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2025

JANUARY

4-19 UNDER THE RADAR multiple acts from many places. Now relocated all over the city since the Public Theater dropped this essential festival of new international works.

8-18 LIVE ARTERY one of the many booking conference related showcases, this one produced by New York Live Arts and multiple other venues/producers "fully produced productions onsite at Live Arts and co-presentations with partner Under the Radar, off-site performances with Triskelion Arts, Danspace Project, CPR – Center for Performance Research, and Kelly Strayhorn Theater, and offer 10 showings and an artist salon.

9-19 THE SEARCH FOR POWER created/performed by Tania El Khoury with Ziad Abu Rish. Invisible Dog Her installation last year at ID, Cultural Exchange Rate, was a fascinating exploration of personal history, brilliantly conceived and installed/performed.

9-26 SHOW/BOAT: A RIVER. "re-imagines this classic American story as a play with music, asking how we can rebuild our nation, from the ugly heart of 1880s Jim Crow to the vibrant challenges of 2025" Target Margin Theater. NYUSkirball

20 ENDSIEG: THE SECOND COMING Elfreide Jelinek's response to and coinciding with the 2nd coronation of Donald Trump. Broadcast in multiple languages via Howlaround from Martin E. Segal Center/CUNY

1-4pmEST Directed by Milo Rau. Translated by Gitta Honegger.

FEBRUARY

3 FIRST MONDAYS reading series at PSNY. Brenda Shaughnessy, Natasha Trethewey

7 OFFERINGS Fargo Nissim Tbakhi performs in NYC! 7:30pm, 145 W. 46th St. Fargo is an immensely talented and dedicated Palestinian performance artist. His work while he was a student at ASU absolutely amazed me.

8 COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES #178-DANCNOISE "an educational performance series exploring the history of Off-Off-Broadway. Part artist-portrait, part history lesson, and part community forum, Coffeehouse Chronicles take an intimate look at the development of downtown theatre, from the 1960s’ “Coffeehouse Theatres” through today." This one focuses on Anne Iobst and Lucy Sexton and their duo Dancnoise. Guests Ishmael Houston-Jones, Cynthia Carr, Carmelita Tropicana and more! La Mama 3-5pm

9 MARATHON READING OF THE CANCER JOURNALS BY AUDRE LORDE. organized by Sarah Schulman and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. 1pm Performance Space NY/PSNY Free w/ RSVP

14 STEVE PAXTON-A VIDEO AMBLE Danspace 6:30pm Organized/hosted by Cathy Weis, Lisa Nelson

27-March 1. OO-GA-LA REIMAGNINED (The Fred Holland/Ishmael Houston-Jones 1983 Duet danced into the 21st century) Danspace 7:30pm. Ishmael writes: “In 1983 at the Danspace Project festival Contact at 10th and 2nd which celebrated the 11th year that Steve Paxton named the form Contact Improvisation, Fred Holland and I were invited to perform a duet on the Partners Program along with Steve and Nancy Stark Smith and others. Fred and I, who considered ourselves to be the Black Punks of Contact, decided to do our C.I. duet by doing everything wrong. We rehearsed in East Village bars like the Pyramid Club on Avenue A after midnight and were given a cassette tape of sound loops from Kung Fu movies compiled by composer Mark Larson. But it was Fred who named the first ‘wrong’ item in our unpublished score when he said, ‘We are Black.’ We were one of very few people of color included in the festival or inhabiting the C.I. milieu at all. The videos of the two performances of OO-GA-LA by Cathy Weis and Lisa Nelson were largely unseen after the festival until found by Karen Nelson in the early 2000s. I’ve chosen to give the Wrong Contact Score to three AFAB dancers of color who are extraordinary performers, highly skilled improvisors, and innovative DJs to Queer this duet from 40 years and bring it to a new generation.”

MARCH

1 CATCH 8 Another iteration of a dynamic mix of short and in-progress work. Tei Bow, Niall Jones, Ogemdi Ude, Justin Hicks, Matt Romein, Anna Sperber, Anooj Bhandari, Louise Yeung, Morgan Bassichis, Marisa Morán Jahn and students from Parson, Geoff Sobelle, The Million Underscores. Invisible Dog 7pm

-through May 11 THE CLOCK Christian Marclay's masterful 24 hour video installation, one of the truly astounding works of our era, returns to MOMA. Unfortunately presented in traditional movie format (not the surround-sound/video installation of its original presentation), but still amazing.

