Thank you to everyone who came out to experience or tenth anniversary performance ANTHROPOCENE AKA: Oh the Humanity! AKA: The Big Wah Wah! Aug 15 +16, 2025.
With 700+ in attendance across three shows and a SOLD OUT opening night, ANTHROPOCENE was our most well attended project to date. It was also our most ambitious production, with three co-directors/creators, complex scenic and technical design, and the largest cast we’ve assembled. It was a labor of love and we could not be more proud.
We look forward to continuing our mission to present exploratory, original dance work by women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ choreographers as we enter our second decade as an organization. If you would like to support the work we do, please consider a tax-deductible donation. Thank you!
Photos by Sarah Annie Navarrete
Performa/Dance, founded in Austin, Texas in 2014 by choreographer Jennifer Hart and dancer Edward Carr, presents exploratory, original dance work by women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ choreographers.
Through imaginative and ever-evolving processes, we reconsider contemporary ballet outside its bounds, in dialogue with artists across disciplines.
Bringing our lived experience to performance, we strive to connect with audiences using dance as a conduit for human understanding and expression.
For ten years, Performa/Dance has been programming works by local and national choreographers, with the goal of showcasing historically underrepresented artists, including Minneapolis-based LGBTQ+ activist Nic Lincoln, Christian Warner, a rising star based in NYC, as well as local favorites, including BLiPSWiTCH, Magdalena Jarkowiec, Alexa Capareda, and ARCOS. Additionally, Performa/Dance consistently pushes itself in new directions, reevaluating the vocabulary used to communicate modern storytelling.
This project has been financed in whole or in part by the City of Austin’s Elevate Grant Program.