CATCH 76

CATCH promotes community and the exchange of ideas across a broad constellation of progressive artists, scenes, and their friends and fans, by curating, producing, promoting and documenting parties that center short (and frequently in-progress) performances and videos.

Third Annual Gala!

The Chocolate Factory's Third Annual Gala, honoring New York State Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado, Leah Krauss (Mertz Gilmore Foundation), and Jimmy Van Bramer (Former Councilmember + Cultural Chair). Hosted by Paul Lazar. Performance by Levi Gonzalez + Kayvon Pourazar. Food by Little Chef Little Cafe.

Big Dance Theater

In an effort to deepen our understanding of what dance is and how it has functioned throughout human history, this prismatic book project is dedicated to an artist-centric perception of dance history. This book interrogates the history of dance from the subjective, poetic perspective of a choreographer. Diverse dance artists from the American dance field contribute prismatic, disruptive perspectives on how dance has unfolded over time and what dance history is.

Daniel Fish + Brian Rogers

Interdisciplinary artist Daniel Fish and Chocolate Factory Theater co-founder / Artistic Director Brian Rogers will share their new experimental films. Anonymous Cathedral, by Daniel Fish, is a visual meditation on the street life of a single day in Brooklyn, shot in the fall of 2020. Small Songs, by Brian Rogers, is an abstract autofictional travelogue - and a love letter to the artist Nancy Holt - made from footage captured during several cross-country road trips between 2021 and 2024.

DD Dorvillier

Returning to perform in the US for the first time in several years, French transplant DD Dorvillier crafts a solo in collaboration with sound artist Sébastien Roux, structured by dance scores which emerged from a dream. In this work dance digs as an archeologist, as the dancer’s present is confronted by an immediate sonic past, as she moves towards the future.

Wanjiru Kamuyu

A solo exploration of the experience of displacement, A disguised welcome… draws inspiration from Kenyan-born, France-based choreographer Wanjiru Kamuyu‘s experiences in Africa, North America, and Europe, offering a bitingly satirical look at the notions of center and periphery.

Second Annual Gala!

The Chocolate Factory's Second Annual Gala! Featuring the Artist In Industry Award, Honoring: Amy Cassello (Interim Artistic Director, BAM), Alton S. Murray (Deputy Commissioner, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs), and Mary V. Torres (Realtor, Modern Spaces).

Takahiro Yamamoto

In NOTHINGBEING, Portland, Oregon-based choreographer Takahiro Yamamoto uses highly physical movement, communal meditation, and the internal activation of sensory memories to construct a sustained and complex meditation on subjectivity and erasure within and between states of “nothingness” and "being".

Antonio Ramos and the Gangbangers

The Gangbangers blossom and wilt in a dance-theater performance conceived by choreographer Antonio Ramos. In a mixtape extravaganza of cultural misappropriation and reappropriation, Ramos calls on his ancestors and carries the audience on a journey to the bottom of the ocean and back again. This piece is a ceremony.

chameckilerner

Aging Prelude - chameckilerner’s first live performance since 2007 - explores co-creators Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner’s shared experiences with their aging bodies, and their shifting relationship to a visual landscape that idealizes the “perpetuation of youthfulness,” where bodies are eternally young and beautiful, where any sign of the passage of time is not an option, and where the aging process erases any signs of histories and futures.