The Performance Project

This year is packed with invigorating dance, theater and music performances. Check out our performance calendar for the
full listing of events.

The Performance Project @ University Settlement provides established, emerging and young artists and local audiences with opportunities to connect and enrich each other's lives. Our aim is to encourage greater participation in the live arts and to help cultivate diverse creative communities on the Lower East Side.

Developed in 2007, The Performance Project @ University Settlement stands out among local opportunities for performing artists to present original work. We seek artists who are philosophically aligned with the spirit of the Settlement House movement. Artists who are conscious of the multi-layered communities that co-exist in New York City and who want to break the mold of making art for other artists are the best candidates for inclusion in our annual programming.

Resident artists will be fully immersed in the Settlement House community though a year long process in which they will engage program participants and staff while documenting their experience through the University Settlement blog. Performance opportunities include a shared Works in Procress Festival in the winter followed by a weeklong performance run in the spring, giving artists the chance to continue developing their work in a familiar space over an extended period of time.