New Dance Alliance

Today, NDA’s goals remain deeply rooted in those founding principles and have expanded in response to current artistic challenges and goals.

NDA nurtures experimental movement-based artists with an explicit commitment to equity and inclusion of historically marginalized Black, Brown, and queer innovators. Incorporated in 1989, New Dance Alliance (NDA) is an arts service organization whose mission is to actively promote emerging forms of innovative dance, music, video, and interdisciplinary performance. NDA’s initial aims were to suppor

t an artistic community which has limited institutional resources, and to provide that community with increased opportunities to share experimental works with the public. NDA’s programming fosters artists and audiences through annual events, retreats, educational panels and performances. Our programs include Performance Mix Festival, LiftOff, Residency and Workshop program, NDA Low-Cost and Free Rehearsal Space, Karen Bernard/Solo, and 3 Femmes. Collectively these programs support the work of more than 100 experimental artists and 2,500 audience members each year. New Dance Alliance views the function of supporting experimental performance works as carrying forward a distinct heritage of art in America. From Isadora Duncan and her shoeless dances to John Cage and his amplified toasters to Jennifer Monson and her migration projects, American artists have been privileged in their Constitutional right to defy conventions. NDA continues this American legacy by advancing performance works that challenge defined artistic genres and forms. As testimony to its efforts, NDA claims a roster of over 600 artists who have pioneered new methods in artistic creation. These artists have distinct voices within shared genres and have often gone on to become award-winning leaders in the field. Among our artists are post-modernist Douglas Dunn; hip-hop influenced Doug Elkins; the poignant and funny Keely Garfield and David Parker; emotion-driven movement experimenters Aviva Geismar, Molly O’Brien and RoseAnne Spradlin; improvisation mavericks Jennifer Monson, Yvonne Meier and Sally Silvers; collaborative movement/music artists Cherylyn Lavagnino/Andy Teirstein and Nina Winthrop/Jon Gibson; international performance artists Louise Bedard (Montreal) and La Zampa (France); culturally influenced artists Merian Soto, Marlies Yearby and Koosil-ja Hwang; multimedia dance theater artists Jane Comfort and Troika Ranch; and new generations — Chris Yon and Daniel Linehan. NDA’s legacy of services to artists and audiences began almost three decades ago, when Karen Bernard opened up her Tribeca loft as a low- and no-fee rehearsal space. From those first moments, its programs have grown organically and in direct response to artists and audiences. The first Performance Mix Festival (1986) was groundbreaking in that it was the only festival at that time exclusively dedicated to performance art in lower Manhattan. Its continuing success is testimony to its vital necessity in New York’s cultural community. In 2010, NDA celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Performance Mix Festival. The New York arts community honored NDA’s Director Karen Bernard with a BAX10 Award for the founding and development of the Performance Mix Festival. The award acknowledges her distinct achievements, “providing emerging artists with the ingredients to continue to develop work and launch the next phase of their career, giving them the resources, exposure, and confidence they need to go forth with their individual goals.” NDA is pleased to be able to provide resources for emerging artists at critical stages in their careers and grateful to the many individual and institutional supporters who collectively make that possible.

08/11/2026

‼️ Applications are closing soon for the 2026-27 LiftOff Residency! The deadline to apply is August 14th, 11:59pm.

The LiftOff Residency takes place at NDA’s Studio in Tribeca and provides six physical-based performance artists with 30 hours of rehearsal space each, an introductory meeting, and two feedback sessions. This residency is for artists looking to join a small cohort of artists to share and give feedback on each other’s work.

🔗 Check our bio for the link to apply. Check out our website to learn more about past LiftOff Artists.

Photo: KJ Holmes (LiftOff 2022) at Performance Mix 2023, photo by Elyse Mertz.

07/26/2026

🪩 UPCOMING EVENTS: Workshops + Performances coming to Wellfleet, MA.

✨ Join New Dance Alliance at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, as part of the Outer Cape Dance Festival!

🔗 Link to tickets for the Thursday performance is in our bio! Find Wellfleet Preservation Hall on Eventbrite for more offerings.

07/15/2026

☀️ Now accepting applications for the 2026-27 LiftOff Residency! Apply by August 14th, 11:59pm.

🔗 Check our bio for the application link!

