The 3 Pony Show Dance Company creates language out of moving bodies, telling untold stories in order to better understand our human story. Choreographer Keila Cordova and 3 Pony Show will premiere an evening length multimedia work colliding fragments of Panamanian heritage, culture and resistance at the Esperanza Arts Center with an original score composed by Emiliano Pardo-Tristán in Spring 2025.

Choreographer Alonzo King will collaborate with acclaimed composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinsumire to create a new ballet for Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Akinsumire's original composition will be paired with the visionary choreography of Alonzo King, with a world premiere to be presented to San Francisco audiences in Spring 2025. The work will subsequently tour nationally and internationally.

April Sellers Dance Collective will present the world premiere of Echo… We Are Imperfect Mortal Being. Featuring original music created and performed by vocalist Kashimana Ahu with drummer Greg Schutte and choreography by April Sellers. New Music USA will support the creation, rehearsals, and six live performances in Minneapolis MN.

FLOCK is a vertical dance theater work expressing a poetic overlay of bird and human migrations with a multilingual musical score co-composed by composer and musician Ben Juodvalkis and composer, vocalist, and Circlesong director, Destani Wolf. A member of Bobby McFerrin’s improvisational singing group MOTION, Destani is an experienced Circlesong leader, facilitating spontaneous vocal compositions among groups to make music, build trust, take risks, and embrace joy. Destani will guide intergenerational community choirs at each tour location to integrate Circlesinging as a way to activate musical participation and inclusion, deepening FLOCK’s meaning and impact.

David Dorfman Dance creates movement that seeks to de-stigmatize the notion of accessibility and interaction in post-modern dance by embracing audiences with visceral, meaningful dance, music and text. truce songs, our newest evening length work, continues our vision of creating innovative, inclusive, movement-based performance that is radically humanistic by examining and unearthing issues and ideas that enliven, incite, and excite audiences.

The Dorrance Dance Production, "The Center Will Not Hold" features a collective of singular performers deeply rooted in different street, club, and vernacular dance styles as well as original music composed by Donovan Dorrance with live percussion provided by world class drummer/percussionist, John Angeles. This evening-length work is born from “a little room”, a short duet created and performed by Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance in December 2022.

Ephrat Asherie Dance (EAD) is dance company rooted in the African American and Latine street and club dances of breaking, hip hop, house and waacking. Their new project, Shadow Cities, is a collaboration with world-renown composer and pianist, Arturo O'Farrill. Their new work explores what it means to be and to feel in-between. We are split between cities, memories and generations; We are an amalgam of cultures, fully embodied and fragmented all at once. Our identities are fixed and infinitely fluid, our movements concurrently malleable and explosive. We are utterly out of synch and suddenly in immaculate unison. Shadow Cities asks how and why—halfway between so many disparate extremes in time, space and state—we sometimes feel most at home and our most enlivened selves. With a cast of six dancers and four musicians, Shadow Cities is a reflection on the beauty, vastness and joy of the in-between.


Lessons from My Mothers is a retelling of oral stories, anecdotes, experiences, emotions felt by our Mothers as they left their homes in India and embarked upon a new life in America. Using Bharatanatyam dance, mimetic storytelling, experimental music, spoken, word, theater and music, we meld the lived experience of her mothers and aunts into a personal history of joy, laughter, sorry, anxiety and fear. Choreographer Sonali Skandan will collaborate with longtime partners, composers/musicians Bala Skandan and Shiv Subramaniam who will compose the music along with others. Acclaimed director and dramaturg Arpita Mukherjee of Hypocrit Theater will direct the show. The cast includes two dancers/spoken word artists and musicians.

A Cultural collaboration. Celebrated African American Choreographer Sean McLeod and Grammy Nominated Taiwanese Composer Chihsuan Yang will create a new work presented as part of the 34th New York Dance Festival and the 2024-2025 season. What can Black and Taiwanese find together, how can you be more than your history?

Music From The Sole, led by Brazilian dancer/ choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and by bassist/ composer Gregory Richardson, is a tap dance and live music company that celebrates tap's Afro-diasporic roots, particularly its connections to Afro-Brazilian dance and music, and its lineage to forms like house dance and Brazilian funk. The company expands audiences for tap by appearing at both dance and music venues, including recently at the Joyce Theater, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and White Bird.

