverde Núñez June 13th, 12PM A Garden in the Shape of Dreams: "This performance is a playful imaginary world inspired by a queer-disabled child who survived years of physical and sexual abuse." (b. Costa Rica) Christopher Unpezverde Núñez is a Visually Impaired Choreographer, Performance Artist, Educator, Curator and Accessibility Consultant based in New York City. His performances have been presented at The Brooklyn Museum, The Immigrant Artist Biennale..., The Kitchen, Movement Research at The Judson Church, Danspace Project, The Leslie Lohman Museum for Gay and Lesbian Art, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dixon Place, Performance is Alive, Performance Mix Festival and Battery Dance Festival, among others. His work has been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The Dance Enthusiast and The Archive: The Leslie Lohman Museum bi-annual journal. He has held residencies at New Dance Alliance, Battery Dance Studios, The Kitchen, Center for Performance Research, Heartshare, and Movement Research (2020-2021 Mertz Gilmore Foundation Artist-in-Residence). Most recently, he performed in Dressing Up for Civil Rights by William Pope L, presented at MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art and was invited by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs to share his story during Immigrant Heritage Week 2020 as a queer, disabled artist who lived undocumented in the US for four years before obtaining his green card in 2018. He holds a BFA in Science in Performing Arts from the National University of Costa Rica. Get your tickets to the live festival at the link in our bio! #PerformanceMix35 #NewDanceAlliance by Walter Wlodarczyk, courtesy of The Immigrant Artist Biennale

Tickets are still available for today’s performances!! Link in bio. PROGRAM A: 3PM Andrew Tay *Zoom* (@choreographyishappening) PROGRAM B: 7PM Dana Michel and Tracy Maurice (@danamavismichel, @tracymaurice)... PROGRAM C: 8PM Andrew Tay (@choreographyishappening), Rosy Simas (@rosysimasdanse), Camilo Godoy (@camilogodoy), Jil Guyon (@jilguyon) Video by Andrew Tay

If you won't be in Venice, come to cinema night at #performancemix35 and see Widow's End and Coda.

Join us today forPerformance Mix Festival: 35! Friday, June 11th... https://newdancealliance.org//performances-today-virtual-/

Performance Mix Press Through the Years Check out these PM reviews dating back to 1986 from @nytimes, @villagevoice and @tribecatrib! Get your tickets for the festival, running tonight through Sunday Link in bio #PerformanceMix35 #NewDanceAlliance

Join us tonight for the opening ofPerformance Mix Festival: 35! Thursday, June 10th! Program A | 7:00 PM LAND Project LAND Project will connect remotely to construct a shared space using João Fiadeiro real-time composition practice. Lisa Parra will be live in New York, while Daniel Pinheiro will be projected from Porto and live streamed using LiveLab. The actions that take place between us will be a hybrid of virtual and live real time performance where the courtyard studio space will be transformed by the invisible and visible presence of the other to create a togetherness stream of consciousness. ... https://newdancealliance.org//10/join-us-for-opening-night/

Nami Yamamoto June 13th, 4PM (Working title) powerless creature keeps going. is exploration of her dancing at East River Park during pandemic with her studio work, Trooper’s Brother which was completely pause in 2020. Nami will bring two completely different elements of her practice, and apply, combine, adapt and discover a new normal way to bring a dance to perform. Nami Yamamoto (@namicake73), from Matsuyama, Japan, holds an MA in Dance Education from New York Universit...y and a BA in Physical Education from Ehime University. Her work has been funded by Creative Capital, Jim Henson Foundation, Suitcase Fund from Dance Theater Workshop, and others. She has been nurtured and inspired by her residency experience at Movement Research, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. Her work, Headless Wolf (2017) received The New York Dance and Performance Awards, (the Bessies) for outstanding production. While her studio creation was on pause in 2020, she has created dance films, powerless creature keeps going... documented at East River Park. In 2021, she is a Gibney DiP Resident Artist and an Artist in Residence in at Center for Performance Research to develop her piece, Trooper’s Brother. Nami enjoys teaching dance at NYC public schools through Dance Makers Program at Movement Research. Get your tickets to the live festival at the link in our bio! #PerformanceMix35 #NewDanceAlliance by Lauren Tuvell

