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Dance in
the New Year at the second annual Dance
Out East.
Be the first to experience three new Works & Process dance
projects on Long Island’s East End at The Church in Sag
Harbor, Guild Hall of East Hampton, and The Watermill
Center. See the culmination of week-long creative
residencies, gain unique insight into the process and
preparation of new choreographed works that will sequence
into the Works & Process events at Guggenheim New York.
Event
Tickets $25
Visit: www.danceouteast.org
Saturday, January 10, 2 pm
The Church in Sag Harbor with Works & Process
The Lineage Project by
Kristine Bendul & Abdiel
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Dance
powerhouses Kristine Bendul & Abdiel are known for their
work in Broadway and off-Broadway musical theatre
productions, ballet and modern concert dance, and their
gender-neutral approach to ballroom partnering, which
equally exchanges roles of lead and follow, with both in
heels! During a weeklong Works & Process residency at The
Church in Sag Harbor, Ron De Jesús will choreograph a new
piece for Kristine and Abdiel, blending Adagio partnering
with contemporary movement. De Jesús, who had an extensive
career with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Twlya Tharp,
has been recognized for his work across concert dance and
musical theatre. Set to “Black Cream” by The Harold Wheeler
Consort (1975), this new duet reimagines classic Adagio
patterns through a modern lens—honoring the form’s history
while exploring new lifts, transitions, and expressive
possibilities.
Join us for
a “first look” at what they’ve created together during the
residency, followed by a conversation with the artists.
Saturday, January 10, 7 pm
Guild Hall of East Hampton with Works &
Process
Naomi Funaki: Ikigai*
Tino & Rajika Puri Creative Residency
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Recognized
as a 2023 Princess Grace Award recipient in dance, a
2024 Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch,” 92NY
Artist-in-Residence and 2025 Asian American Jadin Wong
Fellow, tap dance artist Naomi Funaki shares an in-process
presentation of a new evening-length work, Ikigai.
Reflecting on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake & tsunami,
Fukushima nuclear disaster, and personal
experience, Funaki blends rhythm, live music, and narrative
to explore resilience, memory, and connection.
This
in-process presentation is a culmination of Funaki’s
weeklong Works & Process Tino and Rajika Puri creative
residency at Guild Hall. Consisting of both performance and
conversation, the evening offers audiences an intimate
glimpse into the work’s development and the ideas shaping
its evolution prior to its March 8th premiere
with Works & Process at Guggenheim New York as part of the
Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival.
Ikigai was
commissioned and created, in part, with the support of Works
& Process Residency Tino & Rajika Puri Creative Residency
and The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Creative Residencies
Program made possible by lead funding from TD Charitable
Foundation. Additional support provided through residencies
at 92NY, CUNY Dance Initiative at Hunter College, Guild Hall
of East Hampton, and an Asian American Arts Alliance Jadin
Wong Fellowship.
Sunday, January 11, 2 pm
The Watermill Center with Works & Process
Sekou McMiller & Friends’ Palladium
Nights
In memory of Robert Wilson and Michéle Pesner, both
of whom dedicated their lives to the advancement of culture,
including dance, on a global and local basis.
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The
collective known as Sekou McMiller + Friends is led by the
esteemed choreographer, Sekou McMiller, and comprises a
talented ensemble of seasoned professional dancers,
musicians, composers, and club/street performers. Palladium
Nights is
a new evening-length choreographic work that explores the
cultural legacy and artistic impact of New York’s historic
Palladium Ballroom (1940s–60s), a vibrant site of exchange
where Afro-Latin and African American communities helped
shape what we now recognize as Salsa/Mambo dance. More than
a nightclub, the Palladium was an incubator of innovation,
identity and social movement. This work honors that history
while engaging its ongoing influence on contemporary dance
and culture.
WORKS & PROCESS
A
non-profit performing arts organization without walls, Works
& Process champions performing artists and their creative
process each step from studio to stage. Works & Process
platforms artists from the world’s largest organizations and
amplifies underrecognized performing arts cultures by
providing rare, longitudinal, and fully-funded creative
residencies, and commissioning support. In New York City,
Works & Process presents at Guggenheim New York and the New
York Public Library for the Performing Arts, with the Jerome
Robbins Dance Division. Each summer Works & Process curates
and presents free dance programs with Manhattan West and
City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage and NYC Parks. Works &
Process partners with residencies in Connecticut,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont to provide
artists with 24/7 studio availability, on-site housing,
health insurance enrollment access, industry-leading fees,
and transportation to support uninterrupted creative
process.
Stay
connected: @worksandprocess
worksandprocess.org
THE CHURCH
The Church
was established in 2019 by artists Eric Fischl and April
Gornik. Housed in a deconsecrated 19th-century church, its
doors were opened in April 2021. Our mission is to foster
creativity and to honor the living history of Sag Harbor as
a maker village. The East End represents an exceptional
artistic legacy, spanning the practices of indigenous art of
several centuries ago, Abstract Expressionists of the
mid-20th Century, and the many celebrated writers, makers,
musicians, and visual artists of the recent past and current
moment. Core programming includes visual art exhibitions,
concerts and events, educational programming, workshops,
lectures, and an artist’s residency.
Stay
connected: @thechurchsagharbor
thechurchsagharbor.org
GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON
Guild Hall
is the cultural heart of the East End: a museum, performing
arts,
and education
center,
founded in 1931. We invite everyone to experience the
endless possibilities of the arts: to open minds to what art
can be; inspire creativity and conversation; and have fun.
Guild Hall
presents more than 200 programs and hosts 60,000 visitors
each year. The Museum holds
six to eight exhibitions, ranging from the historical to the
contemporary, and focuses on artists who have an affiliation
with the Hamptons. The Theater produces
more than 100 programs―including plays, concerts, dance,
screenings, simulcasts, and literary readings―from the
classics to new works. In
addition to these endeavors, Guild Hall supports the next
generation of artists with in-school and on-site Learning
+ New Works programs.
Stay
connected: @guild_hall
guildhall.org
THE WATERMILL CENTER
Founded in
1992 by avant-garde visionary Robert Wilson, The Watermill
Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and
humanities situated on ten acres of Shinnecock ancestral
territory on Long Island’s East End. With an emphasis on
creativity and collaboration, Watermill offers year-round
artist residencies and education programs, providing a
global community with the time, space, and freedom to create
and inspire. Watermill’s rural campus combines
multifunctional studios with ten acres of manicured grounds
and gardens, housing a carefully curated art collection,
expansive research library, and archives illustrating the
life and work of Artistic Director, Robert Wilson.
Watermill’s facilities enable Artists-in-Residence to
integrate resources from the humanities and research from
the sciences into contemporary artistic practice. Through
year-round public programs, Watermill demystifies the
artistic process by facilitating unique insight into the
creative process of a rotating roster of national and
international artists.
Stay
connected: @watermillcenter
watermillcenter.org
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