POWERHOUSE: INTERNATIONAL Global Arts Festival Will Launch at Brooklyn's Powerhouse Arts This Fall

Powerhouse: International, a sweeping new festival celebrating global performance, will launch this fall at Brooklyn’s Powerhouse Arts, running from September 25 through December 13, 2025.

Conceived and curated by Tony Award-winning producer and Artistic Director David Binder, the ambitious new festival brings together large-scale, genre-defying works from around the world—including numerous U.S. premieres—into one dynamic, interdisciplinary celebration.

Presented in the cavernous spaces of Powerhouse Arts (322 3rd Ave, Brooklyn), a former power plant turned cultural engine, Powerhouse: International will feature more than ten major international productions, a music series, and participatory installations—all rooted in a spirit of artistic freedom and global collaboration.

With more than 10,000 tickets available at $30, the festival reflects a strong commitment to accessibility and public engagement.

Highlights from the Powerhouse: International Lineup Include:

• Mette Ingvartsen’s Skatepark (Denmark)
  Opening the festival, Ingvartsen transforms Powerhouse’s Grand Hall into a vibrant skate park and performance space, building community through motion and joy (Sept 25–27).

• Kate McIntosh’s Worktable (Aotearoa New Zealand)
  A site-responsive installation that invites audiences to break things apart—literally—Worktable runs for over a month as audiences explore agency through destruction (Oct 4–Nov 9).

• William Kentridge’s Sibyl (South Africa)
  The Olivier Award-winning chamber opera weaves visual art, music, and dance into a haunting meditation on fate and history (Oct 8–11).

• Christos Papadopoulos’ Larsen C (Greece)
  A hypnotic dance piece inspired by the Antarctic ice shelf, marking Papadopoulos’ U.S. premiere (Oct 16–18).

• Carolina Bianchi and Cara de Cavalo’s CADELA FORÇA TRILOGY, Chapter I (Brazil)
  A visceral theatrical exploration of sexual violence and power, co-presented with Crossing the Line Festival (Oct 23–25).

• Soa Ratsifandrihana’s Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna (Belgium)
  French-Malagasy choreographer makes her U.S. debut with a powerful reflection on diaspora identity (Oct 28–30).

• Dead Centre and Emilie Pine’s Good Sex (Ireland)
  A nightly revolving cast and an intimacy director unravel the mechanics and meaning of desire, betrayal, and performance (Nov 5–8).

• Hofesh Shechter Company’s Theatre of Dreams (UK)
  An immersive dance journey through the subconscious from one of the world’s most sought-after choreographers (Nov 13–15).

• Music Series curated by Adam Shore
  Featuring avant-garde concerts including:

  • claire rousay – In the Round (Nov 21)

  • Moor Mother / Pussy Riot Siberia – In the Round (Dec 2)

  • EYE and aya (Dec 5)

  • Red Hot Presents TRAИƧA — A Live Experience (Dec 6)

• Amari Marshall’s The Imagining (USA)
  Closing the festival, Beyoncé’s dance captain presents a celebratory event that brings audiences onto the floor in a communal, cathartic finale (Dec 13).

As opportunities for cultural exchange grow increasingly rare, Powerhouse: International positions Brooklyn as a vital meeting place for artistic risk, political thought, and cross-cultural experimentation. From skateboards to opera, from installations to intimate performance, the works featured in this nearly three-month-long festival reflect the full spectrum of human expression—wild, witty, raw, and revolutionary.