The 37th annual Performance Mix Festival brings together 30 experimental dance and film artists with deeply personal and expansive approaches to art-making. This season’s highlights include Once I Saw a Hummingbird by Bessie Award-winning choreographer Raúl Tamez, acclaimed freestyle street/club dance and live music artists LayeRhythm, film selections in collaboration with Cinédanse (Québec) and resident artists from New Dance Alliance’s Black Artists Space to Create and LiftOff programs. New Dance Alliance (NDA) also brings back the Breakfast Mix, a convivial gathering and discussion with the international artists that will feature a special screening of Gravel (re)Works by Jean-Christophe Yacono (yako).
Produced by New Dance Alliance Founder and Executive Director Karen Bernard, Performance Mix is the longest-running woman-led experimental dance festival in New York City. It has been described as a “performance festival whose work feels necessary, not only for an audience but also for the development of the presenting artists” (Noah Witke Mele, Eye on Dance).
The 2023 festival is curated by Karen Bernard and artist panel Mawu Ama Ma’at Gora, Bob Eisen, Blaze Ferrer, Glenn Potter-Takata, Hortense Gerardo, and x. In addition, films were selected in collaboration with Cinédanse.
