Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Nancy Long
Artists: Nancy Long, Cat Wright
Community Partners: Bank of Utica; Flavored Layers Art; Oneida Square Arts District Association, Inc.; The Community Foundation
County: Oneida
Continue reading First Utica Fringe Festival presented by OSADA
Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Sukanya Burman
Partnering DanceForce Members: Margaret Kaiser, Ivan Sygoda
Artists: Grace Gibbons; Star Larson; Les Ballet Afrik; MahataMmoho Collective; Sri Thina Dance
Community Partners: Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet; Jamestown Community College; Jamestown Farmers Market; Jamestown Pride; Jamestown Public Market; New Neighbors Coalition; Reg Lenna Center for the Arts; Studio Dance Conservatory, Jamestown; Torn Space Theatre; YWCA Jamestown
Audience: 706
Counties: Chautauqua, Erie
Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Nancy Long
Artist: Jon Lehrer Dance Company
Community Partners: Dancenter of Utica; Utica Dance
Audience: 320
County: Oneida
Continue reading Utica Dancers Unite Jon Lehrer Dance Company Choreography Workshop
Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: James Lemons
Artist: Moses Pendleton
Audience: 263
County: Essex Continue reading MOMIX returns to New York’s North Country
Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Glenna Yu
Artists: Olivia Avanzato; Djahari Clark; Christy Funsch; Zay Thurgood; Glenna Yu
Audience: 25
County: Delaware Continue reading Movement Artist Working Group
Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Glenna Yu
Artists: Clyde Fusei Forth; Christy Funsch; Lily Gold; Jeremy Hale; Rashaun Mitchell; Kay Ottinger; Silas Riener; Zay Thurgood; Raven White
Audience: 111
County: Delaware Continue reading Open Air | Open Movement
Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Artist: Ellen Sinopoli
Community Partners: Dance Alliance – Ballston Spa NY; Howard and Bush Foundation; Stewarts Shops; Upstate Coalition for a Fairgame
Audience: 1,756
Counties: Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady Continue reading Putting Out the Welcome Mat
Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Missy Pfohl Smith
Artist: Ephrat Asherie
Community Partners: Hochstein School of Music & Dance; University of Rochester Program of Dance & Movement
Audience: 320
County: Monroe Continue reading Shadow Cities – Ephrat Asherie Dance
Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Artists: Soles of Duende
Community Partners: Cohoes School District; Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana; Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady; Union College Department of Theatre and Dance, Schenectady
Audience: 1,185
Counties: Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady Continue reading Soles of Duende in Capital Region Residency
Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Margarita Espada
Artist: Gloria Llompart
Community Partners: Brentwood School District; Fresh and Nova Music; Jard Lerebours; JVC Radio; Legislator Samuel Gonzalez; NYS Senator Monica Martinez
Audience: 113
County: Suffolk Continue reading Splitting and Sharing: Sowing the Seeds of Cultural Resilience