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Chain Reaction

New York based visual and dance artist, Malcolm-x Betts, leads, participates in, and organizes a two-week residency with a cohort of artists through a curatorial framework called Chain Reaction, inspired by Betts’ curiosities around labor, silent rage, and improvisational dance.

Drawing inspiration from both his visual and performance practices, Betts alongside invited artists, will explore their relentless interest in the possibilities that exist beyond form. Envisioning a world where multiple movement languages and expressions coexist, the group will create alternative social configurations and improvisations, where repetition and iteration generate self-devised living archives. The residency will culminate in a works-in-process showing.

Montaña de Raiz

Juan Del Hierro joins his sons, Efrain and Pablo Del Hierro—creators of performances featuring surrealist puppets—to reinterpret the iconic piece La agonía del Danzak. Originally performed by Juan Del Hierro himself in New York City in 1984 with improvisations structured and choreographed by Susana Reyes, the work is a dance-theater piece based on the short story “La agonía de Rasu Ñiti” by Peruvian writer José María Arguedes.

After decades, Juan Del Hierro revisits the piece, now titled Montaña de Raiz through a new lens of time and space, reinventing it alongside his sons, performance duo Poncili Creacíon. Together, they use magic, ritual, memory, and mystery to share their interpretation of the indigenous worldview, as well as their own perspectives on life and death.

Art Workers Are Artists Too / Performance Space New York’s Annual Holiday Party

Art Workers Are Artists Too is a program performed, run, and designed by technicians, designers, front of house, and other art workers who work at Performance Space New York. Organized and curated by our Technical Director Andy Sowers, the program is a “thank you” to those who help shape the performances and events we present each season. Now in its 6th year, we invite performers to reflect on their time at Performance Space New York and share work that speaks to both sides of their practice—as artists and as art workers.

Art Workers Are Artists Too culminates with Performance Space New York’s Annual Holiday Party.

Queer|Art Summit: Becoming What We Practice

Throughout our history and throughout the 2026/2027 season, we continue to work alongside organizations, cultural workers, and arts workers in New York and abroad in an attempt to create a more collaborative and non-competitive performance ecosystem.

In celebration of Queer|Art|Mentorship’s 15-year anniversary, Queer|Art is bringing together artists, arts workers, scholars, and organizers for a multi-day summit on community practices and the state of queer artistry in times of crisis. Following Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ inquiry “What are the intergenerational and evolutionary ways that we become what we practice?”, the Summit will bring together a polyphonic chorus of queer and trans voices, spanning generations, geographies, and creative lineages, to understand what emerges when we consider the “we” with care, imagination, and collaboration. The Summit will include a 15-year anniversary celebration, awards ceremony, and collectively curated program of panels, presentations, and hands-on workshops.

Queer|Art is a non-profit arts organization serving a diverse and vibrant community of LGBTQ+ artists across generations and disciplines. Queer|Art provides intergenerational mentorship, public programming, and material support to shape culture and drive societal change.

Playing Safe: Queering the Indigenous Performance Archive

Transformed Woman Haudenosaunee artist Aiyyana Maracle wonders in her essay Performance Art and the Native artist: An rEvolutionary Mix?, “As intriguing as this past decade of Native performance art has been to be part of, I’m quite looking forward to the next decade…Know anybody that wants to join up?”

Artists and curators Tania Willard and Dana Claxton—using grunt gallery’s archive and their history of collaboration with the organization as an initial point of inquiry—will curate a new performance by Vance Wright, grunt gallery’s 2026 curatorial fellow.

Considering themes of sacred sexuality, decolonial kink, trust, consent, the lineage of Indigenous performance art, and the body and the land as archive, Wright uses a series of actions, natural materials, oration, and sound, to ground this performance work in Indigenous queer ways of being.

grunt gallery is an artist-run centre, founded in 1984 on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, Canada). grunt gallery has hosted historic festivals and individual presentations of Indigenous performance since the early 90s, many of which were organized by Aiyyana Maracle. The program offers performances, exhibitions, special projects, and public programming with a focus on practices and perspectives that question established values in contemporary art production.