Danspace Project

Danspace Project For nearly 50 years, Danspace Project has supported a vital community of contemporary dance artists in Located in the historic St.

For 45 years, Danspace Project has supported a vital community of contemporary dance artists in an environment unlike any other in the United States. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, Danspace shares its facility with the Church, The Poetry Project, and New York Theatre Ballet. Danspace Project’s Commissioning Initiative has commissioned over 570 new works since its inception in 1994. Danspace Project’

s Choreographic Center Without Walls (CW²) provides context for audiences and increased support for artists. Our presentation programs (including Platforms, Food for Thought, DraftWork), Commissioning Initiative, residencies, guest artist curators, and contextualizing activities and materials are core components of CW² offering a responsive framework for artists’ works. Since 2010, we have produced twelve Platforms, published twelve print catalogues and five e-books, launched the Conversations Without Walls discussion series, and explored models for public discourse and residencies.

🎈 Danspace Project presents the premiere of Yvonne Meier’s “Strega Nona” next week from November 20–22! Tickets are avai...
11/12/2025

🎈 Danspace Project presents the premiere of Yvonne Meier’s “Strega Nona” next week from November 20–22! Tickets are available starting at $10 for members at the link in bio 🔗

Originally from Zurich, Switzerland, Yvonne Meier has been choreographing and performing her work since 1980. She has received Bessie’s Awards for her work, which span anywhere from solos to large-scale post-modern spectacles. Over the years, Meier has developed a high-risk movement vocabulary that takes the audience through transformation by exhaustion.

Meier, known for her physical wit and dark humor, creates “Strega Nona”—a work about lovers brought together by a matchmaker called Strega Nona. The dance that follows, she writes, “is brutal…erotic, and tender.” Dancers Osmani Tellez and Lisa Kusanagi perform scores of Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones’ love duet “Tell me”, which they danced in New York in the ’90s.

📷: Photo by Ian Douglas

Artist Will Rawls joins Danspace Project Executive Director & Chief Curator Judy Hussie-Taylor for a conversation on Zoo...
11/10/2025

Artist Will Rawls joins Danspace Project Executive Director & Chief Curator Judy Hussie-Taylor for a conversation on Zoom.

🌀 Thursday, December 11 | 7:30PM🌀 Friday, December 12 | 7:30PM🌀 Saturday, December 13 | 7:30 PMDominica Greene is a move...
11/08/2025

🌀 Thursday, December 11 | 7:30PM
🌀 Friday, December 12 | 7:30PM
🌀 Saturday, December 13 | 7:30 PM

Dominica Greene is a movement-based conceptual artist, dancer, and facilitator residing on the unceded lands of the Munsee Lenape people. She creates body and time-based multidisciplinary environments which interrogate cycles of life, death, and love. Harnessing the elements, spirit, and womanness into an existence rooted in love, community, and regeneration, her work seeks to reflect nature—human and otherwise—as a way of highlighting humanity, the stark similarities in our differences, and our inheritances as legacies.

Her new work “endlessend”—performed by herself and Garrett Allen—ponders these here “end times,” considering all the variable outcomes in a game of life endings. “I’ll see your end and raise you a…”

📷: Photo of Dominica Greene by Maria J. Hackett

“Our time at Danspace was a beautiful and meaningful experience. The space, the support, and the spirit of collaboration...
11/06/2025

“Our time at Danspace was a beautiful and meaningful experience. The space, the support, and the spirit of collaboration made it possible for AUNTS to experiment and learn in ways that will shape how we produce future work. We’re so grateful for the opportunity to be a part of the Off-Season rental program.” —jess pretty

Danspace Project’s “Off-Season” offers a variety of production rental opportunities including our week-long production rental package with Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening performances, Front of House, Ticketing, Marketing and Technical Support.

For rates and more information, please contact [email protected].

WEEKS AVAILABLE
May 18 – 23, 2026
May 25 – 30, 2026
June 1 – 6, 2026
June 8 – 13, 2026

To submit a proposal, please provide your name, number, email address, requested rental dates, and a brief description of the work to [email protected].

📷: Photo by Tony Turner

Join us at Danspace Project from December 11–13 for a shared evening of new work by two NYC-based dancers and choreograp...
11/03/2025

Join us at Danspace Project from December 11–13 for a shared evening of new work by two NYC-based dancers and choreographers Dominica Greene and Malcolm-x Betts. Tickets are available: https://danspaceproject.org/calendar/fw2025-greene-betts/

“endlessend” by Dominica Greene
Performed by Dominica Greene and Garrett Allen

“fly baby fly” by Malcolm-x Betts
Performed by Malcolm-x Betts, Molly Lieber, and GENG PTP

📷: Photo of Malcolm-x Betts by Stephen Olweck
📷: Photo of Dominica Greene by Steven Pisano

🌬️ November + December at Danspace ProjectTickets are available now at danspaceproject.org and at the link in bio, start...
11/01/2025

🌬️ November + December at Danspace Project

Tickets are available now at danspaceproject.org and at the link in bio, starting at just $10 for members! DraftWork is free with RSVP.

Artist Will Rawls joins Danspace Project Executive Director & Chief Curator Judy Hussie-Taylor on Tuesday, November 4 at...
10/31/2025

Artist Will Rawls joins Danspace Project Executive Director & Chief Curator Judy Hussie-Taylor on Tuesday, November 4 at 1pm for a conversation on Zoom.

🔗 Free with RSVP, link in bio

See Rawls’ exhibition on view through November 22 at at Westbeth! Gallery hours Wednesday-Saturday, 12-6pm; Free.

Performances at .space.new.york
November 20-22, 7:30pm; Ticketed.

📷: Photo of Will Rawls by Kennis Hawkins
📷: Photo of Judy Hussie-Taylor by Michael Kirby

“Sarai finds spaciousness and possibility for a queerly evolving conception of love, rooted in whole-bodied experimentat...
10/30/2025

“Sarai finds spaciousness and possibility for a queerly evolving conception of love, rooted in whole-bodied experimentation, play, and investment. To love, Sarai seems to argue, requires rebuilding oneself over and over, incorporating all the mismatched fragments of self into the walls of a new house.” —Maia Sauer

❤️ Read Maia Sauer’s review of Symara Sarai’s “The LOVE piece” at Danspace Project in Culturebot!

📷: Photo by Rachel Keane

10/30/2025

Maia Sauer on Symara Sarai’s “The LOVE Piece” at Danspace Project.

10/29/2025

🎥: Archival excerpt of “Tell me” by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Yvonne Meier (1990s)

From November 20–22, Danspace Project presents “Strega Nona” by Yvonne Meier. In “Strega Nona”, dancers Osmani Tellez and Lisa Kusanagi perform scores of Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones’ love duet “Tell me”.

Yvonne Meier, known for her physical wit and dark humor, creates “Strega Nona”—a work about lovers brought together by a...
10/27/2025

Yvonne Meier, known for her physical wit and dark humor, creates “Strega Nona”—a work about lovers brought together by a matchmaker called Strega Nona. The dance that follows, she writes, “is brutal…erotic, and tender.” Dancers Osmani Tellez and Lisa Kusanagi perform scores of Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones’ love duet “Tell me”, which they danced in New York in the ’90s.

https://danspaceproject.org/calendar/fw2025-meier/

📷: Photo by Ian Douglas

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