36th Annual Performance Mix Festival

June 9–12, 2022

This adventurous four-day festival brings together 30 artists with varied approaches to performance, inviting audiences to engage with the unexpected and to experience some of the newest voices in experimental dance. The 2022 festival is curated by New Dance Alliance founder and director Karen Bernard and artist panel Martita Abril, Leslie Cuyjet, Camilo Godoy, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, and Marion Spencer. 

Performance Mix 36 features works by Nick Alselmo/The Pocket Fuel Groovers, Daina Ashbee, binbinFactory/Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa, Bernard Brown/bbmoves, Xan Burley + Alex Springer, Mariam Dingilian, Bob Eisen, Blaze Ferrer, Ashley A. Friend, Hortense Gerardo, gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata), Kayla Hamilton, Jade Manns, Ma’at Works, Mia Martelli, Julio Medina, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Indygo Afi Ngozi, ChristinaNoel & The Creature, Liz Oakley, Gabrielle Revlock & Sarah K Williams, Jill Rousseau, SHA Creative Outlet, David Sierra, Sarah Star Sterling, Anna Thérèse Witenberg, x and co, and Nate Yaffe.

This season New Dance Alliance has received support for the Performance Mix Festival from the following foundations and organizations: Bernstein Family Foundation, Cultural Services of the Quebec Government, and the Harkness Foundation for Dance. New Dance Alliance has also received support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and from generous individual donors. Image credit: Daina Ashbee, LaboriousSong, Performer: Benjamin Kamino.

Photo by Vanessa Fortin