Performance Mix Project

Michael Helland (photo by Steven Shreiber) Mary Ann Lacey (photo by Tandy Sean Arnold)

"These evenings of dance, music and performance art pieces are often like extended conversations with new and old friends."
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

"[Performance Mix] honor[s] roots and breed[s] new strains"
Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice

"...bold new inventions at the cutting edge where language is concerned more broadly with the populist body. Bernard succeeded in putting together a large variety of works that demonstrated a new innocence in self-exposure, incorporating a wide range of emotions without falling into sentimentality."
Lisa Paul Streitfeld, NYArts

Extended Application Deadline: Performance Mix Festival 2007:
May 17th 2006, Postmarked

The Performance Mix Festival presents the developing work of over 30 experimental choreographers, composers and multi-disciplined artists annual in the Spring (dates and location TBA). Choreographers are encouraged to collaborate with composers for live music and/or the use of video. Priority is given to new, developing and excerpted works towards a larger work. We will not accept proposals from artists who are being presented during the 2006-07 season at Joyce SoHo or by another presenting organization in Spring 2007. Artists receive a fee, complimentary video documentation, rehearsal space and eligibility to be presented through the NDA Exchange, multi-city touring. Artists are selected by a panel of past participants headed by Director, Karen Bernard. Maximum length of work to be presented is generally 15 minutes.

Please forward a cover letter on letterhead with all contact information with an artist statement as it relates to the VHS video, DVD or CD documentation you are submitting, as well as, your biography and resume (composers: list of compositions). Documentation should be completed works (not excerpts). In addition, you may include documentation of a work-in-progress. Other support material is optional. Include a self-addressed stamped envelope, if you would like your materials returned.

Address:
Karen Bernard
Director
New Dance Alliance
182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
Tel: 212-226-7624
newdancealliance@nyc.rr.com

Josée Gagnon (Montreal)
(photo by Johnny Blainey)

The NDAExchange began in 1992 in cooperation with the Community Education Center in Philadelphia and Studio 303 in Montreal. Six New York Performance Mix artists are selected to participate in the NDA Exchange with CEC and Studio 303, and, in turn, artists are selected from Philadelphia and Montreal to be presented during Performance Mix’s NYC season. The NDA Exchange gives artists an opportunity to perform outside their home base, and for some their first exciting introduction to multi-city touring.