The 38th annual Performance Mix Festival brings together 35 experimental dance and film artists with deeply personal and expansive approaches to art-making. New Dance Alliance will also host its annual Breakfast Mix, a convivial gathering and discussion with the international artists featuring a presentation by Agora de la danse/Koros. 

The 2024 festival is curated by New Dance Alliance Founder and Executive Director Karen Bernard and artist panel Rafael Cañals, Maxi Hawkeye Canion, Jil Guyon, Rebecca Patek, and Stacy Lynn Smith. In addition, films were selected in collaboration with Ciné-Corps, a film festival focused on dance and the body.

Performance Mix Festival 38 Artists: Carole Arcega, Arantxa Araujo, j. bouey, Beatriz Castro Mauri, Thomas Choinacky, Clément Cogitore, Jordan Deal, Bob Eisen, Chloë Engel, Lena Engelstein, Estrellx/EHQS, Ellen Furey, Zoey Gauld, Tal Halevi, Viktor Horváth, Audrée Juteau, Smaïl Kanouté, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud, Lo Fi Dance Theory, Johanna Meyer, Mickey D. & Friends, Frédéric Nauczyciel, Company [REDACTED], Flamenco Rosado, Mohamad Moe Sabbah and Khansa, Aya Shabu, ankita sharma, Shua Group, Isa Spector, Karley Wasaff | Kinetics with Karley, Yolette Yellow-Duke, and Shannon Yu/SHA Creative Outlet. 

For more information about the artists and works to be presented, visit https://newdancealliance.org

About Performance Mix Festival

For 38 years, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival has offered diverse emerging and mid-career artists an opportunity to share work with audiences in Manhattan. Annually, it offers this jam-packed program of local, national, and international artists with the direct aim to support the development of experimental works with the public. 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. 

About New Dance Alliance

Incorporated in 1989, New Dance Alliance (NDA) is a performing arts nonprofit. Its mission, from the earliest days, has been to support emerging experimental movement-based artists. NDA has made an explicit commitment to equity and inclusion by creating programs that center the work of artists from historically marginalized communities of color, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities. NDA provides space, residencies, performance, and networking opportunities that help artists cultivate relationships, develop their artistry, and open doors to share their work in the US and internationally. NDA’s programs are: Performance Mix Festival, Black Artists Space to Create, LiftOff Residency, Satellite, Work Session, and Karen Bernard Projects. These programs support the work of more than 100 experimental artists and 2,500 audience members each year.