Review: Brits Off-Broadway’s DAVID COPPERFIELD at 59E59 Theaters-A Gem
Here’s one play you don’t want to miss! 'David Copperfield' is now on stage at 59e59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off-Broadway 2026 festival of plays. …
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ANIMALS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Opens at the United Nations With Art, Dance, and Environmental Advocacy
On May 20, World Bee Day, the United Nations became the setting for an ambitious interdisciplinary event that merged visual art, dance, environmental awareness, and international collaboration. The opening of Animals for Social Justice, a multimedia exhibition created by journalist and multimedia ar…
Review: NOT NOBODY at 59E59 Theaters-Thought Provoking
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
MorDance's World Premier of Unwritten
Unwritten explores the United States Constitution as a living document, asking whose voiceshave been included, excluded, and contested in the shaping of American democracy.Through physically...
New York Premiere of Here NOW So Long
WHITE WAVE DANCE presents Here NOW So Long, May 21–23, 2026, as part of New York Live Arts’ Independent Works at (219 W 19th St,...
FeaturedClymove Dance
Clymove returns to New York Live Arts to celebrate its 6th Anniversary Season with two world premieres: "Quiet Rebellion - a slow burn. A held...
Origins
Renversons Dance debuts first season at New York Live Arts on April 3rd and 4th at 7:30 PM.
Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition
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...
Nadia Beugré | Quartiers Libres revisited
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
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...
Until the Lion Tells the Story...
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...
Live Artery 2024
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...
Bill Chats with Marc Bamuthi Joseph
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...
Boy mother / faceless bloom
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...
Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
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...
Curriculum II
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...
PRIDE: The House Party
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...
Live Ideas Festival: Planet Justice- Are you here for it?*
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:...
Bill Chats with Howard W. French
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...
Live Artery 2023
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
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: Cotton Series
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...
Bill Chats with Louis Chude-Sokei
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....
mourning after mornings
WORLD PREMIEREInspired by early & contemporary death and grieving rituals, three archetypal female outcasts (facing their own aging bodies) tell an ancient story that is...
Being Future Being
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...
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 II
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
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...
Radioactive Practice
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
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 with Community Scholars
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...
Black Hole: Trilogy and Triathlon
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...
Fresh Tracks NEW WORKS
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
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
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...
ANY GIVEN WEDNESDAY Watch Party with Raja Feather Kelly
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...
DOG DAY AFTERNOON Watch Party w/ Raja Feather Kelly
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...
The House Party with Everybody
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
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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Cock East Village Basement (6/17-7/02) |
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Fireflies & Fault Lines The Chain Theatre (6/30-7/01) |
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Let Freedom Sing: America 250 Vocal Extravaganza LaGuardia Community College Greenway (7/02-7/02) |
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Oil & Whiskey The Bitter End, Laurie Beechman, Prohibition, The Rat NYC (7/15-8/12) |
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Rock Never Dies Hard Rock Cafe (5/29-8/30) |
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Shangri-La-La, a comedy musical about Siegfried & Roy American Theatre of Actors (ATA) (7/25-7/26) |
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Shrek, the Musical! Emelin Theater (7/09-7/12) |
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SpinQueen™ Brooklyn Art Haus (7/07-7/08) |
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That Math Show Theater555 (6/11-8/16) |
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Hamlet The Actors Theatre Workshop (7/23-7/25) |