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MDP | Community Grooves: Workshop with Miguel Miranda
October 4th, 2025 at 3pm
Move, connect, and create with NYC-based Peruvian artist Miguel Miranda in this special Community Grooves experience ahead of his MDP world premiere, It’s All Burned Down!
✓ Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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October 4, 2025
MDP | Community Grooves: Workshop with Choreographer Miguel Miranda
Mark Morris Dance Center at 3 PM
Move, connect, and create with NYC-based Peruvian artist Miguel Miranda in this special Community Grooves workshop ahead of his MDP world premiere, It’s All Burned Down!.
October 10, 2025
MDP | Unlocked (Season Preview of Collective Voices)
DanceLAB NY at 7 PM
First look at the bold new works of our upcoming Collective Voices Dance Festival. Join us in the studio for an intimate, behind-the-scenes preview—FREE (Donations suggested; $10+) and open to the public. Experience the movement before it hits the stage.
October 11, 2025
MDP | Community Grooves: Workshop with People’s Choice Choreographer #1
Mark Morris Dance Center at 3 PM
Experience the energy of Collective Voices up close in this dynamic Community Grooves workshop led by one of our two People’s Choice Choreographer—voted by the community, celebrated on stage.
October 11, 2025
MDP | Community Grooves: Workshop with People’s Choice Choreographer #2
Mark Morris Dance Center at 4:30 PM
Experience the energy of Collective Voices up close in this dynamic Community Grooves workshop led by one of our two People’s Choice Choreographer—voted by the community, celebrated on stage.
October 18th-19th, 2025
MDP | Collective Voices Dance Festival 2025
Mark O’Donnell Theater
Join us for the Collective Voices Dance Festival at The Mark O’Donnell Theater—an electrifying two-day celebration of new contemporary dance works by McKoy Dance Project and a powerful lineup of emerging choreographers. Experience bold premieres, diverse perspectives, and the next generation of movement-makers. Stick around after the final performance on Sunday for a special meet and greet reception with the artists.
October 24th, 2025
McKoy Dance Project at RE/VENUE NYC
Mark Morris Dance Center at 6:30 PM
McKoy Dance Project (MDP) brings its bold physicality and emotionally charged storytelling to RE/VENUE NYC with two dynamic works. Overcurrent is a powerful exploration of energy, resilience, and human connection, while Alegríabursts with joy, rhythm, and celebration. Together, these pieces embody MDP’s mission to break barriers and reimagine contemporary dance.
November 9th, 2025
Alegría (Excerpt): Presented at the Steffi Nossen Choreography Showcase
Steffi Nossen at 4 PM
McKoy Dance Project shared an excerpt of Alegría, a vibrant and high-energy work that celebrates resilience, rhythm, and joy, at the Steffi Nossen Choreography Showcase.
May 2026
Final Sharing of MDP | Choreographer’s Institute 2026
Join us for the Final Sharing of MDP | Choreographer’s Institute 2026—an intimate studio showing of new works developed during the residency, followed by a talkback with the choreographers. Witness process, experimentation, and the next wave of creative voices.
May 2026
MDP | Presents: BLOOM – A Spring Soirée of Dance
ANNOUNCEMENT COMING SOON
Past Events and Company Milestones
November 25th, 2019
McKoy Dance Project (MDP)’s debut performance. The company presented the evening length ballet, “Looking Out: A Stonewall Memorial” with the Opus 87 Piano Quartet
October 16th, 2020
McKoy Dance Project (MDP) becomes incorporated
April 16th, 2021
Premiere of MDP’s Feature Film, “These Stars Are Something Heavy“
May 22nd, 2021
“Hush” premieres as part of the Nimbus Arts Festival at the completion of a five-week residency
June 19th, 2021
MDP performs “Hush” on Juneteenth at the Jamaica Dance Festival
May 14th, 2022
MDP presents their first New Visions concert to a nearly sold out house with eight company dancers, and four exciting ballets including three world premieres
August 11-12th, 2023
MDP presents their New Visions concert for a second time with 4 world premieres, including two new works by Executive Artistic Director Derick McKoy, Jr, and works by Ashley Kaylynn Green (Alvin Ailey), and Gianna Theodore (A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham).
February 8-29th, 2024
MDP + YOU launches Black Dance Series. Throughout the month of February (Black History Month), McKoy Dance Project celebrates and shares the rich history of Black traditions in dance. Providing free public classes centered around dance styles that are rooted in Black History, MDP provides an overview of Black Dance and fosters discussion around the legacy and lineage from a few dance techniques practiced widely today. This program increases access to dance for the community while also educating on the influence of Black Dance. Classes were in Jazz, Tap, Sabar West African, and House.
March 29th, 2024
MDP partners with Art Transforms, Inc to present “Watch me Rise: I Am Woman”, an evening of Jazz and Dance.
August 11th, 2024
MDP performs Battery Dance Festival for the first time at Rockefeller Park in NYC. Dancer Aanyse Pettiford-Chandler debuts “Love, Nina” on the BDF stage.
October 12-13th, 2024
MDP launches the Collective Voices Dance Festival and present Alegría and SKETCHED, two new world premieres by Executive Artistic Director Derick McKoy, Jr. Five choreographers joined MDP in the festival and presented their works.
February 22nd, 2025
MDP premieres “Love, Nina”: The Dance Film during a mini performance in New York City. The film is received extremely well by the audience and the dancers are praised for their beauty during the excerpts of MDP repertoire.
May 5-11th, 2025
MDP launches the Choreographer’s Institute with two emerging choreographers: Valkyrie Yao and Austin Warren Coats. After a week of exploration, the company performs these works-in-process during a showing at Mark Morris Dance Center.
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