Founded by Robin Dekkers, Bay Area dance collective Post:ballet uses collaboration as a catalyst for pushing the ballet envelope and creating experiences that connect artists and audiences in new and meaningful ways. Post's newest collaboration "The Recital" features percussionist and Music Director Andy Meyerson onstage with the company dancers in a new music and dance recital by five composer/choreographer teams.

Dharma is Life - forever sprouting, transforming, dissolving, and renewing. Ragamala Dance Company’s Children of Dharma reveals the power of ancient cultures to harmonize, heal, and reaffirm humanity's relationship with nature. “Ragamala shows how Indian forms can be some of the most transcendent experiences that dance has to offer.” - NY Time

Sequoia Ascension cultivates the well-being of Atlanta’s Black American and Native American communities by way of movement, music, and healing practices. Sequoia Ascension is thrilled to present Powwows & Ciphers: A Sacred Place to Be, a groundbreaking dance piece that highlights Afro-indigeneity by bringing together Hip Hop and Native American music and dance.

ShaLeigh Dance Works (SDW) is a nonprofit, dance-theatre company dedicated to inspiring people of all abilities, social backgrounds, cultures, and generations with the transformative power of dance. Under the direction of Founder and Artistic Director ShaLeigh Comerford, SDW is recognized for its socially conscious works, expansive movement language, and commitment to community action.

With a cast of 12 dancers and 10 musicians, “A Very SW!NG OUT Holiday” invites audiences to revel in the joy of social dance and festive cheer. Featuring live music by the Eyal Vilner Big Band and created by director/choreographer Caleb Teicher and collaborators—Evita Arce, LaTasha Barnes, Nathan Bugh, and Eyal Vilner—14 performances of the Joyce Theater Production will be presented in December 2024.

The Mariposa Collective is a performing artists collective based in Boulder, CO dedicated to the service and support of contemporary artists and the creative process. Our mission is to support a diverse community by engaging in artistic dialogue, exploring and sharing multi-disciplinary work, and offering quality artistic contributions to the community at large.

Public Domain-Confidential, a collaboration with Roxey Ballet and musician/composer Richard Jarboe, reimagines recognizable works from the public domain that have been lost with unknown original composers. The project narrative revolves around a fictional love story set in New Orleans, featuring a man and woman from the public domain, both of whom become entwined in each other's lives. One frequents a local bar while the other works there and their journey is underscored by the soulful music performed live by Richard Jarboe on guitar and Carlo Gentiletti on bass guitar with choreography by Mark Roxey and Roxey Ballet Artists. Richard Jarboe has been fascinated with these lost public domain works and this project recreates them reflecting the culture and music of New Orleans with traditional jazz, blues, and Afro-Cuban styles.

The Traverse City Dance Project traces its origins to a New York City rooftop in 2012, where professional dancers and choreographers Brent Whitney and Jennifer McQuiston Lott planted the seeds of their vision. Motivated by Brent's desire to bring top-tier dance back to his hometown of Traverse City, Michigan, they sought to foster a platform for professional dancers, choreographers, musicians, and composers alike. Now celebrating its eleventh season, the mission of the Traverse City Dance Project is to produce and present professional dance in Northern Michigan, promoting collaboration among artists and actively engaging with the community. The Traverse City Dance Project is committed to expanding and ensuring access to live dance performances, recognizing the transformative power of the arts to unite, empower, and inspire communities.

Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea, with the BIPOC women and femme dancers of Ananya Dance Theatre, composer/musicians and guest collaborators, will create ANTARANGA: BETWEEN YOU AND ME, an original full-length transnational feminist contemporary dance theater work, in ADT’s tradition of social justice choreography.

Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s “In the Presence of Absence” explores how a diverse array of individuals have endured the chaotic impact of a global pandemic through an intersectional lens, culminating in a multimedia dance theater piece featuring dance, spoken word, video projection, and original music by composer Marcus Shelby.

"Silenciosa Luna", will explore how we embed audio-description in choreography and music for a dance work without diminishing the artistic idea. "Silenciosa Luna" will be a 15 minute dance piece choreographed by Nadia Adame with 5 AXIS Company dancers and will include Alisa Rasera as a collaborator embedding audio-description within the performance and Kev Choice as the composer.

