Danspace Project

08/11/2025

Danspace Project’s Executive Director & Chief Curator Judy Hussie-Taylor at the NY State DanceForce Summer Gathering in Rochester 🫶

08/11/2025

Esmé Boyce, Chelsea Hecht and Clarence Brooks in Visible. June 2025 , Danspace Project (Off-Season)
photo by Julie Lemberger Photography

08/08/2025

“𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗻𝘁…& 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀.” -Andros Zins-Browne

“𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗶𝗱.” -Abby Harris Holmes

For our 50th anniversary, we invited 50+ artists who, in addition to their artistic work, have labored behind the scenes at Danspace, including serving on our Board of Directors, Artists Advisory Board, Admin & Tech Staff, or more recently as Research Fellows, to create a 50-second video with the prompt “The future is...” Find all of the films and written responses on our Online Journal.

08/06/2025

✨ We are so thrilled to announce that Ogemdi Ude is the recipient of a 2025 Princess Grace Awards Honoraria in Choreography, nominated by Danspace Project!

The Princess Grace Foundation-USA writes, “These artists speak through movement—expressive, expansive, unforgettable. We celebrate their artistry and warmly welcome them into the Princess Grace Foundation family.”

08/04/2025

Danspace curatorial team Seta Morton and Judy Hussie-Taylor with Marjani Forte-Saunders and other brilliant thinkers continuing the Blondell Cummings conversation at the Lunder Institute at Colby College this summer ☀️

08/02/2025

07/30/2025

📣 More available rental dates! “Off-Season” is a one-week, 3-night run performance rental package with Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening performances with Front of House, Ticketing, Marketing and Technical Support.

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

WEEKS AVAILABLE
November 3 – 8, 2025
December 15 – 20, 2025
January 26 – 31, 2026
February 23 – 28, 2026

Spring “Off-Season” dates will be released soon.

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 of St. Mark’s Church by A. Hitzenberger

07/24/2025

“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.” -Heidi Latsky

“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 (𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝) 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐬.” -Trajal Harrell

For our 50th anniversary, we invited 50+ artists who, in addition to their artistic work, have labored behind the scenes at Danspace, including serving on our Board of Directors, Artists Advisory Board, Admin & Tech Staff, or more recently as Research Fellows, to create a 50-second video with the prompt “The future is...” Find all of the films and written responses on our Online Journal.

07/22/2025

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With the direction of guest curator Kristin Juarez, PhD, senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute, week five of the 2025 Summer Think Tank will focus on the legacy of experimental choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings. By exploring documentation of Cummings’ best known work, Chicken Soup, the cohort will examine how the archive works enables the preservation of embodied knowledge. By engaging with performance recordings, video art, and restaging, the cohort will seek to create a space for conversation that considers dance records and their relationships between event, archive, memory, and object.

Swipe to see this week’s cohort and join us on Thursday, July 24, 4 p.m. at Greene Block + Studios for a public program with Marjani Forté-Saunders, who will screen her performance of Chicken Soup, presented live at Danspace Project this past spring. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Marjani facilitated by Seta Morton, program director & associate curator at Danspace Project. The program is free and open to all.

07/17/2025

📣 Attention, Manhattan artists and arts organizations! The guidelines and application for the 2026 Manhattan Arts Grants and SU-CASA program are now available!

➡️ Manhattan Arts Grants: LMCC offers grants from $4,000 to $16,000 to individual artists, collectives, and arts organizations based in Manhattan for a single project that connects with Manhattan audiences and communities in 2026.
Apply here: http://bit.ly/4nSgDNh

➡️ SU-CASA Creative Aging Residency: Design and lead an arts learning project at a Manhattan older adult center between January and June 2026. No prior teaching or experience with older adults is necessary; artists comfortable leading workshops in Spanish, Cantonese, or Mandarin are especially encouraged to apply!
Apply here: http://bit.ly/4kOkMPz

🗓️ Submit by Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 5 PM ET.

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📣 ¡Llamando a artistas y organizaciones artísticas de Manhattan! ¡Ya están disponibles las pautas guia y los formularios de solicitud para los programas 2026 Manhattan Arts Grants y SU-CASA!

➡️ Subvenciones de Arte de Manhattan: LMCC ofrece subvenciones de entre $4,000 a $16,000 a artistas individuales, colectivos y organizaciones artísticas basadas de Manhattan para un único proyecto que involucre al público y las comunidades de Manhattan en 2026.

➡️ SU-CASA: Diseña y dirige un proyecto de aprendizaje artístico en un centro de adultos mayores de Manhattan entre enero y junio de 2026. No es necesario tener experiencia previa en la enseñanza en el trabajo con adultos mayores; invitamos a artistas que se sientan cómodos dirigiendo talleres en español, cantonés o mandarín a presentar su solicitud.

🗓️ Fecha limite: martes 16 de septiembre de 2025, 5:00 PM EST

07/16/2025

⛪ Rent our space! “Off-Season” is a one-week, 3-night run performance rental package with Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening performances with Front of House, Ticketing, Marketing and Technical Support. For rates and more information, please contact [email protected].

WEEKS AVAILABLE
November 3 – 8, 2025
December 15 – 20, 2025
January 26 – 31, 2026
February 23 – 28, 2026

Spring “Off-Season” dates will be released soon.

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 Julie Lemberger of Megan Williams Dance Projects’ “Visible” at Danspace Project, “Off-Season” Summer 2025

07/15/2025

🎞️ “Monk in Pieces”, Billy Shebar’s acclaimed film about the visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk, will be starting a nationwide release at the IFC Center in New York City on July 24th. Screenings on the 24th and 25th will be followed by Q&As with Meredith and Billy, moderated by WNYC’s John Schaefer (24th) and violist/broadcaster Nadia Sirota (25th).

We honored Meredith Monk this year at Danspace Project’s Gala on May 13, 2025 alongside honorees Kevin Beasley and Linda Brumbach.

You can watch the trailer and buy tickets at the IFC website, and you can learn more about the film at monkinpieces.com

“Monk in Pieces” had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it played to packed houses and was nominated for a Teddy Award. It has since traveled to festivals all over the world. The film, featuring interviews with Björk and David Byrne, takes the form of a mosaic. Each piece is inspired by a different Monk composition, and offers a unique window into her life and work.