Cathy Weis Projects will present four Sundays on Broadway events this spring. Co-curated by Cathy Weis and Martita Abril, the evenings will feature new and in-progress works by nine visionary artists.

Founded by choreographer and video artist Cathy Weis in spring 2014, the one-night-only events bring together both luminaries and newcomers of downtown performance, creating a space for artists to present and discuss their work and processes with audiences in the intimate setting of Weis’s SoHo studio. Since its inception, Sundays on Broadway has presented the work of more than 180 choreographers, filmmakers, performers, musicians, and visual artists.

All events begin at 6pm. $5-$20 suggested donation at the door. All donations go to the performers. WeisAcres is located at 537 Broadway, #3 (between Prince and Spring Streets), in Manhattan.

Spring 2025 Schedule

Sunday, April 27

A film by Emily Coates

Invisible Universe is a feature-length experimental documentary and dance film by Emily Coates that chronicles spontaneous collaborations between leading dance artists and scientists encountering each other for the first time within the Wright Laboratory. Part performance, part cinematic essay, the film frames the intimate, sometimes awkward, process of dialoguing across differences, staging choreographic investigation inside a physics laboratory that has been tasked with studying unseen phenomena. The film features choreographers Annie-B Parson, Ni’Ja Whitson, Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Reiner, scientists Richard Prum, David Moore, and Reina Maruyama, and research and development technician Frank Lopez. Directed by Emily Coates. Director of Photography and Editor: John Lucas. Sound Design: Evdoxia Ragkou. US, Run time: 67 minutes. Post-screening discussion moderated by Brent Hayes Edwards.

Sunday, May 11

A film by Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer’s feature-length film Journeys From Berlin/1971 emerged from her yearlong residency in West Berlin during the Baader-Meinhof protests against the continued prominence of Nazi sympathizers in the West German government. The film was completed in 1980. Run time: 125 minutes. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the audience led by Rainer.

Sunday, May 18

Nami Yamamoto | Emma Judkins | IV Castellanos

Nami Yamamoto will present Mu-chan (working title), the third exploration of a mother/daughter piece currently in development. Describing the work, Yamamoto states that she is interested in creating a movement landscape that could imply passing time and a generational history within individual stories. The piece is directed and choreographed by Yamamoto in collaboration with the performer, Mutsuyo Omatsu Isaacs.

Currently titled At Matins or Evensong, this nascent work by Emma Judkins references her interest in time, reverence, darkness, and beauty. Solo material shared will be part of a performance intended to
be presented outdoors, at the golden twilight fold of the day.

IV Castellanos will perform an excerpt from their ongoing work Leche Hervida.

Sunday, May 25

No Fascist String Band led by Jennifer Miller | Jonathan González | Keith Hennessy & Ishmael Houston-Jones

Jennifer Miller will present a new dance piece from her 2025 suite The Concussion Dances and will also be debuting the new Queer Anti-Fascist String Band – Xylocarp. Dancers: David Guzman and Zo Williams. Musicians: Pher, Jules Skloot, and Mary Feaster.

Jonathan Gonzalez’s choreographic study is entitled Swerve and explores choreographies of swerving – def: to make an abrupt change in direction against an incoming obstacle – to perform with an embodied attention to what shifts, becomes possible, and decays in the face of potential harm.

Keith Hennessy and Ishmael Houston-Jones will present an excerpt of their ever-evolving improvised duet, CLOSER.

PHOTO: IV Castellanos, photo by Jeremy Dennis.