Photo by Christopher Wormald

Elliot Reed: Profanity Only Upsets The Living

Thursday, October 2 | 7:30PM
Friday, October 3 | 7:30PM
Saturday, October 4 | 7:30PM

Elliot Reed (he/they) is a director, performer, and visual artist whose art starts from the body, making a choreographic language through objects, installation, and sound. They have previously shown work-in-development in Danspace’s DraftWork series.

Performed by Nadira Foster-Williams, Reed’s new commission Profanity Only Upsets The Living is a world-premiere solo that celebrates the gift of mourning—the universal yet profoundly isolating experience. Reed writes, “No word will take us there but I’m willing to try.”

Accessibility: American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided on Thursday, October 2nd.

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Elliot Reed is an artist, based in New York working across video, dance, performance, and sculpture. He received his MA in Choreography from Master EXERCE ICI-CCN in Montpellier, France, and is a member of The Whitney Museum ISP 23-24 cohort.

Elliot is a 2019 danceWEB scholar, 2019–20 Artist in Residence at the prestigious Studio Museum in Harlem and part of the museum’s permanent collection. Reed was also the recipient of the 2019 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Recent gallery and museum exhibitions include Kinshasa Glarus, Lucerne Festival with JACK Quartet, Metro Pictures, MoMA PS1, OCD Chinatown, The Getty Center, Hammer Museum, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, The Broad, and performances in Tokyo, Osaka, London, Mexico City, Vienna, and Hamburg.

Photo by Stefan Pavlovic

Symara Sarai: The LOVE piece

Thursday, October 16 | 7:30PM
Friday, October 17 | 7:30PM
Saturday, October 18 | 7:30PM

Open Dress Rehearsal*
Tuesday, October 14 | 7:30PM

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Named Dance Magazines’ 2025 “Top 25 to Watch” and a 2023 Bessie Winner for Breakout Choreographer, Symara Sarai (she/they) has immersed herself in interdisciplinary and choreographic studies globally with deep recognition. They have previously shown work-in-development in Danspace’s DraftWork series and performed their solo I want it to rain inside as part of Live Artery 2025.

In a new evening length solo this fall, Sarai is engaging in a love study; exploring ideas around romantic love, first love, and self love.

Accessibility: American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided on Thursday, October 16th by ASL Artist Brandon Kazen-Maddox in collaboration with SignNexus.

*About Open Dress Rehearsal: Tuesday evening’s dress rehearsal will be free with RSVP and open to the public at limited-capacity. Open dress rehearsals are a mask-required, community-minded program prioritizing our immunocompromised and low-income audiences. Staff and audiences will be required to wear masks (N95 or KN95) and performing artists (if unmasked) will be required to test for COVID-19 (rapid tests provided by Danspace Project). This is a first-come-first-served event. Danspace will not hold late seating or a waitlist during Open Dress Rehearsals. Thank you for your understanding.

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Tickets

$10 Members
$20 Regular Price
$30 A little extra
$40 A little more!
$50 Celebrating 50 years!
$100 Here’s to the next 50!

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Before you visit:

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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, and a recipient of the Dai Ailian Foundation Scholarship based in Trinidad and Tobago, she is known to be a courageously committed performer and maker. Sarai is a 2019 graduate of SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Dance Program and a 2015 graduate of the Beijing Dance Academy. They are currently a 24-26 Movement Research Artist in Residence and a 24-26 Abrons Arts Center Performance AIRspace Resident. They have presented work at New York Live Arts, The Clarice at UMD, The LGBT Center in NY, Judson Church, BAAD, Kestrels, and other venues throughout the United States, China, and Germany. She is currently an Urban Bush Women company member. She 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.

Photo of Annie MingHao Wang by Yuan Liu | Photo of Dorchel Haqq by Steven Pisano

DraftWork: Annie MingHao Wang + Dorchel Haqq

Saturday, October 25 | 3PM

Curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones, Danspace Project’s DraftWork series hosts free, informal showings of new works in varying stages of development. This afternoon features performances by Annie MingHaoWang and Dorchel Haqq.

Showings are followed by a reception, conversation, and Q&A between the artists.

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Annie MingHao Wang (she/they) is a choreographer/dancer based in New York. They are a 2025 Fellow of the Bogliasco Center and have held residencies at Movement Research, Topaz Arts, Marble House Project. Leimay Foundation, BRIC, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Their work has been awarded grants by LMCC (Manhattan Arts Grant) and Brooklyn Arts Council and been presented by Pioneers Go East at the 2024 Out-FRONT! festival, Movement Research @Judson, Leimay’s OUTSIGHT series, BRIC, Five Myles, and the Exponential Festival. Annie currently dances for Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Maho Ogawa’s 水素co., Huiwang Zhang, Sugar Vendil, and Marie Lloyd Paspé.

Raised in Harlem, Dorchel Haqq began her journey embodying history at LaRocque Bey School of Dance Theatre and the Dance Theater of Harlem. She studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and received her BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY. While at Purchase, she studied abroad at the Korea National School of Arts and at B12 in Berlin, which broadened her perspective in her field. These following organizations have supported Dorchel in find herself again and again through singular and collaborative investigations: Springboard Danse and the Springboard Danse curated Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Founder’s Residency (inaugural resident), Gallim Moving Artist(inaugural resident), Leimay Incubator AIR 2021, Center for Performance Research AIR 2024, Baryshnikov Arts Center AIR 2024, Triskelion Arts 2019+2026, Beyond the Black Box 2021+2023, Black Aesthetics Judson Commons 2024, MADE BY WOMAN Festival 2023, Estrogenius Festival 2025, Arts On Site 2019+2021, ART CAKE 2021, Movement Research Van Lier Arist of Color Fellow 2025, DraftWork by Danspace Project 2025, Battery Dance Festival 2020+2025, FRESH TRACKS NYLA 2025/2026, City Artist Corps Grant 2021, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant 2024.

Dorchel has performed in works by AIM by Kyle Abraham, Kayla Farrish, Loni Landon, Vanessa Goodman, Maya Lee-Parritz, Stefanie Batten Bland, Johannes Wieland, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Shanghai, and Emursive’s Life and Trust. Dorchel is in her first season with David Dorfman Dance. She is an adjunct lecturer at Purchase College, where her work has also been commissioned. Through her Movement Research Van Lier Artist of Color Fellowship, she is mentored by Nora Chipaumire.

Dorchel is a world builder who creates work with attention to intention. Her practice is physical theater with the emphasis on black futurism. Her work serves as a vessel through which she and her collaborators navigate the complexities of identity and existence, often drawing inspiration from narratives embedded within both personal experiences and broader societal contexts, and always centered in community. As a Reiki practitioner, Dorchel’s process shapes memories to create stories that explore time, space, and form within the nervous system. Dorchel cultivates her movement language by exploring the reflections of fantasy while abstracting the echoes of transgenerational trauma through her body.

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