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In NYC in January 2025? Check Out These NPN-Supported Artists!

December 3, 2024  •  14 minute read

A dark blue background with peach colored interference waves, upon which are listed the following artists' names: aja monet, Amanda Ekery, Body Watani Dance project, Cynthia Oliver / COCo Dance Theatre, David Roussève / REALITY, Ephrat Asherie Dance with Arturo O’Farrill, Kinetic Light, kNoname Artist | Roderick George, Kyle Marshall Choreography, Miguel Gutierrez, PearlArts Movement & Sound, Ragamala Dance Company, Shamel Pitts TRIBE, slowdanger, Sol Ruiz, SOLE Defined, sugar vendil isogram, and Timur.

#NPNArtistsNYC2025

We’ve compiled a few of the many ways to see NPN-supported artists, and run into NPN friends. The schedule-at-a-glance is followed by more information about all projects.

*Please note that events may require registration, follow links for further instructions

Schedule-at-a-glance

All times are Eastern.

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

Thursday, January 9th, 2025

Friday, January 10th, 2025

Saturday, January 11th, 2025

Sunday, January 12th, 2025

Monday, January 13th, 2025

Tuesday, January 14th, 2025

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

Friday, January 17th, 2025

Saturday, January 18th, 2025

Note: We tried to include as many NPN friends as possible, but this list is not exhaustive!

Detailed Information for All Performances

aja monet

New York City Winter Jazzfest 2025 opening night with aja monet

Date & Time

  • Thursday, January 9th, 7:30pm

Location

  • (Le) Poisson Rouge (LPR), 158 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012

This opening night at Winter Jazzfest is more than a show—it’s a collective journey, a celebration of community, healing, and resilience, featuring aja monet, plus Sophye Soliveau and Faye Victor.

The Grammy-nominated Surrealist Blues Poet aja monet whose artistry has been called “spellbinding” and “revolutionary” will be headlining the evening. Known for her groundbreaking debut album, ‘when the poems do what they do,’ aja blends poetry and music in a way that transcends traditional boundaries, weaving together raw emotion, history, and deep social consciousness. As NPR describes it, her work is “a blend of blues and resistance,” uniting themes of love, liberation, and the relentless pursuit of joy in the face of adversity.

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Poster art for aja monet performing at New York Jazzfest 2025, Thursday January 9th at 7:30 pm.
aja monet, Winter Jazzfest 2025. Credit: Daphne Kolader.

Amanda Ekery

Amanda Ekery’s Árabe @ APAP 2 Great Days of Jazz Showcase

Date & Time

  • Saturday, January 11th, 11:00am – 11:25am

Location

  • New York Hilton Midtown (Madison Suite, 2nd Floor), 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019

Be the first to hear Árabe, the upcoming album from vocalist/composer Amanda Ekery about Syrian and Mexican shared history and culture featuring improvisatory folk, jazz, and avant pop styles.

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Amanda Ekery in a black dress and cowboy books looking out at the Franklin Mountains in El Paso, TX
Amanda Ekery Árabe promo picture (2024). Photo: Ross Wightman.

Body Watani Dance project

NDP Showcase

Date & Time

  • Sunday, January 12th, 11:00am – 11:30am

Location

  • New York City Center Studios (Studio 5), 130 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019

After the Last Red Sky is a dance performance and ritual gathering to hold the weight of—and imagine healing for—the Palestinian sky. A sky where violence hovers and falls on Palestinian bodies. A sky carrying a folk belief of a whale eating the lunar-eclipsing moon. A blood-red sky. In this work we ask what it means to dig down into the rubble of decades of attacks on Palestinian Aliveness to re-member our sky. To move through grief and rage together in community, so we don’t collapse under its weight.

Body Watani Dance project is held by Palestinian American sister-choreographers-performers Leila Awadallah, Noelle Awadallah. This piece includes live music by Palestinian American musician Tarek Abdelqader. The artists are based in the Twin Cities, Mni Sota Makoce (MN).

