An homage to the legendary dance vocabulary of Merce Cunningham in the newest edition of Musée de la Danse.
With MoMA admission · Museum of Modern Art, The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
Celebrate the Performa 13 artists and Biennial Consortium
$300-1,000 · Skylight at Moynihan Station, 360 West 33rd Street, New York City
An homage to the legendary dance vocabulary of Merce Cunningham in the newest edition of Musée de la Danse.
With MoMA admission · Museum of Modern Art, The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
Help kick off Paweł Althamer's month-long performance project at Biba of Williamsburg.
FREE · Biba of Williamsburg, 110 Kent Ave
A web-Conference and Live Performance that brings together a diverse group of experts, artists, and performers to explore the fields of digital media and quantum activism.
FREE · Whitebox Art Center, 329 Broome St
The myths and history of Norway are re-envisioned by the American- Palestinian filmmaker in this short film, illustrating the idealized country. Free Supported by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General New York and The Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
FREE (no ticket required) · Connelly Theater, 220 E 4th St
Nothing is quite as it seems in a performance/installation by the French director noted for both his wit and immersive sets.
$20 · 360 Smith Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
An immersive installation with live music that explores the confusing experience felt when emigrating to the U.S.
FREE · Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring Street
Female vocalists demonstrate the range of the human voice through Extended Vocal Technique, bringing early pioneers and new practitioners to the stage. Featuring Joan La Barbara, Maja Ratkje and The M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation.
$20 · New York Ethical Society
Nothing is quite as it seems in a performance/installation by the French director noted for both his wit and immersive sets.
$20 · 360 Smith Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
A raucous and funny performance investigating the relationship between dance and masculinity.
$20 · Martha Graham Studio, 55 Bethune Street
Stop by Performa After Hours for drinks and a performance by “supergroup”-HARIBO with Raul De Nieves, Jessie Stead and Nathan Whipple featuring SADAF /Jealous Orgasm.
FREE · Fig. 19, 131 ½ Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets
Bruscky dismantles the conventions of soccer in this chaotic afternoon match.
FREE · Macombs Dam Park
An homage to the legendary dance vocabulary of Merce Cunningham in the newest edition of Musée de la Danse.
With MoMA admission · Museum of Modern Art, The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
The myths and history of Norway are re-envisioned by the American- Palestinian filmmaker in this short film, illustrating the idealized country. Free Supported by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General New York and The Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
FREE (no ticket required) · Connelly Theater, 220 E 4th St
Nothing is quite as it seems in a performance/installation by the French director noted for both his wit and immersive sets.
$20 · 360 Smith Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
A raucous and funny performance investigating the relationship between dance and masculinity.
$20 · Martha Graham Studio, 55 Bethune Street
An immersive installation with live music that explores the confusing experience felt when emigrating to the U.S.
FREE · Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring Street
A runway fashion show featuring détourned clothing of his own design and an installation of related artworks.
FREE · White Columns, 320 W 13th St
Four radically different vocal styles and performances that represent the meeting of the avant-garde and a pop sensibility.
$20 · Angel Orensanz Foundation
Nothing is quite as it seems in a performance/installation by the French director noted for both his wit and immersive sets.
$20 · 360 Smith Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
A performance art variety show hosted by the one-and-only Eleanor Bauer.
$15 · Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery
Full-throated songs by Ultra New View paired with a Butoh-inspired new dance by Denisa Musilova.
FREE · Fig. 19, 131 ½ Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets
A performance art variety show hosted by the one-and-only Eleanor Bauer.
$15 · Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery
Paradise Interrupted, a contemporary Kunqu opera that is a work in development, is presented as a three-part artist residency at the Performa Institute.
FREE · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby St
So how do you maintain a practice of doing whatever you want? What rules or routines do you need to invent to sustain your practice, and fuel your own discipline and desire? Come work on How To Do Whatever You Want.
Free with RSVP · Performa Hub
A runway fashion show featuring détourned clothing of his own design and an installation of related artworks.
FREE · White Columns, 320 W 13th St
LeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
Paradise Interrupted, a contemporary Kunqu opera that is a work in development, is presented as a three-part artist residency at the Performa Institute.
FREE · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby St
Wrånes talks about her use of voice and how she combines it with physical material to create atmospheric images searching for human electricity.
Free with RSVP · Performa Hub
An immersive installation with live music that explores the confusing experience felt when emigrating to the U.S.
FREE · Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring Street
A performance/lecture that combines text, projections, and the body/movement as part critique of African American representations in the media, and the public’s fetishization of media-hyped personalities.
Free with RSVP · Third Streaming, 10 Greene Street
Paradise Interrupted, a contemporary Kunqu opera that is a work in development, is presented as a three-part artist residency at the Performa Institute.
