👏 Join us on Tuesday, January 20 at 7PM at Dixon Place to celebrate the nominees for the 2024 and 2025 New York Dance & Performance Awards, known as The Bessies!
✨ Niall Jones, “JohnsonJaxxxonJefferson” | 2025 Bessie Award Nominee for Outstanding Performer
✨ Koma Otake, “You” | 2024 Bessie Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator
📷: Photos by Rachel Keane
Congratulations to our incredible Danspace Project artists on their Bessie nominations!
⭐️ Niall Jones was nominated for Outstanding Performer for “JohnsonJaxxxonJefferson” at Danspace Project.
⭐️ Koma Otake was nominated for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator for “You” at Danspace Project.
⭐️ Wendell Gray II, Anh Vo, and Ogemdi Ude were nominated for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer.
⭐️ Symara Sarai was nominated for Outstanding Performer for “I want it to rain inside” at New York Live Arts.
⭐️ Okwui Okpokwasili was nominated for Outstanding Sound Design or Musical Composition for “adaku, part 1: the road opens” at BAM Fisher.
The Bessie Awards will take place on January 20, 2026 at Dixon Place Theater. We hope to see you there!
📷: Photos of Niall Jones, Koma Otake, Wendell Gray II, and Symara Sarai by Rachel Keane
📷: Photo of Anh Vo by Keshis Eugene
📷: Photos of Ogemdi Ude and Okwui Okpokwasili by Ian Douglas
*~*~* 9/26 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT *~*~*
🌀 Niall Jones 🌀
🌀 @niallllain 🌀
Niall Jones is an artist, performer and teacher based in New York City. Niall constructs immersive, liminal situations that attend to sensual, collective registers of fiction, dis/order, dis/placement and in/completeness. And he dances through a constellation of curiosities, obsessions and practices destabilized by performance, sound, text, photography and video.
Where: Church of St. Mary the Virgin // 145 W 46th
When: Friday September 26 // Doors at 7 pm // Shows at 7:30 pm
🌀 Tickets at link in bio 🌀
Design by @mercedes.graphic
we’ve been making another fantasy school, scheme, scene …. come and get into it with us July 10-11-12 @thekitchen_nyc . this miraculous constellation of artists have already been teaching us so much. @schoolfortemporaryliveness 🖇️🖇️🖇️
Congratulations to interdisciplinary artists Niall Jones (@niallllain ) and @TamaraSantibanez on being named @Princeton Arts Fellows for 2025-2027 by #LewisCenterfortheArts. Tap link in bio for details.
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2️⃣ Niall Jones is an artist, performer and teacher based in New York City. He shares that his work navigates a constellation of curiosities, obsessions and practices that move across dance, performance, sound, text, photography and video. 📸 by Heather Cromartie
3️⃣ Tamara Santibañez is an interdisciplinary artist and oral historian living and working in Brooklyn. They note that their work is rooted in storytelling and the visual language of identity construction, exploring subcultural semiotics, memory work, and the meanings we make from bodily adornment. 📸 by Ann Schwartz
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#PrincetonArts
NIALL JONES !
… the mixer, minor mixmaster in mining, digging with love (Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, All Incomplete) practicing how to move between others, between desires, between matters … as if I’d lost my center of gravity (Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes)
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⛓️ aawwffoool.space
📸 @photo_by_baranova
CATCH 78
7pm Saturday 1 March at the 🫥 🐩
$20 cash at the door
FREE BEER (and seltzer)
🖤 the last unleashing at 51 Bergen 🖤
