NYC Aerial Dance Festival 2025 at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center

NYC Aerial Dance Festival 2025

Featuring: Opening Ceremony by Akim Funk Buddha and Aerial Dance Performances by Invited Guests

Tuesday, June 3 @ 7 PM & 9 PM

Manhattan Movement and Arts Center

248 West 60 Street

New York, NY 10023

Admission:

Advance Ticket Prices: Adults $30, Students $20

All Tickets at the Door: $40

Tickets available online or via phone

https://ci.ovationtix.com/36899 212.787.1178

Fly-by-Night Dance Theater announces their 10th NYC Aerial Dance Festival

Presenting Aerial Dance as Concert Dance in works that push the boundaries of both. The performance will include dancers using various apparatus: silks, lyra, harness, trapeze and span set. The evening will open with a ceremony led by Akim Funk Buddha, the critically acclaimed performance artist who draws upon a full spectrum of cultural traditions and disciplines, including rhyming, beat-boxing, mouth and body percussion, storytelling, break-dancing, Mongolian throat-singing, Indonesian monkey chants, body-balancing, martial arts, tap, and circus arts.

Featuring Works / Performances by:
Akim Funk Buddha / Asha Flasha
Bobby Hedglin-Taylor
Cherie Carson / UpSwing Aerial Dance / Helium Valentine & Dorian Maffei
Chriselle Tidrick
Julie Ludwick / Fly-by-Night Dance / Maia Ramnath
Karen Potter / Helium Valentine & Richard Oaxaca
Wendy Chu

PHOTO: Christa Maxwell