Fabulous Waacking Festival Fall Edition with Princess Lockerooo

Manhattan West Event Plaza, 385 9th Ave, New York, NY 10001
Free, RSVP encouraged



Gather Round: Street and Club Dance Battles
Wednesdays in September


On the heels of break dancing’s debut at the 2024 Olympics, Works & Process brings its captivating dance and music series originally commissioned and performed in the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda to the Manhattan West Plaza event circle. See top street and club dancers battle for glory and prizes!

Distinguishable by its rotational arm movements, posing and emphasis on expressiveness, Waacking brings together the glitz and glamour of Hollywood films, the vibrant energy of disco, and the colorful underground gay club culture of the ‘70s. Get ready to be blown away in an event organized by Princess Lockerooo, lauded by 

 as the “Queen of Waack,” with high-energy performances, dazzling costumes, and theatrical choreography honoring the roots and influences of Waacking. Top Waackers, go head-to-head in an epic showdown that'll leave you speechless. After the show and battle, get your disco fix, twirl, and let loose—once the winner is crowned, we dance! Dress to impress.

Photo: Sean Chee

Works & Process at Manhattan West

Orcas Center: Ladies of Hip-Hop: Black Dancing Bodies Project: 

On Saturday, September 21st, Woman in the Woods Productions will bring to Orcas Center a performance from Ladies of Hip Hop, entitled “The Black Dancing Bodies Project: Speak My Mind”.

And once again, Woman in the Woods has asked the Steve Alboucq and Oliver Groenewald Quintet to kick off our evening by playing their jazz favorites, while we enjoy some great food. Included in the ticket price of $59.00 will be some tasty bites prepared by “The Kitchen.” The evening will start at 5:00 PM in the Madrona Room, with music and food. Beverages will be available for purchase. Then, at 7:00 PM, we move to the main stage to enjoy the widely acclaimed “Black Dancing Bodies” performance.

Ladies of Hip Hop Festival (LOHHF) is a New York based non-profit which promotes Hip-Hop culture and arts in various ways, including artistic performances. The founder and Executive Director is Michele Byrd-McPhee, who is a recognized expert on Hip-Hop culture. One of her goals is to provide opportunities for women and girls to share their artistry through Hip-Hop culture. Over the past 15 years they have showcased their amazing programming internationally (Toronto and China) and around the US (especially in Los Angeles and New York).

Byrd-McPhee also has a wider goal, of empowering girls and women through Hip-Hop culture and arts. This is consistent with her background as a social worker in Welfare-to-Work programs, transitional housing programs and in rape crisis counseling. But she also has spent decades exploring the cultural roots of Hip-Hop in Black dance, as well as Hip-Hop dance techniques. She educates performers and audiences about the ways in which Black dance has been appropriated into our larger culture, without sufficient recognition to its cultural origin. In 2020 Byrd-McPhee was awarded an Integrated Arts Residency Fellowship grant at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught her course “Hip-Hop, Women and the World”.

Woman in the Woods aims to bring to Orcas first rate performers who are well known nationally within their artistic categories – artists who are exciting and thought provoking. We do this with financial support from supportive donors.

The sponsors who are helping to bring this amazing Dance Collective to Orcas Center are: John and Mariah Dunning, The Lower Tavern, Miriam Ziegler and Tom Baldwin. Get your tickets TODAY!

SpeakMyMind

 was commissioned by Works & Process, developed in Works & Process LaunchPAD residencies at Bethany Arts Community (2022, 2023, and 2024)

 Catskill Mountain Foundation (2022), Office Hours Residency at The Kennedy Center, and Jacob’s Pillow Lab.



 is a 2023 New England Foundation for the Arts’s National Dance Project grantee, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and Mellon Foundation.

Works & Process on Tour

American Ballet Theatre: Crime and Punishment by Helen Pickett

 is a devastatingly modern psychological thriller that provided choreographer Helen Pickett and director James Bonas with a startling source for a ballet. Pickett brings the work to life in a striking new ballet, featuring music by Isobel Waller-Bridge, sets and costumes by Soutra Gilmour, lighting design by Jennifer Tipton, and video design by Tal Yarden. Before the premiere, American Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Susan Jaffe moderates a discussion with members of the cast and creative team including Pickett and Bonas, and excerpts are performed by Cassandra Trenary, Christine Shevchenko, Calvin Royal III, SunMi Park, Joseph Markey, and Ingrid Thoms.



