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SURROGATE
SURROGATE
6/13 - 6/15/2024


SURROGATE  dives into transmasculine experiences surrounding pregnancy and in vitro fertilization (IVF) while exploring the parallels between a choreographer living through others’ bodies and an ...


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The Chocolate Factory Theater Launches Fall 2023 Season With A DISGUISED WELCOME...


by Stephi Wild - August 23, 2023

The Chocolate Factory Theater launches its Fall 2023 Season with the New York premiere of A disguised welcome…, a new dance work by Wanjiru Kamuyu....

Nile Harris' THIS HOUSE IS NOT A HOME to be Presented at Abrons Arts Center This Weekend


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 10, 2023

Abrons Arts Center and Ping Chong and Company will present Nile Harris: this house is not a home July 14-16, 8pm....

Harlem Stage to Present 2023 Edition of E-MOVES in April


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 30, 2023

Harlem Stage will present the 2023 edition of E-Moves, the institution’s signature dance series, which for more than 20 years has convened choreographers, dancers, artists, and musicians of color in an exploration of movement and message....

Annie Dorsen's PROMETHEUS FIREBRINGER to Have New York Premiere at The Chocolate Factory Theater


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 28, 2023

The Chocolate Factory Theater, Media Art Xploration, and New York Live Arts will present the New York premiere of Prometheus Firebringer, the first lecture-performance by director and writer Annie Dorsen....

Live Arts Presents Shamel Pitts I TRIBE's TOUCH OF RED


by A.A. Cristi - March 03, 2023

New York Live Arts (Live Arts) presents the New York premiere of Touch of RED, a new work by the award-winning movement artist Shamel Pitts, co-created and performed by his Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE. Drawing inspiration from two distinct arts requiring rapid-fire footwork – boxing and the...

New York Premiere Of Miguel Gutierrez's I AS ANOTHER to be Presented at Baryshnikov Arts Center in May


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 02, 2023

Baryshnikov Arts Center will present the New York premiere of Miguel Gutierrez's I as another on May 4-7, 2023 at BAC's Jerome Roberts Theater....

The Cell Theatre Announces 2023 Programming Featuring Over 30 Resident Artists


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 09, 2022

Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre (Artistic Director Kira Simring) has announced their 2023 season, featuring a year of full productions, art exhibitions, developmental workshops, and over 30 resident artists. ...

IVY BALDWIN DANCE - FOLDS Announced At The Chocolate FactoRy Theater, December 7-17


by A.A. Cristi - November 07, 2022

The Chocolate Factory Theater presents the world premiere of Folds, a new dance performance by Ivy Baldwin. Performances will take place at The (New) Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City NY 11101. ...

Emily Johnson to Premiere BEING FUTURE BEING at BroadStage in September


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 20, 2022

Being Future Being will have its world premiere at BroadStage at Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center, September 8–10, 2022, followed by performances at New York Live Arts, October 20–22....

New York Premiere of Shamel Pitts' BLACK HOLE - TRILOGY AND TRIATHLON Announced


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 16, 2022

New York Live Arts and 92Y will present the New York premiere of BLACK HOLE – Trilogy and Triathlon, a multidisciplinary performance choreographed by the award-winning movement artist Shamel Pitts, co-created and performed by his Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE....

Past Shows

Until the Lion Tells the Story...


New York Live Arts’ (Live Arts) Live Feed creative residency and commissioning program presents the World Premiere of Lacina Coulibaly’s Until the Lion Tells the ...

Live Artery 2024
Live Artery 2024
1/9 - 1/20/2024


A dynamic platform featuring new and recent works by Live Arts resident commissioned artists and curated guests, Live Artery provides a space for artists to ...

Bill Chats with Marc Bamuthi Joseph


The singular Bill Chats program features Jones in conversation with poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph on December 4th. This season’s first in the series of intimate ...

Boy mother / faceless bloom
Boy mother / faceless bloom
11/16 - 11/18/2023


Dia   Art Foundation  and  New York Live Arts  present the New York premiere of  Boy mother / faceless bloom,  a stage work by  Juni ...

