Name: At the Altar
Start: 2025-12-20T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-20T18:00:00-05:00
Location: The Arts Center at Governors Island (Building 110)

At the Altar is Baye & Asa’s new evening-length duet and an exploration of cultural, religious, and political deities.
About this Event

Who/what do we worship? How do we worship? Who are the righteous? Who are the blasphemers? At the Altar reckons with the pitfalls of extreme idolatry and interrogates our collective struggle for survival and salvation.

About Baye & Asa

Baye & Asa is a company creating movement art projects directed & choreographed by Amadi ‘Baye’ Washington & Sam ‘Asa’ Pratt. They’ve presented their work at The Joyce Theater, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, Pioneer Works, Guggenheim Works & Process, The American Dance Festival, and more. They were one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" in 2022, and were recipients of Dance Magazine's 2023 Harkness Promise Award. They’ve created works for repertory companies including The Martha Graham Dance Company, BODYTRAFFIC, and Alvin Ailey II.

Commissioned and development support provided by The Democracy Cycle, a program of Perelman Performing Arts Center | PAC NYC and Civis Foundation. At the Altar is co-commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works. At the Altar is also made possible through generous support from Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York State Council on the Arts, and Jody and John Arnhold.