92NY Harkness Dance Center Selects Artists for FUTURE DANCE FESTIVAL 2025

The 92nd Street Y has announced the selected artists for Future Dance Festival 2025, the fourth edition of the popular choreographic festival. This season’s festival includes in person programs on the stage of Buttenwieser Hall at the Arnhold Center on April 11 and 12, and a new online program for dance films, streaming from April 10-20 .

23 artists present their work this season – including one selected for both the film and in person programs – selected from 142 in person and 45 film applicants. Submissions came from across the country and around the world, including dance films from Hong Kong, Taipei and Germany.

“90 years ago, 92NY welcomed and supported artists who had yet to be discovered and whose names were once unknown: Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham, José Limón, Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, and the list goes on. I am elated to bring back The Future Dance Festival, this year with a brand-new dance film component, representing what we’ve always believed in at this organization: that artists who have yet to find a platform to share their work may just be the next great artists in the field of dance,” comments Alison Manning , Co-Executive Director, Harkness Dance Center. “As we celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Harkness Dance Center, we’re proud to showcase 23 talented emerging artists whose work represents the next generation of innovation in dance and dance filmmaking. This festival serves to offer them a valuable platform to connect with the broader dance field and uplift their unique artistic voices.”

LIVE PERFORMANCE CURATION PANEL 

Danni Gee, Director of Programming, The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
Michael Novak, Artistic Director, Paul Taylor Dance Company
Dante Puleio, Artistic Director, Limón Dance Company
Charmaine Warren, Founder/Artistic Director, Black Dance Stories; Producer, DanceAfrica, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director, New York Live Arts and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company

PRELIMINARY LIVE PERFORMANCE CURATION PANEL:

Chelsea Ainsworth, Executive Director, Arts on Site, and Co-Artistic Director, Dual Rivet
Dr. Sean Vitale, Jazz Dancer, Physical Therapist
Elizabeth Yilmaz, Co-founder and Producer, Art Bath NYC

DANCE FILM CURATION PANEL

Shawn Bible, President, Dance on Camera Festival 
Cara Hagan, Associate Professor, The New School
Nadav Heyman, Founder & Artistic Director, dancefilmmaking.com
Linda Schaller, Director of Programming, San Francisco Dance Film Festival

PRELIMINARY DANCE FILM CURATION PANEL:

Tobin Del Cuore, Owner, Producer, and Director, Imagination + Muscle
Nel Shelby, Executive Producer and Founder, Nel Shelby Productions
Mike Tyus, Choreographer, Filmmaker

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Online Dance Film Festival
Available to view from Thursday, April 10 through Sunday, April 20

Kate Harpootlian 
At First Sight

Idy Vandepas
Petrichor

Mamie Green of Volta Collective and Marcos Lutyens 
The Bridge, 2024

Lorris Eichinger 
Intimité Révélée

Tsai Hsi Hung 
JIA-MEI Barber Shop

Gideon Merz 
TEMPEST

Blue Ka Wing 
Peak Hour in the House

Joan Dwiartanto 
Crying On The Island They Own

In-Person Programs
Friday, April 11 at 7 pm and Saturday, April 12 at 2 pm

In-Person Program A: Friday, April 11 at 7 pm

Emily Aslin
Aslin Projects 
Dint

Cristina Camacho 
Good Grief

Omri Drumlevich 
Blisspoint
Far

Bret Easterling
BEMOVING 
TUMAG Epilogue

Margot Gelber            
Only What You Take With You

Seyong Kim 
The Moon Reflected in East Sea

Marianna Koytsan
Neta-Kinetics 
Thermocline

Chachi Perez 
Carne Viva Dance Theatre

In-Person Program B: Saturday, April 12 at 2 pm

Ja'Moon Jones         
I Will Be Better Than OK

Dahyun Kim 
Ah-Molla Dance Collective 
초희|Chohui

Ekko Greenbaum 
behind us, there may be Fire

Assaf Salhov 
Cardinal Movement and Company  
the first day of hunger

Miguel Miranda 
se Va

Julian Sanchez         
Monologue

Idy Vandepas 
The Âme Project 
The Coin Collector