LaJuné McMillian
Constellations
World premiere
Dance
Constellations is a performance from LaJuné McMillian that weaves figure skating, movement, and projected light into a study of connection, memory, and renewal. Skaters appear as moving stars whose paths intersect, separate, and return to one another in a shifting constellation of shared experience. The work highlights detailed movement and close formation patterns: light, shadow, and motion create a cosmic landscape where moments of solitude blend with moments of collective strength, while sound and color shape an environment that feels expansive and grounded at the same time.
Constellations offers a portrait of community forming through movement. The performance centers care, curiosity, and the brilliance of embodied presence. The experience invites audiences into a world filled with resonance, wonder, and celestial energy.
The Dark: PS21’s fearless winter festival of live performance radiating across Columbia County
The Dark is a new annual festival from PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance that celebrates and elevates the depths of winter. Taking place February 16–22, 2026, the festival will unfold at PS21 and across Columbia County—in theatres, restaurants, libraries, saunas, and outdoor public spaces. Featuring more than 60 international artists and over 80 performances, The Dark offers a packed week of world-class contemporary performance, installation, music, dance, and theatre—all exploring winter as a time of community and solitude, fire and ice, darkness and light. A major new attraction for the region, the festival positions Columbia County as a year-round cultural destination—not just a summer one.
It is a light in the dark—and The Dark is the light.
Secure your Festival Pass to The Dark now which includes tickets to every performance along with a complimentary sauna and ice skating session!
LaJuné is a multidisciplinary artist, and educator creating art who integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our contemporary forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination. LaJuné has had the opportunity to show and speak about their work at National Sawdust, Tribeca Film Festival, Times Square, and the Guggenheim Museum.
LaJuné was previously the Director of Skating at Figure Skating in Harlem, where they integrated STEAM and figure skating to teach girls of color about movement and technology. The are currently the Skating Director of LeFrak Center at Lakeside, and run the Junior Board of Ice Theatre of New York. They have continued their research on Blackness, movement, and technology during residencies and fellowships at the ONX Studio, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, NYU ITP, Barbarian Group, and Barnard College.
The Dark is supported through a Market New York grant, awarded to PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance from Empire State Development and I LOVE NY, New York State’s Division of Tourism.
Digital content coverage for The Dark is supported by Bloomberg Connects.
The Dark‘s business sponsors are Millay Arts and The Mountains Media.
Thank you to the many generous individual supporters who helped fund The Dark.
PS21’s programs are made possible in part with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Please note that this performance has an unconventional seating, limited seats or standing room only. We are happy to accommodate any specific accessibility needs.
Please reach out to Adriana at boxoffice@ps21chatham.org, and she will coordinate with our front-of-house team to ensure your experience is comfortable and enjoyable.
