25 to see live 2025: a night with electrical talent and community

On April 28th, Dance magazineThe third annual 25, which observed live, offered a outbreak of spring energy, as an artist from a series of genres and places gathered for a evening full of dance and community. The James and Martha Duffy Performance Space in the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, New York, bubbled out of excitement when friends, colleagues, mentors and dance enthusiasts showed a unique performance with 13 of our 2025 “25 to watch” picks.

Tap Dancer and Trinity Irish Dance Company member Francisco Lemus started with his things Sentimientos DivididosA fiery mix of tap and Irish hard shoe with live accompaniment by Fiddler Jake James. Then the founder and artistic director Kayla Hamilton led the audience with the long -time employee Nicole Y. McClam through an aesthetic movement practice with audio description and balletmets Miguel Wansing Lorrio, edited by Edwaard Liang's “Autumn” solo by Edwaard Liang's Seasons. She presented choreographer and dancer Genna Moroni, who is also the artistic director of Los Angeles Gummi Collective This is life (A solo from her afterth length Call from the emptiness), danced with devotion from Aika Doone; The freelance dancer Rachel Lockhart has illuminated her versatility in her and Starla Edwards. If the walls could speak; and independent choreographer Julia Antinozzis's Movements for fivePerformed by Sienna Blaw, Paulina Meneses, Dasol Kim and Kelsey Saulnier, offered a reflective piece of postmodernity.

This was followed by a number of choreographed pieces: the member of the Philadelphia Ballet Corps, Mayfield Myers, danced in her with sparkling lightness Dvořák Divertissement; The freelance contemporary dancer Kendall Ramirez shared an intimate degree of grief and change in her Certainly a mother; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Isaiah Day Slinked, Stopcing and tore through space in his Longcat; and Jasmine Hearn, an independent dancer and choreographer, who was classified in her urgent spook of the legacy and the collective memory Spirit: We are on the way. Then Melisa Guilliams, member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Corps Romeo et Julietteand mood W'Hims Kyle Sangil mingled seamlessly with the contemporary in his Pagbabago. Contemporary dance troop Primera Generación dance collective chopped off with their electrifying accumulation (A condensed section from your afterth length Nostalgia pop), danced with Zest and pure joy from the PGDC members Alfonso Abraham Cervera, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez and Rosa Rodriguez frazier with the guest artist Elizabeth Villalobos.

After the performance, the ethos of the night was best described by the former Dance Theater of Harlem Artistic Director Virginia Johnson: “It feels like a new age is arriving.” Many thanks to everyone who joined 25 to see us live and enable the event, including the sponsors Gibney Company, Jacob's Pillow, the Philadelphia Ballet, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance.