In NYC in January 2024? Check Out These NPN-Supported Artists!
January 2, 2024 • 13 minute read
#NPNArtistsNYC2024
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
Thursday, January 11th, 2024
- 6:00pm – 7:00pm: slowdanger, SUPERCELL (KST X NYC) @ The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street
Friday, January 12th, 2024
- 12:30pm – 2:00pm: KST X NYC: Reception with artists @ The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street
- 2:00pm – 3:00pm: slowdanger, SUPERCELL (KST X NYC) @ The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street
- 2:30pm – 4:30pm: Dan Froot & Company, Up Next (APAP) @ NY Hilton Midtown, 1335 Avenue of the Americas
- 6:00pm – 8:00pm: sugar vendil 2020 Artist Fellows Performance, Exhibit & Reception @ National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South
- 6:00pm – 8:00pm: Princess Lockerooo & The Fabulous Waack Dancers’ The Big Show, Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival @ Lincoln Center: Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway at W 65th Street
- 6:00pm – 8:00pm: Ephrat Asherie Dance, Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival @ Lincoln Center: Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway at W 65th Street
- 7:45pm – 8:15pm: DANCE IQUAIL!, Dance Managers Collective Showcase @ Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th Street
Saturday, January 13th, 2024
- 9:40am – 10:00am: Ragamala Dance Company, Ananta, the Eternal (excerpt) @ New York City Center, 130 West 56th Street, Studio 5
- 10:40am – 11:00am: Ragamala Dance Company, Children of Dharma @ New York City Center, 130 West 56th Street, Studio 5
- 11:00am – 11:30am: Yanira Castro/a canary torsi, excerpt from I came here to weep @ New York City Center, 130 West 56th Street, Studio 5
- 2:00pm: Shamel Pitts | TRIBE, Touch of Red (excerpts) @ New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street
- 6:00pm: STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos, CIRCLES: going in (KST X NYC) @ The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street
- 8:55pm – 9:15pm: ANIKAYA, Conference of the Birds Showcase @ Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street
Sunday, January 14th, 2024
- 11:00am: jaamil olawale kosoko, new works discussion @ New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19th Street
- 12:00pm – 12:45pm: Brownbody, Meet Four McKnight Choreography Fellows @ Gibney, 280 Broadway Building – Studio H (Enter at 53a Chambers Street)
- 1:00pm – 1:45pm: Jasmine Hearn, Studio Showing: Memory Fleet : A Return to Matr @ New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th Street
- 2:00pm: Dahlak Brathwaite, COMMERCIAL @ The Public, Shiva Theater, 425 Lafayette Street
- 2:30pm – 3:00pm: STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos, sum of y’all (excerpt) @ New York City Center, 130 West 56th Street, Studio 4
- 3:00pm – 3:30pm: Ephrat Ashersie, LORE (excerpt) @ New York City Center, 130 West 56th Street, Studio 4
- 6:00pm: KST X NYC: STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos, CIRCLES: going in @ The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
- 7:30pm: Dahlak Brathwaite, COMMERCIAL @ The Public, Shiva Theater, 425 Lafayette Street
Sunday, January 21st, 2024
- 11:00am – 4:00pm: First Nations Performing Arts (FNPA) Open Panel and Discussion @ Performance Space New York, 150 1st Ave., 4th floor
Note: We tried to include as many NPN friends as possible, but this list is not exhaustive!
Detailed Information for All Performances
ANIKAYA
Conference of the Birds Showcase
Pentacle Roster Showcase
Date & Time
- Saturday, January 13th, 8:55pm-9:15pm
Location
- Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street
Conference of the Birds is a multi-media movement theater work inspired by the 12th century Persian poem by Farid Uddin Attar, created and performed by an international collective of artists. The entire international cast will be gathering to present excerpts of the work as a showcase.
Brownbody
Information Session
Meet Four McKnight Choreography Fellows
Date & Time
- Sunday, January 14, 12pm – 12:45pm
Location
- Gibney 280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers), 280 Broadway Building – Studio H 53a Chambers Street
Join the McKnight Fellowship program for a lunchtime information session to meet four recent McKnight Choreography Fellows. Each year the McKnight Fellowship program provides fellowship awards to choreographers and dancers of exceptional artistic merit, who reside in Minnesota. McKnight Fellows Joe Chvala, Rita Mustaphi, Deneane Richburg, and Yuki Tokuda will offer insights into their creative practices and information about projects available for development and touring.
Open to all. Light lunch and coffee will be served.
More info on the McKnight Fellowship event featuring Deneane Richburg
Dahlak Brathwaite
COMMERCIAL
Date & Time
- January 14th, 2:00pm EST
- January 17th, 7:30pm EST
Location
- The Public Theater, Shiva Theater, 425 Lafayette Street
This is the true story: in playwright Dahlak Brathwaite’s hometown, Sacramento, policemen fatally shot an unarmed Black man, Stephon Clark. Brathwaite soon learned that his childhood friend was one of the cops who shot him. This is COMMERCIAL: The principles of Marquise Johnson, a fictional avatar for the playwright, are challenged upon learning that his childhood friend was one of the officers involved in this shooting. A play within a play unfolds as Marquise attempts to process the event, beginning as a nuanced poetic meditation on his complicated connection to this murder evolving into a sensational drama with deadly consequences.
Brathwaite is a DTWG Cohort Member and this show is being presented through The Public’s DTWG Studio Suite series.
DANCE IQUAIL!
Dance Managers Collective Showcase
Date & Time
- Friday, January 12, 7:45pm – 8:15pm
Location
- Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th Street
DANCE IQUAIL! will present several works that have support from NEFA – NDP tour subsidy and NPN. These works are ready for immediate touring.
Dan Froot & Company
Up Next (APAP)
Date & Time
- Friday, January 12th, 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Location
- New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 Avenue of the Americas
Dan Froot & Company’s Arms Around America (AAA) is a devised, community-based performance project. It fosters dialogue about how Americans enact fear, power, identity, loss, and love through our relationships with guns. AAA is comprised of six theatrical vignettes based on oral histories of families around the country whose lives have been shaped by guns. Staged as a radio theater company performing a live broadcast, four actors navigate a forest of microphones while voicing dozens of characters, accompanied by a foley sound effects artist, an immersive sound design, and a live rock-n-roll band.
This is part of the UP NEXT! Artist Pitch Session at the APAP|NYC 2024 conference. Admission is limited to conference registrants.
Ephrat Asherie Dance
Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival
Date & Time
- Friday January 12th, 6pm – 8pm
Location
- Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, 1941 Broadway at W 65th St
Celebrate New York City’s extraordinary club, street, and social dance artists. Don’t miss this one night takeover of Alice Tully Hall, when the Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival expands from the Guggenheim, crossing town to Lincoln Center. Spanning the continuum of concert and social dance, Ephrat Asherie Dance, Omari Wiles’ Les Ballet Afrik, It’s Showtime NYC!, Ladies of Hip-Hop, Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington’s MasterZ at Work Dance Family, The Missing Element featuring The Beatbox House, and The Big Show by Princess Lockerooo’s The Fabulous Waack Dancers take to the stage. Simultaneously, Mai Le Ho’s LayeRhythm, Kwikstep and Rokafella’s Behind The Groove, and the Underground Uptown Ball call for all to jump into the cypher.
More information on this Ephrat Asherie “Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival” event
Ephrat Asherie Dance
LORE (excerpt)
Pentacle Roster Showcase
Date & Time
- Sunday, January 14th, 3pm – 3:30pm
Location
- City Center Studio 5, 130 W 56th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue
Ephrat Asherie Dance will present excerpts of new and current company rep performing throughout Pentacle’s 2024-2025 touring season.
More information on this Ephrat Asherie – Pentacle Roster event
First Nations Performing Arts
First Nations Performing Arts Annual Convening
Date & Time
- January 21, 11am – 4pm: open to all
Location
- Performance Space New York, 150 1st Ave., 4th floor
First Nations Performing Arts (FNPA) holds its annual convening January 19-21 in partnership with Performance Space New York and Relative Arts. All are welcome January 21, 11am – 4pm for a day of panels featuring incredible Indigenous artists and activists on topics Food Justice, Kinship, Decolonization, and Solidarity. Gather for discussion, a chance to hear from Lenni Lenapexkweyok and their commitment to their homelands, a reception and an opportunity to learn what FNPA and our community is planning for the coming year.
jaamil olawale kosoko | kosoko performance studio
New work discussion
Live Artery Salon
Date & Time
- Sunday, January 14, 11:00am
Location
- New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19th Street
kosoko will discuss their new works including Black Body Annesia and Syllabus for Black Love/the hold. Both projects are available for touring.
Jasmine Hearn
Memory Fleet : A Return to Matr
Live Artery Studio Showing
Date & Time
- Sunday, January 14, 1pm – 1:45pm
Location
- New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19th Street
Memory Fleet: A Return to Matr is a migrating performance and archive that preserves and celebrates the living memories of eight Black matriarchs of the North and South sides of Houston, TX. The shared stories will be the source for original sound scores, choreographies, and garments that will be experienced as a site-specific performance, album, feast, online archive, anthological catalog, and a mercurial system of somatic, embodied sound and dance practice.
Ragamala Dance Company
Excerpts from Ananta, the Eternal
Elsie Management Showcase
Date & Time
- January 13th, 9:40am – 10am
Location
- New York City Center, Studio 5, 131 W 55th St (between Sixth and Seventh avenues)
Acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancers/choreographers Aparna Ramaswamy and Ashwini Ramaswamy will perform an excerpt from their first duet evening: Ananta, The Eternal. Ananta weaves together threads of body, memory, desire, and devotion, describing the eternal relationship between the deity and the devotee. The experience of beholding the image of a deity with one’s own eyes is a central act of worship and charged with meaning—it is reciprocal and electric.
Ragamala Dance Company
Excerpts from Children of Dharma
Elsie Management Showcase
Date & Time
- January 13th, 10:40am – 11am
Location
- New York City Center, Studio 5, 131 W 55th St (between Sixth and Seventh avenues)
Ragamala Dance Company will present a work-in-progress showing from Children of Dharma, their newest large-scale work. Children of Dharma provokes an immediate emotional response to crises over the ages: from environmental devastation and oppression to unjust wars. Why does war unleash the animal in man? What have we done to our relationship with the natural world? In such an atmosphere, the essence of Bharatanatyam is vitally relevant – to put us back in touch with our roots, to harmonize, to heal, and to reaffirm the existence of beauty and truth.
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
Touch of RED (excerpt)
Live Artery Studio Showing
Date & Time
- Saturday, January 12th, 2pm
Location
- New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street
Touch of RED is the newest multidisciplinary work by the award-winning movement artist Shamel Pitts, co-created and performed by his Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE. Drawing inspiration from two distinct arts requiring rapid-fire footwork – boxing and the African-American jazz dance style Lindy Hop – this ten-round duet is performed by Pitts and South African born artist Tushrik Fredericks. Set in a stylized ring designed by the 2015 McArthur Fellow Mimi Lien and featuring cinematic video mapping by Lucca Del Carlo, lighting by the veteran Australian designer Rus Snelling, and costumes by the acclaimed experimental fashion star Dion Lee, Touch of RED examines the way Black men are perceived and perceive themselves in contemporary society and how masculinity and vulnerability can be reconciled in a non-competitive, compassionate, and healing way.
*Touch of RED (excerpts), for New York Live Arts’s Live Artery studio showcase, will focus on the choreographic intensity & vulnerability between the two performers by highlighting the dynamic & emotive journey within the endurance driven match. Following the movement sharing, we will have time for questions from the presenters/audience.
Slowdanger (KST X NYC)
SUPERCELL
Date & Time
- Thursday, January 11, 6pm – 7pm
- Friday, January 12, 2pm – 3pm
- Reception Friday, January 12, 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location
- The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street, New York, NY 10007
SUPERCELL is an evening-length multidisciplinary quintet performance responding to climate consciousness, media sensationalism, desensitization, and environmental collapse. The title refers to supercells, large storms of deep, persistent updrafts often resulting in many tornadoes. While supercells are terrifying, ominous, and harbingers of great damage, they are simultaneously breathtaking environmental events when witnessed from afar. The effect is similar to sensationalist media, instantly amplifying catastrophic events for an insatiable public consumption. The work begs the question, how do we cultivate hope during continually uncertain times?
