Moving Memory: NEXT GEN

Saturday, April 25, 2026 @ 7:30pm
Broadway Presbyterian Church, New York

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A dance festival devoted to memory and forgetting

Nurturing emerging artistic voices, fostering meaningful creative connections, and creating space for the next generation of artists in our community.

This edition invites you to an evening of dance curated by panelists Rebeccah Bogue (dancer, choreographer, and writer), Risa Kantor (SND board director), and Idea Reid (2025 Next Gen artist), featuring original movement-based works that explore themes of memory, erasure, and forgetting.

Fri-Sat, April 24-25, 2026
7:30 pm
Broadway Presbyterian Church
601 W 114th St, New York, NY 10025

Selected Artists:

Tricia Dietrick*, Zev Haworth,
Miguel Miranda, Chelsea Thedinga,
Tethered Residents (Taylor Graham & Jerimy Rivera),
Omnivore Dance (Maggie Xiao Liang and Yinqi Wang)
* SND commission

PROGRAM

You See Ghosts
Choreography by Zev Haworth
Performed by Steven Camacho and Meena Nehme
Music by Friedrich Abel, Anja Lechner, Nils Frahm

You See Ghosts follows two people as they pass from the physical realm to a place beyond, tracing a relationship shaped by an undercurrent of darkness. The work investigates how memory is refracted through grief and loss. Drawing inspiration from the narrative of the classical ballet Giselle, the piece reveals a world that becomes increasingly intangible yet increasingly potent with truth.

Before the Body Knows
Choreography by Tricia Dietrick
Performed by Dawvyn Winters and Tricia Dietrick
Original Score by Jonah Kreitner

A duet that explores internal forces that invite the body to move. What lies beneath the surface of the body, and where does action originate before movement becomes choreography?

This SND commission is based on a movement score drawing from themes and ideas from past repertory, inviting the performers to move through shifting states of identity, relationship, rhythm, and spatial tension, where transformation and relational presence are central.

Se Va
Choreographed by Miguel Miranda
Performed by Ashley Bromfield, Mizuho Kappa, Danielle Gutt, and Mikaela Morisato
Music: Stereogamous and Nick Wales: Learning Year, and Carminho: Lágrimas do Céu

Se Va explores the tension between holding on and moving forward. Set in a dreamlike liminal space where time feels suspended, the performers navigate the lingering presence of what has already left. A single chair anchors the landscape, a silent witness to what remains and what cannot return.

Here.Now.Close
Choreographed by Chelsea Thedinga
Performed by Meenah Nehme, Bryanna Strickland, Bella Donatelli, Carsyn Gekas, Alex Haad, Sam Assemany, Maya Lam
Music: Bridge Over Troubled Water by Roberta Flack, Arching Path II. Sul Basento

Focused on themes of grief, memory, community, and transformation in the aftermath of loss, Here. Now. Close is an embodied meditation on how presence, rather than closure, fosters connection in the face of profound absence.

HOLDFAST (April 24 only)
Choreographed by Tethered Residents (Jerimy Rivera and Taylor Graham) in collaboration with dancers Dareon Blowe and Carlos Franquiz
Performed by Jerimy Rivera and Quaba Ernest

This excerpt from the evening-length work IMAGES explores how memory lives in the body. Two men move through mirroring, resistance, and shifting weight, where gesture becomes archive and movement becomes memory before patterns begin to fracture. Memory emerges not as nostalgia, but as a nervous system response, as two bodies strive to maintain connection while the ground beneath them shifts.

Amor Fati (April 25 only)
Choreographed and performed by Omnivore Dance (Maggie Xiao Liang and Yinqi Wang)
Music: Singanushiga by Joe Hisaishi

Amor Fati moves through loss, departure, reunion, and love, blending tenderness and violence into a visceral journey of resilience and acceptance.

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Launched in 2019, the Moving Memory Project reflects its founder’s vision of uniting artists, caregivers, and seniors to build a community of care around issues of memory loss. At its core, the project seeks to raise awareness and advocate for increased funding toward research to find a cure. This year’s works were selected by a panel of experts, including Rebeccah Bogue (dancer, choreographer, and writer), Risa Kantor (longtime SND board director), and Idea Reid (2025 Next Gen artist). Before the Body Knows by Tricia Dietrick is SND’s first commission.

“Marking 25 years of SND, this edition of the Moving Memory Project looks both backward and forward. Since its inception, the project has brought together emerging voices alongside established, award-winning choreographers and performers such as Kayla Farrish, Rebecca Margolick, and Marjani Sanders, whose work has pushed the conversation around memory into deeply embodied, urgent territory. Next Gen continues that trajectory with a new cohort of artists, shifting the focus without losing the thread. The question remains the same: how does memory live in the body, and how can performance make that visible, shared, and felt?”
-Stefanie Nelson, AD

The Moving Memory Project is supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the West Harlem Development Corporation.

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Schedule & Tickets

Saturday, April 25, 2026 @ 7:30pm · tickets local_activity · add to calendar today 2026-04-25 19:30:00 2026-04-25 22:30:00 America/New_York Moving Memory: NEXT GEN https://harlemonestop.com/event/34575/moving-memory-next-gen Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 West 114th Street, New York, NY, 10025
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