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Snug Harbor Dance Festival


  • Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanic Garden 1000 Richmond Terrace Staten Island, NY, 10301 United States (map)

sharing a new work in process, Bathymetry at the Snug Harbor Dance Festival.

Admission is pay what you wish and performances will be happening all day long throughout the ground of Snug Harbor. RSVP for the evens here!

The second annual Snug Harbor Dance Festival is a two-day event celebrating an array of dance styles, featuring site-specific performances, workshops, film screenings, and a panel discussion.

WHEN: Saturday, September 23 and Sunday, September 24, 2023 | 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
WHERE: Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301 (
View campus map and directions)
ADMISSION: Pay what you wish |
Day pass reservation requested here

The Snug Harbor Dance Festival creates space for artists and communities to get inspired, create, and connect through movement, with performances and activations by Bonita Oliver, J. Bouey & George Del Barrio, Kinesis Project dance theatre, Anabella Lenzu, Amelia Heintzelman, Psychic Wormhole, Nattie & Hollis, Lydia Bellach Ruocco, and more!

The Snug Harbor Dance Festival is supported by The Audience Building Project, a program of the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Governor and New York State Legislature. Additional support provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation, Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Saturday, September 23, 12 PM – 8 PM

12 – 8 PM: Dance films, Gallery G
Participating festival artists

12 PM: Bonita Oliver
Starting point: Octagon Room at the Carpenter’s Shop

1 PM: Kinesis Project community workshop on site-based dance
Shinbone Alley

2:15 PM: Kinesis Project Dance Theatre
Shinbone Alley

3 PM: Amelia Heintzelman
Carpenter’s Shop

4 PM: Nattie & Hollis
The lawn between Bldgs. G & F

1 PM, 3:30 PM, 5 PM: S A T U R N, an installation by J. Bouey and George Del Barrio with performance by DJ NYX
Newhouse Center, Gallery G

6 PM: Psychic Wormhole
Location: TBD

7 PM: Dance Party with DJ Nutmeg
Carpenter’s Shop

Sunday, September 24, 12 PM – 8 PM

12 – 8 PM: Dance films
Participating festival artists

12 PM: Performance by Lydia Bellach Ruocco
Newhouse Center, Building C front steps

12:30 PM: Panel Discussion: Preserving local dance histories and cultures with Candace Thompson-Zachery, Pia Agrawal, and Emily Hawk
Newhouse Center, Gallery G

2 PM: Kinesis Project Dance Theatre
Shinbone Alley

3 PM: Amelia Heintzelman
Carpenter’s Shop

4 PM: Nattie & Hollis
The lawn between Bldgs. G & F

5 PM: Anabella Lenzu
Gallery G

6 PM: Psychic Wormhole
Location: TBD

Informal post festival social after last performance on September 24

Earlier Event: September 19
SUNY Purchase Commission
Later Event: September 30
LMCC's Open Studios