Two legendary producers, DJ T-Rell from Chicago and H Rockz from New York City, will create original music for a joint Chicago Footwork and Litefeet Mixtape, which will be live-streamed online for educational purposes, used in our weekly community programming spaces, and featured at two culminating community events focused on unifying the cultures of Chicago Footwork and Harlem Litefeet.

Dark Circles Contemporary Dance collaborates with composer Brandon Carson for "Ten-Gallon," premiering in October 2023 in El Paso, TX. Created and choreographed by Joshua L. Peugh, the work reimagines the Western genre, honoring the contributions of BIPOC and queer individuals in shaping the American West.

Choreographer Jo Kreiter and composer Xoa Asa are collaborating on Flyaway Productions' site-specific dance--Ode to Jane—to connect struggles for bodily autonomy via reproductive justice with struggles for autonomy in housing and addiction recovery.

Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) has commissioned NY-based composer Jessie Cox to create an original score for a new site-specific performance work, “Herald In and Examine Throughout,” premiering at the Herald Examiner Building in Los Angeles in Spring 2024. Cox’s score will be performed live alongside original choreography by Heidi Duckler.

Founded in 2016 by award-winning artist Jeremy McQueen, The Black Iris Project (BIP) is an Emmy® award-winning ballet collaborative and education vehicle which creates new, relevant classical & contemporary ballet works that celebrate diversity and Black history.

These funds support the work of choreographer Aszure Barton and award-winning composer Ambrose Akinmusire, who are using José Limón’s personal notes to reimagine The Eumenides – Doris Humphrey’s never-recorded masterwork exploring impossible moral choices (originally choreographed to a soaring orchestral score by Darius Milhaud).

Katha Dance Theatre will present the world premiere of PRAKRITIR PRATISODH -- Nature’s Revenge! in November 2023 at the Twin Cities’ premiere dance venue, The Cowles Center. The production will showcase an original score composed by Vinod Krishnan of Atlanta, and choreography by master Kathak artist, Rita Mustaphi, of Minneapolis.

Composer okkyung lee creates an original score for choreographer Donna Uchizono for "March," a tri-section dance work together with Tendayi Kuumba and Annie-B Parson, envisioned as three discrete sections by three choreographers celebrating and interrogating our human compulsion to dance together.

LED is an award-winning arts organization that weaves signature contemporary choreography, original musical compositions, and elements of film into thought-provoking narratives and inspiring stories that are redefining the boundaries of performing arts.

Nava Dance Theatre is a bharatanatyam dance company which uses the south Indian dance form to navigate place, identity, and politics through the lens of our lived experience.

ODC Theater exists to empower and develop innovative artists. It participates in the creation of new works through commissioning, presenting, mentorship and space access; it develops informed, engaged and committed audiences; and advocates for the performing arts as an essential component to the economic and cultural development of our community.

New Music USA support of Parsons Dance will support commissions by composer Michael Wall and choreographer Penny Saunders with live music for dance at 10 performances at The Joyce Theater in New York City.

ShaLeigh Dance Works (SDW) is a nonprofit, dance-theatre company dedicated to inspiring people of all abilities, social backgrounds, cultures, and generations with the transformative power of dance; funds will support the 2023 new music program enVISION: The Next Chapter, which researches the perception of music and sound in the absence of vision and how access informs our creative process.

The Leela Institute advances India’s rich artistic traditions by supporting the creation, development, and performance of cutting edge artistic works of kathak dance; providing comprehensive education in kathak for children, youth and adults; and engaging in strategic public activities to raise broad-based awareness of India’s rich artistic and cultural heritage.

Treehouse Shakers creates original programming for babies to teens, which includes a NYC Season, touring, workshops and school programming. For the upcoming NYC season we will present The Deepest Breath, as part of our LGBTQIA+ initiative, Flutter for Babies, Sail Away for toddlers, and The Littlest Cove for ages 3-6.

Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre is a multidisciplinary company of majority BIPOC artists presenting invigorating performance and education programs in the US and internationally, that increase access to- and promote understanding through - the arts.