FREE · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby St
Rosa Barba talks about the psychic dimensions of the image and narrations that conjure invisible landscapes in this Performa Artist Class.
Free with RSVP · Performa Hub
An immersive installation with live music that explores the confusing experience felt when emigrating to the U.S.
FREE · Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring Street
A special evening devoted to the work of radical art and theater collective Squat Theatre including a screening and conversation with Squat Theatre members Eva Buchmuller and Anna Koos and Whitney curator Jay Sanders.
$7 · EAI, 535 W 22nd St # 5
Poland's groundbreaking collective create contemporary versions of their seminal political happenings.
FREE · Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave
All of the excitement, tension, tenderness, and apprehension of opening a new performance comes to the stage in a piece for five performers.
$15, $12 for students/seniors and groups of 10 or more. · The Kitchen
Dream sequences by Surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel accompany this virtuoso pianist as he improvises an original score.
$15 · Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
LeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
Paradise Interrupted, a contemporary Kunqu opera that is a work in development, is presented as a three-part artist residency at the Performa Institute.
FREE · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby St
Akademia Ruchu presents a visual retrospective of their work since 1974 through a range of images and films.
Free with RSVP · Performa Hub
Joanna Warsza’s lecture, Public Art in Poland After the Fall of the Wall, presents the landscape of public art in post-communist Poland, revealing the social, cultural, and political idiosyncrasies of its post-socialist, turbo-capitalist, and westernized society.
Free with RSVP · Performa Hub
A barbecue to celebrate the inauguration of Queen Mother of Reality
FREE with
· Biba of WilliamsburgMagid interrogates questions of cultural copyright and corporate power in relation to individual identity and legacy.
SOLD OUT · Art in General, 79 Walker Street
Noé Soulier performs a "dance of ideas" in the premiere of this performance-lecture.
$20/general admin; $15/Danspace members and Performa visionaries · Danspace Project, 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue)
An immersive installation with live music that explores the confusing experience felt when emigrating to the U.S.
FREE · Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring Street
All of the excitement, tension, tenderness, and apprehension of opening a new performance comes to the stage in a piece for five performers.
$15, $12 for students/seniors and groups of 10 or more. · The Kitchen
Set in a semi-fictional form of New York high society, New York New York Happy Happy is a scripted participatory performance in the form of a gala.
$50 - $5,000 · Sky Room, New Museum, 235 Bowery
An evening of readings, slide projections, and conversations around Polish pioneer gay activist Ryszard Kisiel and Radziszewski’s documentary Kisieland, exploring the political importance of queer resistance in Eastern Europe.
FREE · Performa Hub
LeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
Seminal Polish collective Akademia Ruchu (the Academy of Movement) creates a new, participatory performance specially conceived for Times Square.
FREE · Broadway Plaza between 46th & 47th St
Paradise Interrupted, a contemporary Kunqu opera that is a work in development, is presented as a three-part artist residency at the Performa Institute.
FREE · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby St
Join the artist for a special opening on Friday, November 8, from 6-8pm. Featuring tours of the installation by Katarzyna Krakowiak!
FREE · South Corner of James A. Farley Post Office, 421 8th Ave
Cally Spooner exploits the Broadway musical format to explore how our search for technical perfection comes at the detriment of liveness.
$15 · National Academy Museum
An open ended re-telling of the story of Grand Central Terminal in honor of its centennial.
Free with RSVP · Grand Central Terminal, 87 E 42nd St
All of the excitement, tension, tenderness, and apprehension of opening a new performance comes to the stage in a piece for five performers.
$15, $12 for students/seniors and groups of 10 or more. · The Kitchen
An immersive performance experience pairs dance and explorations of Internet culture.
$20 · Connelly Theater, 220 East 4th Street
Frank Haines presents Zeena Schreck transmitting sacred syllables from Vajrayana, Shaktism and Sethian-Typhonian left-way tantric practices.
$15 · Community Church of New York, 40 E 35th Street
Cally Spooner exploits the Broadway musical format to explore how our search for technical perfection comes at the detriment of liveness.
$15 · National Academy Museum
LeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
Seminal Polish collective Akademia Ruchu (the Academy of Movement) creates a new, participatory performance specially conceived for Times Square.
FREE · Broadway Plaza between 46th & 47th St
Ornithologist Peter Holden and his son, artist Andy Holden, explore the materials, structures, and processes involved
in the construction of birds’ nests as a new way to think about art. Free
Free with RSVP · Performa Hub
Antin reads and discusses excerpts, some unpublished, from the memoirs of her invented character, Eleanora Antinova, the African American ballerina of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.
FREE · The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
Paradise Interrupted, a contemporary Kunqu opera that is a work in development, is presented as a three-part artist residency at the Performa Institute.