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In a field of light brown, dry grasses with pops of green bushes and a rocky slope in the background, three artists embody different shapes. On the far left, a Palestinian woman with long brown hair and red pants outstretches her arms, folds her torso down - orienting energetically towards the earth. In the center, a Palestinian man has a kuffiyeh wrapped around his head and face. He holds dried sticks in his hands, and imagines he is playing his drums. On the far right, another Palestinian woman with long brown hair and visible arm tattoos is throwing an upward motion towards the sky. White pants, brown shirt, leg and arms reaching upwards.
Body Watani Dance project received a technical residency for After the Last Red Sky at Keshet Center for the Arts, supported by NCCAkron in October 2024. The image features the cast: Leila and Noelle Awadallah (dancer/choreographers) and Tarek Abdelqader (live music/composer) in the Ojito desert of New Mexico.

Cynthia Oliver/COCo Dance Theatre (UTR Partner Presentation)

Turn. Turning. TURNT

Date & Time

  • Monday, January 13th, 6:00pm

Location

  • New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011

TURNT is a tryptic built of three experiments I explored before, during, and “after” (if there is one) the global pandemic. In 2019, I made an AfroFuturistic experiment. That work was called Tether, a meditation on black girls’ creativity, drawn from double dutch practices as life skill training. Divided by two distinct sections—the first uses boasting and playful songs as dancers cycle through demanding yet playful physical material. In the second, each dancer commands 6ft long elastic straps that both offer the possibility of tying them together or keeping them apart. Fallow, created in 2021, was a direct response to where we collectively were—run ragged by ever changing threats, pivoting quickly and persistently, determined yet to slow, to stop. Still somehow unable to do so until in an instant everything changed yet again. We did as the earth does to replenish itself—we went (or tried to go) fallow. In the last of the trilogy, Summon. Sow. Reap. imagined that after the long and fallow period, spirits are summoned, seeds are sown, and our just rewards are reaped. We reflect and return, more fiercely, to moving, remembering, hoping, and recovering ourselves for a world anew.

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In a large white and beige rehearsal space, Cynthia Oliver and five other dancers of various ethnicities, all barefoot, rehearse.
Cynthia Oliver/COCo Dance Theatre rehearsing.

David Roussève / REALITY

Under the Radar’s Coming Attractions

Date & Time

  • Saturday, January 11th, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Location

  • Sidewalk Studio at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023

Coming Attractions features David Roussève in conversation with Edgar Miramontes about his latest work, Daddy AF, which will premiere in fall of 2025. The program also features five other conversations between artists and supporters discussing projects in development or ready for touring. This free event is open to anyone attending Under the Radar, including professional presenters, producers, and the general public. The intention is to present an innovative, informal, fun, and human pitch session that fosters connection and creativity. Reservations highly encouraged.

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Pictured: David Roussève. Photo: Rachel Keane. A man in a stark pool of light leans heavily to the left, with one arm dangling low to the ground. He is wearing an old gas mask, and the breathing tube also dangles from his face, disconnected from any source. His upper body is bare, revealing his medium brown skin and the musculature of his torso; on his lower body, he wears dark pants and black running shoes with white swooshes.
Daddy AF (in-progress), by David Roussève, presented by Danspace Project as part of “Platform 2024: A Delicate Ritual” curated by Kyle Abraham, 2024. Photo: Rachel Keane.

Ephrat Asherie Dance with Arturo O’Farrill

Shadow Cities

Date & Time

  • Sunday, January 12th, 12:30pm – 1:00pm

Location

  • New York City Center Studios (Studio 5), 130 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019

Featuring original music created by Grammy-award winning composer/pianist Arturo O’Farrill, Shadow Cities explores what it means to be and feel in-between. Our identities are fixed and infinitely fluid; our movements can be concurrently malleable and explosive. Utterly out of synch and suddenly in immaculate unison, Shadow Cities is a reflection on the beauty, vastness and joy of the in-between.

More info on this Ephrat Asherie Dance with Arturo O’Farrill event

Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie and Arturo O’Farrill pose in a graphic split down the middle. Ephrat is a woman with a fair complexion and dark brown hair in braid, smiling in a sunny dance studio. Arturo is a man with short black hair and beard, posing confidently against a graffiti wall.
Left: Ephrat Asherie, photo by Mohamed Sadek. Right: Arturo O’Farrill (2024), photo by Laura Marie.

