The Grave’s Tears

Opening Date: Feb 12, 2026

Closing Date: Feb 14, 2026

https://newyorklivearts.org/event/the-graves-tears/

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New York Live Arts

219 West 19th Street New York City, NY 10011

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The Grave’s Tears is a full-length choreographic work that confronts the legacy of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the ongoing erasure of Black and queer lives. Expanding from Venom (2024), it explores generational trauma, systemic neglect and the violence of being forgotten. Haunting and skeletal in movement, the piece is a physical elegy shaped by memory and spirit. Snow falls throughout as a metaphor for erased bodies and unmarked graves. Guided by the voices of Black queer cultural ancestors, the work is both a mourning and a refusal to disappear—insisting on presence, resistance and the power of remembrance.

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Performance Schedule:

THURSDAY-SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM

Music

Jace Clayton

Choreography

Roderick George

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Accessibility:

Box Office

Lobby level; accessible

Restroom

The ground floor restrooms and theater are wheelchair accessible.

Directions Subway

1 to 18th Street. 2/3, F, M, L and A/C/E to 14th Street.

Elevator\Escalator

Elevator to all floors

Telephone

None on premises

Entrance

The lobby is accessible via the double doors to the left of the revolving door at 219 W 19th Street.

Wheelchair Info

The first floor lobby is a communal public space and wheelchair accessible via the street facing double doors next to the main entrance at 219 W 19th Street. Theater, dressing rooms and 3rd floor studios are accessible by elevator. Restrooms throughout the building and theater are wheelchair accessible.