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L'Alliance New York to Present Kimberly Bartosik's BLUR


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 04, 2025

L'Alliance New York will present upcoming performances of Kimberly Bartosik's bLUr at Le Skyroom. Five performers navigate urgent interventions as time warps and haunts....

Nominations Announced for the 2025 BESSIE AWARDS


by A.A. Cristi - November 24, 2025

The New York Dance and Performance Awards, known as THE BESSIES, will announce the 2024 and 2025 honorees at a ceremony on January 20 at Dixon Place. This year’s nominations span choreography, performance, design, and revival categories....

Nominations Announced for the 2025 BESSIE AWARDS


by A.A. Cristi - November 24, 2025

The New York Dance and Performance Awards, known as THE BESSIES, will announce the 2024 and 2025 honorees at a ceremony on January 20 at Dixon Place. This year’s nominations span choreography, performance, design, and revival categories....

ZviDance to Present The World Premiere Of DANDELION


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 30, 2025

ZviDance will present DANDELION at New York Live Arts as part of New York Live Arts Independent Works. DANDELION is a continuation and deepening of choreographer Zvi Gotheiner's thematic exploration of the collisions between humanity and nature....

ZviDance to Present The World Premiere Of DANDELION


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 30, 2025

ZviDance will present DANDELION at New York Live Arts as part of New York Live Arts Independent Works. DANDELION is a continuation and deepening of choreographer Zvi Gotheiner's thematic exploration of the collisions between humanity and nature....

New York Live Arts To Present Tere O’Connor’s 1984 Solo Alongside World Premiere Of New Ensemble Work


by A.A. Cristi - October 24, 2025

New York Live Arts will present choreographer Tere O’Connor’s new ensemble work The Lace alongside a reconstruction of his 1984 solo Construct-A-Guy, December 3–6 and 10–13, 2025....

New York Live Arts To Present Tere O’Connor’s 1984 Solo Alongside World Premiere Of New Ensemble Work


by A.A. Cristi - October 24, 2025

New York Live Arts will present choreographer Tere O’Connor’s new ensemble work The Lace alongside a reconstruction of his 1984 solo Construct-A-Guy, December 3–6 and 10–13, 2025....

Wally Cardona And Molly Lieber Reimagine David Gordon & Valda Setterfield’s TIMES FOUR At New York Live Arts


by A.A. Cristi - October 03, 2025

New York Live Arts and Pick Up Performance Co. will present the world premiere of TIMES FOUR / David Gordon: 1975/2025, Wally Cardona and Molly Lieber’s reconceiving of Gordon and Valda Setterfield’s 1975 duet....

Gibney Company Up Close Returns To New York Live Arts This Fall With Works By Johan Inger


by A.A. Cristi - September 11, 2025

Gibney Company, New York City’s creation-based repertory company celebrated for its physicality and humanistic storytelling, will return to New York Live Arts from October 30–November 1, 2025, for its annual Gibney Company Up Close. ...

L'Alliance New York and New York Live Arts Will Bring Wanjiru Kamuyu's FRAGMENTED SHADOWS To Stage


by Emmy Rice - September 06, 2025

L'Alliance New York will present Wanjiru Kamuyu's Fragmented Shadows from October 15-17, 2025 at 7:30pm at New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th Street New York, NY 10011. ...

Past Shows

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 7:30pm Co-presented with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival Photo by: Yi-Chun Wu Are there spaces where we cannot go? Places that ...

SURROGATE
SURROGATE
6/13 - 6/15/2024


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 ...

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
Live Artery 2024
1/9 - 1/20/2024


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
Boy mother / faceless bloom
11/16 - 11/18/2023


Dia   Art Foundation  and  New York Live Arts  present the New York premiere of  Boy mother / faceless bloom,  a stage work by  Juni ...

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels


Gisèle Vienne's L'Étang Oct 21/23 7:30pm, 4pm 22nd Adaptation of an early work by the Swiss writer  Robert Walser , L’Étang(The Pond, der Teich) reveals ...

Curriculum II
Curriculum II
10/4 - 10/7/2023


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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Live Artery 2023
Live Artery 2023
1/13 - 1/16/2023


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
1/10 - 1/14/2023


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 ...

Chaz Guest: Cotton Series
Chaz Guest: Cotton Series
9/15 - 1/1/2023


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 i n conversation with Live ...

mourning after mornings
mourning after mornings
11/10 - 11/12/2022


WORLD PREMIERE Inspired by early & contemporary death and grieving rituals, three archetypal female outcasts (facing their own aging bodies) tell an ancient story that ...

Being Future Being
Being Future Being
10/20 - 10/22/2022


NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE Celebrated for a distinguished body of dance works,  Emily Johnson  unites audiences in a shared experience of movement, place, history, collective ...

And so you see...
And so you see...
9/22 - 9/24/2022


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 II
8/27


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
6/30 - 7/1/2022


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
Radioactive Practice
5/18 - 5/21/2022


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
5/12 - 5/14/2022


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
Fresh Tracks NEW WORKS
4/15 - 4/16/2022


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
4/8 - 4/9/2022


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
9/15 - 9/18/2021


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
3/25 - 3/28/2020


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 ...

Videos


Broadway Magic Hour in Off-Off-Broadway Broadway Magic Hour
Broadway Comedy Club (9/30 - 12/30) Tracker
A Marble Christmas Concert: Everlasting Joy, Narrated by Simon Jones in Off-Off-Broadway A Marble Christmas Concert: Everlasting Joy, Narrated by Simon Jones
Marble Collegiate Church (12/14 - 12/14) Tracker
A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play in Off-Off-Broadway A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play
Hampton Theatre Company (12/12 - 12/14) Tracker
Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies in Off-Off-Broadway Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies
Triad Theater (12/13 - 12/13) Tracker
Lobby Hero in Off-Off-Broadway Lobby Hero
Manes Studio Theatre of Long Island (1/9 - 1/25) Tracker
PHOTOS
Down Once More in Off-Off-Broadway Down Once More
Teatro Latea (12/15 - 12/21) Tracker
Dance, Edita, Dance! in Off-Off-Broadway Dance, Edita, Dance!
The Factory Series @ The Chain Theatre (12/12 - 12/14)

OFF-OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE Tracker
PHOTOS DISCOUNT
Heather Headley in Off-Off-Broadway Heather Headley
Carnegie Hall (5/7 - 5/7)
CHRISTMAS!CHRISTMAS!CHRISTMAS! in Off-Off-Broadway CHRISTMAS!CHRISTMAS!CHRISTMAS!
GREEN ROOM 42 (12/19 - 12/21)
Die Hard in Off-Off-Broadway Die Hard
The Bell House (12/12 - 12/12)
Universal Temple of the Arts Presents Staten Island JAZZ Fwstival 37 in Off-Off-Broadway Universal Temple of the Arts Presents Staten Island JAZZ Fwstival 37
St. George Theatre (12/20 - 12/20)
Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection in Off-Off-Broadway Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection
The Museum of Modern Art (10/31 - 2/16)
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