PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance announces THE DARK
A fearless winter festival of live performance radiating across Columbia County February 16—22, 2026.
The Dark is a new expression of PS21’s commitment to partner and collaborate with its neighboring communities, venues and institutions, signaling a long-term investment in reestablishing the region as a year-round destination while leveraging under-utilized creative infrastructure. Embedded in this process is the transformation of PS21 itself from an innovative and impactful spring and summer venue into one that retains its gravitational pull as temperatures drop and the nights grow longer.
“This festival and this program is a snow-fed fever dream,” said Vallejo Ganter, Artistic & Executive Director of PS21. “It’s a vision created by the incredible PS21 team, the artists whose work we serve and the collaborating venues across the county, all adding up to create a thrilling contradiction with the common expectation that winter comprises fallow months. This is what organizations like us should and need to be doing—creating moments for the community around them that simply can’t happen otherwise. This is why the arts exist: to bring us together in dialogue, debate and communion, in ways that we didn’t know were possible.”
With a full program set to be revealed in January 2026.
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