Sari Nordman Active before start of programs every day Tower, designed by Sari Nordman (@sarinordman), is an interdisciplinary installation incorporating sculpture, video projection, archiving and community participation. The project reflects on climate change and the biblical story of The Tower of Babel - the story of greed and value of cultural differences. Sari Nordman, born and raised in Finland, is a New York City -based interdisciplinary artist working with dance, vid...eo and installation. She loves to travel to the isolated parts of the world to reflect on nature, history and female experience, the recurring themes in her works. She contemplates nature in specific locations and combined with her personal sense research juxtaposes feminine mystique with environmental anxieties. Most recently Nordman has exhibited with The Immigrant Artist Biennial, SHIM, InSitu, Performance Mix Festival and TsakBam, Greece. She's developing new work for Arts in Odd Places, Performance Mix Festival and Jamaica Flux: Workspaces and Windows in 2021. Nordman has received residency support at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Catwalk, Tofte Lake Center, Eckerö Post and Customs House, Tohmajärvi, Zodiak Z Free, in the US and abroad, and has been awarded Finlandia Foundation National and American Scandinavian Society grants. She worked as a dancer with Dean Moss/Gametophyte on several of his productions in 2009-2018. She holds a M.F.A. from NYU/Tisch school of the Arts. Get your tickets to the live festival at the link in our bio! #PerformanceMix35 #NewDanceAlliance

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Leslie Cuyjet June 13th, 4PM Leslie Cuyjet (@el_cuyjet) is most known as a performer whose body of work was recognized with a 2019 New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer for sustained achievement. She has co-directed, designed, danced, and collaborated with a range of artists that include Will Rawls, Juliana F. May, Cynthia Oliver, Jane Comfort, David Gordon, NARCISSISTER, Kim Brandt, and Yanira Castro/a canary torsi among others. Her work i...nterrogates those experiences as a performer in various experimental and post-modern works through the lens of a Black body; and has been supported by residencies at Movement Research, Center for Performance Research, Yaddo, Marble House Project, and MacDowell Colony. Cuyjet’s dances have been presented at MoMA PS1, Center for Performance Research, La MaMa Moves! Festival, Gibney Double Plus, Movement Research Fall Festival and Judson Church, and Danspace Draftworks. Her recent evening-length solo, Talented, at Center for Performance Research which received a Last-Stage Production Stipend from the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation. She is co-editor of the Movement Research online publication, Critical Correspondence. Get your tickets to the live festival at the link in our bio! #PerformanceMix35 #NewDanceAlliance by Maria Baranova

MOLLY&NOLA June 13th, 4PM This new piece reckons with material we began developing pre-pandemic, and tumbles into unforeseen territory where livestock auctioneering, cloning, and a brief dalliance with the Pentecostal church collide. We re-enter our collaboration with a familiar droll, punctuating our togetherness with near-misses and pastoral distortions. MOLLY&NOLA have been making work together since 2017. Their process is insistent and shameless, an invocation to enter... the internal landscape of their alliance while flirting with notions of friendship, sisterhood, rivalry and reverence. They are based in Brooklyn, NY, and have performed their collaborative work in New Mexico, Philadelphia, and at a variety of theaters, galleries, music venues, and DIY spaces throughout NYC. They have held residencies through the Keshet Makers Space Experience (Albuquerque, New Mexico) and New Dance Alliance’s LiftOff Program (NYC). Nola Sporn Smith (@spornographer) is a dance and theater artist from Brooklyn, NY. Nola was nominated for a 2019 Bessie Outstanding Performer Award for her work in Stacy Grossfield’s ‘metamorphosis.’ In addition to collaborating with Molly, Nola has also worked with cakeface, Eryka Dellenbach, Emily Smith, and Donna Uchizono Company. Originally from Michigan, Molly Ross (@mollyeross) now lives in Brooklyn. She loves collaborating with Jo McKendry, Gwendolyn Knapp, Austin Selden, The Dance Cartel, and Nola in NYC. She previously danced for Khecari and Hedwig Dances in Chicago, IL. Get your tickets to the live festival at the link in our bio! #PerformanceMix35 #NewDanceAlliance by Nat Ward