Live Artery provides a space for artists to network and share their work with the general public and presenters from around the world alike, which leads to commissions, tours and the building of long-term relationships.
This year’s Live Artery Festival will again boast fully produced productions onsite at New York 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.
This year's programming includes:
My Body, My Archive
Faustin Linyekula I Studios Kabako
January 8-11
In My Body, My Archive, Congolese dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula explores the ways a body can hold and convey the histories of those who have come before. Linyekula uses dance to narrate stories of his ancestors, a journey that began in 2017 with Banataba, a tribute to his maternal lineage originating from a small village on the Congo River.
Bob
Milka Djordjevich
January 10-12
Bob is a manic whirlwind of methodical rapid-fire movements, dictated, performed and self-enforced by Milka Djordjevich. Set to throbbing music composed by Djordjevich, Bob eroticizes the labor of the dancing body–the repetition, the discipline and the fallout.
I want it to rain inside
Symara Sarai
January 11-13
I want it to rain inside is a physical voyage through Symara Sarai’s paternal and maternal lineage, a complex and tender cascade. Paying homage to her late father and longing to understand him better, she embodies his complex personhood through family lore and American cultural fantasy from the wild West and deep South.
Live Artery Showings 2025
January 11-13
Artists to show new works-in-progress or excerpts of complete works include Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Ogemdi Ude, Michael Sakamoto and Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, kNoname Artist | Roderick George, zoe | juniper, Cynthia Oliver/COCo Dance Theatre, Joseph Keckler and Shamel Pitts | TRIBE.
Super Nothing
Miguel Gutierrez
January 12-18
What can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in our lives? Super Nothing presents four dancers whose actions and choreographic relationships are analogues for how people support each other to survive.
Artist Salon
Janani Balasubramanian, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Kayla Farrish, Heather Kravas, Tere O’Connor
January 12
An informal gathering to share recently premiered works with short presentations, conversations and light refreshments.
I am, here; Here with us; Where we find ourselves
Stacy Matthew Spence
January 10-11
Stacy Matthew Spence’s new dance in triptych form, I am, here (a solo for Spence), Here with us (a duet), Where we find ourselves (a quartet) explores ideas of self, impulse and sharing. I am, here; Here with us; Where we find ourselves is created in collaboration with dance artists Tim Bendernagel, Joanna Kotze, Hsiao-jou Tang, singer/musician Charlotte Jacobs, percussionist Raf Vertessen and costumer Athena Kokoronis.
THE SUITE
Julia Antinozzi
January 10-12
THE SUITE is a postmodern ballet set in a dream sequence defined by an architecture of light. Premiering in its totality, THE SUITE centers two overlapping duets that are inspired by the character and style of romantic and neoclassical ballet. While the movement is paramount and the plot is deemphasized, THE SUITE suggests a liminal romance.
For All Your Life
Leslie Cuyjet
January 11-12
Part film, part live performance, part social experiment, For All Your Life challenges audiences to meditate on the value of black life and black death. Specifically the value of the life, work and death of choreographer and artist Leslie Cuyjet.
The Marthaodyssey
Jesse Factor
January 10-13
Dancing across gender, time, and bodily differences, The Marthaodyssey is a solo evening-length speculative fantasy through which dance artist Jesse Factor animates “the high priestess of modern dance” to the sonic landscape of “the queen of pop.” The work siphons the rich physicality of Martha Graham’s archive, reinterpreting and recontextualizing classic works as they are set to excerpts of Madonna’s 1990 Blonde Ambition World Tour setlist with deep reverence and playful humor.
