Enjoy the excellence of McKoy Dance Project || MDP from ANYWHERE! MDP | On Demand is our hub for MDP’s virtual programs and events!
Through MDP | On Demand you can watch a variety of MDP Repertory for one small fee of $25. You will have access to these videos for one month. If you’d like to continue your access, you will have to renew your monthly access.
Please Note: Dance Films and Virtual Concerts are priced separately from the MDP | On Demand Membership Access.
MDP | Presents: Collective Voices Dance Festival (2025)
$20 for a virtual viewing of this concert
Collective Voices celebrates bold, boundary-pushing choreographers and dance artists whose work centers identity, storytelling, and the power of community. Recorded live at the Mark O’Donnell Theater in Brooklyn, this virtual concert brings the festival to audiences everywhere. This year’s festival features: 6 choreographers, 5 premieres, 8 works performed by the MDP company and guest artists, and a community of supporters who make this work possible.
As you watch, we invite you to breathe, witness, reflect, and feel. Your presence is part of the story.
Program Order:
It’s All Burned Down! by Miguel Miranda (MDP)
re/lease by Shaina McGregor (People’s Choice)
Revival by Lauryn Crowell (Guest)
Alegría by Derick McKoy, Jr. (MDP)
Suite for the Brokenhearted by Derick McKoy, Jr. (MDP)
FATALE (Excerpt) by Lindsay Jorgensen (People’s Choice)
Ash & Bone by Valkyrie Yao (Guest)
Overcurrent by Derick McKoy, Jr. (MDP)
“Love, Nina“: The Dance Film (2025)
$20 for a virtual viewing of this Dance Film
“Love, Nina” is a solo work set to the haunting and rhythmic sounds of Nina Simone. Built in two sections, “Love, Nina” embodies femininity, heartbreak, struggle for strength, and readiness for a new future. A letter to all women “Love, Nina” gets its name from Ms. Simone who comically signed a letter she scribed to Langston Hughes. In this letter, Nina admires Hughes for his important work and explains how he inspired powerful emotions within her.
Directed, Choreographed, and Edited by Derick McKoy, Jr.
Filmed by Brendan Flaherty
Costumes by Erica Johnston
Casting in Video:
Maya Addie & Aanyse Pettiford-Chandler
Do the flowers still bloom when Winters comes? (2023)
$25 for access as an MDP | On Demand Member
Do the flowers still bloom when winter comes? is a captivating marriage of dance performance and theater. Dramatic and intimate narration drives the story of two beings navigating the relationship with self and the relationship between each other. Do the flowers still bloom when winter comes? illuminates the idea that falling in love with someone’s flowers, but not their roots leaves you barren when Fall and Winter come. This ballet examines the projections we attach onto others in our search for love (love in ourselves and love for others). We leave little room for the people closest to us to be who they truly are. Music by Ricky Nelson, Hiatus Kaiyote, AIR, Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch and George Bokaris create a dramatic score, fitting the ballet’s vulnerability.
Casting in Video:
Babou Sanneh & Rachel Yoo
solitude (2023)
$25 for access as an MDP | On Demand Member
solitude is a work that creates conversation around not allowing your value to be dictated by your community. Ashley Kaylynn Green reveals through solitude that depleting your sanity to make others feel good is universal. It’s a common shared experience where it’s easy to feel alone, even when you are surrounded by a community of people that love you.
Casting in Video (2024):
Carl Ponce Cubero
Tyler Choquette
Sumire Ishige
Shaina McGregor
Sadiya Ramos
Glimmer in the Dusk (2022)
$25 for access as an MDP | On Demand Member
Glimmer in the Dusk plays with contrasting textures of beautiful structure and decay. Set to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Glimmer in the Dusk expands the story of Pandora’s Box to explore themes of anxiety, depression, and the search within to find that ”glimmer”, a spark of joy that’s ever-present in dark times.
Casting in Video:
Maya Addie
Tyler Choquette
Khalid Dunton
Mika Greene
Sumire Ishige
Tevin Johnson
Shaina McGregor
Richard Sayama
Hush (2022)
$25 for access as an MDP | On Demand Member
Hush is a dynamically empowering and electrifying work that features four dancers as they navigate through the lives of Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, and Alice Paul. Set to music by Sons of Kemet, and choreographed by Derick McKoy, Jr, Hush discusses themes of freedom, equality, and an individual’s potential for greatness. These iconic historical figures helped shape a strong legacy that forever altered the country, affecting many futures yet to come. This work honors their contributions.
Casting in Video (Order of Appearance):
Mika Greene – Rosa Parks // Teal Dress
Maya Addie – Ida B. Wells // Yellow Dress
Tyler Choquette – Alice Paul // Purple Dress
Shaina McGregor – Harriet Tubman // Red Dress
These Stars Are Something Heavy: The Dance Film (2021)
FREE
In Spring 2021, McKoy Dance Project || MDP premiered These Stars Are Something Heavy, a docu-dance film filled with riveting storylines and thoughtful insights. Choreographed and directed by Artistic Director Derick McKoy, Jr the company was inspired and impassioned by the murder of George Floyd to showcase the inequities built in our nation’s founding principles. The film’s plot line examines the paradox present in the phrase “liberty and justice for all” through conversation, and articulate dance movement.
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