New Dance Alliance (NDA) is pleased to announce the resident artists for the 2024-2025 LiftOff Residency program.

Now in its 11th year, NDA’s LiftOff Residency provides six movement-based artists with a minimum of 36 hours of rehearsal space at NDA’s studio in Tribeca, a $500 stipend, and two in-person feedback sessions. Facilitated by NDA Executive Director Karen Bernard, feedback sessions are designed for artists to share their creative process and project development and participate in a community exchange.

The Fall 2024 LiftOff Resident Artists are Makayla Peterson | Monét Movement Productions: The Collective, Cristina Moya-Palacios, and Emily Kyoto Shari.

The Winter 2025 LiftOff Resident Artists are Imani Gaudin, Morgan Gregory, and Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa / binbinFactory.

About New Dance Alliance
New Dance Alliance (NDA) is a performing arts nonprofit. Its mission from the earliest days has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, NDA has shifted its focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and inclusion creating programs centering the work of artists from historically marginalized communities. 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 legacy of services to artists and audiences began four decades ago when Karen Bernard opened up her Tribeca loft as a low-cost rehearsal space. From those first moments, its programs have grown organically and in direct response to artists and audiences. Today, NDA’s goals remain deeply rooted in those founding principles and have expanded in response to current artistic challenges and goals. NDA’s programming fosters artists and audiences through annual events, retreats, educational panels, and performances.

NDA invites artists to apply for the LiftOff Residency through an Open Call. Residency artists are selected by a panel of artists, including past LiftOff recipients. The 2024-2025 panel included Justin Cabrillos, Tal Halevi, Kashia Kancey, Joy Norton, Kimiko Tanabe, and Yolette Yellow-Duke.