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Mare Nostrum Elements is a dance theatre non-profit that supports the creation of emotionally driven productions and the next generation of dance makers.

09/21/2026

📣 ECS 2027 CHOREOGRAPHER APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!

After four years, Mare Nostrum Elements’ Emerging Choreographer Series returns to support a new cohort of five NYC-based choreographers in the creation and premiere of original 8–12 minute works at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center.

✨ ECS is a free, intensive self-producing program. Selected choreographers receive a $1,000 choreographic fee, paid dancers, up to 35 hours of free rehearsal space, three professional-development sessions, one-on-one dramaturgical mentorship, a work-in-progress feedback showing, professional photo and video documentation, and two fully produced performances in LPAC’s Mainstage Theater.

💡 Choreographers are selected based on the strength and potential of their proposed idea—not on a completed work. ECS welcomes artists working across dance forms, styles, and cultural perspectives, particularly those proposing work that challenges their existing practice, experiments with movement or form, or engages with current social, cultural, or political questions.

Applicants must be 18 or older, reside in one of New York City’s five boroughs, and be available for all mandatory program dates. Proposed works must be new, stage-based projects.

📅 APPLICATION DEADLINE
October 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET

💻 APPLICATION Q&As VIA ZOOM
September 30 | 11 AM–12 PM ET
October 3 | 1–2 PM ET

🔗 Apply and view the complete Application Information Packet through the links on our website:
[www.mnelements.org] (http://www.mnelements.org/ecs)

Questions? Contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Nicola Iervasi
Kevin Albert

09/17/2026

Celebrate Nicola’s birthday and Mare Nostrum Elements’ 25th anniversary with us! 🎉

Join us for The Wave Within Method: Human Rights in Motion, an immersive lecture-demonstration presented as part of the International Human Rights Art Festival - International Human Rights Art Movement

Witness ECS alumni choreographers transform real-life concepts, emotions, and experiences into physical storytelling through MNE’s signature movement theater method.

📅 Saturday, September 19 at 3:00 PM
📍 Court Square Theater
44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City

Can’t join us?
You can still celebrate this milestone by contributing to MNE’s 25th Anniversary Campaign. Every donation, big or small, supports our continued work with dance and theater artists.

🎟 Tickets, event information, and donations are available through the link in our bio.

🙌Use discount code FOIHRAF for $10 off your ticket.

We hope to see you there!

09/15/2026

Our hearts are with our dear friend and Chair of our Board of Trustees, Amy Harrison, as she mourns the loss of her beloved mother.

Through the years, we came to know of Amy’s mother through the love and stories Amy shared with us, and we know how deeply she supported and encouraged Amy and her work in the arts.

Mare Nostrum Elements sends its deepest condolences, love, and strength to Amy and her family during this difficult time.

09/14/2026

Experience the choreographic process in real time!!

Join MNE on Saturday, September 19 for a special Wave Within Method lecture-demonstration, presented as part of the International Human Rights Art Festival in Queens.

Led by Nicola Iervasi, the event offers audiences an inside look at how ECS alumni choreographers use the method to transform ideas, emotions, and lived experiences into movement. Watch as they explore compositional tools and continue developing their material live, followed by a Q&A with the artists.

Saturday, September 19�
3:00 PM�
Court Square Theater�44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City

Tickets are available at humanrightsartmovement.org and mnelements.org.

Photos from past ECS performances:
1. resonant;remnant — Ameeya Singh (ECS 2023)
2. Below the Bottom — Susanne McHugh (ECS 2025)
3. The Devil’s Advocate — Rohan Bhargava (ECS 2016)
4. They Were Once — Jacqui M Dugal (ECS 2025)
5. Zoo! — Grace Yi-Li Tong (ECS 2024)

08/28/2026

SHOW ALERT ✨ 
As Mare Nostrum Elements celebrates its 25th anniversary, it is proud to continue its collaboration with FINI Dance NYC by presenting the work by alum of the Emerging Choreographer Series (ECS): Tilted Glass by Isaac Iskra . ⠀ Originally presented as part of ECS #7 in 2020, Tilted Glass by Isaac Iskra explores aspects of the Autistic experience, including light sensitivity, unusual movement patterns and isolation. The work invites audiences to develop greater understanding and empathy for perspectives different from their own. ⠀ Presented at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as part of the Fini Dance Festival International Dance Awards Gala, this work celebrate the lasting impact of ECS and the continuing artistic exchange between New York and Italy. ⠀ —
 A Legacy That Continues ⠀ The presentation of Tilted Glass at the FINI Dance Gala is a celebration of the connections that can emerge when artists are given a platform to experiment, create and establish lasting relationships. ⠀ As Mare Nostrum Elements marks its 25th anniversary, the organization looks not only at the history of the Emerging Choreographer Series, but also at the artists who have carried that experience forward. ⠀ The FINI Dance Festival Gala underscores the enduring power of artistic collaboration—and the importance of creating opportunities for emerging choreographers to become the established artists of tomorrow.

Fini Dance New York
at Alvin Ailey Theater
August 30th
8 PM

07/15/2026

🎉 Big news! The Emerging Choreographer Series returns in 2027 with a brand-new cohort of emerging choreographers.

As we look ahead to the next chapter of ECS, we’re sharing some of the incredible work that has come out of the program, including Euphonic Connection by Mikaela Morisato , originally premiered as part of ECS #9 in 2022 and re-presented at the 13th Emerging Choreographer Series Highlights Festival 2026 at LPAC.

🎯Interested in joining the next ECS cohort? Stay tuned for the 2027 Emerging Choreographer Series Open Call, coming later this summer.

Piece: Euphonic Connection
Originally premiered: ECS 9 (2022)
Re-presented: 13th Emerging Choreographer Series Highlights Festival (2026) at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC)
Choreographer: Mikaela Morisato
Performers: Erik Debono, Ian Debono, Lavy Cavaliere, Marcus Sarjeant
Music: “Get in the Car,” “New Stuff” by Travis Lake, and “Residual Stress” by Tzusing
Music Editing: Erik Debono
Costume Design: Timo Sassen
Lighting Design: Philip Trevino
Video: Garrett Parker

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.

📍
📅 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.

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