PS21 is excited to share a preview of our 2025 spring and summer programming—a season of ambitious, challenging, and joyful performances originally conceived by Inaugural Executive & Artistic Director Elena Siyanko and the current PS21 team. The full season will be announced in April.

The season kicks off May 30—31 with Hatched Ensemble by South African choreographer Mamela Nyamza (pictured above), where Nyamza and ten dancers deconstruct the traditional methods and logic of ballet and contemporary dance. 

From June 6—12, the Next Festival of Emerging Artists will return to PS21 for the third straight year, this time featuring the world-renowned Kronos Quartet. The Festival brings together outstanding early-career string players and leading composers from around the world to workshop and bring new works to life, culminating in a performance of world premieres on June 12.

On June 22, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus will perform PORT(AL), their new work about the history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, created by a team including Jad Abumrad, Dianne Berkun Menaker, Paola Prestini, Jessica Grindstaff, partially developed at PS21 in residency this winter. 

On June 28, Las Guaracheras, the all-female sextet from Colombia will come to PS21 for an afternoon of salsa. The ensemble’s cultural and artistic objective is to uplift the female voice within Afro-Latin music and build a more inclusive, diverse and respectful cultural space for all.

On July 11—12, Kyle Marshall Choreography will perform Femenine, their work embodies the music, life, and legacy of composer Julius Eastman. Partially developed in residency at PS21, the work creating a community onstage through touch, lifts and close connections.

PS21’s adventurous summer series of immersive concerts, discussions, and workshops will return in a new, three-day festival format from July 18—20. The festival will span genre-defying new music and bold works of the past, creating new contexts in which even the familiar becomes surprising. Taking place over Upstate Art Weekend, musicians and visual artists alike will offer free viewings, hands-on workshops, participatory music-making, unexpected collaborations and dazzling performances throughout the campus and the community.

Stay tuned for the full season announcement in April, with tickets on sale shortly thereafter.

Photo by Tale Hendnes.