Performance
Our original performance works celebrate the cultural diversity of the world and provide a platform for cultural diplomacy and exchange. We have received awards, honors, and acclaim for our performances and scholarship.
For over 30 years, Mark DeGarmo has created and produced over 100 performances and multiple international tours across 13 countries.
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Featured in the image from L to R: Antonio Ramos (Puerto Rico/ NYC);
Dr. Mark DeGarmo (NYC); Kiran James (Chicago, IL)
Calling all Performing Artists!
Stay tuned! 2027 applications will open soon!
Click here to rent the 2026 season on YouTube.
Founded in 2010, MDD’s Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change provides an opportunity to view and engage with original performing arts and dance works-in-progress of guest artists.
During the 2026 season, MDD presented 3 curated and facilitated 90-minute broadcasts via Zoom with the theme Dance and Social Change, featuring 12 presenting artists from 7 states (Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania) and 6 countries (India, Japan, Peru, Russia, the United States, and Venezuela).
Since February of 2019, MDD presented in 45 salons, including 2 Virtual International Arts Festivals (6 VIA performances total) featuring 624 total artists from 24 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and 33 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, England, France, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela. 54 (33%) of the 164 primary artists were from New York City, and 56 (34%) total were from New York State. Artists included 71% women, 60% People of Color and people identifying as LGBTQIA+, nonbinary, people with disabilities, and seniors.
Australian researchers in creativity, education, and the arts Daniel X. Harris, Peter J. Cook, and Kelly McConville published a 2024 article in NJ: Drama Australia Journal about their experiences and findings of Mark DeGarmo Dance’s Salon Performance Series 2019, “Non-representational Performed Research: Beyond the ‘Authenticity Debate’”. “This article investigates the power of performed research outside of traditional ‘ethnographic’ or ‘verbatim’ categories, and amongst diverse audiences. Comparing a performance at a New York dance studio, with performing similar material for an ‘academic’ audience, allows us to interrogate the interplay between performers and audience, as well as scholarly evocation ‘versus’ representation.”
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Artist Bios:
2026 Season
2025 Season
2024 Season
2023 Season
2022 Season
2020-21 Season
2019-20 Season
2018-19 Season
Click here to rent the 2025 season on YouTube.
Click here to rent the 2024 season on YouTube.
Click here to rent the 2023 season on YouTube.
Click here to rent the SPS 2022 season on YouTube.
Click here to experience SPS 2019-2020 on YouTube.
For inquiry or questions, please email info@markdegarmodance.org.
Mark DeGarmo Dance is seeking 10-second long video submissions from anyone (artists of any discipline, non-artists, dancers or non-dancers) who wants to move and share their expression! All submissions will be compiled into one final Global Dance Circle for Social Change video and shared on social media! Our 10th Global Dance Circle for Social Change video will be shared on December 21st, 2026 (the winter solstice) with the theme: “Celebration.”
Professional and recreational dancers are all invited to submit a clip. To be included in MDD’s next “Global Dance Circle for Social Change” video, complete the Google Form here.
**Deadline to Submit: Saturday, October 17th, 2026 at 11:59 PM
*Please note: Mark DeGarmo Dance has the ultimate decision of what is included in the final video. By submitting your video to Mark DeGarmo Dance, you are agreeing to: grant MDD all permissions to use, reproduce and publish said video indefinitely; to alter the same without restrictions; and to copyright the same. You also release MDD and its board of directors, officers, employees, legal representatives, and assigns from any and all such claims, actions, and liability relating to its use of said creative work, photographs, videotapes, and/or likeness. By submitting a clip, you also agree to be added to the MDD email list, from which you may unsubscribe at any time.
About Global Dance Circle for Social Change
Global Dance Circle for Social Change programming launched after Virtual Dance for Dance for Social Change 2020. MDD has produced and presented 10 parts from June 2020 (inaugural summer solstice broadcast) to December 2025 (winter solstice broadcast). GDC has featured 805 dancers from 41 countries, 25 US states, 18 time zones, and 6 continents. The December 2025 (part 10, theme: celebration) broadcast featured 153 dancers, musicians, and performing artists from 12 countries: Australia, Cameroon, Canada, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Estonia, India, Lesotho, Mexico, Serbia, Spain, USA, and Zimbabwe; 12 US states: Arizona, California, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania; 12 time zones, and 5 continents.
Check out our most recent GDC video on YouTube:
GDC Part 10 December 2025: Celebration!
GDC Part 9 December 2024: Celebration!
Featured in the image above: ADJI ADJI Charlotte Manuella (Yaoundé, Cameroon); Gordana Orescanin (Novi Sad, Serbia); Israel Javier Hernandez Montaño (Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico); Denaisha C. (Brooklyn, NY); Sudeshna Dey (West Bengal, India); Otredanza Compañía Artística LGBTI (Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia); Mboko Lopiki (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo); Uzzal Dance Academy (Dhaka, Bangladesh); Karla Florez (Queens, NY); Jean-Paul Mehansio (Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, West Africa).
The international festival creates a space for artists, scholars, and audiences to share, respond, and reflect beyond traditional, commercial performance spaces that often exclude people and limit access.
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Artist Bios:
Mark DeGarmo Dance premiered its Interview Series: Creativity and Creative Practice in 2020, consisting of short interviews with artists about their artistic work and responses to unexpected, rapidly changing events.
Available to rent (by donation) on Eventbrite.
June 5th: Ernesta and Andra Corvino
June 19th: Anabella Lenzu
July 3rd: Anne Harris
July 17th: Ronald A. Alexander
July 31st: Clarence Brooks
August 14th: Eva Yaa Asantewaa
“Moveable Moments” is a series of short improvisations performed by dancer, choreographer, and improvisational composer Mark DeGarmo, filmed and shared in monthly installments on Mark DeGarmo Dance’s social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter).
Moveable Moments 2019
Moveable Moments 2020
Moveable Moments 2021
Moveable Moments 2022
Moveable Moments 2023
Moveable Moments 2024
Moveable Moments 2025
We are now booking Las Fridas. Click here for Booking Inquiries.
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Las Fridas: A Movement Installation and Offering is a 60-minute transcultural transdisciplinary duet inspired by the life, loves, suffering, and artwork of Mexican painter and revolutionary Frida Kahlo.
New York City audiences and critics have heralded Las Fridas.
- “Brilliant in composition & execution.”
- “Not scared to push the audience right up to the edge that the performers are living on.”
- “Wonderfully in your face, both literally and metaphorically.”
- “It just curdled my blood. It’s just very very powerful.”
- “I was wide-eyed for the whole hour, and marveling at how beautifully you (Mark DeGarmo) and Ms. Baker-Lee complemented one another…”
- “It pulled me out of my little world. It really expanded my world…”
- “Las Fridas is a new form. It combines theater, movement and dance, performance art, visual art, and music, including the performer’s own vocalizations.”
- “Thank you for exposing me to this art form I really don’t know a lot about, and very much enjoyed.”
Click here to view 2019-20 audience responses.
Click here to view 2023 audience responses.
Click here to read an interview with Mark DeGarmo and Marie Baker-Lee in The Dance Enthusiast.
Click here to read a review of Las Fridas by Veronica Jiao on The Dance Enthusiast.
Mark DeGarmo‘s transdisciplinary solos highlight a range of theatricality: from drama to comedy and abstract to literal movement. This solo performance combines dance, music, theater, performance art, and clown. It investigates Walt Whitman and Raymond Duncan, Isadora Duncan’s brother. The program includes The Metrics of Awakening, Whoever You Are (Meditations on Walt Whitman), and A Happening: Raymond Duncan’s Art/Work Theories.