Kinetic Light

The Next T.i.M.es

Date & Time

  • Sunday, January 12th, 2:15pm – 2:45pm

Location

  • Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th St (at 9th Avenue), New York, NY 10019

The Next T.i.M.es opens into the near future, a place swirling with ghosts and premonitions, a space where survival and relationships are tenuous. With the principle of equitable aesthetic access for audience and artist at the center of its creation, T.i.M.es wrestles with solidity, uncertainty, and the fragile mysteries of the human body in an exploration of resilience, love and connection.

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Kayla Hamilton stands on a reflective strip of silver, chin lifted as she arches her torso backwards, arms curved in front of her chest. Alice Sheppard sits on one end of the silver floor, torso folded into her own lap. Laurel Lawson lays on their back at the other end of the silver. Alice is a multiracial Black woman with short curly blonde hair; Kayla is a Black woman with shoulder length locs; Laurel is a white person with cropped hair. All three dancers wear dark shimmery bodysuits, a detailed video projection of a huge luminescent moon and a dense forest drenched in hues of cool blues and rich purples fills the background.
Alice Sheppard, Kayla Hamilton, and Laurel Lawson performing The Next T.i.M.es (2024). Photo: Cherylynn Tsushima.

kNoname Artist | Roderick George

The Missing Fruit (Part I)

Date & Time

  • Sunday, January 12th, 1:00pm

Location

  • New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011

The Missing Fruit explores how the manifestation of racial and public health violence affects Black Americans and other Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)communities through an interdisciplinary artistic production rooted in contemporary dance. First conceptualized during the most recent #BLM protests, The Missing Fruit examines the experiences of BIPOC communities, particularly addressing their struggles to combat oppression and death, financial insecurity, and health vulnerabilities while making space for Black joy to thrive.

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A group of eight dancers of various ethnicities rehearse in a large, empty, brightly lit performance space with the floor, ceiling, and walls painted black.
Roderick George and company rehearse.

Kyle Marshall Choreography

Joan (NYC Premiere) as part of Out-FRONT! Fest. curated by Pioneers Go East Collective

Date & Time

  • Saturday, January 11th, 8:00pm – 8:30pm

Location

  • BAM Fisher Hillman Studio, 321 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Joan is a revival of a 2021 quartet set to Julius Eastman’s bold score for ten cellos, “The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc” pre-recorded by the Grammy nominated musician, Seth Parker Woods. The dance celebrates power over tyranny reinterpreting the figure of Joan d’Arc with three soldiers who symbolize the spirits of her ancestors who guide and fight by her side. The work remembers revolutionary people who fight for freedom against oppression. Joan is part of our Julius Eastman Trilogy premiering this season, a series of new works embodying queerness, joy, community and the musical legacy of Black, Gay, minimalist composer Julius Eastman.

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Three figures plead around a standing performer, arms extended in a sea of red.
Joan (2021), with performers Bree Breeden, Taína Lyons, David Lee Parker and Ariana Speight. Photo: John Evans.

Miguel Gutierrez

Super Nothing

Date & Time

  • Sunday, January 12th, 7:30pm (premiere)
  • Monday, January 13th, 5:30pm and 8:30pm
  • Wednesday, January 15th, 7:30pm
  • Thursday, January 16th, 7:30pm
  • Friday, January 17th, 7:30pm (stay late conversation)
  • Saturday, January 18th, 2:00pm (pay what you wish tickets)
  • Sunday, January 18th, 7:30pm

Location

  • New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011

What can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in our lives? Super Nothing presents four dancers whose actions and choreographic relationships are analogues for how people support each other to survive. Interdependence takes multiple forms, as the performers move through representations of the past to create a blueprint for a new future. This piece extends Gutierrez’s interest over the past few years in creating “choreography for the end of the world.”

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Four dancers are captured mid-movements, each in their own unique gesture but close together and connected.
Left to right: Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez, Jay Carlon, Wendell Gray II, Justin Faircloth. Photo: Amelia Golden.

