Upcoming Shows
Renversons Dance debuts first season at New York Live Arts on April 3rd and 4th at 7:30 PM.
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Brian Dykstra's Not Nobody at 59E59 Theaters explores justice and moral dilemmas as a former ethics professor becomes a person of interest after aiding a wounded officer....
Past Shows
Valentina Kozlova, former principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and New York City Ballet, announces the 14th International Ballet Competition, with 150 dancers from 15...
OCTOBER 24-26th 7:30pmCo-presented with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line FestivalPhoto by: Yi-Chun WuAre there spaces where we cannot go? Places that we do not...
SURROGATE dives into transmasculine experiences surrounding pregnancy and in vitro fertilization (IVF) while exploring the parallels between a choreographer living through others’ bodies and an intended...
New York Live Arts’ (Live Arts) Live Feed creative residency and commissioning program presents the World Premiere of Lacina Coulibaly’s Until the Lion Tells the...
A dynamic platform featuring new and recent works by Live Arts resident commissioned artists and curated guests, Live Artery provides a space for artists to...
The singular Bill Chats program features Jones in conversation with poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph on December 4th. This season’s first in the series of intimate...
Dia Art Foundation and New York Live Arts present the New York premiere of Boy mother / faceless bloom, a stage work by Juni One Set, a collaboration of Senga Nengudi, eddy kwon, and Haruko Crow...
Gisèle Vienne's L'Étang Oct 21/23 7:30pm, 4pm 22ndAdaptation of an early work by the Swiss writer Robert Walser, L’Étang(The Pond, der Teich) reveals an intricate tale...
Fresh off the heels of a jubilant 40th season complete with a national tour and a long-awaited return to in Brazil, Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane...
TH ANNUAL NEW YORK LIVE ARTS PRIDE: THE HOUSE PARTY Live Arts’ Pride: The House Party epic celebration embodies and honors the historical importance and unwavering power of...
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS PRESENTS 9TH LIVE IDEAS FESTIVAL OF ART AND IDEAS ON SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, CO-CURATED WITH SLOW FACTORY: Live Ideas 2023:...
Live Arts Artistic Director, Bill T. Jones in conversation with journalist, author, and photographer, Howard W. French. For this season, the popular series includes a partnership with The New...
New York Live Arts’ dynamic platform of new and recent works by resident commissioned artists and curated guests. Presented during the annual Association of Performing...
Curriculum II applies the ideas of Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe, Nigerian-born writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, and Jamaican writer and cultural theoristSylvia Wynter. Curriculum...
CHAZ GUEST FORD FOUNDATION LIVE GALLERY Welcoming patrons back to Live Arts this fall will be an exhibition by celebrated American painter and sculptor Chaz...
New York Live Arts presents the first Bill Chats of the 2022-2023 season featuring Nigerian-born writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei in conversation with Live Arts Artistic Director Bill T....
WORLD PREMIEREInspired by early & contemporary death and grieving rituals, three archetypal female outcasts (facing their own aging bodies) tell an ancient story that is...
NEW YORK CITY PREMIERECelebrated for a distinguished body of dance works, Emily Johnson unites audiences in a shared experience of movement, place, history, collective action, and the...
AND SO YOU SEE... OUR HONOURABLE BLUE SKY AND EVER ENDURING SUN... CAN ONLY BE CONSUMED SLICE BY SLICE... NEW YORK CITY PREMIERECo-presented with Crossing...
Synergy is the brain child of Erika Keller and Rebecca Allen with the intention to fill a void in the current dance environment by merging...
CORPS explores how labor and gender are addressed under the lens of regimented movement. The work is a continuation of Djordjevichs ongoing questioning of dance...
Choreographer Abby Zbikowski and crew have created a genre-bending work that brings together a mosaic group of dancers to redefine purpose for themselves as they...
forever for now is a work about love... a phenomenon that none of us fully understand. We grew up watching stories where people fell for...
BILL CHATS: COMMUNITY SCHOLARS-AIMEE MEREDITH COX, JASMINE JOHNSON, DARNELL L. MOORE, EMIL WILBEKIN Join us in a conversation to introduce the New York Live Arts...
Shamel Pitts BLACK HOLE: Trilogy And Triathlon is a kaleidoscopic performance art experience using movement, original sound, light projection, and visual art. BLACK HOLE researches...
The five amazing artists selected for the 57th year of the Fresh Tracks in Our Season of Anniversaries are (alphabetical by last name): Jessica CookJohn...
Gloria is a feminist work continuing Lieber and Smiths fifteen-year choreographic partnership in using abstract dance as a means to break down patriarchal systems of...
Light and Desire is a dance work by NYC-based choreographer and teacher Colleen Thomas. Joined by a stellar cast of five international feminist collaborators, she...
On Friday, December 4th, at 6:30pm EST, our 2019-2020 Randjelovi/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA) Raja Feather Kelly will play host to a watch party of...
A digital viewing party of the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon by Sidney Lumet with Live Arts 20192020 Randjelovi/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA) Raja Feather...
New York Live Arts (Live Arts) and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) unite their respective annual Pride programs in an online streaming eventThe House Party...
light and desire calls upon family history, social politics, and personal experience to tell and uplift the narratives of women who have resisted oppression by...
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