Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Jenise Anthony
Artist: Marietou Camara
Community Partners: Monroe County Volunteers; SUNY Brockport Department of Dance; SUNY Brockport EDI Office; SUNY Brockport Fine Arts Department; SUNY Brockport Other Departments & Personnel
Audience: 1,500
County: Monroe
Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Margarita Espada
Artist: Meranda Flachs-Surmanek
Community Partners: Bay Shore Chamber of Commerce; Brentwood School District; En Vivo Radio; La Fiesta Radio; Patchogue School District; Tula Restaurant
Audience: 600
County: Suffolk
Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Artists: Albany Berkshire Ballet, Baye & Asa, Doug Varone & Dancers (tentative), Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company
Community Partners: Dance Alliance; Skidmore College Department of Dance; UAlbany Performing Arts Center; UAlbany’s Department of Music and Theatre; Union College Department of Theatre and Dance, Schenectady
Audience: 350
Counties: Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady
Bessie Award winners Baye & Asa will perform at Skidmore College on 10-30-26.
Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Cynthia Williams
Artist: David Dorfman
Community Partner: Hobart & William Smith Colleges Department of Dance & Movement Studies
Audience: 250
County: Ontario
David Dorfman in TRUCE SONGS. Photo by Sean Elliot
Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Nancy Long
Artist: David Dorfman
Community Partners: Hamilton College; Utica Central School District; Utica Dance
Audience: 720
County: Oneida
Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: James Lemons
Artists: Emilio Ochando; Carlota Santana
Community Partners: National Endowment for the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts; Pendragon Theater
Audience: 340
County: Franklin
Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Missy Pfohl Smith
Partnering DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Heidi Latsky
Community Partners: Center for Disability Rights; University of Rochester Program of Dance & Movement; URMC Dept. of Health Humanities and Bioethics; URMC Dept. of Neurology & Palliative Medicine
Audience: 365
County: Monroe
Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Partnering DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Heidi Latsky
Community Partners: Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dance Alliance; Russell Sage College’s Visual & Performing Arts Program and School of Health Sciences
Audience: 250
County: Rensselaer
Heidi Latsky in LIVING IN THE GREY. Photo courtesy of Heidi Latsky Dance