Dances for a Variable Population (DVP), the community-based nonprofit led by Artistic Director Naomi Goldberg Haas, is thrilled to present its 2025 summer production of REVIVAL 9: Neighborhood Stories—a free, outdoor, site-specific dance series celebrating the lives, histories, and cultural legacies of older New Yorkers across the city. Performances and Workshops are scheduled for Saturday, June 21 at Grant’s Tomb in Upper Manhattan, and Saturday, June 28 at Queensbridge Park, Queens, New York.

Since 2009, DVP has been bringing together older adults, former professional dancers, and neighborhood residents for works of movement and performance. REVIVAL 9: Neighborhood Stories incorporates local and personal histories into music and movement. Performances will center the older residents of the neighborhoods where DVP’s programs take place, using DVP’s Movement Speaks® workshops to develop dance forms and soundscapes that reflect and incorporate their lived experiences. Neighborhood Stories aims to preserve and share the individual recollections of people who have lived in their neighborhoods for decades, transforming their memories into dance.

For REVIVAL 9: Neighborhood Stories, Dances for a Variable Population welcomes choreographers Ellen Graff (Martha Graham Dance Company), Audrey Madison (Charles Moore Dance Theatre), Myna Majors (The WNBA N.Y. Liberty Timeless Torches), and Alfred Gallman (Pepsi Bethel, Talley Beatty, and Alvin Ailey), Kathy Sanson (Bronx Neighborhood Dance), Karla Wolfangle (Paul Taylor Dance Company), along with DVP artistic director Naomi Goldberg Haas. To learn more about the choreographers, please visit our website: www.dvpnyc.org

DVP will also present a free All Together Dance Workshop open to members of the public. These interactive workshops highlight movements by guest artists and feature exercises from DVP’s MOVEMENT SPEAKS® curriculum. Reservations are recommended. For more information, please visit: https://www.dvpnyc.org/revival.