Mitchell Rose | Isabella Thorpe-Woods & Zhangxinan Wu 吴张⼼安 | Jo Warren | Lindsey Barlag Thornton
Company:
New Dance Alliance | Performance Mix Festival
New Dance Alliance presents the 39th Annual Performance Mix Festival
June 5-8, 2025, at Abrons Arts Center’s Underground Theater
The 39th annual Performance Mix Festival brings together 40 innovative experimental performance, sound, and film artists over four days in June. The 2025 festival is curated by New Dance Alliance Artistic and Executive Director Karen Bernard, Managing Director Alexandra Doyle, and artist panelists Arantxa Araujo, Chloë Engel, Johanna Meyer, Jordan Deal, and Estrellx Supernova. In addition, films were selected in collaboration with Ciné-Corps.
Sunday, June 8
Program A | 12pm: Mitchell Rose | Isabella Thorpe-Woods & Zhangxinan Wu 吴张⼼安 | Jo Warren | Lindsey Barlag Thornton
Ciné-Corps film: Mitchell Rose, Attention Span, 2020
An experiment in seeing—in exploded perspective. A dancer is shot from 16 camera angles and edited at a disturbing rate. It is a response to our culture’s hunger for haste. But suddenly there is stillness—only an unchanging portrait of raw humanity, photography’s most sublime imagery.
Isabella Thorpe Woods & Zhangxinan Wu 吴张⼼安 / make.shift
make.shift delves into dynamics of remote intimacy. Isabella Thorpe-Woods and Zhangxinan Wu have been devising work across the 12-hour time difference between New York and Beijing. The work focuses on subconscious undercurrents of connection and the fleeting spaces between duets. Absurdity emerges in the mundane, as the piece navigates the tension between visibility and obscurity, memory and anticipation, lagging presence and complete absence, filling in each other’s gaps.
Jo Warren / Neighbors
Neighbors is a dance for six people that tells non-linear stories about suburbia, the life and death of Jesus Christ, extraterrestrial communication, telepathy, love, and living at the end of the world.
Lindsey Barlag Thornton / flights for future generations
flights for future generations is a solo performance that draws from the histories of women aviators and spiritualists. Interweaving movement, text, sound, and imagery with analog devices, the performance explores our longing for the cosmos, how we navigate loneliness, and how we might begin to find each other.