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels


Gisèle Vienne's L'Étang Oct 21/23 7:30pm, 4pm 22nd Adaptation of an early work by the Swiss writer  Robert Walser , L’Étang(The Pond, der Teich) reveals ...

Curriculum II
Curriculum II
10/4 - 10/7/2023


Fresh off the heels of a jubilant 40th season complete with a national tour and a long-awaited return to in Brazil,  Bill T. Jones/ Arnie ...

PRIDE: The House Party


TH ANNUAL NEW YORK LIVE ARTS PRIDE: THE HOUSE PARTY   Live Arts’ Pride:  The House Party  epic celebration embodies and honors the historical importance ...

Fresh Tracks
Fresh Tracks
6/16 - 6/17/2023


FRESH TRACKS 2022/23 COHORT   The five amazing artists selected for the 58th year of the Fresh Tracks in Our Season of Anniversaries are (alphabetical ...

Live Ideas Festival: Planet Justice- Are you here for it?*


NEW YORK LIVE ARTS PRESENTS 9TH LIVE IDEAS FESTIVAL OF ART AND IDEAS ON SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, CO-CURATED WITH SLOW FACTORY: Live Ideas 2023: ...

Bill Chats with Howard W. French


Live Arts Artistic Director,  Bill T. Jones  in conversation with journalist, author, and photographer,  Howard W. French . For this season, the popular series includes ...

Weathering
Weathering
4/6 - 4/15/2023


WEATHERING   WORLD PREMIERE 2021-2022 Randjelovi/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist “Being in a place, being in an era, for instance an era of mass extinction, is intrinsically ...

Live Artery 2023
Live Artery 2023
1/13 - 1/16/2023


New York Live Arts’ dynamic platform of new and recent works by resident commissioned artists and curated guests. Presented during the annual Association of Performing ...

Curriculum II
Curriculum II
1/10 - 1/14/2023


Curriculum II applies the ideas of Cameroonian historian and political theorist  Achille Mbembe , Nigerian-born writer and scholar  Louis Chude-Sokei , and Jamaican writer and ...

Chaz Guest: Cotton Series
Chaz Guest: Cotton Series
9/15 - 1/1/2023


CHAZ GUEST FORD FOUNDATION LIVE GALLERY Welcoming patrons back to Live Arts this fall will be an exhibition by celebrated American painter and sculptor Chaz ...

Bill Chats with Louis Chude-Sokei


New York Live Arts presents the first  Bill Chats  of the 2022-2023 season featuring Nigerian-born writer and scholar  Louis Chude-Sokei i n conversation with Live ...

mourning after mornings
mourning after mornings
11/10 - 11/12/2022


WORLD PREMIERE Inspired by early & contemporary death and grieving rituals, three archetypal female outcasts (facing their own aging bodies) tell an ancient story that ...

Being Future Being
Being Future Being
10/20 - 10/22/2022


NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE Celebrated for a distinguished body of dance works,  Emily Johnson  unites audiences in a shared experience of movement, place, history, collective ...

And so you see...
And so you see...
9/22 - 9/24/2022


AND SO YOU SEE... OUR HONOURABLE BLUE SKY AND EVER ENDURING SUN... CAN ONLY BE CONSUMED SLICE BY SLICE... NEW YORK CITY PREMIERECo-presented with Crossing ...

Synergy II
Synergy II
8/27


Synergy is the brain child of Erika Keller and Rebecca Allen with the intention to fill a void in the current dance environment by merging ...

CORPS
CORPS
6/30 - 7/1/2022


CORPS explores how labor and gender are addressed under the lens of regimented movement. The work is a continuation of Djordjevichs ongoing questioning of dance ...

Radioactive Practice
Radioactive Practice
5/18 - 5/21/2022


Choreographer Abby Zbikowski and crew have created a genre-bending work that brings together a mosaic group of dancers to redefine purpose for themselves as they ...

forever for now
forever for now
5/12 - 5/14/2022


forever for now is a work about love... a phenomenon that none of us fully understand. We grew up watching stories where people fell for ...

Bill Chats with Community Scholars


BILL CHATS: COMMUNITY SCHOLARS-AIMEE MEREDITH COX, JASMINE JOHNSON, DARNELL L. MOORE, EMIL WILBEKIN Join us in a conversation to introduce the New York Live Arts ...