☀️ The LiftOff Residency takes place at NDA’s Studio in Tribeca and provides six physical-based performance artists with 30 hours of rehearsal space each, an introductory meeting, and two feedback sessions. This residency is for artists looking to join a small cohort of artists to share and give feedback on each other’s work.

You must be a New York City based artist in order to apply. Past LiftOff residents are eligible to apply after two years of their program participation. Learn more on our website.

Pictured: PMF40 Artist and 2024-25 LiftOff Artist Morgan Gregory. Photo by Elyse Mertz.

06/07/2026

⭐️ The last day of the festival is here! Last chance to see the amazing lineup of performance artists hit the stage at Abrons Arts Center - shows at 12pm, 1:30, 3pm and 5pm!

🎟️ Ticket Link in bio.

06/06/2026

⭐️ Introducing PMF40 Artist Anh Vo! Anh performs TOMORROW, Program D to wrap up the festival weekend.

⭐️ Based in Brooklyn and Hanoi, Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working in the expanded field of performance. Their practice mobilizes the naked body in its variations to make explicit the entanglement of power and ghostly forces that cut across flesh. Their work is situated in the unlikely lineage convergences between Downtown New York experimental performance, Hanoi performance art, and Vietnamese folk rituals.

🎟️ Performance Mix Festival ends tomorrow! You don’t want to miss the final day… 👀 Ticket link in bio.

Photo by Albert Yee, courtesy of the artist.

06/06/2026

⭐️ Introducing PMF40 Artist Ahn Vo! Ahn performs TOMORROW, Program D to wrap up the festival weekend.

⭐️ Based in Brooklyn and Hanoi, Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working in the expanded field of performance. Their practice mobilizes the naked body in its variations to make explicit the entanglement of power and ghostly forces that cut across flesh. Their work is situated in the unlikely lineage convergences between Downtown New York experimental performance, Hanoi performance art, and Vietnamese folk rituals.

🎟️ Performance Mix Festival ends tomorrow! You don’t want to miss the final day… 👀 Ticket link in bio.

Photo by Albert Yee, courtesy of the artist.

06/06/2026

⭐️ Introducing PMF40 Artist Kat Sotelo! Kat performs TOMORROW, Program D to wrap up the festival weekend.

⭐️ Kat Sotelo is a first-generation Filipinx American performance artist, choreographer, and set designer whose practice blends movement, satire, and constructed environments. She explores the body as a site of commerce, using her experience in exotic dance to examine fantasy, cultural hybridity, and the labor of spectacle.

🎟️ Performance Mix Festival ends tomorrow! You don’t want to miss the final day… 👀 Ticket link in bio.

Photo by Justin Chauncey. Video courtesy of the artist.

06/04/2026

⭐️ Introducing PMF40 Artist Marie Lloyd Paspe!

⭐️ Marie Lloyd Paspe is a Filipina‑American choreographer, dancer, singer, and research artist merging ancestral memory and futurity in building worlds. The daughter of parents from Batangas and Iloilo, Philippines, Marie’s family migrated from Singapore, Manila, Toronto, and Boston, with her making lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY home. Marie’s interdisciplinary work studies q***r resistance and lost stories in our body’s fascia, expansing collaborations in dance, voice, theater, and sacred spaces.

🎟️ Performance Mix Festival kicks off TONIGHT! Do you have your tickets yet? 👀 Ticket link in bio.

Photo by Erica MacLean. Video courtesy of the artist.

06/04/2026

⭐️ Introducing PMF40 Artist Morgan Gregory!

⭐️ Morgan Gregory (b. Richmond, Virginia) is a transdisciplinary performer/choreographer/… who focuses on reimagining Afro-diasporic imagery through a futurist lens. In her choreographic and performance work development, she constantly explores ancestral importance, and in this continuous effort of understanding, she dreams within intersectional identities. Morgan is a graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA program and was honored as a Denise Jefferson Memorial Scholar, majoring in African and African American Studies and Dance.

🎟️ Performance Mix Festival kicks off TONIGHT! Do you have your tickets yet? 👀 Ticket link in bio.

Photo and video courtesy of the artists.

06/04/2026

🎟️ Artist tickets to Performance Mix Festival 40 are LIMITED to 10 seats per show! Link in bio to purchase tickets.

⭐️ Use code PM40ARTIST for $10 tickets if full priced tickets are not economically accessible.

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