The second annual Snug Harbor Dance Festival is a two-day event celebrating an array of dance styles, featuring site-specific performances, workshops, film screenings, and a panel discussion.

WHEN: Saturday, September 23 and Sunday, September 24, 2023 | 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
WHERE: Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301 (View campus map and directions)
ADMISSION: Pay what you wish | Day pass reservation requested here

The Snug Harbor Dance Festival creates space for artists and communities to get inspired, create, and connect through movement, with performances and activations by Bonita Oliver, J. Bouey & George Del Barrio, Kinesis Project dance theatre, Anabella Lenzu, Amelia Heintzelman, Psychic Wormhole, Nattie & Hollis, Lydia Bellach Ruocco, and more!

The Snug Harbor Dance Festival is supported by The Audience Building Project, a program of the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Governor and New York State Legislature. Additional support provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation, Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

SATURDAY, 09/23, 12 – 8 PM

12 – 8 PM: dance film loop, festival artists
Gallery G

12 PM: Trans Water Stories
Bonita Oliver, starting point: Octagon Room – Carpenter’s Shop

1 PM: Kinesis Project dance theatre workshop: Creating site-based dance
Shinbone Alley, rain location: Newhouse Center

2:15 PM: Capacity, or The Work of Crackling
(an excerpt)
Kinesis Project dance theatre
Shinbone Alley, rain location: Newhouse

3 PM: Second Life
Amelia Heintzelman, Carpenter’s Shop

4 PM: Phantasm
Nattie + Hollis, the lawn between
Bldgs. F&G, rain location: Dance Center, Studio G201

1 PM, 3:30 PM, 5 PM: S A T U R N
performance by DJ NYX, installation by J. Bouey and George Del Barrio, Newhouse Center, Gallery G

6 PM: Portal 3
Psychic Wormhole (Stacy Lynn Smith and Alex Romania)
Front Five, rain location: The Hyphen (Newhouse Center)

7 PM: Dance Party with DJ Nutmeg
Gallery G

SUNDAY, 09/24, 12 – 8 PM

12 – 8 PM: dance film loop, festival artists
Gallery G

12 PM: Suite of Dances
Lydia Bellach Ruocco, Newhouse Center, Main Hall front steps, rain location: Dance Center, Studio G201

12:30 PM: Panel Discussion, Preserving local dance histories and cultures
Pia Agrawal, Emily Hawk, and Candace Thompson-Zachery
Newhouse Center, Gallery G

2 PM: Capacity, or The Work of Crackling
(an excerpt)
Kinesis Project dance theatre, Shinbone Alley, rain location: Newhouse Center

3 PM: Second Life
Amelia Heintzelman, Carpenter’s Shop

4 PM: Phantasm
Nattie + Hollis, the lawn between
Bldgs. F&G, rain location: Dance Center,
Studio G201

5 PM: Listen to Your Mother
Anabella Lenzu, Gallery G

6 PM: Portal 3
Psychic Wormhole (Stacy Lynn Smith and Alex Romania)
Front Five, rain location: The Hyphen (Newhouse Center)

Informal post festival social after last performance on 9/24

Schedule subject to change without notice. In inclement weather, festival will move indoors unless otherwise specified. Follow @thenewhousecenter on IG for real time updates.