Priority tickets for the fall 2024 performance series will go on sale online at 11 am on Tuesday, July 23, for $500+ Friends of Works & Process and all Guggenheim members at the Global level and above.

General ticketing will open online on Thursday, July 25, at 11 am.

For questions, Friends of Works & Process, please email friends@worksandprocess.org. Guggenheim members, please email membership@guggenheim.org. For general ticketing questions, please email boxoffice@guggenheim.org.

Tickets are available for purchase online only.

House seats may be available for $1,000+ Friends of Works & Process. To purchase house seats, email friends@worksandprocess.org.

House seats may be released to the public before performances.

American Ballet Theatre’s 

 by Helen Pickett. Photo: Courtesy American Ballet Theatre

Works & Process at the Guggenheim

with LaTasha Barnes, Sekou Heru, Aidan Gibney, Jared Harbour, and Ellen Ling

 includes admission to the Rotunda Dance Party at 8 pm with the Ladies of Hip-Hop, in partnership with Guggenheim Member Mondays.

a documentary investigating the intersection of Street Dance culture and governmental policies in New York City. Whether it was Lindy Hop in the 1920s or House in the 1980s, Street Dance has remained a ritual for Black communities despite its threatened survival. By diving into New York City’s past and present, this film unveils the turbulent evolution of Street Dance into the cultural behemoth it is today. Through interviews with practitioners, clubheads, and policymakers, learn firsthand of the club era at its height and the destruction that the New York City government set in motion. 

is a story of ingenuity, culture, erasure, and, most of all, resilience. See a preview of the documentary, and members of the creative team, including LaTasha Barnes, Sekou Heru, Aidan Gibney, Jared Harbour, and Ellen Ling, will participate in a moderated discussion.



Priority tickets for the fall 2024 performance series will go on sale online at 11 am on Tuesday, July 23, for $500+ Friends of Works & Process and all Guggenheim members at the Global level and above.

General ticketing will open online on Thursday, July 25, at 11 am.

For questions, Friends of Works & Process, please email friends@worksandprocess.org. Guggenheim members, please email membership@guggenheim.org. For general ticketing questions, please email boxoffice@guggenheim.org.

Tickets are available for purchase online only.

House seats may be available for $1,000+ Friends of Works & Process. To purchase house seats, email friends@worksandprocess.org.

House seats may be released to the public before performances.

Sekou Heru in 

Jump into the cypher with the Ladies of Hip-Hop (LOHH), an all-female intergenerational dance collective that creates dance works illuminating the strength, power, and diversity of women in hip-hop. LOHH interweaves the embodied experiences of women, creating a communal fabric that paints a picture of a more global women experience. In conjunction with the Guggenheim’s Member Mondays and presented by Works & Process, the evening will be hosted by MC and LOHH member Alora Tonielle, and the Ladies of Hip-Hop will bring the party to the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda!



Priority tickets for the fall 2024 performance series will go on sale online at 11 am on Tuesday, July 23, for $500+ Friends of Works & Process and all Guggenheim members at the Global level and above.

General ticketing will open online on Thursday, July 25, at 11 am.

For questions, Friends of Works & Process, please email friends@worksandprocess.org. Guggenheim members, please email membership@guggenheim.org. For general ticketing questions, please email boxoffice@guggenheim.org.

Tickets are available for purchase online only.

House seats may be available for $1,000+ Friends of Works & Process. To purchase house seats, email friends@worksandprocess.org.

House seats may be released to the public before performances.

World premiere of 

, co-commissioned by Works & Process and Bethany Arts Community, March 27, 2022. Photo: Titus Ogilvie-Laing, courtesy Works & Process

Manhattan West Beatbox Battle with The Beatbox House

On the heels of break dancing’s debut at the 2024 Olympics, Works & Process brings its captivating dance and music series originally commissioned and performed in the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda to the Manhattan West Plaza event circle. See top street and club dancers battle for glory and prizes!

