Over an thrilling ten-year interval below the management of Creative Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher, EMERGE125 has remade itself as one of the revolutionary motion arts firms in New York Metropolis. E125 has held an important and steady presence in New York Metropolis’s dance ecosystem for greater than 4 a long time, touring internationally, presenting work on outstanding phases, and contributing meaningfully to the American trendy dance canon. Since 2016, Rea-Fisher’s governance has redefined the group’s id whereas remaining true to its founding imaginative and prescient. Grounded within the vibrant creative tradition of Harlem, E125’s distinctive and holistic strategy to creative engagement has established the corporate as a major financial driver and thought chief within the NYC arts world.
By means of a set of core values that features prioritizing creative excellence, dancer care, group impression, dependable execution of deliberate programming, EMERGE125 has absolutely entrenched itself as a thriving, self-sustained group that constantly produces high-caliber work. Below Rea-Fisher’s visionary management, they’ve expanded their workers, cultivated robust and lasting partnerships, and scaled their programming, all whereas sustaining their uncompromising dedication to their mission of creative excellence. As E125 marks the tenth anniversary of Rea-Fisher’s stewardship, the corporate proudly unveils its 2025/2026 season: a vibrant tapestry of group initiatives, boundary-pushing collaborations, enriching academic outreach, and daring choreographic debuts that seize the group’s signature ingenuity and kaleidoscopic range.
E125 welcomes the New 12 months in New York Metropolis with a pair of firm showcases as a part of the 2026 Affiliation of Performing Arts Presenters’ Convention as a visitor of the Dance Managers Collective. EMERGE125 will probably be presenting at New York Metropolis Middle in Studio 5 at 2:30 pm January 9 and at Ailey Citigroup Theater that night at 9:15 pm. Entry to those showcases is free with RSVP, click on right here to seek out out extra.
The corporate heads south in late January to participate within the 2026 Alabama Dance Competition and the Annual Convention and Competition of the Worldwide Affiliation of Blacks in Dance (IABD) in Atlanta, the place EMERGE125 will probably be educating, lecturing, and auditioning for our upcoming summer time workshops.
EMERGE125 is proud to announce the situation of their annual season of stay performances in Could of 2026 at El Museo del Barrio in Spanish Harlem. This new location has supplied the corporate with a bigger stage, extra seats, and easy accessibility for his or her core uptown fanbase. The exact dates and extra present data for these performances and forthcoming 2026 Gala will probably be introduced earlier than January.
E125’s 2026 performances will characteristic three necessary new works by Rea-Fisher. The primary honors the California grizzly bear. Emblazoned on California’s state flag, this exemplar of American wilderness has been extinct within the state for practically a century. That highly effective irony conjures up Rea-Fisher’s work in collaboration with the California Grizzly Alliance (CGA) and environmental consciousness non-profit-organization Vildwerk, which explores the potential for reintroducing grizzlies to their native habitat. By means of unique choreography, projection artwork, and sustainable costume design, Rea-Fisher makes use of the emotive energy of dance to attach audiences to nature and encourage conservation motion. This 30-minute piece introduced with blessings from Indigenous Tribal Leaders, will characteristic 9 numerous dancers from throughout the U.S. CGA serves as each artistic and academic advisor, becoming a member of performances to distribute toolkits and assets selling re-wilding and broader environmental engagement. This dance work contains a stay soundscape, incorporating tribal music, forest ambiance, and the guttural calls of bears to sonically characterize and honor the animal’s presence.
E125’s second premiere, Migrate, addresses the intersection of pure migration and human immigration. This efficiency is scored with a brand new chamber music work by composer Jackson A. Waters, as commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony.
In 2026, EMERGE125 will even premiere a 3rd daring and as-yet-untitled interdisciplinary work that locations the creation of unique music and dance in dynamic dialog. Composer Fredrick Kennedy and Music Researcher Deadra Hart, each completed musicians and students of protest music, will collaborate immediately with Rea-Fisher to unite motion and sound. This 30-minute full-company piece that includes 9 EMERGE125 firm dancers will embody the tensions of protest in expressive physicality. Resident designers Rachel Dozier-Ezell (costume designer) and Christopher Brusberg (lighting designer) will echo the grounded and theatrical juxtapositions inherent throughout the work.
EMERGE125 workers and dancers plan to take part within the Juneteenth March by Central Park, co-created six years in the past with Rea-Fisher. Additionally, this summer time, in service of continuous to develop and diversify E125’s audiences, Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) continues as a noteworthy collaborator to the corporate. Now in our tenth yr of partnership with Tiffany serving as CTH’s Resident Choreographer, these common collaborations have grow to be a cherished custom for each the Harlem group and the corporate members of CTH and E125. These performances are freed from price, making a welcoming atmosphere for all.
In July, EMERGE125 will host their third NYC Summer time Workshop, providing Intermediate and Superior stage dancers entry to one-on-one and group instruction from the corporate’s Instructing Artists and Administrators. Extra data may be discovered right here.
Alongside this formidable lineup of stay occasions, E125 will proceed its important dedication to training at their associate colleges, together with Stars of Tomorrow Mission, Repertory Firm Excessive College for Theater Arts, P.S. 481 (The STEAM Bridge College), and Trinity College, all through the 2025 and 2026 calendar years.
