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05/09/2026

A stage of returns. Six choreographers. Fifth look.

ECS 2026 continues at Flushing Town Hall with six alumni choreographers revisiting works that still challenge, shift, and stay with us. Next up:

✨ Lavy Cavaliere — *CHWYT* (2023)
Built from an intergenerational body of collection, *CHWYT* examines what we hold onto — and what holding costs us. Through endurance, repetition, and rupture, the work navigates scarcity, belonging, safety, and completion, asking how value is constructed through accumulation. As grip becomes exhaustion, *CHWYT* fractures into something raw, physical, and deeply human.

Stay tuned as we reveal the remaining choreographers.

Two performances only. No livestream. No repeat.

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📅 May 9 | 7PM — May 10 | 1PM
🎟️ Tickets in bio

Come witness what returns — before it disappears again.

05/08/2026

A stage of returns. Six choreographers. Fourth look.

ECS 2026 continues at Flushing Town Hall with six alumni choreographers revisiting works that still challenge, shift, and stay with us. Next up:

✨ Grace Yi-Li Tong — *Garden Tongues (iii. together)* (2022/2023)
An excerpt from the larger half-evening work *Garden Tongues* (2023), this piece spitefully reclaims “The Figure of the Asian Woman” as shaped through white patriarchal systems. Through layered movement and collective presence, *Garden Tongues (iii. together)* uproots imposed identity and interrogates the duality of the label “Asian” in the U.S. — holding both the violence of conflation and the possibility of pan-Asian solidarity.

Stay tuned as we reveal the remaining choreographers.

Two performances only. No livestream. No repeat.

📍
📅 May 9 | 7PM — May 10 | 1PM
🎟️ Tickets in bio

Come witness what returns — before it disappears again.

05/07/2026

A stage of returns. Six choreographers. Third look.

ECS 2026 continues at Flushing Town Hall with six alumni choreographers revisiting works that still challenge, shift, and stay with us. Next up:

✨ Makayla Monét Peterson — *Riddim & Bass* (2023)
A work pulsing with Caribbean sound, movement, and ancestral memory, *Riddim & Bass* transforms the stage into a living rhythm section. Inspired by the musical traditions of Trinidad and Tobago, the piece moves through iron and steel, tassa, dudup drums, bottle and spoon — tracing how riddim lives in the body and how dance and music remain inseparable in Caribbean culture. Abrasive, festive, and deeply alive.

Stay tuned as we reveal the remaining choreographers.

Two performances only. No livestream. No repeat.

📍
📅 May 9 | 7PM — May 10 | 1PM
🎟️ Tickets in bio

Come witness what returns — before it disappears again.

05/05/2026

A stage of returns. Six choreographers. Second look.

ECS 2026 continues at Flushing Town Hall with six alumni choreographers revisiting works that still challenge, shift, and stay with us. Next up:

✨ Heather Dutton — I’m Not Wrong & Neither Am I (2022)
A dance theatre work navigating gender performance, fluidity, and liberation. With humor, vulnerability, and sharp honesty, this piece holds the awkwardness, silliness, and grief of living in a body that doesn’t always feel like home — asking what it means to hide within ourselves, and what it could mean to fully arrive.

Stay tuned as we reveal the remaining choreographers.

Two performances only. No livestream. No repeat.

📍
📅 May 9 | 7PM — May 10 | 1PM
🎟️ Tickets in bio

Come witness what returns — before it disappears again.

05/04/2026

A stage of returns. Six choreographers. First look.

ECS 2026 takes the stage at Flushing Town Hall for two performances featuring six choreographers re-staging iconic works premiered during previous ECS that continues to provoke, surprise, and resonate. Here is our first ECS Alumni choreographer:

✨ Garrett Parker — Room 1 (2018)�A man wakes up on stage with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Inspired by psychological horror, this solo unravels through absurd tasks and quiet tension — where something as mundane as gum becomes a tool of coercion, and identity is rebuilt in real time.

Stay tuned to discover our five other choreographers!

These works appear for two performances only. No livestream. No repeat.

📍 Flushing Town Hall (FTH)�📅 May 9 | 7PM - May 10 | 1PM�🎟️ Tickets in bio

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04/18/2026

The story deepens — here are the final three voices taking the stage:

✨ Tomislav Nevistic — Body Disappears (2022)
A conceptual, poetic unraveling inspired by *The Catcher in the Rye* — where memory loops, endings echo beginnings, and meaning slips just out of reach.

✨ Laura Peralta — Otra Manera de Medir (aka La Figura) (2021)
Born from isolation, this work questions belonging, tradition, and who defines “flamencura.” A solitary body pushing against form, time, and expectation.
(Presented as a digital film from ECS 2021.)

✨ Ameeya Singh — resonant;remnant (2023)
An exploration of in-between states — where identity, culture, and memory collide. Through Punjabi folk music and layered movement, contradictions become harmony.

Six choreographers. Two nights. One fleeting return.

This is the rest of the story.

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📍 April 20 & 21 | 7PM
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Come witness the past, reimagined — before it disappears again.

04/11/2026

Three voices. Three worlds. One stage — and this is only half the story.

ECS 2026 Highlights returns to LPAC for a special celebration of MNE’s 25th anniversary — bringing back artists from across the years to restage works that shaped our community. Six choreographers. Two nights. The first three:

✨ Isaac Iskra — tilted glass (2020)
An intimate entry point into the world of Autism, where circular motion, light sensitivity, and social anxiety unfold through deeply physical storytelling.

✨ Mikaela Morisato — Euphonic Connection (2022)
What if music controlled us? A world where sound dissolves limitation and connection is dictated by rhythm itself.

✨ Rohan Bhargava — The Devil’s Advocate (2016)
A raw, visceral descent into greed, addiction, and suppressed identity — where human becomes beast.

…and three more choreographers still to be revealed.

These works return only for two nights. No livestream. No repeat.

📍 April 20 & 21 | 7PM
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🎟️ Tickets in bio

Come witness the past, reimagined — before it disappears again.

03/23/2026

A glimpse into March 1st night ✨

Fragments of works in progress, moments of experimentation, and artists sharing pieces still in motion. Each performance was followed by conversation, reflection, and the chance for the work to grow.

Grateful to the artists who shared their process and to everyone who came to experience it.

Footage: .garrett

A look back at March 1st and our Work-in-Progress performancesWatching work in progress means stepping into the moment b...
03/20/2026

A look back at March 1st and our Work-in-Progress performances

Watching work in progress means stepping into the moment before the final version exists.

Artists shared pieces still in development — testing ideas, exploring movement, and opening their creative process to the room.

Thank you to the artists who trusted the space and to everyone who came to witness the work as it continues to evolve. ✨
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PC: .garrett

We’re thrilled to celebrate the choreographers selected for the ECS Work-in-Progress Residencies & Professional Developm...
03/03/2026

We’re thrilled to celebrate the choreographers selected for the ECS Work-in-Progress Residencies & Professional Development Workshops ✨

As part of our ongoing commitment to developing new work, MNE is proud to support four ECS alumni through choreographic residencies plus a work-in-progress showing, that took place yesterday at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center! Alongside studio time, these artists also receive professional development workshops and 1:1 mentorship to help propel their creative careers forward.

Congratulations to our supported choreographers:
Heather Dutton
Emory Ferra Campbell
Maria Angela Talavera Tejeda
Isaac Iskra

We can’t wait to see the bold new work that will continue to emerge from this incredible group. 💫

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