FREE · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby St
A series of intimate dinners cooked by the artist. Each night, he serves a decadent feast of hand selected dishes from across India, mixing traditions to create his own sort of Indian fusion.
$35 · The Old Bowery Station, 168 Bowery
Adams explores how we engage and reinterpret overlooked histories through the American cultural phenomenon of schoolchildren reciting historical texts on stage.
FREE, RSVP recommended rsvp@calder.org · Salon 94
Cally Spooner exploits the Broadway musical format to explore how our search for technical perfection comes at the detriment of liveness.
$15 · National Academy Museum
An open ended re-telling of the story of Grand Central Terminal in honor of its centennial.
Free with RSVP · Grand Central Terminal, 87 E 42nd St
Sound piece, experimental drama, and a model for abstracting voice, text, sonic and olfactory experience. $20 Supported by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Sadie Coles HQ, Galerie Neu, Kvadrat, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, IFF, and Meyer Sound. Curated by Mark Beasley.
$20 · Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 5th Ave
All of the excitement, tension, tenderness, and apprehension of opening a new performance comes to the stage in a piece for five performers.
$15, $12 for students/seniors and groups of 10 or more. · The Kitchen
An immersive performance experience pairs dance and explorations of Internet culture.
$20 · Connelly Theater, 220 East 4th Street
Cally Spooner exploits the Broadway musical format to explore how our search for technical perfection comes at the detriment of liveness.
$15 · National Academy Museum
A rare chance to see important historic works and new film and video performances by Malcolm Le Grice and Guy Sherwin.
$15 · Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, 540 West 21st Street
Adams explores how we engage and reinterpret overlooked histories through the American cultural phenomenon of schoolchildren reciting historical texts on stage.
FREE, RSVP recommended rsvp@calder.org · Salon 94
Interfacing body with voice, Alexis Penney and Colin Self of drag and performance collective Chez Deep present their newest sounds and excerpts from the Chez Deep manifesto alongside a six-person choir.
FREE · Fig. 19, 131 ½ Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets
The Free Seekers Collective presents an overnight sonic adventure to emanate beauty, restore balance, and create harmony.
Free with RSVP · Performa Hub
A new piano score transcribed from a rehearsal session is the inspiration for Performa's first intercontinental performance.
FREE · Performa 13 Hub, 13 Crosby Street
Sound piece, experimental drama, and a model for abstracting voice, text, sonic and olfactory experience. $20 Supported by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Sadie Coles HQ, Galerie Neu, Kvadrat, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, IFF, and Meyer Sound. Curated by Mark Beasley.
$20 · Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 5th Ave
A break in at the home of a private collector is staged in one of Williams's most ambitious monologues yet.
$15 · Thea Westreich, Art Adisory Services, 114 Greene Street
A series of intimate dinners cooked by the artist. Each night, he serves a decadent feast of hand selected dishes from across India, mixing traditions to create his own sort of Indian fusion.
$35 · The Old Bowery Station, 168 Bowery
Avant-garde fashion and ancient food rituals come together in a one-night-only event.
Free with RSVP · The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Ave
A break in at the home of a private collector is staged in one of Williams's most ambitious monologues yet.
$15 · Thea Westreich, Art Adisory Services, 114 Greene Street
Cally Spooner exploits the Broadway musical format to explore how our search for technical perfection comes at the detriment of liveness.
$15 · National Academy Museum
An open ended re-telling of the story of Grand Central Terminal in honor of its centennial.
Free with RSVP · Grand Central Terminal, 87 E 42nd St
Tribute to Boricua drag performer Mario Montez.
FREE · Participant Inc., 253 E Houston St
Sound piece, experimental drama, and a model for abstracting voice, text, sonic and olfactory experience. $20 Supported by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Sadie Coles HQ, Galerie Neu, Kvadrat, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, IFF, and Meyer Sound. Curated by Mark Beasley.
$20 · Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 5th Ave
An immersive performance experience pairs dance and explorations of Internet culture.
$20 · Connelly Theater, 220 East 4th Street
Two evenings of poetry, cabaret interventions, and impromptu performances celebrating the singular Fernando Arrabal.
$15 · The Bowery Poetry Club
For Raskin "poetry" stopped in 1991, yet The Poet Pure was preserved as a poltergeist-part diagram part cartoon, half alive half dead-memorialized in his own books, lectures and art rooms. Raskin will reveal his best-of textual evidence from this eternal half-subject.
FREE · Fig. 19, 131 ½ Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets
Performa flies 55 flags designed by 60 international artists above New York City.
Althamer builds connections between Williamsburg's many residents as all are invited to join in his conviviality and revelry at the Biba bar.
Over the course of nineteen days, spectators will experience the evolution of seminal Electro Pop legend YELLO, precursor of MusicVideo.
The hallways of this historic building vibrate in a sound and sculptural installation.