Rotunda Dance: Swing with Danny Jonokuchi and The Revisionists and Gaby Cook, Opening Night Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival

Rotunda Dance: Swing with Danny Jonokuchi & The Revisionists and Gaby Cook, Opening Night Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival

A social dance party opens the first annual Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival, presented in collaboration between uptown neighbors 92NY’s Harkness Dance Center and Works & Process. All are invited to take a Lindy Hop lesson with Gaby Cook, while band leader, trumpeter, vocalist, composer, and arranger Danny Jonokuchi leads his band, The Revisionists, in an evening of music and swing in the Guggenheim’s rotunda!



Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival, a multi-night performance and workshop program, presented in collaboration between uptown neighbors 92NY's Harkness Dance Center, Works & Process at Guggenheim New York, El Barrio's Artspace PS 109, and Museum of the City of New York.

Rotunda Holiday Concert and Social Dance featuring Eyal Vilner Big Band with Jazz as Movement at Works & Process at the Guggenheim, December 5, 2022. Photo: Diego Quintanar

Works & Process at the Guggenheim

Brenda Bufalino and Company on the Mobius Loop with Mingus, Closing Night Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival

Brenda Bufalino & Company on the Möbius Loop with Mingus

Closing Night Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival

Tap dance icon, choreographer, poet, musician, and drummer Brenda Bufalino closes the inaugural Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival. With stories and work spanning a lifetime, Bufalino builds a suite around Charles Mingus’s 

. See a new vignette of her original music 

 with Bufalino on the concertina. Her cast of collaborators include Alice Baum (dancer/vocalist), Tamii Sakuri (dancer), and Dylan Szuch (dancer/violinist) with Ben Rosenblum (accordion/pianist) and Joe Fonda (bassist).



Leadership support for this Works & Process program is provided by Maureen Footer and Stephen Kroll Reidy.



The Metropolitan Opera: John Adam's Antony and Cleopatra

On May 12, 2025, preeminent American composer John Adams returns to the Metropolitan Opera in New York for the company premiere of his latest opera, 

—a glorious adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal drama. Groundbreaking director Elkhanah Pulitzer brings a new production to the Met stage, transporting the story of troubled romance and political strife from ancient Rome to the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s. Ahead of this historic premiere, Met General Manager Peter Gelb moderates a discussion with the creative team, and members of the cast will perform highlights from the score.



Spring 2025 Opera Series made possible by Eugene and Jean Stark.

Vail Dance Festival

Every summer, leading and rising choreographers, composers, companies, dancers, and musicians all come together at the Vail Dance Festival in Colorado. Directed by Damian Woetzel, the festival features a mosaic of offerings, including NOW: Premieres, an evening of new works; an expansive roster of international stars and emerging talents taking on new artistic challenges; and the UpClose series, exploring aspects of dance in a rehearsal style format. The festival also spotlights community initiatives such as Celebrate The Beat, a free dance education program for local children affiliated with the National Dance Institute. Join Woetzel as he moderates a program that blends performance highlights danced by festival artists, with behind-the-scenes insights into what goes into creating the festival each year.



Leadership support for this Works & Process program is provided by Jeff and Susan Campbell.



Roman Mejia and Damian Woetzel at Vail Dance Festival. Photo: Christopher Duggan

Lite Feet with Chrybaby Cozie

RSVPs for this program will open on April 3, 2025.



Join pioneers of Harlem Lite Feet to hear directly from them the stories of how this New York City dance tradition and culture was created and how it has grown. Members of Bomb Squad under the tutelage of Chrybaby Cozie perform highlights.

Dancer: Kid Smoove. Photo: Amanda Adams-Louis

Works & Process at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division

Spoleto Festival - Music From The Sole's I Didn't Come to Stay

Spoleto Festival - Music From The Sole's 

Venue
Emmett Robinson Theatre
54 St Philip St, Charleston, SC 29424

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.



Works & Process on Tour

Jacob's Pillow - Djapo by Marie Basse-Wiles and Omari Wiles

Venue
outdoor Henry J. Leir Stage
358 George Carter Road, Becket MA, 01223

Omari Wiles—a force in New York’s ballroom and dance scenes—joins his mother, Marie Basse-Wiles, a revered figure in African diasporic dance, for 

, a vibrant new work commissioned by Works & Process, bringing together their companies Les Ballet Afrik and Maimouna Keita School of African Dance.

Rooted in the rhythms of Senegal and Mali, this electrifying performance blends traditional West African dance with contemporary African club culture, Afrobeats, and live percussion, shaped through the duo’s intergenerational collaboration. Company dancers come together for an in-process performance of 

, exploring the evolution of movement, music, and community, celebrating the deep ties between past and present while amplifying the visibility of African cultural traditions in today’s global dance landscape.



’s development is supported by Works & Process LaunchPAD residencies at Bethany Arts Community, Watermill Center, Pocantico Center, and Prior Performing Arts Center at the College of the Holy Cross. Music commission made possible by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation. Additional support provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.

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

Venue
Venetian Theater
149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536

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

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