September 11, 2023 | Staten Island, NY— Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden is excited to present the second annual Snug Harbor Dance Festival.  The event takes place on Saturday, September 23 and Sunday, September 24 from 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM both days, staged throughout the grounds of Snug Harbor’s historic 83-acre campus on 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301. Admission is on a “pay what you wish” sliding scale, with day pass advance registration strongly encouraged. More information, including the schedule of events and registration, is at https://snug-harbor.org/event/2023shdf/

“The Snug Harbor Dance Festival brings together dancers and dance audiences from across New York City,” said Melissa West, Director & Sr. Curator, Newhouse Center at Snug Harbor. “Snug Harbor is the perfect venue to experience dance up close and in unique and intimate spaces: gardens, galleries, archways and alleyways. The festival is part of our vision to advance equity and expand access to arts and culture to Staten Islanders.”

SATURDAY, 09/23, 12 – 8 PM

12 – 8 PM: dance films, Gallery G
Participating festival artists

12 PM: Bonita Oliver
Starting point: Octagon Room at the Carpenter’s Shop

1 PM: Kinesis Project dance theatre community workshop on site-based dance
Shinbone Alley

2:15 PM: Kinesis Project dance theatre
Shinbone Alley

3 PM: Amelia Heintzelman
Carpenter’s Shop

4 PM: Nattie + Hollis
The lawn between Bldgs. G & F

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

6 PM: Psychic Wormhole (Stacy Lynn Smith and Alex Romania)
Location: TBD

7 PM: Dance Party with DJ Nutmeg
Carpenter’s Shop

SUNDAY, 09/24, 12 – 8 PM

12 – 8 PM: Dance Films, Gallery G
Participating festival artists

12 PM: Performance by Lydia Bellach Ruocco
Newhouse Center, Main Hall front steps

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

2 PM: Kinesis Project dance theatre
Shinbone Alley

3 PM: Amelia Heintzelman
Carpenter’s Shop

4 PM: Nattie + Hollis
The lawn between Bldgs. G & F

5 PM: Anabella Lenzu
Gallery G

6 PM: Psychic Wormhole (Stacy Lynn Smith and Alex Romania)
Location: TBD

Informal post festival social after last performance on 9/24

Note: this schedule is subject to change. Please check this page before the event for updates.

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.

ABOUT SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER & BOTANICAL GARDEN
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden offers dynamic programming in the arts, horticulture, and agriculture for diverse communities and all ages, on our historic 83-acre campus. We envision being a locally impactful, globally renowned destination, true to our values of artistic vibrancy and community, inclusion and discovery, stewardship and conservation.

Snug Harbor is the result of more than four decades of restoration and development to convert a 19th-century charitable rest home for sailors into a regional arts center, botanical gardens and public park.  One of the largest ongoing adaptive reuse projects in America, Snug Harbor encompasses 26 historic structures, 14 botanical gardens, a 2.5-acre urban farm, wetlands, forests and park land on a free, open campus.  Snug Harbor is a proud Smithsonian Affiliate organization. Learn more at snug-harbor.org.

For Immediate Release
Contact: Meredith Sladek
msladek@snug-harbor.org
(718) 425-3515