Black Hole: Trilogy and Triathlon


Shamel Pitts BLACK HOLE: Trilogy And Triathlon is a kaleidoscopic performance art experience using movement, original sound, light projection, and visual art. BLACK HOLE researches ...

Fresh Tracks NEW WORKS
Fresh Tracks NEW WORKS
4/15 - 4/16/2022


The five amazing artists selected for the 57th year of the Fresh Tracks in Our Season of Anniversaries are (alphabetical by last name): Jessica CookJohn ...

GLORIA
GLORIA
4/8 - 4/9/2022


Gloria is a feminist work continuing Lieber and Smiths fifteen-year choreographic partnership in using abstract dance as a means to break down patriarchal systems of ...

Light and Desire
Light and Desire
9/15 - 9/18/2021


Light and Desire is a dance work by NYC-based choreographer and teacher Colleen Thomas. Joined by a stellar cast of five international feminist collaborators, she ...

WOMEN / CREATE! Virtual Festival of Dance On-Demand Extended Through May 31, 2021


WOMEN / CREATE!, a virtual festival of dance, was presentedon Thursday, May 20, 2021, livestreamed onFacebook,Twitter, Vimeo, and YouTube. The full program and post-show talkback ...

ANY GIVEN WEDNESDAY Watch Party with Raja Feather Kelly


On Friday, December 4th, at 6:30pm EST, our 2019-2020 Randjelovi/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA) Raja Feather Kelly will play host to a watch party of ...

DOG DAY AFTERNOON Watch Party w/ Raja Feather Kelly


A digital viewing party of the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon by Sidney Lumet with Live Arts 20192020 Randjelovi/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA) Raja Feather ...

The House Party with Everybody


New York Live Arts (Live Arts) and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) unite their respective annual Pride programs in an online streaming eventThe House Party ...

light and desire
light and desire
3/25 - 3/28/2020


light and desire calls upon family history, social politics, and personal experience to tell and uplift the narratives of women who have resisted oppression by ...

Love and Information
10/25 - 10/27/2019


Marymount Manhattan College...

Videos


Seventh Avenue South in Off-Off-Broadway Seventh Avenue South
Hudson Guild (6/3 - 6/9) Tracker
Cherry's On Top! in Off-Off-Broadway Cherry's On Top!
The Green Room 42 (6/26 - 6/26)

COMEDY Tracker
PHOTOS
Sound and Fury and Shakespeare in Off-Off-Broadway Sound and Fury and Shakespeare
The Parkside Players (5/18 - 6/2)

NEW MUSICAL Tracker
PHOTOS
Party Killer- An Immersive Whodunit Comedy in Off-Off-Broadway Party Killer- An Immersive Whodunit Comedy
Asylum NYC (6/13 - 6/15) Tracker
PHOTOS VIDEOS
GOOD JEW in Off-Off-Broadway GOOD JEW
Edmond J. Safra Hall (6/6 - 6/6) Tracker
PHOTOS DISCOUNT
Lone Wolf in Off-Off-Broadway Lone Wolf
Brooklyn Art Haus (6/6 - 6/16)

NEW PLAY Tracker
Broadway Sings: Heroes Forged in the Flame in Off-Off-Broadway Broadway Sings: Heroes Forged in the Flame
The Green Room 42 (6/8 - 6/8) Tracker
Generations in Off-Off-Broadway Generations
Vino Theatre (6/14 - 6/30)

LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN NEW COMEDY Tracker
VIDEOS
Broadway by the Season
Merkin Hall (6/17 - 6/17)
Music Mondays with Ari Axelrod in Off-Off-Broadway Music Mondays with Ari Axelrod
Bay Street Theater (8/19 - 8/19)
Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth in Off-Off-Broadway Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth
Hardscrabble Theater (6/8 - 6/23)
ALEKSEY ALEKSANDROVICH in Off-Off-Broadway ALEKSEY ALEKSANDROVICH
The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater (6/20 - 6/30)
Operation: Destroy Beff Jezos in Off-Off-Broadway Operation: Destroy Beff Jezos
Studio 45 (5/30 - 7/4)
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