🔊 Join us at Danspace Project on Saturday, May 23 at 3PM for “Tremor: ongoing performance research, 2026“!
Audience is invited to experience the practice(s) of six artists in their collaborative performance research of “Tremor”, initiated by Samita Sinha, following an extended fall residency in Zanzibar.
“Tremor” is a living system of vibration encompassing voice, body, sound, and space. The practice and performance unfolds through processes of attunement, emergence, and resonance, traversing a vast range of states of aliveness uncontainable by language.
This shared practice and research is enacted by Samita Sinha, Ash Fure, Sunder Ganglani, Sunny Jain, Darrell Jones, and Daniel Neumann, with Sunil Bald conceiving space and Sarai Frazier designing light.
📷: Photos of Darrell Jones, Ash Fure, and Sunder Ganglani by Alice Feldt. Photo of Samita Sinha by Rachel Topham. Photo of Daniel Neumann by B Heldy. Photo of Sunny Jain by Adrien Tillmann.
Coming 🆙 at Danspace Project
🌱 Stacy Matthew Spence: “With in, Around, With out… me” | April 23–25 at 5:30PM
🌱 Danspace Project Gala 2026 Honoring Phong Bui, Anne Delaney, and Charmaine Warren | Tuesday, May 12
🌱 Malcolm-x Betts + Okwui Okpokwasili | Friday, May 22 at 8PM | Co-presented with Poetry Project
🌱 Samita Sinha & Collaborators: “Tremor: ongoing performance research, 2026” | Saturday, May 23 at 3PM
🌱 Ogemdi Ude: “MAJOR” | Friday, June 19 at 6PM | Co-presented with Prospect Park Alliance’s ReImagine Lefferts initiative
The 89-year-old artist Joan Jonas was inspired by psychologist Bruno Bettelheim — whose watershed book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 (1976) examined the fortifying effects of fairy tales on developing minds — to develop a children’s show with darkly adult themes.
Music, specifically Italian folk songs sung by Simone Forti, became the work’s spine.
🌐 𝚠𝚠𝚠.𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎-𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚊𝚜𝚝.𝚌𝚘𝚖
📸: Rachel Keane
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Co-presented with Poetry Project
Friday, May 22 at 8PM in the Parish Hall at St. Mark’s Church
Malcolm-x Betts and Okwui Okpokwasili are both interdisciplinary artists who work in and around dance. Each of them, in their own ways, makes performances that articulate the expansive vision of the Black radical tradition, while simultaneously grounding that vision in everyday intensities of desire, grief, love, and rage. They both approach movement as a site of textual experimentation and language as a bodily material, working at the limit of what seems possible, approaching scenes of abandonment with abandon. For this shared evening, co-presented with Danspace Project, Betts and Okpokwasili will have an opportunity to highlight the presence of writing in their respective practices, each reading from new and in-progress works.
📷: Photo of Okwui Okpokwasili by Michael Avedon
We’re back in the church, y’all! And so excited to announce the return of SOUNDspace to @danspaceproject this July for the very first time since its premiere!
We can think of no better way to celebrate DD’s 15th Anniversary than by bringing one of the company’s most celebrated works back to where it first began.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on May 25th, International Tap Dance Day!
Sign up for our mailing list for upcoming details surrounding tickets, community events, new merch drops, and a Special Closing Night Anniversary Party!
Public Performances:
📅 July 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th
📍 St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery
🕙 8pm
Photo By Shay Richards, tooShayPhotography
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🌼 Last night, Danspace Project honored Rebel Angels Phong Bui, Anne Delaney, and Charmaine Warren! We celebrate the immeasurable impact they’ve had across the arts and the daring evolution they’ve inspired across the field. Thank you to our Rebel Angels for paving the way forward for so many of us.
We’d also like to thank everyone who supported the event both in person and from afar for their remarkable energy and support. We truly couldn’t do this without you!
Finally, if you would like to contribute to the gala campaign and make a gift to celebrate Danspace Project, we welcome your support for the next 24 hours!
With heartfelt gratitude,
Judy Hussie-Taylor
Executive Director & Chief Curator
Miranda Brown
Development Manager
📷: Photos by Rachel Keane
✨ We’re so looking forward to gathering tomorrow night (May 12) at St. Mark’s Church to celebrate our Rebel Angels Phong Bui, Anne Delaney, and Charmaine Warren!
💫 Join us at 5:30PM for wine at the reception, followed by dinner at 7PM and performances, dessert, and the after-party at 8PM.
🎫 Performance tickets starting at $50 are still available! Get yours now!
📷: Photo by Rachel Keane
Co-presented with Danspace Project
Malcolm-x Betts and Okwui Okpokwasili are both interdisciplinary artists who work in and around dance. Each of them, in their own ways, makes performances that articulate the expansive vision of the Black radical tradition, while simultaneously grounding that vision in everyday intensities of desire, grief, love, and rage. They both approach movement as a site of textual experimentation and language as a bodily material, working at the limit of what seems possible, approaching scenes of abandonment with abandon. For this shared evening, co-presented with Danspace Project, Betts and Okpokwasili will have an opportunity to highlight the presence of writing in their respective practices, each reading from new and in-progress works.
Friday 5/22, 8pm in the Parish Hall at St Mark's Church
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🪩 Danspace Gala performance tickets are going fast! Come celebrate with us on Tuesday, May 12.
Join us for performances of work by Annie-B Parson, Brass Queens Band, Jasmine Hearn, Henry Threadgill, Kyle Marshall, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, wine, dessert, and dancing! 💃🕺 After-party DJed by garnish (Toni Carlson).
📷: Photo of Annie-B Parson by Julieta Cervantes | Photo of Henry Threadgill by Alan Nahigian | Photo by Jakayla Monay of Jasmine Hearn, Memory Fleet: Return to Matr, Courtesy of the Artist and DiverseWorks, April 2024 | Photo of Okwui Okpokwasili by Rachel Keane | Photo of Brass Queens by Marc Basch | Photo of Kyle Marshall by Lisa Hibbert
🖤 This Juneteenth, join us at the Prospect Park Boathouse for an outdoor performance of Ogemdi Ude’s “MAJOR”! RSVP for free at the link in bio.
“MAJOR” had its NYC premiere at New York Live Arts in January 2026. This celebratory Juneteenth performance is a co-presentation between Danspace Project’s Platform 2026: “Secret Gardens” and Prospect Park Alliance’s ReImagine Lefferts initiative. This iteration kicks off “MAJOR”’s summer tour of outdoor performances that will continue from June 24–27 at Lincoln Center Hearst Plaza as part of Dance Encounters and July 24 at Jacob’s Pillow.
Ude’s cast of all Black femme dancers and collaborators embraces majorettes as a form and fundamental relic of Black girlhood. Together they pursue the intimate journey of returning to bodies that they thought were lost. A fierce investigation of physical memory, sexuality, sensuality, and community, “MAJOR” is a nuanced love letter to the folks who taught the team how to be proudly Black and proudly femme.
📷: Photo by Maria Baranova
💗 NEXT WEEK! On Tuesday, May 12, Danspace Project will honor Phong Bui, Anne Delaney, and Charmaine Warren at our 2026 Gala.
Performance/after-party tickets are still available! Join us for performances of work by Annie-B Parson, Brass Queens Band, Jasmine Hearn, Henry Threadgill, Kyle Marshall, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born.
Performances start at 8PM, and tickets (starting at $50) include dessert and entry to the after-party! 🪩
📷: Photo by Rachel Keane
