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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

5-26 ABC NO RIO 25 YEARS. Retrospective of this upstart organization. " an exhibition of the artists and activists who have contributed to ABC No Rio over the decades and built it into an iconic Lower East Side cultural center. They will reassemble to exhibit work in this historical survey presenting artworks old and new, and documents that explore the many facets of ABC from the founding Colab years, during which artists of that group and others mounted politically charged theme exhibitions, to the movement in the mid-1980s towards experimental performance, film, and queer subjectivity. Ephemera from No Rio’s archives will represent the collectivist and political projects of the 1990s including the Printshop, Zine Library, Community Darkroom, Hardcore Matinees, and co-sponsored projects such as Blackout Books, Books Through Bars and Food Not Bombs. The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space will contribute materials documenting ABC No Rio's relationships to the squatters’ movement which battled Giuliani’s police in the 1990s, and the movement to preserve community gardens." Emily Harvey Foundation, 537 Broadway 2nd Fl.

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 ROOM TO MOVE: DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP the legendary space (now NYLA) where so many of us made our work. New York Public Library of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. 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.

21 BREAKING FORM: CELEBRATING CHOREOGRAPHER JANE COMFORT new film about Jane's amazing work "Produced by Comfort and co-produced by award-winning artists Sean Donovan and Leslie Cuyjet, Breaking Form features a talented cast from over 40 years of Jane Comfort and Company, with an original score by Obie Award-winning composer Heather Christian." Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts 6pm

17-June 7 BLACK BOX Exhibition of photography of DONA ANN MCADAMS Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 W. 14th St. "combining 50 years of black and white photography with the photographer’s own short lyric texts. Her photographs, taken between 1974 and 2024, document astonishing moments and people across decades of American life. These striking historical images paired with personal reflections that read like prose poems work together to convey an unapologetic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, the Culture Wars, and the Performance Art scene of the 1980s and 1990s. This exhibition is timed to coincide with the release of McAdams' recent monograph, Black | Box: A Photographic Memoir, published by Saint Lucy Books." Opening reception April 17 6-8pm

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

26 DBR LAB PRESENTS AT NATIONAL SAWDUST. The Arizona State University class taught by Daniel Bernard Roumain presents new work in performance, with special guest CARL HANCOCK RUX. 7:30pm at National Sawdust. Very happy to report that the Jacki Apple Fund is supporting this opportunity for young artists to be professionally presented in NYC.

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

5 HISTORICAL AVANT GARDES last of the season of Sarah Schulman's beautifully curated reading series at Performance Space NY. Always stimulating. And free if you pre-register! 7pm

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 DONA ANN MCADAMS and EILEEN MYLES in conversation, as part of ongoing Dona's 5 decade retrospective at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 W. 14th St. 6:30pm

15-16, 23-24 CURRICULUM III: PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company "Both violent and elegiac, the work examines who is or what makes an American in light of the demonization of immigrants, mass deportations, surveillance, and censorship" New York Live Arts

16-17 STORY TIME a new piece by Jody Oberfelder Projects at The Center in West Park

17 & 22 MEMORY PIECE: MR. AILEY, ALVIN...THE UN-AILEY? Bill T. Jones "an intimate, multilayered homage to a dance world mentor. Jones, who has often described himself as having taken a different path than Alvin Ailey, uses this performance to examine that divergence—inviting audiences into a rare, reflective space, revealing the tensions, inspirations, and transformations that have shaped Jones as an artist and visionary." New York Live Arts. Bill's solos are utterly unique and powerful.

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

27-30 & June 20-24 LETTER OF INTENT a new play by the always unique, inventive, brilliant John Jesurun. Set in an actual west village apartment. 7 pm Must reserve! with Asta Hansen, Claire Buckingham, Benjamin Forster, Dan Kuan Peeples.

-through Sept. 13 ROOM TO MOVE: DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP the legendary space (now NYLA) where so many of us made our work. New York Public Library of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Exhibition, performances.

JUNE

-through -June 7 BLACK BOX Exhibition of photography of DONA ANN MCADAMS Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 W. 14th St. "combining 50 years of black and white photography with the photographer’s own short lyric texts. Her photographs, taken between 1974 and 2024, document astonishing moments and people across decades of American life. These striking historical images paired with personal reflections that read like prose poems work together to convey an unapologetic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, the Culture Wars, and the Performance Art scene of the 1980s and 1990s. This exhibition is timed to coincide with the release of McAdams' recent monograph, Black | Box: A Photographic Memoir, published by Saint Lucy Books."

4 & 11 THERE'S A RIOT GOING ON! The Real Music & True Story of Stonewall-a documentary concert. 9:30pm Joe's Pub. Directed by David Driver with musical direction by Ann Klein. We saw an earlier version of this project, revelatory and musically and historically powerful. A great group of singers/speakers that moves dynamically through the history of a revolt. @theres_a_riot

13-14 FRESH TRACKS/NEW WORKS by Maxi Hawkeye Canion, Kashia Kancey, Jade Manns, ayo ohs New York Live Arts

19 OH SANKOFA! A JUNTEENTH CELEBRATION Curated by Carl Hancock Rux. Free but best if RSVP. Starts 6pm in Hearst Plaza and moves to Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center. Featured artists include actress/comedian Phyllis Stickney; multimedia artist Vinson Fraley; dancer and Urban Bush Women Co-Artistic Director Chanon Judson; blue jazz guitarist Marvin Sewell; and the Etienne Lashley choir

20-24 LETTER OF INTENT a new play by the always unique, inventive, brilliant John Jesurun. Set in an actual west village apartment. 7 pm Must reserve! with Asta Hansen, Claire Buckingham, Benjamin Forster, Dan Kuan Peeples.

21 MACHINE DAZZLE & GERARD KOUWENHOVEN Lincoln Center Plaza "an extravagant visual concert of original songs about individuality and community, the ebb and flow of human rights, how external forces shape our lives, and common philosophies like “patience is a virtue” and “live and let live.” The live musical performance will be followed by a Silent Disco, as the pair spins their favorites. 7pm and Free but RSVP

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

3-21 COLOR THEORIES Julio Torres (Fantasmas) blends stand-up, design, dream logic. Performance Space NY co-pro w/ Boundary Road

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