See NYC’s top beatboxers go head-to-head with their newest material in advance of the 2024 USA Beatbox Championships in Pittsburgh! The Beatbox House’s monthly battle arrives at Manhattan West on the heels of the music group’s world-spanning tour with the US State Department’s 

 program. Kenny Urban, Gene Shinozaki, Neil Meadows (aka NaPoM), Amit Bhowmick, and Chris Celiz make up The Beatbox House, a collective that perfected their craft while living together in Brooklyn. From 2015-2018, they traveled to Europe and won the Grand Beatbox title, bringing beatbox glory back to NYC where it all started. (Fact: beatboxing started in the Bronx!)

Photo: Sean Chee

Catskill Mountain Foundation - Martha Graham Dance Company: Baye & Asa

Location
The Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street Tannersville, NY 12485

Taking advantage of the Orpheum’s new technical upgrades, the world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company will spend the week in a Works & Process LaunchPAD tech-residency putting the finishing touches on a new commission by Baye & Asa. See the culmination of this process and join in on this first look.



This performance is presented in partnership with Works & Process.



Martha Graham Dance Company in Baye & Asa’s 

Works & Process LaunchPAD

Pitt Bradford - The Missing Element featuring The Beatbox House

Bromeley Family Theater, Blaisdell Hall
300 Campus Dr, Bradford, PA 16701

 fuses together awe-inspiring street dancers from Krump, FlexN and Breaking communities with the virtuosic music-making of The Beatbox House. This work explores the universal elements of Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Space. Commissioned by Works & Process, 

 is an immersive experience where street dancers and beatboxers use their abilities to embark on an adventure of sound and dance. Their mission is to work together to find 

.

All music and sound are 100% human-generated.



 was commissioned by Works & Process and has been developed in Works & Process Bubble and LaunchPAD residencies at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (2020 and 2021), made possible in part through the generous support of the Mellon Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable, and Catskill Mountain Foundation (2023). Past performances have taken place at the Guggenheim Museum, Guild Hall, Jacob’s Pillow Gala, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Little Island, NY PopsUp with Amy Schumer, and very recently at the Guggenheim Bilbao’s 25th Anniversary. The project started its life in renowned Brooklyn nightclub House of Yes.



Kaatsbaan - New Works Bill: Limon Dance Company, Boca Tuya, and Music From The Sole

Kaatsbaan - New Works Bill: Limón Dance Company, Boca Tuya, and Music From The Sole

Join a mixed bill of dance performances built during residencies at Kaatsbaan, which highlights Kaatsbaan’s dual role as incubator and presenter. Limón Dance Company previews a performance of a new creation by Bessie Awardee Kayla Farrish that examines two thematically aligned works by José Limón. 

 (1951) is a representation of collective work and unity, and 

 (1952) is an awakening of consciousness. Farrish, who has roots as an African American woman from the south, connects the work to the displacement of colored bodies and a continuous seeking for identity and community—themes Limón explored over 70 years ago.

Boca Tuya performs 

, a shapeshifting duet developed at Kaatsbaan in 2023. Boca Tuya is led by queer Puertorriqueño choreographer and director Omar Román De Jesús. He describes this piece as “a beacon of defiance, encouraging everyone to embrace their uniqueness and challenge the boundaries that confine them.” The rhythmic complexity and daring physicality invite us to explore the mysterious landscapes of desire, identity, and aspiration. Omar was the inaugural Baryshnikov Arts Fellow at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, a 2023 

 Harkness Promise Awardee, and a 2022 Princess Grace Award Winner in Choreography.

The program also features a performance by Music From The Sole, including material from a new work-in-development that explores the profound link between tap dance, Afro-Brazilian, and house music. The work is being created by 10 dancers and musicians in an intertwined process, demonstrating the movement and music of tap. Company dancers perform with their trademark embrace of tap’s Afro-diasporic roots and connection to various forms of music, such as jazz, funk, soul, house, samba, and hip-hop. Support for Music From The Sole provided by Works & Process LaunchPAD.

