Works & Process

Works & Process We champion creative process studio-to-stage. Works & Process Residencies provides paid, creative residencies with over a dozen partners.

We present work at the Guggenheim New York, Manhattan West, NYPL for the Performing Arts, NYC Parks, and SummerStage. Works & Process, a performing-arts series that informs artistic creation through stimulating conversation and performance, is presented at the Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

06/17/2026

at The Jamaica Dance Festival on Sat, June 20 for free! Fusing awe-inspiring Krump, FlexN, and Breaking street dancers with the virtuosic music-making of The Beatbox House, this work explores the universal elements of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. Commissioned by Works & Process, The Missing Element is an immersive experience where street dancers and beatboxers embark on an adventure of sound and movement. All music and sound is 100% human-generated. For more info: https://www.worksandprocess.org/calendar/works-and-process-on-tour-the-missing-element-hivewild-naia-neal-jamaica-festival-2026

The Missing Element was commissioned by Works & Process and developed in Works & Process residencies at Kaatsbaan (2020 and 2021), Guild Hall of East Hampton (2022), and Catskill Mountain Foundation (2023), made possible in part by the Mellon Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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Footage from the Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival 2023. Video: Kash Gaines / Box Avoided

Ballroom Icon and Tony Award Winner Omari Wiles, and his trailblazing company Les Ballet Afrik bring ball culture to Lin...
06/15/2026

Ballroom Icon and Tony Award Winner Omari Wiles, and his trailblazing company Les Ballet Afrik bring ball culture to Lincoln Center with the Works & Process commission, New York Is Burning, featuring Wiles’s AfrikFusion, fusing traditional African dances and Afrobeat with house dance and vogue. Also featuring dancers from Wiles’s Ballroom House The House of NiNa Oricci, this work is a celebration of queerness, resilience, and a tribute to the legendary documentary Paris Is Burning. A mini ball will round out the event, accompanied by a live DJ, DJ Belindz. For more info:
https://www.worksandprocess.org/calendar/works-and-process-on-tour-les-ballet-afrik-lincoln-center-2026
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Performers
Julz, Choreographer / MC & Commentator
Tygier, MC & Commentator
Karma Banks, MC & Commentator
DJ Belindz, DJ
Evabustamove, Dancer
Karma Stylz, Dancer
Spyce, Dancer
Kerry, Dancer
Skoolz, Dancer
Nici, Dancer
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Creative Team
Ousmane Omari Wiles, Founder, Executive Director, Co-Artistic Director
Milerka Rodriguez, Co-Artistic Director, Co-Choreographer
Alora Tonielle Martinez, Co-Artistic Director, Co-Choreographer, Rehearsal Director
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Funding Credits
Commissioned by Works & Process in 2019, New York Is Burning has received fully-funded Works & Process residencies support produced at Kaatsbaan (2020), Catskill Mountain Foundation (2021), and The Church Sag Harbor, in partnership with Guild Hall of East Hampton (2022).
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Photo via Omari Wiles.

06/12/2026

We are proud to share that Works & Process alums The Beatbox House are featured in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition Musical Bodies, which is open now through Sept 27! Since 2019, Works & Process has supported the beatboxers and their project The Missing Element with multiple fully-funded residencies, presentations, and tours. They are also featured in this New York Times review: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/arts/music/musical-bodies-met-museum.html

🎉Congratulations🎉Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons Tony Awards Winners for choreographing Cats: The Jellicle Ball! Proud thes...
06/08/2026

🎉Congratulations🎉Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons Tony Awards Winners for choreographing Cats: The Jellicle Ball! Proud these alums have been supported with multiple fully-funded Works & Process residencies over the years at Kaatsbaan, Catskill Mountain Foundation, The Church Sag Harbor in partnership with Guild Hall of East Hampton, Bethany Arts Community, and The Watermill Center.

