past events
begin /again by cullen + them
cullen+them, founded by Hannah Cullen, is an intergenerational performing arts organization. begin /again is an existential theatrical event. The show follows five people grappling with questions about their purpose, their impact, and their potential for change. An amalgalm of movement, narrative, and film, the piece uses multiple languages to explore themes of crisis, resilience, and recovery. Ultimately it asks what our responsibility is to each other and the collective good.
Written and Directed by Hannah Cullen
Performed and Choreographed by Hannah Cullen in collaboration with Robyn Ayers, Nadia Halim, Maggie Joy, and Corinne Lohner
April 4-6, 2024
Performance Space NY
the end / the beginning by cullen + them
cullen+them, founded by Hannah Cullen, is an intergenerational performing arts organization. The company's latest work “the end / the beginning” is an existential, theatrical event about fracture and possibility. An amalgam of movement, narrative, and film, the work provides multiple perspectives through which to view the disintegration of their reality. If the end of the world as we know it has already happened, is currently happening, and will happen again, might our time be better spent focusing on what we’d like to begin?
Written and Directed by Hannah Cullen
Performed and Choreographed by Hannah Cullen in collaboration with Robyn Ayers, Nadia Halim, Maggie Joy, and Matilda Mackey
June 22-24, 2023
New York Live Arts
BELLY by dishman + co.
Harnessing the power of shared bodily experiences, dishman + co. aims to build an expanding culture of care that contributes to social healing. Through deep processes of artistic translation, BELLY gradually builds a responsive, connected social space that flexibly holds and nourishes the layered voices within it.
Featuring Larissa Asebedo, Mary Lyn Graves, Tony Gonzalez, Nadia Halim, Owen Prum, and Julie Seal with original music by Okorie Johnson and live violin performance by Adrian Nicolas Ong.
March 29-31, 2023
Church of the Ascension and Dixon Place
Women in Dance Conference 2022
Women in Dance provides opportunities in accessing broader and more visible platforms, expanding the voices of artists/scholars, and strengthening the capacity and vibrancy of women in dance-making and dance-related fields. "Relay," a site-specific work by choreographer Debbie Mausner featuring Nadia Halim and Carolyn Silverman, will be presented in Midway Plaisance as part of the conference.
October 13-15, 2022
Midway Plaisance
DiP Residency In-Process Showing:
How Do I Become WE by Parijat Desai
Choreographed by Parijat Desai, How Do I Become WE will be a performance and participatory ritual built around this evocative Tamil women's tale and structured by reimagined elements of the autumnal Navratri festival. Employing culturally rooted and experimental practices, with a dose of trickster play, the piece inquires into the process of reconnecting with the natural world and our inner power, releasing hurt, and activating the collective body.
June 27, 2022 at 7pm
Gibney
280 Broadway
New York, NY 10007
Center for Performance Research Open Studios: Recollections by dishman + co.
CPR Programs Manager Regine Pieters brings together an eclectic group of artists with distinct backgrounds and movement practices to share works-in-progress. Works by Elizabeth Dishman, Morgaine DeLeonardis, and Myssi Robinson will be shown, revealing complexities in art creation, performance, and community building in order to foster a greater sense of belonging.
June 23, 2022 at 7:30pm
Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11211
Cracked Teeth by BITEdown Collective
Led by director Aundrea Anderson, BITEdown Collective presents its 2021-2022 season work, Cracked Teeth. The work is a study of the grieving process. Asking how does one grieve the loss of love through parts of self and parts of past selves? It is a study of how these emotions are planted in our body and where they ultimately take root. The work is a projection of the collective mind as it pieces itself back together.
Featuring:
Annie White (dance), Devon Travis (dance), Elizabeth Dashiell (dance), Kate Hurly (film), Makenna Wolff (dance), Mattie McGarey (dance), Miriam Rose (dance), Nadia Halim (dance), Nathan Wheeler (music), Sydney Chow (dance)
March 24-26, 2022
Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
OpenCultureWORKS: Mundillo (Little World)
Sponsored by New York City's Open Boulevards initiative to reactivate the city's public spaces, choreographer Colleen Thomas and collaborators performed improvised dance around themes of female identity and women's work. The performance took place by Samantha Holmes' public sculpture Mundillo (Little World) on the Upper West Side. During the performance, the dancers reinterpret notions of fragility and strength, femininity and masculinity, private, and public value.
Featuring:
Nadia Halim, Morgen Littlejohn, Sadi Mosko, Kennedy Thomas, Colleen Thomas with live accompaniment by Lily Gelfand
October 24, 2021
W 97th Street x Amsterdam Ave
Relay by Debbie Mausner
Choreographed by Debbie Mausner, Relay is a study of the process of transference — of how movements and ideas are transferred across space, time, and bodies, and of what is gained, lost, or altered in the process. It is also an exploration of repetition and disruption. How do we return to something known, and yet find new ways of approaching it that keep it moving forward? What happens when those repetitions are interrupted, and how can those moments of disruption repurpose the process?