PearlArts Movement & Sound

sum of y’all

Date & Time

  • Sunday, January 12th, 2:45pm – 3:15pm

Location

  • Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th St (at 9th Avenue), New York, NY 10019

PearlArts’ sum of y’all reflects on the impermanence of community and erasure of historically Black spaces. Through vivid visuals and a haunting score, dancers flow in and out of unison, mirroring shifting patterns of cities and cells. As they merge, disperse, and reform, they embody cycles of change, sparking audience reflections on expansion, loss, memory, and communal evolution.

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Latrea Rembert and Chandler Bingham extend their limbs on a dimly lit stage as they face each other. Latrea gestures his arms above him, his eyes following their path as Chandler glances downward, her leg extended behind her at ninety degrees. They wear matching black jumpsuits and legwarmers, accented with crisp white socks on their pointed feet.
LaTrea Rembert and Chandler Bingham performing sum of y’all at Kelly Strayhorn Theater (2024). Photo: Patrick Fisher.

Ragamala Dance Company

Children of Dharma

Date & Time

  • Wednesday, January 8th, 8:00pm – 11:00pm
  • Thursday, January 9th, 8:00pm – 11:00pm
  • Friday, January 10th, 8:00pm – 11:00pm
  • Saturday, January 11th, 8:00pm – 11:00pm
  • Sunday, January 12th, 2:00pm–5:00pm

Location

  • The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave, New York, NY 10011

“Soulful, imaginative, and rhythmically contagious” (The New York Times), Ragamala Dance Company’s Children of Dharma builds upon decades of the company’s pioneering work centering ancestral wisdom and artistic excellence to contextualize the immigrant experience. The latest work by mother-daughters Bharatanatyam artists Aparna Ramaswamy, Ranee Ramaswamy, and Ashwini Ramaswamy, Children of Dharma explores life – forever sprouting, transforming, dissolving, and renewing – through three characters from the Hindu epic The Mahabharata.

With scenic design by French artist Willy Cessa, this multidisciplinary experience incorporates lush visual imagery, an original recorded score, and poetic movement integrating intimate solos with powerful ensemble choreography performed by seven dancers. Children of Dharma invites us to contemplate our relationship with nature, with each other, and the enduring power of ancient wisdom to navigate contemporary questions of conscience.

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Two women in traditional red Indian Hindu dresses dance on a darkened stage.
Ragamala Dance Company by Rob Simmer.

Shamel Pitts | TRIBE

Marks of RED (excerpts)

Date & Time

  • Sunday, January 12th, 3:00pm – 3:45pm

Location

  • New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011

Marks of RED (working title), a work of magical realism, will research the nuanced multiplicity within the interior and exterior chasms of primordial self expressionism & shared human experiences, specially narrated by, and featuring the viewpoints of, 6 femme presenting/identifying people of color.

Marks of RED (working title) is an Afro-futuristic meditation on the “womb space.” Pitts and his collaborators at TRIBE are exploring metaphorical spaces of regeneration, enfoldment, implosion, rupture & potential.

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A group of dancers sharing weight and limbs intertwined. The photo is edited with red drawing overlayed to obscure yet enhance the figures.
Marks of RED featuring TRIBE collaborators in process 2024. Photo: Tushrik Fredericks.

slowdanger

Dance Managers Collective: Pentacle Tour Readu Lab

Date & Time

  • Saturday, January 11th, 2:10pm – 2:30pm

Location

  • New York City Center Studios (Studio 5), 130 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019

STORY BALLET is an evening-length quintet queering Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique using movement, electronic music, and phantasmagoric projections to examine how mental health’s societal stereotypes shape our perception. NDP tour subsidy is still available for SUPERCELL through 2027.

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On a black box stage 5 performers are linked together in a human chain with their hand in contact with the performer in front's elbows. From back to front a white non-binary person with a dark mustache, a white non binary person with a dark mullet, a black man with frosted bleached hair, a white non binary person with bleached tip mullet and a asian woman with a short blunt dark haircut all make a stream with their physical connection as the person in front reaches their arms up in a delicate extended gesture.
Photo: Igor Kraguljac.

