Dance
Join us for two unique dance performances in 2025!
Immerse yourself in entertaining music & dance performances at the David A. DeWire Center, providing a platform for emerging and accomplished artists to present their work with maximum creative freedom.
Brain/Food: Invitation to the Dance
Invitation to the Dance. James Sutton, choreographer and NYU Professor of the Arts offers a lecture/performance on "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Dance (and Ballet) but Were Afraid to Ask." Jim has much to discuss as dance is a universal expression, a vital physical embodiment of human spirit.
Movement, Music, and Methods – New York Theatre Ballet
Movement, Music, and Methods: A Lecture/Demonstration/Performance with the Artistic Director, Dancers, and Music Director of New York Theatre Ballet on the process of Dance Performance and Collaboration.
New York Theatre Ballet & Philadelphia Dance Theatre
The young dancers of the Philadelphia Dance Theatre share the evening with the seasoned professionals of New York Theatre Ballet in a performance of works from the modern dance and ballet repertoire featuring live music and tailored especially for the intimacy of the DeWire Center.
Brain/Food: Lift, A Journey from Homelessness to the Ballet Stage
Thursday, July 25 . BrainFood. 7 PM . Film/ Discussion. Documentary, Lift, A Journey from Homelessness to the Ballet Stage (2022). Steven Melendez, the artistic director of the New York Theatre Ballet, will be present to discuss his part in this amazing story about ballet students recruited from NYC homeless shelters. Steven was one of…
New York Theatre Ballet
Friday, July 26. 8 PM. Performance by New York Theatre Ballet Dancers from the New York Theatre Ballet return for a second year to perform small classic masterpieces and new contemporary works specially tailored for the intimacy of the DeWire Center. For more about our dancers and the mission of this remarkable organization see nytb.org.…
Casual Fifth Taiko Drumming plus Q&A
Taiko drums have been part of Japanese folk music/dance, theater and religious ceremonies for centuries. The form of playing the drums as an ensemble (“kumidaiko”) with attention to choreography originated in the 1960s drawing from folk music, Kabuki and Noh theater and jazz influences and is now popular around the globe. Casual Fifth is a…
Sonder Space – with Q & A
The Sonder Space is a visual and performing arts project providing a platform for emerging and accomplished artists to present their work with maximum creative freedom. "Sonder" is defined as "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." With this in mind, the group aims to…