World premiere Theatre Across his genre-defying work, Julian Brave NoiseCat often turns to the narrative arts of his people who tell stories about mythic ancestors like the trickster Coyote to make sense of the world and themselves, cutting through colonial fictions while pushing the boundaries of nonfiction to illuminate vital truths. The “Coyote Story,” an ... Read more
DATES: Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:30 pm Friday, February 20, 2026 5:30 pm Saturday, February 21, 2026 5:30 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 5:30 pm ______________________________ World premiere Dance Constellations is a performance from LaJuné that weaves figure skating, movement, and projected light into a study of connection, memory, and renewal. Skaters appear as moving ... Read more
DATES: Saturday, February 21, 2026 5:30 pm Sunday, February 22, 2026 5:30 pm ________________________________ World premiere Music / Theatre Songs for the Dark is a new performance exploring the ritual of song that holds us. Devised by Australian interdisciplinary artist/composer Sophia Brous with collaborating performers from the Hudson Valley and Berkshires region, and Latvian dramaturg ... Read more
Theatre A hallucination in sound and voice, Alex Harvey’s adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows exploits a tension between dream-time and clock-time through Victoria Finney’s lamplit one-woman recitation of the legendary short story. Drawing on Blackwood’s entanglement with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, occult modernism and early 20th-century mystical experimentation, Harvey and Finney’s ... Read more
Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. Open Monday—Sunday, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: 10:00—11:00 am, 11:20—12:20 pm, 12:40—1:40 pm, 2:00—3:00 pm, 3:20—4:20 pm, 4:40—5:40 pm, 6:00—7:00 pm Thursdays the saunas are available for private bookings, maximum ... Read more
Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. Open Monday—Sunday, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: 10:00—11:00 am, 11:20—12:20 pm, 12:40—1:40 pm, 2:00—3:00 pm, 3:20—4:20 pm, 4:40—5:40 pm, 6:00—7:00 pm Thursdays the saunas are available for private bookings, maximum ... Read more
Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. Open Monday—Sunday, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: 10:00—11:00 am, 11:20—12:20 pm, 12:40—1:40 pm, 2:00—3:00 pm, 3:20—4:20 pm, 4:40—5:40 pm, 6:00—7:00 pm Thursdays the saunas are available for private bookings, maximum ... Read more
DATES: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 7:30 pm Thursday, February 19, 2026 7:30 pm __________________________________- Theatre / performance Nothing #62: a bluff is the third part of Autumn Knights’s investigation into the Italian concept of “dolce far niente” – the sweetness of nothingness. Knight is alone, responding spontaneously to a space, its features, and its audience. ... Read more
Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. Open Monday—Sunday, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: 10:00—11:00 am, 11:20—12:20 pm, 12:40—1:40 pm, 2:00—3:00 pm, 3:20—4:20 pm, 4:40—5:40 pm, 6:00—7:00 pm Thursdays the saunas are available for private bookings, maximum ... Read more
Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. Open Monday—Sunday, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: 10:00—11:00 am, 11:20—12:20 pm, 12:40—1:40 pm, 2:00—3:00 pm, 3:20—4:20 pm, 4:40—5:40 pm, 6:00—7:00 pm Thursdays the saunas are available for private bookings, maximum ... Read more
Unwind with a rejuvenating sauna session at the PS21 Pond, everyday from January 31—March 1 various times. Open Monday—Sunday, January 31—March 1 from 10 am to 7 pm for hour long sessions: 10:00—11:00 am, 11:20—12:20 pm, 12:40—1:40 pm, 2:00—3:00 pm, 3:20—4:20 pm, 4:40—5:40 pm, 6:00—7:00 pm Thursdays the saunas are available for private bookings, maximum ... Read more
Praised for performances that “traverse the palette of emotions” with “gorgeous tone and an edge-of-seat intensity” (The New York Times), Grammy-nominated cellist and composer Andrea Casarrubios joins The Next Festival of Emerging Artists, returning to PS21 for the fourth consecutive year. For America’s 250th anniversary, Next Fest presents a program of vital work by women ... Read more
Led by Ainu musician OKI (Oki Kano), the Oki Dub Ainu Band comes to Chatham from the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. This one-of-a-kind band energetically weaves together reggae, afro beats, and electronic music with the folk music of the Ainu—Japan’s northernmost indigenous people—creating a driving, unexpected, and celebratory performance. Kano plays the tonkori, a ... Read more
An offsite presentation at Lumberyard in Catskill, NY: “Pure physical theatre, all about sheer brute strength, extraordinary dexterity and stunning skills… genuinely poetry in motion…mesmerising in its fluidity” — ArtsHub Led by visionary director Yaron Lifschitz, globally renowned Australian contemporary circus company Circa brings their breathtaking Eternity out of the cathedrals of Brisbane into Catskill’s ... Read more
An offsite presentation at Lumberyard in Catskill, NY: “Pure physical theatre, all about sheer brute strength, extraordinary dexterity and stunning skills… genuinely poetry in motion…mesmerising in its fluidity” — ArtsHub Led by visionary director Yaron Lifschitz, globally renowned Australian contemporary circus company Circa brings their breathtaking Eternity out of the cathedrals of Brisbane into Catskill’s ... Read more
An offsite presentation at Lumberyard in Catskill, NY: “Pure physical theatre, all about sheer brute strength, extraordinary dexterity and stunning skills… genuinely poetry in motion…mesmerising in its fluidity” — ArtsHub Led by visionary director Yaron Lifschitz, globally renowned Australian contemporary circus company Circa brings their breathtaking Eternity out of the cathedrals of Brisbane into Catskill’s ... Read more
Legendary composer Annea Lockwood has been a pioneer of field-recording and deep listening for decades—a composer of “insatiable curiosity” with “a singular ear for the music of the natural world” (The New York Times) and a special focus on the sounds of rivers. Claire Chase is a composer, MacArthur Fellow, Harvard professor, and “the most important flutist of our time” ... Read more
In 2019, interdisciplinary theater company 600 HIGHWAYMEN—Guggenheim Fellows Michael Silverstone and Abigail Browde, described by Le Monde as “standard-bearers of contemporary theater-making”—began a visual record of life in rural New York. Each of their works takes a different form; here, it unfolds as a sustained field of moving images. A PS21 commission, FIVE YEARS is a multi-channel performance installation built from ... Read more
Commonground is PS21’s annual free festival of large-scale contemporary performance and spectacle. A family-friendly celebration of the end of summer, Commonground welcomes the community to PS21 for performances from renowned international artists across the PS21 landscape. This year’s festival takes place September 4–7, and features the world premiere of SUPERDRUM X, a work featuring 100 self-playing drums by ... Read more
PS21 kicks off L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival—and brings it to upstate NY for the first time ever—with Athens-born, Paris-based choreographer Lenio Kaklea’s The Birds. Drawing on the vivid plumage, songs, and movements of birds, this striking new work reflects on what it means to be seen and heard—and deepens Kaklea’s inquiry into ecology and the human ... Read more