Flashback to a first look of Cats: The Jellicle Ball at Works & Process prior to premiere on Broadway: https://gu.gg/49Onkux

Photos: Robert Altman, Courtesy the artist, Elyse Mertz, Joe Brondo for Guild Hall

05/15/2026

Works & Process Artist Curator in Residence Caleb Teicher is performing "Blue Skies" with Nathan Bugh in American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF) founder Tony Waag's "Tap City" at The Joyce Theater from May 19-24. For 25 years, ATDF has been a cornerstone of the art form, honoring its past while shaping its future. This program celebrates tap across generations, styles, and artistic visions. For tickets and to see the full list of performers: https://gu.gg/42CI9oK
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video excerpt of Caleb Teicher and Nathan Bugh in "Blue Skies" at AJW SHOW 2025. Video by

05/15/2026

Join SLMDances this Saturday for a public offering as part of their Residency at BAC. A Side Of The World For A Canvas is a site-responsive dance-theater work crafted to highlight Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy.

📅 Saturday May 16
⏰ 2-4PM
🎟️ FREE Community Program! RSVP here: https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/wipslmdances/

Open to all ages.

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This Residency and Community Program are made possible through BAC’s partnership with Works & Process at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Photo by Travis Coe / Ashfield, MA

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On the occasion of Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector, the exhibition celebrating the beginning of Pe...
05/14/2026

On the occasion of Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector, the exhibition celebrating the beginning of Peggy Guggenheim’s career as a collector between 1938–39, on May 8 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, in collaboration with Works & Process, presented two legendary solos by Martha Graham, one of the most iconic dancers of the twentieth century.

The Martha Graham Dance Company, founded by Graham 1938 and evolving from the Dance Group she founded in 1926, performed two chorographic masterpieces: Lamentation (1930), with a score by Zoltán Kodály, and Ekstasis (1933), accompanied by original music by Lehman Engel.

Lamentation
Music: Zoltán Kodály
Danced by Xin Ying

Ekstasis
Music: Lehman Engel
Danced by Anne Souder
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Photos: Arianna Ferraretto

On the occasion of the exhibition of South African artist Igshaan Adams’s work in the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Works & P...
05/11/2026

On the occasion of the exhibition of South African artist Igshaan Adams’s work in the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Works & Process in collaboration with the Museum, organized two performances with South African based group Garage Dance Ensemble, and a discussion with Adams.

On May 4-5 in Bilbao, Spain, Garage Dance Ensemble shared their overpowering energy with audiences. The dancers have worked with Igshaan Adams in the creation of some of the works currently on display in the Museum. In his practice, moving bodies on ink applied linoleum floors covered with canvas leave traces of personal and collective memories. Adams collects them to highlight the connections between people and between individuals and the community.

Choreographed and Directed by: Byron Klassen
Technical director: Faroll Coetzee
Performers: Georgia Julies, Manon-Lee Saal, Keeanu Samuels, Druwayne Strauss

Activities organized with the collaboration of Works & Process, with the support of A4 Arts Foundation and Hill Art Foundation.
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Photos by Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, 2026. Photo: Erika Barahona Ede

to Countertenor and Opera Philadelphia General Director & President Anthony Roth Costanzo! He was most recently at Wor...
05/08/2026

to Countertenor and Opera Philadelphia General Director & President Anthony Roth Costanzo! He was most recently at Works & Process in January 2026 showing excerpts from Complications in Sue by Michael R. Jackson before the world premiere at Opera Philadelphia in February. To watch the full performance at Works & Process at Guggenheim New York, visit: https://gu.gg/4wqygIr

This new work showed how one librettist, one actor, four singers, and ten composers joined forces to make opera in a brand-new way. In his first opera libretto, Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning playwright Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) trace the life of a woman named Sue over ten decades. Sue’s life—from the mundane to the extraordinary—unfolds, with each chapter scored by a different musical luminary.

Panel
Anthony Roth Costanzo, Opera Philadelphia General Director & President
Michael R. Jackson, Librettist
Caren Levine, Conductor
Raja Feather Kelly, Director
Zack Winokur, Director

Artists
Kiera Duffy, Soprano
Rehanna Thelwell, Mezzo-Soprano
Nicky Spence, Tenor
Nicholas Newton, Bass-Baritone

Grant Loehnig, Piano
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Photos: Elyse Mertz

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