Featuring:
Nadia Halim, Carolyn Silverman, Kennedy Thomas, and Eleanor Altholz
October 2-3, 2021
Union Street Dance Festival
light and desire by Colleen Thomas
Colleen Thomas’s light and desire was created against the backdrop of increasing political radicalism worldwide preceding a global pandemic. Now transformed, Thomas with an international feminist cast of 5 collaborators meet audiences with shifted priorities and deep embodiment and articulation of their light and desire. The collective takes a personal and universal look at women artists and asks how women hold, embody and express power by creating their own form of radical expression during fascist times.
Featuring:
Carla Forte (Venezuela), Ermira Goro (Albania/Greece), Rosalynde LeBlanc (North America), Joanna Leśnierowska (Poland), Ildiko Toth (Hungary/Germany) with Eleanor Altholz, Nadia Halim, Garnet Henderson, Emily Giovine, Falls Kennedy, Morgen Littlejohn, Sadi Mosko, Nicole Rondeau, Carolyn Silverman, Kennedy Thomas, and Madeleine Wood.
September 15-18, 2021
New York Live Arts
219 W 19th St, New York, NY
The Blue Season by BITEdown Collective
The Blue Season calls to question the finality of both death and time. Through film installation, dance and live accompaniment, the work establishes an experimental narrative that transports the audience through a series of deaths, rebirths, and traumas. The Blue Season is a movement archive of an imagined past and the experiences that were lived there.
Produced by: SilverbackGinger Productions
Choreographer: Aundrea Anderson of BITEdown Collective
Dance Collaborators: Devon Travis, Elizabeth Dashiell, Miriam Rose,
Abby Dick, Nadia Halim, Liana Kleinman
Musical Collaborator: Nathan Wheeler
Film Collaborator: Katie Hurley
Lighting Designer: Ian McMorran
January 24, 2020 at 8pm | January 25, 2020 at 5pm & 8pm
Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
APAP Live Artery 2020
Colleen Thomas Dance presents Diane. Still. and a collaboration with Adriane Fang titled, Wake Up! at New York Live Arts' Live Artery. Also on the program is an excerpt from light and desire where Thomas joins five women artists from Venezuela (Carla Forte), Hungary/Germany (Ildiko Toth), Poland (Joanna Lesnierowska), Albania/ Greece (Ermira Goro), and North America (Rosalynde LeBlanc), taking a personal and universal look at how women artists cope under oppressive power structures.
Choreographer: Colleen Thomas-Young
Dance Collaborators: Nadia Halim, Sadi Mosko, Rochelle Wilbun
Musical Collaborator: Jo Morris
January 12, 2020 at 2pm
New York Live Arts
219 W 19th St, New York, NY
ProPel: conversation & performance
ProPel is the embodied exploration of Uila Marx's written undergraduate thesis in dance, "Queering Consent Culture Through Contact Improvisation: A Study on Collective Care." This work, produced by a team of femme- and non-binary identified individuals compiles a semester's worth of bodily and scholarly research, culminating in an evening of discussion and live dance and music performance that invites community members of all disciplines to experience, challenge and ask questions about queerness, pleasure and play through the lens of the art-sport form contact improvisation.
December 8, 2019 6-8 pm
Barnard College
3009 Broadway, New York, NY
The Moving Orchestra
An evening of music and dance improvisation by collaborators of The Moving Orchestra.
Dance collaborators: Can Wang, Carol Chave, Eleanor Altholz,
Elizabeth Keen, Melody Tai, Nadia Halim,
Music collaborators: Chase Moores (guitar/keyboard), Christine Lin (recorder), Jack McGuire (electronics), Joey Chang (piano), Katherine Lim (violin), Lindan Burns (viola), Nikki Pet (clarinet), Philip Sheegog (cello), Raffi Boden (cello), Raquel Klein (voice/electronics/piano)
November 23, 2019 at 7pm
100 Grand St, New York, NY
June 18, 2020 at 5pm
Zoom
The Haunting of St. Veronica's by SilverMoss
A Halloween themed durational dance/art/music performance featuring performances by: Amanda Stambrosky, Catey Clark, Charles Milliken, Doug Lecours, Emily Bonani, Gosif, Justin Wong, Martin Tugade,
Nikki and The Noise, and SilverMoss Dance.
Dance collaborators: Sadi Mosko, Carolyn Silverman,
Nadia Halim, Kennedy Thomas
October 20, 2019 at 6pm
149 Christopher Street
New York, NY
work of body by Nadia Halim
The CoLab Split Bill Evening is an evening length show choreographed by Nadia Halim and Kosta Karakashyan. work of body focuses on the lived experience of the performing self within the liminal spaces of changing states through dance, film, and spoken word.
Dance collaborators: Rachael Su, Uila Marx, Neta Singer, Noa Weiss, Adam Bernstein, Rebecca Sosman, Emily Young, Kennedy Thomas, Paolina Gonzales, Melody Tai, Zoe Novello, Maddie Wood, Morgen Littlejohn
May 4-5, 2019 at 2pm and 7pm
The Movement Lab
lacuna by Zachary Tang
Barnard/Columbia Dance presents the Senior Creative Thesis Concert, featuring works by Zachary Tang, Rena Butler, Matt Luck, Hadassah Perry, and student choreographers.
March 29-30, 2019 at 7pm
118 Milbank Hall
sanct by Nadia Halim & Neta Singer
a nad + netty duet
performed with CoLab Performing Arts Collective
April 2018
Studio 1