Danspace Project

12/23/2025

🔮 Coming Up at Danspace Project in 2026 🔮

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

UPDATE: Performances of Off-Season: Amanda Krische presents "Double Blade" run from February 27–28, not February 26–28.

12/22/2025

“The three, (Hewett, Lee, and Wilmore,) threw themselves around uninhibitedly, bouncing off, obstructing and pumping one another up...Apart from their touching veneration of Houston-Jones, the spirit was irreverent—the best tribute.” -Brian Seibert, The New York Times

Co-presented with Live Artery | New York Live Arts, “OO-GA-LA Reimagined (The Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones 1983 Duet Danced into the 21st Century)” returns to Danspace Project from January 8–10. Tickets available now! https://danspaceproject.org/calendar/ws2026-holland-houston-jones/

📷: Photo by Rachel Keane

12/20/2025

💛 Read a review of Shared Evening: Dominica Greene + Malcolm-x Betts at Danspace Project written by Asia Stewart in IMPULSE Magazine! https://impulsemagazine.com/symposium/dancing-outside-time

“Danspace Project’s double-bill of new works by Malcolm-x Betts and Dominica Greene lives in the coda, considering everything that emerges after the end. Inside the sacred space of St. Mark’s Church, both performances question how to defy the constraining logic of linear time to persist in the here and now.” -Asia Stewart

📷: Photos by Rachel Keane

12/19/2025

Danspace Project in collaboration with Swiss Institute is pleased to present “Untitled (Nostalgia: Act 3)” by artist and choreographer Tiran Willemse from January 23–24.

The performance is presented on the occasion of Willemse’s first U.S. solo exhibition, “Dweller”, at Swiss Institute. In “Untitled (Nostalgia: Act 3)”, Willemse invokes multiple histories of dance, blending the 19th century classical ballet, “Giselle”, with Kuduro, a dance style tied to a period of civil unrest in Angola in the 1980s, and Alanta, a popular Nigerian dance from the late 2000s.

The ghost story of Giselle becomes the narrative vehicle through which past selves, ancestral spirits, repressed histories, and other entities spectrally emerge to reclaim Willemse’s body. “Untitled (Nostalgia: Act 3)” is an exercise and an exorcism, an evocation of Black experience within European contexts, and a thinly veiled masquerade of contemporary absurdities.

Tickets are available now!

12/17/2025

💥 Save the Date! Tuesday, May 12th, 2026

HONORING REBEL ANGELS
Phong Bui
Anne Delaney
Charmaine Warren

Mark your calendars for Danspace Project’s 2026 Gala! 📅

St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003

More details to come in the new year 🎉

For questions and more information, please reach out to Development Manager, Miranda Brown, at [email protected]

12/16/2025

: “Their movement is vigorous and fluid, full out physical, and free of formal technique. Think sand on the beach, dragged and returned by the tide. Or maybe bean bag dolls, the way their limbs empty and fill as they’re tossed about.” —Karen Hildebrand on Yvonne Meier’s “Strega Nona”

Tap the link in our bio for the article.

12/16/2025

“What makes ‘Strega Nona’ work is the mastery of the two dancers. Their movement is vigorous and fluid, full out physical, and free of formal technique. Think sand on the beach, dragged and returned by the tide. Or maybe bean bag dolls, the way their limbs empty and fill as they’re tossed about. Tellez and Kusanagi take each prompt/activity and push it to the limit.“ -Karen Hildebrand

🎈Read the full review of Yvonne Meier’s “Strega Nona” at Danspace Project written by Karen Hildebrand in Fjord Review! https://fjordreview.com/blogs/all/spellbound

📷: Photo by Rachel Keane

12/15/2025

💥 This Saturday! Join us at 3PM for DraftWork: Maxi Hawkeye Canion + Kris Lee & Lauren Bakst! RSVP for free: https://danspaceproject.org/calendar/draftwork-dec-fw25/

Curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones, Danspace Project’s DraftWork series hosts free, informal showings of new works in varying stages of development. Showings are followed by a reception, conversation, and Q&A between the artists.

Kris Lee (she/they) is a New York-based dance artist, performer, and DJ. Most recently they have performed in works by Julie Tolentino, Kevin Beasley, Moriah Evans, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Ralph Lemon, Miguel Gutierrez, Andros Zins-Browne, Jonathan González, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Shamel Pitts (TRIBE). They were a recipient of a 2024 danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz under the mentorship of Isabel Lewis. Kris has shown work at Judson Memorial Church as part of Black Aesthetics and Cathy Weis Projects’ Sundays on Broadway. In 2025, she had the pleasure to be part of OO-GA-LA, the reimagining of Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones’ 1983 Untitled Duet at Danspace Project.

Lauren Bakst is a scholar and artist working across experimental performance and q***r studies. She is completing a PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania where her dissertation focuses on le***an erotic lifeworlds through a constellation of performance, film, and scenes of social life. Her research and writing on the C**t Club is forthcoming in TDR/The Drama Review. Lauren organizes and curates The School for Temporary Liveness, a para-site for collective study and dissonant communion. She currently teaches seminars in contemporary art at Rutgers University.

📷: Photo of Lauren Bakst & Kris Lee performing with Julie Tolentino by Rachel Keane
📷: Photo of Maxi Hawkeye Canion by Guillaume Python

12/12/2025

‼️ Tonight (12/12) and tomorrow night (12/13) are your last chances to see Shared Evening: Dominica Greene + Malcolm-x Betts at Danspace Project!

“endlessend” by Dominica Greene traverses two overlapping realms, where denial and inspiration contend amorphously. Coping with the dwindlings and kindlings of life, it discovers hope in nature’s most fundamental elements. Can you comprehend the end?

“fly baby fly” is for Malcolm-x Betts’ older cousin Michael who died of AIDS. “It’s the end of the world; a year after Michael’s death a harp falls from the sky.”

📷: Photos by Rachel Keane

12/10/2025

🎥: Malcolm-x Betts, Molly Lieber, and GENG PTP performing “fly baby fly” by Malcolm-x Betts at Danspace Project

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

Join us at Danspace Project this weekend for a shared evening of new work by two NYC-based dancers and choreographers Dominica Greene and Malcolm-x Betts. https://danspaceproject.org/calendar/fw2025-greene-betts/

12/10/2025

https://www.swissinstitute.net/event/tiran-willemse-untitled-nostalgia-act-3-at-danspace-project/

Swiss Institute in collaboration with Danspace Project is pleased to present Untitled (Nostalgia: Act 3) by artist and choreographer Tiran Willemse. The performance is presented on the occasion of Willemse’s first U.S. solo exhibition, Dweller, at Swiss Institute. In Untitled (Nostalgia: Act 3), W...

12/08/2025

❄️December at Danspace Project❄️

Tickets are available at https://danspaceproject.org/, starting at just $10 for members! DraftWork is free with RSVP.

December 11–13 at 7:30PM | Shared Evening: Dominica Greene + Malcolm-x Betts
December 20 at 3PM | DraftWork: Maxi Hawkeye Canion + Kris Lee & Lauren Bakst