gaudanse will offer a performance of Imani Gaudin’s new york, please at New Dance Alliance’s upcoming 40th annual Performance Mix Festival on June 7, 2026 at 12PM at Abrons Arts Center in the Underground Theater, 466 Grand St, New York, NY 10002. Tickets are $16.60 and can be purchased at https://newdancealliance.org/performance-mix-festival/.
new york, please is an exhaustive, blackly humorous plea for comfort, success, and relief from a city that feels like a bad habit that refuses to be quit.
gaudanse was selected from a pool of artists to show work for the 40th anniversary of the festival, which will bring together some of the most compelling contemporary voices in experimental dance.
Imani Gaudin is an interdisciplinary dance and performing artist. She is the founder and artistic director of gaudanse, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding accessibility, sustainability, and wellness-based arts practices for underserved communities of performing artists. As a performer, she currently is a movement artist with Shamel Pitts’s TRIBE. Her work has been commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts, Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance, and Churchtown Dairy. Additionally, her work has received support from the New York State Council on the Arts, National Performance Network, and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. Imani has been a resident artist at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, New Dance Alliance, Baryshnikov Arts, and Pepatián in partnership with BAAD!. In 2025, she was named a Gambit 40 under 40 Honoree, premiered her first self-produced evening length work nanibu (an interdisciplinary dance-based play), and made her international debut with her work mamihlapinatapai, in Paris, France.
gaudanse (Gaudanse Inc.), is an interdisciplinary dance production organization. This collective of multidisciplinary movement artists, founded by Imani Gaudin in June of 2020, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is rooted between New York, NY and New Orleans, LA. Weaving together elements of dance, performance art, music, film, culinary arts, and visual arts, gaudanse builds immersive, whimsical worlds of fantasies that provoke thought and transport audiences into new dimensions of imagination. Through accessible programs, mentorship, workshops, and performances, the collective is committed to propelling the artistic growth of early career creators.
For more info: www.gaudanse.org. @gau.danse @imani.gaudin.
Work supported by: New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund.
gaudanse acknowledges and honors that we live and function on the land of the Munsee Lenape, Canarsie, Wappinger, Houma, and Choctaw peoples.
About Performance Mix Festival
For 40 years, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival has offered diverse emerging and mid-career artists an opportunity to share work with audiences in Manhattan. Annually, it offers this jam-packed program of local, national, and international artists with the direct aim of supporting the development of experimental works with the public. The original Performance Mix Festival in 1986 was groundbreaking in that it was the only festival at that time exclusively dedicated to performance art in Lower Manhattan. Its continued success is testimony to its vital necessity in New York’s cultural community.
About New Dance Alliance
Incorporated in 1989, New Dance Alliance (NDA) is a performing arts nonprofit. Its mission, from the earliest days, has been to support emerging experimental movement-based artists. NDA has made an explicit commitment to equity and inclusion by creating programs that center the work of artists from historically marginalized communities of color, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities. NDA provides space, residencies, performance, and networking opportunities that help artists cultivate relationships, develop their artistry, and open doors to share their work in the US and internationally. NDA’s programs are: Performance Mix Festival, Black Artists Space to Create, LiftOff Residency, Satellite, Work Session, and Karen Bernard Projects. These programs support the work of more than 100 experimental artists and 2,500 audience members each year. https://newdancealliance.org
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Event Venue
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St, New York, NY 10002, United States
