The Hunter College MFA in Dance is for returning professionals seeking to investigate the role of dance in contemporary culture. This community of inquiry meets in the intentional space that each cohort of artists forges together. 

Francesca Dominguez’s The Nearly, Barely, Just unravels the tension between compulsion and control, examining how our bodies become conditioned to constant stimulation and where the line blurs between impulse and agency. 

Maria Angela Talavera-Tejeda’s Por Debajo de la Rodilla (“Below the Knee”) is an immersive dance that examines the body's unspoken language, revealing ancestral memories and the human yearning for salvation, recognition, and forgiveness from a higher power.

The MFA in Dance: Interdisciplinary Research at New York University program provides a laboratory for established artists, makers, and practitioners to reimagine and enact dance through a range of collaborative and self-directed research, from the speculative to the practical. 

In her new solo, SYMPHONY, marion spencer investigates the archive from her lineage and daily life, asking what we hold onto and why in a world of imminent climate catastrophe.

Xin Ying’s Paper Dragon: Five Elements Matrix is an interdisciplinary performance that incorporates movements and sounds into the five-elements-matrix, creating a new ritualistic form for all transplants who are uprooted from where their traditional rituals are rooted.

The 20th Annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, curated by Nicky Paraiso with guest curators Martita Abril, Blaze Ferrer, and Adham Hafez, features works by 20 visionary artists with varied creative practices and approaches to performance. La MaMa Moves! runs April 10 to May 4, 2025, at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre, The Downstairs Theatre, The Club, and Community Arts Space. Performance times vary.