Works & Process Announces Underground Uptown Dance Festival

Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents the Underground Uptown Dance Festival, a festival of commissioned street and social dances taking place in the subterranean Frank Lloyd Wright-designed theater at the Guggenheim from January 10-16, 2024 and at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on January 12.

Rare in the field of dance, let alone in the creators’ traditions, beyond presenting fee, all projects will have received longitudinal support. With some spanning four years, across multiple residencies Works & Process will have provided living wage fees, 24/7 devoted studio access, adjacent housing, access to health care insurance enrollment, performance fees, and iterative performance opportunities. Inspired by the circular architecture of the Guggenheim, the cyphers prevalent in street dance, and social environments where these performing art traditions were germinated, the works being presented weave audiences and artists together. These commissions endeavor to amplify the innate qualities of dance to physically connect and facilitate the embodiment of joy and community.

Held in the Peter B. Lewis Theater, the Guggenheim’s subterranean Frank Lloyd Wright–designed auditorium, the festival will feature projects including new work from Kayla Farrish, in conjunction with the Guggenheim Exhibition Going Dark, excerpts from Pontus Lidberg’s On the Nature of Rabbits, Princess Lockerooo’s The Fabulous Waack Dancers, the world premiere of Ladies of Hip-Hop’s SpeakMyMind, excerpts from I Didn’t Come to Stay, heralded by the New York Times as “An unforced crowd-pleaser, original and true to itself,” and many more!

Works & Process at the Guggenheim’s Underground Uptown Dance Festival offers Choose-What-You-Pay tickets, available at www.worksandprocess.org.