Danspace Project Gala 2026
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
HONORING REBEL ANGELS
Phong Bui Portraitist, writer, curator, and vanguard of New York City artistic life through the Brooklyn Rail and beyond.
Anne Delaney Artist, philanthropist, and social activist fiercely committed to artistic and cultural expression
Charmaine Warren Performer, historian, producer, and writer radically championing Black Dance Stories nationwide
CO-CHAIRS Melissa Levin and Michelle Coffey
HOST Paul Lazar
SPEAKERS Mikki Shepard, Michelle Coffey, and Joan Jonas
PERFORMERS Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, Brass Queens Band, Jasmine Hearn, Henry Threadgill, Kyle Marshall, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born
BENEFIT COMMITTEE (as of March 2026)
There’s still time to join esteemed artists and colleagues on our Benefit Committee, please contact Miranda Brown at miranda@danspaceproject.org for more details.
Kyle Abraham, Marina Abramovic, Bjorn Amelan, Pi-Isis Ankhra, Charles Atlas, Yona Backer*, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, Kevin Beasley, Eve Biddle, Philip Bither, Black Dance Stories, Suzanne Bocanegra*, Linda Brumbach, Barbara Bryan, Antuan Byers, Amy Cassello, Kim Chan, Patricia Cruz, Molly Davies, Quinn Delaney, Maura Ngyuen Donohue, Douglas Dunn**, Kristy Edmunds, Dr. Indira Etwaroo, David Fanger*, Susan Feder, Joan Finkelstein, Simone Forti, Terry Fox, Eleanor Friedman, Boo Froebel, Olga Garay-English, Jon Gilman, Danni Gee, Jilian Cahan Gertsen**, Philip Glass, Molly Gochman, Indira Goodwine, Miguel Guiterrez, Susan Harris, Ishmael Houston-Jones**, Judy Hussie-Taylor*, Bill T. Jones, Nunally Kersh, Tommy Kriegsman, Amy Lamphere, T Lax*, Brad Learmonth, Ralph Lemon**, Melissa Levin*, Babette Mangolte, Kyle Maude, Cynthia Mayeda, Joe Melillo, Bebe Miller**, Rashaun Mitchell*, Meredith Monk, Carol Mullins, Linda Murray, Sarah Needham*, Eiko Otake*, Nicky Paraiso, David Parker*, Yvonne Rainer, Brian Rogers, David Rousseve, Legacy Russell, William Staso, Pat Steir, Elizabeth Streb, Lucy Sexton, Pamela Tatge, Jennifer Tipton, Julie Tolentino, Muna Tseng**, Laurie Uprichard, Helen and Peter Warwick**, Wendy Whelan, Nina Winthrop**, Janet Wong, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Bowie Zunino, and more TBA
*Danspace Board member **Danspace Board Emeriti
Honoring Danspace Project's Rebel Angels
2025: Kevin Beasley, Linda Brumbach, Meredith Monk
2024: Kyle Abraham, Kristy Edmunds, Carol Mullins
2023: Susan Feder, Miguel Guttierez
2022: Georgiana Pickett, Muna Tseng
2021: Bebe Miller, Annie-B Parson, Pat Steir
2019: Simone Forti, Okwui Okpokwasili
2018: Michelle Coffey, Kathy Halbreich, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
2017: Douglas Crimp, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lucy Sexton
2016: Joan Jonas, Yvonne Rainer
2015: Eiko Otake, Wendy Whelan
2014: Steve Paxton, Dia Art Foundation
2013: Charles Atlas, Molly Davies, Babette Mangolte
2012: Ralph Lemon, Joseph V. Melillo
2011: Marina Abramovic
2010: Philip Glass
2009: Elizabeth Streb, Cynthia Mayeda
2008: Laurie Uprichard
2007: Jennifer Tipton
2006: Robert Wilson
2005: Michael M. Kaiser
2004: William Forsythe
2003: Trisha Brown
2002: French Cultural Services (Jean-René Gehan and Fanny Aubert-Malaurie)
2001: Sam Miller
2000: Philip Morris Companies Inc. (Stephanie French and Karen Brosius)
1999: Mikhail Baryshnikov
1998: Judith Jamison
1997: Merce Cunningham
1996: Harvey Lichtenstein
1995: Robert Crane