12-13 WEILL BOY/BRECHT GIRL/EISLER MAN John Kelly "with music director and pianist Mila Henry. Includes the music of Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, and Hans Eisler, among other 20th century art songs. Missives from a Divine Promiscue, songs for a new reality." Joe's Pub

13-15 BUNNY BUNNY written, directed, choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly. Invisible Dog

20-22 YOU BETTER Sally Silvers & Dancers at Roulette

20-April 5. WITNESS School of Visual Arts/SVA "an exhibition by former and current members of the School of Visual Arts community—alumni, faculty, and staff—who have addressed or continue to address the impact of HIV/AIDS in their work, in their lives and in our shared history. It also includes work by four SVA colleagues who we lost to the virus, which in its early years was quickly called “The Plague.” To witness a plague is to be irrevocably changed, as we were recently again made aware. The statements and artworks presented are a reminder of our strength and our sorrow, of our fears, our loss, our anger, and our hope." SVA Flatiron Project Space, 133/141 W. 21st St.

21-22 CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS a rethink of Saint-Saëns' classic, reworked/rethought by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Wendy Whelan, Francesca Harper, Sugar Vendil Alice Tully Hall/Lincoln Center

APRIL

10-May 4 LA MAMA MOVES! DANCE FESTIVAL

many of the events are listed below in their specific times

through 5. WITNESS School of Visual Arts/SVA "an exhibition by former and current members of the School of Visual Arts community—alumni, faculty, and staff—who have addressed or continue to address the impact of HIV/AIDS in their work, in their lives and in our shared history. It also includes work by four SVA colleagues who we lost to the virus, which in its early years was quickly called “The Plague.” To witness a plague is to be irrevocably changed, as we were recently again made aware. The statements and artworks presented are a reminder of our strength and our sorrow, of our fears, our loss, our anger, and our hope." SVA Flatiron Project Space, 133/141 W. 21st St.

10-13 LOVE ALONE ANTHOLOGY PROJECT Keith Thompson and dance tactics performance group. Projections by Robert Flynt and David Fishel. La Mama downstairs.

10-13 TIDES John Jasperse Projects. La Mama Featuring Vicky Shick, Jodi Melnick, Cynthia Koppe, Jace Weyant, Maria Fleischman. Score by Hahn Rowe. La Mama

10-May 4 HOLD ME IN THE WATER Written/performed by Ryan J Haddad, Directed by Danny Sharron. Playwrights Horizons Ryan's Dark Disabled Stories (Under the Radar Festival) was stunning last year. He's a totally captivating and very smart performer/writer.

16-Sept. 13 SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDING OF DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP (now NYLA). New York Public Library. Exhibition, performances?

16-20 RAINBIRD Experiments in Opera, Restless NYC, and Mabou Mines presents new music/drama mix directed by Mallory Catlett with music by Aaron Siegel, based on a book by Janet Frame. Featuring soprano Gelsey Bell. Mabou Mines, 150 First Ave.

25-27 JESSE ZARITT & PAMELA PIETRO, shared with JORDAN DEMETRIUS LLOYD La Mama

MAY

-through May 4 HOLD ME IN THE WATER Written/performed by Ryan J Haddad, Directed by Danny Sharron. Playwrights Horizons Ryan's Dark Disabled Stories (Under the Radar Festival) was stunning last year. He's a totally captivating and very smart performer/writer.

1-4 NEW YORK ARAB FESTIVAL La Mama experimental Arab choreography and performance

9-10 A GOOD NIGHT IN THE TRAUMA GARDEN a new commissioned piece by musician/singer Joseph Keckler. The Petrie Court of the Metropolitan Museum. "An aria about an important squirrel."

15-18 THIS LIKE A DREAM KEEPS OTHER TIME performance/installation by Nene Humphrey, directed by Mallory Catlett, libretto/music by Anaïs Mariel, video designer Simon Harding, Sound design Ryan Gamblin. Mabou Mines

-Sept. 13 SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDING OF DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP (now NYLA). New York Public Library. Exhibition, performances?

JEFF MCMAHON