New Victory Dance 2020 See and experience New York City’s most exciting dance companies with seven pre-recorded video chapters featuring performances and at-home activities guided by Teaching Artists. Each 20-25 minute chapter is audio-described, sign-interpreted and captioned for viewer accessibility. Since 2014, this hallmark New Victory program has provided free dance performances and free arts education workshops to more than 4,000 students a year from NYC Department of Education summer school enrichment programs, subsidized day camps and social service agencies. Learn more about Summer Education Partnerships and how you can get involved. Do a Lot of Dance Sign up to receive New Victory Dance emails and Artist Talk-Backs! Sign up Keerati JinakunwiphatGood Island (Excerpt)For everyone 8 and up In Good Island, a group of powerful men explore the limits of rambunctiousness, sensitivity and competition. Choreographer Keerati Jinakunwiphat harnesses the raw energy of her dancers to tell a story of high physicality and human connection. Find out more Ballet NepantlaCoco (Excerpt from Sin Fronteras)For everyone 8 and up In Coco, Ballet Nepantla blends the two cultures of Veracruz together in a thrilling fusion of West African and Mexican folk dance. This celebrated company provokes the audience’s imagination with tales of family, love, struggles and triumphs to celebrate the Latin American community. Find out more Kate Weare CompanySin Salida (Excerpt)For everyone 8 and up Kate Weare upends tango’s traditional gender politics to explore how the partner-based fire of tango and the solitary beauty of contemporary dance can speak to, wrestle with and, ultimately, embrace each other in Sin Salida (“No Exit”). Find out more Mozaik DanceSad Hope (Excerpts)For everyone 8 and up The three women of Mozaik Dance use popping mixed with other street styles and contemporary influences to look inward with Sad Hope. Mapping our connection to love, anxiety and the ways we relate to one another, they ask, “How do we deal with emotion in a world that numbs our feelings?” Find out more DormeshiaAnd Still You Must Swing (Excerpts)For everyone 8 and up Hailed “the most moving dance show of the year” by The New York Times, And Still You Must Swing brings together three of the best tap dancers in the world—Dormeshia, who leads the project alongside Derick K. Grant and Jason Samuels Smith—to capture the heart and legacy of tap dance and honor the jazz roots of this American art form. Find out more Jane Comfort and CompanyYou Are Here (Excerpts)For everyone 8 and up Celebrating 40 years of creating electrifying dance theater, Jane Comfort and Company’s You Are Here is an ode to urban dwellers—the millions who improvise movement on the city’s stage of busy sidewalks and streets. Find out more IMGE DanceIndia 91 and Malamente (Excerpts from Envy)For everyone 8 and up Ego. Judgement. Jealousy. In these excerpts from Envy—India 91 and Malamente—IMGE Dance uses rhythmic footwork, world music and storytelling to explore the darker side of human nature. Intertwining mudras (Indian hand gestures), footwork and powerful body language, the company forms a global language that examines different narratives from our cultural history using dancers from diverse perspectives. Find out more New Victory Dance Supporters New Victory Dance is supported, in part, by a generous grant from the Blavatnik Family Foundation in honor of Dawdie Appelson, a teacher, arts enthusiast and life-long supporter of the performing arts. Jody and John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation | Howard Gilman Foundation | Harkness Foundation for Dance | Mertz Gilmore Foundation | public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council | the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature | The Jerome Robbins Foundation Explore More New Victory Arts Break Explore the arts at home with free activities for kids to incorporate performing arts into their online learning Family Activities At-home activities inspired by our past productions School Tool Resource Guides Comprehensive materials that explore the artistry and key themes of each production. Photos: Keerati Jinakunwiphat by Jill Hobbs; Ballet Nepantla by Manuel Aleman; Kate Weare Company by Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang; Mozaik Dance by Cein Lockefeller; Dormeshia by Eduardo Patino; Jane Comfort and Company by Robert Altman; IMGE Dance by Ishita Mili