Sol Ruiz

Positive Vibration Nation Theatrical Concert

Date & Time

  • Saturday, January 11th, 6:00pm – 7:00pm
  • Sunday, January 12th, 2:00pm – 3:00pm and 7:00pm – 8:00pm
  • Monday, January 13th, 9:00pm – 10:00pm
  • Tuesday, January 14th, 7:00pm – 8:00pm

Location

  • HERE Arts Center, 145 Sixth Ave (enter on Dominick Street), New York, NY 10013

Journey from the year 3050 back to the present with the ambassadors of the New Miami Sound, and explore the origins of their Miami-licious swagger and unified superpowers in the Positive Vibration Nation.

Positive Vibration Nation Is a rock guaguanco opera created by Sol Ruiz. Blending live performance with integrated technology, the new work fuses sound, visual art, costume, and music with Caribbean influences to investigate contemporary issues, explore Miami’s cultural singularity, and convey a positive message to audiences.

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Sol rises up through the water, in the background is a depiction of Miami underwater in the future.
Alfredo Buenoano cover art.

SOLE Defined

ZAZ: The Big Easy

Date & Time

  • Saturday, January 11th, 1:20pm – 1:40pm

Location

  • New York City Center Studios (Studio 5), 130 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019

ZAZ: The Big Easy, a 2023 NEFA NDP Awardee, is a choreography-led immersive performance featuring African Diasporic Percussive dance with immersive sound and media technologies. It centers on global warming through the lens of Hurricane Katrina. The performance incorporates tap dance, body percussion, West African and contemporary partnering, original music, and technology inspired by actual events and the oral histories of survivors.

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Two Black women are mid-movement tap dancing with raised arms and raised right foot. The dancer on the right wears a blue and white patterned jumpsuit, and the dancer on the left wears an organ and short white jumpsuit.
Photo courtesy of Battery Dance Festival, NYC.

sugar vendil/isogram

Pentacle’s Tour Ready Lab

Date & Time

  • Saturday, January 11th, 1:45pm – 2:05pm

Location

  • New York City Center Studios (Studio 5), 130 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019

Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia is a memoir of a Filipinx American childhood that interweaves chamber music, dance, and nonlinear theater, excavating insignificant but deeply ingrained memories. Using field recordings of NYC, the four seasons serve as a cyclical frame and context for memory. Composed and choreographed by Sugar Vendil. Director: Mei Ann Teo. Performed/contributing choreography by Cindy Lan, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Annie Nikunen, and Annie Wang.

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A short-haired medium-skinned Asian woman wearing a black tank and pants, a medium-skinned Asian woman with long hair and blonde tips wearing a light pink dress over a black turtle neck and navy cropped pants, and a deep medium Asian woman wearing a nude spaghetti strapped dress over cropped nude pants, run and jump over the legs of two performers sitting with their legs in a V. The seated performed at the forefront is a light-skinned Asian women with dark long hair and nude colored shirt and pants. The one seated behind is wearing black and only her feet are visible.
Left to right: Annie Wang, Sugar Vendil, Cindy Lan, Annie Nikunen (seated), Marie Lloyd Paspe performing Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia at National Sawdust in Brooklyn (2024). Photo: Raphael Galvis-Lan.

Timur

Black Lodge

Date & Time

  • Saturday, January 11th, 7:00pm – 8:10pm
  • Sunday, January 12th, 5:00pm – 6:10pm
  • Monday, January 13th, 8:30pm – 9:40pm
  • Tuesday, January 14th, 8:30pm – 9:40pm
  • Wednesday, January 15th, 8:30pm – 9:40pm

Location

  • Village East by Angelika, 181-189 Second Ave, New York, NY 10003

Drawing on the complicated mythologies of the surrealist writer William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), Black Lodge, starring Timur and his band the Dime Museum, combines film, dance, industrial rock, classical string quartet, and opera to take audience through a Lynchian psychological escape room.

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A man is softly singing while being confined inside of the metal cage, outfitted with microphones. Snowflakes fall on his face.
Film still of Timur performing in the film Black Lodge. Photo: Daniele Sarti.