Commissioned by Works & Process, this work has been developed in a Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (2024) and an upcoming residency in January 2025 at Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence.

This new work is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Works & Process, the Joyce Theater Foundation, The Yard, Guild Hall, Dance Place, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and NPN. More information: npnweb.org. Additional support was provided by the Harkness Dance Foundation, a 2023 Alan M. Kriegsman Creative Residency at Dance Place, and as 2023 William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence at Guild Hall.

Gregory Richardson and Leonardo Sandoval of Music From The Sole. Photo: SaulZ

See highlights from a Martha Graham Dance Company commissioned expansion of choreographers Baye & Asa’s 

, in which the ferryman for the underworld, Charon, foreshadows the fall of Troy, Baye & Asa’s work asks, “Who is the ferryman for the fall of the American Empire?” This evening culminates a weeklong Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at the Catskill Mountain Foundation, and Baye and Asa will participate in a moderated discussion with artistic director Janet Eilber. Martha Graham Dance Company members will perform excerpts prior to the work’s premiere.



Priority tickets for the fall 2024 performance series will go on sale online at 11 am on Tuesday, July 23, for $500+ Friends of Works & Process and all Guggenheim members at the Global level and above.

General ticketing will open online on Thursday, July 25, at 11 am.

For questions, Friends of Works & Process, please email friends@worksandprocess.org. Guggenheim members, please email membership@guggenheim.org. For general ticketing questions, please email boxoffice@guggenheim.org.

Tickets are available for purchase online only.

House seats may be available for $1,000+ Friends of Works & Process. To purchase house seats, email friends@worksandprocess.org.

House seats may be released to the public before performances.

Martha Graham Dance Company in Baye & Asa’s 

Works & Process Commission Preview: Music From The Sole

Blurring the line between concert, dance, and music performance, Music From The Sole is a tap dance and live music company that celebrates tap’s roots in the African diaspora. Led by Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and composer and bassist Gregory Richardson, Music From The Sole draws from Afro-Brazilian, jazz, soul, house, rock, and Afro-Cuban styles. See a preview of a new Works & Process commission that culminates a weeklong Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park.

Commissioned by Works & Process, this work has been developed in a Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (2024) and an upcoming residency in January 2025 at Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence.

This new work is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Works & Process, the Joyce Theater Foundation, The Yard, Guild Hall, Dance Place, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and NPN. More information: npnweb.org. Additional support was provided by the Harkness Dance Foundation, a 2023 Alan M. Kriegsman Creative Residency at Dance Place, and as 2023 William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence at Guild Hall.



Priority tickets for the fall 2024 performance series will go on sale online at 11 am on Tuesday, July 23, for $500+ Friends of Works & Process and all Guggenheim members at the Global level and above.

General ticketing will open online on Thursday, July 25, at 11 am.

For questions, Friends of Works & Process, please email friends@worksandprocess.org. Guggenheim members, please email membership@guggenheim.org. For general ticketing questions, please email boxoffice@guggenheim.org.

Tickets are available for purchase online only.

House seats may be available for $1,000+ Friends of Works & Process. To purchase house seats, email friends@worksandprocess.org.

House seats may be released to the public before performances.

Gregory Richardson and Leonardo Sandoval of Music From The Sole. Photo: SaulZ

MASS MoCA - Music From The Sole's I Didn't Come to Stay

Tap, percussive dance, samba, house, and original live music come together in 

, an evening-length work from New York City-based Music From The Sole. Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and bassist/composer Gregory Richardson lead eight dancers and a five-piece band in a performance that explores tap’s lineage and connections to other Afro-Diasporic forms. Conceived as a Carnival fever dream, 

 embraces shared roots across the diaspora to reflect on what shapes their cultural and artistic identity, and celebrates the joy, depth, and virtuosity of Black dance and music.



was created with the support of a summer 2020 Works & Process bubble residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park. This culminated in preview performances that were among the first outdoor performances permitted by New York State. 

 was featured in a Works & Process at Lincoln Center video performance and received a Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” residency at Catskill Mountain Foundation (2022), with additional residency support by The Yard, Jacob’s Pillow, and Chelsea Factory. 

 is a National Dance Project Production Grantee.



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