Calling all Performance Artists: Applications for the Performance Mix Festival 2025 are now open!

New Dance Alliance is pleased to announce an open call for applications for our 39th annual Performance Mix Festival. For 39 years, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival has offered diverse emerging and mid-career artists an opportunity to share experimental work with audiences in Manhattan. 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 continued success is testimony to its vital necessity in New York’s cultural community. Apply to join our cohort of artists preserving Lower Manhattan’s rich cultural history!

Submission deadline is Friday, November 29th, 2024 at 11:59pm. 

The Festival’s performances will take place in the Underground Theater at Abrons Arts Center on Thursday June 5th - Sunday June 8th, 2025. 

To apply, please complete the form linked here: Performance Mix 39

GUIDELINES TO APPLY: 

- The work presented must be a short work of 15 minutes or under 

- Artists will be selected by a panel of previous Performance Mix Artists

- 2024 Performance Mix artists are not eligible to apply

- Artists enrolled in an undergraduate degree program are not eligible to apply

- International artists by invitation only

- No films will be accepted in this application 

SELECTED ARTISTS WILL RECEIVE:

- 8 hours of complimentary studio space at NDA’s studio in Tribeca

- Complimentary video and photo documentation of performance

- Marketing promotion via the NDA website; press release; social media; and e-blasts to the press, presenters and benefactors. NDA’s website features artists’ photo, biographies, festival schedule and videos.

- Technical team on the day of performance 

- $300 performance stipend

Click HERE for more information about the Performance Mix Festival series. If you have any questions regarding the application process, please reach out to admin@newdancealliance.org.