Holland Andrews returns to PSNY with their collaborator, yuniya edi kwon, in preparation for a performance of How does it feel to look at nothing, an opera co-created and co-directed by the artists, exploring on the forces and conditions that compel life’s emergence and the meanings we make within periods of decay.
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Developmental Residency
Movement artist, Symara Sarai, will continue their developmental residency ahead of an upcoming U.S. premiere at Performance Space New York.
This performance will examine their experiences of love as they are formed through risk, trust, memory, and cultural inheritance. Drawing from lived encounters and personal histories, their research considers how intimacy can manifest in unconventional, high-stakes, and spiritually resonant forms through dance, live action, and visual documentation. Their work reflects on love as a series of embodied negotiations shaped by vulnerability, autonomy, and relational exchange.
Symara Sarai, a Portland, Oregon native currently residing in Brooklyn, has immersed herself in interdisciplinary and choreographic studies globally with deep recognition. Named Dance Magazines’ 2025 “Top 25 to Watch,” a 2023 Bessie Winner for Breakout Choreographer/2025 Bessie nominee for Outstanding Performer, and a recipient of the Dai Ailian Foundation Scholarship based in Trinidad and Tobago, the New York Times stated that she is known to be a courageously committed performer and maker. The Dai Ailian Foundation scholarship led her to Beijing, China where she spent two years gaining an associate degree in modern choreography at the Beijing Dance Academy. Sarai is a 2019 graduate of SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Dance Program. She is currently a featured artist in Greater New York and was recently a BOFFO 2025 commissioned artist, a 24-26 Movement Research Artist in Residence and a 24-26 Abrons Arts Center Performance AIRspace Resident. In the past she notably did Mercury Store, Gibney 6.2 Work Up, Gallim’s 2022 Moving Artist’s Residency, BAX’s Fall 2022 Space Grant Program, Center for Performance Research’s 2022 AIR Program, New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks 23/24 and Bearnstow’s Resident Artist program. Their work as a performer and maker has been reviewed and featured in the NY Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Culture Bot, Dance Enthusiast, Fjord, as well as promoted through Forbes. She has had multiple film works commissioned by Berlin-based choreographer Christoph Winkler. They have presented work at New York Live Arts, The Clarice at UMD, The LGBT Center in NY, Joes Pub, Judson Church, BAAD, Kestrels, and other venues throughout the United States, China, and Germany. She was an Urban Bush Women company member for 3 years and has also notably worked with Jasmine Hearn, Ogemdi Ude, Pioneers Go East Collective, Kevin Wynn, Joanna Kotze, Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett, and Slowdanger, among others.
WIP Feedback Front: The Con
Open Movement‘s WIP Feedback Front, a showcase of works in progress from artists, many of whom are part of the Open Movement community. Artists present their projects in a casual, supportive atmosphere to get feedback while the works are still being developed. Audience members are invited to share their responses anonymously, creating open exchange between creators and observers.
“The Con is a dance theater work for three performers that tests the edges and horizons of performance. Catalyzed by my improvisational sensibilities, this piece brings together scenes from a wide range of film and theater texts, my own writing, as well as choreography that references and unravels archetypal embodiment from different performance eras. “The Con” deepens a slippery agility I’ve cultivated in my practice, moving between a breadth of performance conventions to challenge ideas of authority, virtuosity, and moral compass. My guiding questions explore the myriad stylizations of “authenticity” and “goodness” expressed through theatrical embodiment. How are different gestures, characters, and speech exalted or exiled across dance, film, and theater – what scripts and scales of behavior do those conventions embed in our culture? With disloyalty to any one system of belief, “The Con” makes its own logic from a constant undermining and unraveling, favoring the unexpected over the virtuosic or good.” – Tess Dworman
Open Movement is curated and organized by Monica Mirabile.
RAIN FADE
Dweller 6 Opening Night: RAIN FADE
Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, Abdu Ali & SCRAAATCH
Sweater on Polo
DJ set: Telfar