Zala Moves Animation by Paloma Ayala based on movement by Sasha AmayaScreening 10 June, 830 PM
Performance Mix Festival
New Dance Alliance @ HERE
145 Sixth Avenue, between Spring + Broome, Dominick St Entrance
Manhattan, New York
10-15 June 2014
PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL + NEW DANCE ALLIANCE
New Dance Alliance’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.
Since 1993, HERE has been one of New York’s most prolific producing organizations, and today, it stands at the forefront of the city’s presenters of daring new hybrid art. HERE supports multidisciplinary work that does not fit into a conventional programming agenda. Our aesthetic represents the independent, the innovative, and the experimental.
The New York Times has called HERE “one of the most unusual arts spaces in New York and possibly the model for the cutting-edge arts spaces of tomorrow.” Indeed, HERE has become successful at creating a new kind of arts enterprise—the collaborative multiarts center. In 20 years, we’ve supported over 12,000 artists and attracted over 950,000 arts patrons. We aim to integrate art into daily life and engage our community’s needs and interests on as many different levels as possible in order to ensure our regular presence in their lives.
HERE supports the work of artists at all stages in their careers through fully-produced works, commissions and subsidized performance and rehearsal space. In addition, HERE’s staff provides marketing, technical and administrative support. All work at HERE is curated based on the strength and uniqueness of the artist’s vision.
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