Edisa Weeks News

The cast and creative team has been revealed for the Off-Broadway world premiere of Travels, a sonic narrative collection by James Harrison Monaco, at Ars Nova. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

The Perelman Performing Arts Center will present Is It Thursday Yet?, The March, and Motion/Matter: Street Dance Festival at the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. 

651 ARTS presents the premiere of DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks' 3 RITES: Life, Liberty, Happiness, the final installment of the epic performance trilogy.

651 ARTS - Brooklyn’s premier institution for the African Diasporic performing arts - will launch its Fall 2023 Season with DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks’ epic performance trilogy 3 RITES: Life, Liberty, Happiness. See photos from inside the rehearsal room below!

The Acting Company has revealed the full cast and creative team for Lisa Peterson's world premiere of ODYSSEY. Get all the details and book your tickets now.

Anita Durst, the founder of ChaShaMa, held a two-day celebration to honor theater streaming service BroadwayHD, Bonnie Comley & Stewart F. Lane, and Gary Rosenberg of Rosenberg & Estis, P.C.

What Will the Neighbors Say? celebrated the opening of their latest world premiere production of “TRACES” at CUNY Queens College’s Goldstein Theater last week. See photos from inside opening night!

651 ARTS, Brooklyn's premier institution for the African Diasporic performing arts, has  announced details for the Spring 2023 programming part of its 2022/2023 season - “Liminal Spaces: Homebound.”

Kupferberg Center for the Arts presents the World Premiere of Action Songs/Protest Dances, a live music and dance performance conceived, directed, and choreographed by Edisa Weeks.

Harlem Stage has announced highlights of its 2022-2023 season, whose centerpiece is a seven-event series devoted to deepening and unpacking understandings of the Black Arts Movement, its intersections with the larger Black Power Movement, and its historic and cultural relevance in today’s America.

RDT's Link Series presents SUPERWOMEN, an evening of dance by Rachel Barker, with guest artists Alexandra Bradshaw-Yerby and Liz Dibble on March 31, April 1 and 2,  2022, at 7:30 pm in the Leona Wagner Black Box Theater at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City.

Harlem Stage today announced its cohort for the 2022 WaterWorks Emerging Artists program. The five multidisciplinary artists of color will participate in a year-long experience — with Harlem Stage as their creative home — to develop new works; receive guidance from mentors; collaborate with other Harlem Stage artists and more.

As a Board member, I am thrilled that the Chashama Gala, Art Party, and the new Chashma-Rama events were in person this year. The parties stretched over two days at 6 hours each and over a thousand of New York’s most forward-thinking landowners, corporate executives, arts professionals, and innovative creators strolled through the interactive installations and wandering performers. It was a celebration of the return of live events and Times Square.

Black Dance Stories will present new episodes in April featuring Black dancers, choreographers, movement artists, and creatives who use their work to raise societal issues and strengthen their community.

The Harkness Dance Center announces a new Artist Workshop Series of online master classes with current and former Artists in Residence, featured choreographers and presented performers. Workshops take place every other Saturday throughout the fall starting on Saturday, September 26, offering access to some of the most engaging, insightful, and motivational artists currently creating work in the dance world.

Broadway Black, the multimedia organization highlighting the achievements of Black theatre artists, will present the inaugural Antonyo Awards, a celebration of the Black Broadway and Off-Broadway community.

Broadway Black, the multimedia organization highlighting the achievements of Black theatre artists, has announced the inaugural Antonyo Awards, a celebration of the Black Broadway and Off-Broadway community.

The cutting-edge, Brooklyn-based cultural arts institution 651ARTS will present a repertory of two works-in-development at the top of the year with  3 RITES: Liberty by DELIRIOUS Dances and its Director- acclaimed multi-media artist Edisa Weeks - and (Re)current Unrest by renowned choreographer Charles O. Anderson and his dance theatre X company from January 8 -January 11 at the Kumble Theater in Brooklyn. Marking the institution's first programs of 2020, both of these uniquely dynamic movement pieces are solo works with Anderson's work to include post-show discussions.

Theodora Skipitares has achieved renown for her large-scale puppetry epics on such topics as physics, genetics and medicine. An early American giant of science is the subject of her latest multi-media spectacle, 'The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker.' It celebrates the life of the free black man who, living in Maryland from 1731 to 1806, became one of his era's most outstanding engineers and astronomers. La MaMa will present the world premiere of the piece January 23 to February 2 in its Ellen Stewart Theatre, at 66 East Fourth Street.

ART's Executive Director David J. Roberts and Creative Director Raelle Myrick-Hodges today announced the line-up for the renowned Brooklyn-based organization's Winter-Spring schedule part of its 2019-2020 Season. Known as a hub for artistic innovation and the home for artists across the African Diaspora, 651's new season will highlight the spirit of collaboration and celebrate the eclecticism of Black performance.