This is part of Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s (KST) second year of KST X NYC, a special initiative to share new works commissioned and developed in Pittsburgh by KST in collaboration with national partners. Join KST before and after each performance for light refreshments in The Flea Theater’s lobby. You’re also invited to a special reception on Friday, January 12 at 12:30pm with the artists.
The Flea Theater is ADA-accessible and Kelly Strayhorn Theater is happy to further address any accommodations that will enrich your visit. Please reach out to KST’s Box Office team at 412.363.3000 x213 or .
STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos (KST X NYC)
CIRCLES: going in
Date & Time
- Saturday January 13th, 6:00pm
- Sunday January 14th, 6:00pm
- Reception Friday, January 12, 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location
- The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street, New York, NY 10007
Black Joy. Femme. Cycles of Life and Love. CIRCLES: going in is a full-length dance work celebrating #BlackGirlMagic. Layering dance, visual arts, with pulsing beats and bass lines, the work presents snapshots of popular culture through choreographer Staycee Pearl’s lens as a Black woman. With an ensemble of five dancers, CIRCLES: going in is a colorful, unapologetic, and daring path to self-reclamation. Central to the work is an original sound score of hip-hop, house, techno and ballroom music samples mixed live throughout the performance – bringing the joy, spontaneity and uncensored freedom of self-expression from the club to the stage.
This is part of Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s (KST) second year of KST X NYC, a special initiative to share new works commissioned and developed in Pittsburgh by KST in collaboration with national partners. Join KST before and after each performance for light refreshments in The Flea Theater’s lobby. You’re also invited to a special reception on Friday, January 12 at 12:30pm with the artists.
The Flea Theater is ADA-accessible and Kelly Strayhorn Theater is happy to further address any accommodations that will enrich your visit. Please reach out to KST’s Box Office team at 412.363.3000 x213 or .
More info on this KST X NYC: STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos
STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos
sum of y’all (excerpt)
Pentacle Roster Showcase
Date & Time
- Sunday, January 14th 2:30pm – 3pm
Location
- New York City Center, Studio 4, 130 West 56th Street (between 6th & 7th Ave)
What do we add up to as a community? Staycee Pearl’s newest creation with artistic collaborator Marvin Touré invites audiences to reflect on the delicate impermanence of community. Tracing back to memories of historically Black spaces that have been erased over time, sum of y’all highlights the constant and inevitable state of expansion, change and transformation. A compelling movement work, layered within a multimedia stage installation, sum of y’all draws parallels between gentrification and patterns found in the cellular structures of the human body. Set to an original score by jazz musicians James Johnson III, Erik Lawrence and co-composer Herman Pearl, the score unfolds as dancers flock, disperse and reassemble in blurred unison.
More info on this STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos event
sugar vendil
Performance, Exhibit, & Reception
National Arts Club 2020 Artist Fellows Exhibit
Date & Time
- Friday, January 12th, 6pm – 8pm
Location
- National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South New York, NY 10003
The National Arts Club will host a reception for the 2020 Artist Fellows Exhibit. NPN Grantee, composer, pianist, and interdisciplinary artists sugar vendil will perform two works for piano, voice, and electronics. These compositions include her hand-drawn score, “Test Site 5: Seedlings (2020)” which is being shown along with her hand-drawn score, “Pearls (2020)” and a new, Pacita Abad-inspired mixed-media piece, “trapunto etude (2023)”. The group show will also feature works by Lara Knutson, Carol Salmanson, Rachel Elizabeth Seed, Aliza Shvarts, and Brea Souders.
Yanira Castro / a canary torsi
I came here to weep (excerpt)
Elsie Management Live Showcases
Date & Time
- Saturday, January 13th, 11am – 11:30pm
Location
- New York City Center, Studio 5 at 130 West 56th Street (btwn 6th & 7th Aves)
Experience an excerpt from Yanira Castro’s multimodal, interactive project, I came here to weep. Inviting the public into multiple forms of witnessing and activating the work, I came here to weep is made up of participatory scores with corresponding materials and environments that examine US territorial possession. Supported by a Creative Capital grant, the project was commissioned by and presented at The Chocolate Factory in NYC in fall, 2023.
