The Outlet Dance Project

10/06/2023

***IMPORTANT*** Due to rain tomorrow, our annual Day of Dance will now happen on Sunday, October 8th. 12pm & 2:30pm.

Our annual Day of Dance is an accessible, family-friendly program, featuring outdoor performances throughout the park. The festival’s theme this year is “Story.” Inspired by Ground For Sculpture’s collection, remarkable choreographers have created new, site-specific dance works that explore ...

10/05/2023

If there is ever a reason to go to a it should be for this . We are so pleased to host Tanin Torabi and her important work again on Oct. 5th, 7pm EST at in Hamilton, NJ (link in BIO for tix).torabi has been described as rebellious and empowering to women amongst many honors and accolades in the .
“We walk. We run. We fall. We hug those who we love and then we run again. We walk together until the walls move.” 

10/04/2023

Come by 6:45pm to The Outlet Dance Project Dance on this Thursday, Oct. 5 at and you'll get first dibs at seating in the comfy couches AND you'll be immersed in Social Fabric, in the public square, a video multi-screen installation by Andrea Cote  and Ann Robideaux  with original sound score by . See link in BIO for tickets.   
Originally created as a event , this , explores how we embody personal and communal movement languages, through containment and connection in domestic and public spheres. The artists invited both and recreational movers to move inside six-foot square sheets delineated with geometric forms and cosmological patterns. As we occupy this present liminal zone, the artists create a place for visitors to inhabit that is at once intimate and communal.
 

10/04/2023

A grand finale to The Outlet Dance Project 2023! You won't want to miss it. Screening live and in person Thursday, Oct. 5 at 7pm. For tickets see LINK in bio.
Et Maintenant (now what?)
Directed by Cécile ROGUE
Written by Julien MEYZINDI .opera and Cécile ROGUE
Performed by Julien MEYZINDI, Dorothée GILBERT
Composed by Pablo PICO
Julien Meyzindi is a "Sujet" dancer at the . He joined at the age of 12. Today, he is 42 years old and must leave, that's the way it is, that's the rule. Halfway between and dance fiction, What Next? is both a look at the 30 years he has spent at the Opera and Julien's choreographic creation to imagine his future. 

10/04/2023

It's the final countdown to The Outlet's upcoming this Thursday. A duet rich in landscape, poetry and dance, you'll wish this would last forever.
Château de Sable (Sand Castle) 
Directed by Zoé Grob
And Mélanie Bokata
Performed by Mélanie Bokata, Allan Cinco Lhoni
A sandcastle or the delicate meeting between two elements. 
A profound necessity of belonging. We push ourselves, using up our resources, striving for any action even if it means to sink and lose control. 

10/04/2023

is one of our festival storytellers?! We are trying to figure out what good good things we have done in previous lives for such sweetness to be true! You will definitely not want to miss the glorious poetry of Gabriel at our Day of Dance on October 7th at 12pm and 2:30 pm. Rain date: Sunday, October 8th at 12 and 2:30pm. At . All info linked in bio.

Gabriel Ramirez is a Q***r Afro-Latinx writer, performer and educator. A 2023 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry at Adroit Journal. Gabriel has received fellowships from Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, CantoMundo, Miami Book Fair, a graduate fellow at The Watering Hole, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. You can find his work in various spaces, including Youtube, and in publications like POETRY Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, Adroit Journal, The Volta,  Split This Rock, BOMB, Acentos Review, Up the Staircase Quarterly and others as well as Bettering American Poetry Anthology (Bettering Books 2017) What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Northwestern University Press 2019) and The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Press 2020).

10/03/2023

A window into history, Plenir (The basket), hails from Italy and is dedicated to all grandmothers and grandfathers. A short gem screening this Thursday at 7pm!
Written, Choreographed and Performed by Daša Grgič .grgic with
Music by Max Jurcev
In collaboration with International dance platform Balkan Dance Project Danceproject Trieste
"What is our cultural-historical-folkloric heritage? What part of the legacy is still alive and how important is it to the community?”

10/03/2023

In the Same Boat is a ❤️ warming story screening this Thursday, Oct. 5th, 7pm at . Link in BIO on how to get your tickets to this one of a kind screening.
Directed by 
Written by Mélanie Bokata and Mervi Junkkonen. Performance by Mélanie Bokata, Allan Cinco Lhoni
A film about the limits of the aging body and the boundless mind. Rauno's story takes us on a boat trip with his father. A journey of misadventures and his father's new Finnish record in cursing.

10/03/2023

We are honored to champion the stories of women and in this captivating and important directed by Shilpika Bordoloi, themes of are explored.
Mau: The Spirit Dreams of Cheraw is a performance from Mizoram, through Cheraw and ritual folklore, revealing the forgotten memory of the story of the mother who dies at childbirth. The film shows a re-imagined dance of the mother spirit. Bamboo Dance was performed as a way to pacify the soul of the mother who died in childbirth. Bamboo is part of the geo-political history of Mizoram and the many other states in the North-east of India. Hence the loss of this intergenerational maternal memory is the crisis of culture, the climate of a place.
Www.shilpikabordoloi.com

10/03/2023

Be Cool is one of our featured selections at this year's . This potent collab between
and composer is a visual gift of storytelling.
A saying, a possibility, a prayer, a necessity. Also, a dance.
The women within us the women we are the women we dreamt about.
A solo full of other bodies, through time, draped in gold.
A solo made with and for on her 60th birthday.
Support these and other local this Thursday and on Saturday at the !