We are excited to announce our 2025 Season, kicking off our outdoor season with an evening of music, dance, and performance!
According to quantum theory, stillness doesn’t exist. A particle can never be at complete rest. And vacuum is by no means empty space but contains fleeting particles that continuously pop in and out of existence. Our 2025 outdoor season programming will offer a reflection on the fast, indiscernible dynamics that underpin the microscopic world that makes up every component of nature. This year’s theme, WE ARE NATURE: The Microcosmic Dance, is part of the global celebrations of the UN’s International Year of Science and Technology marking the centenary of quantum physics. Through art, music, dance and other performances, our featured talent will interpret some of the scientific, philosophical, and human aspects related to the quantum nature of the world. Uncertainty, entanglement, and delocalization are keywords of quantum jargon but also qualities of our lives. The season will explore creative intersections of quantum and human nature in a unique blend of art and science, allowing the public to reflect on the beauty and mystery of our universe, and harnessing the contemplation of microscopic frenzy to deliver inner peace.
May 25th Season Opening event will include:
- A dance duet performance called Someone I Used to Know, performed by the dancers Toni Owens (she/her) and Arthur “Trace” Yeames (he/him), and created by our Choreographer in Residency: Petra Zanki.
Petra Zanki (she/her) is Croatian-American award-winning immigrant choreographer living in Brooklyn, New York. Petra graduated from MFA Choreography program at CODARTS University in Rotterdam in 2023, and is a current Brooklyn Arts Fund Award 2024 recipient. She was nominated as the best upcoming choreographer on Zagreb Dance Platform, and granted multiple residencies across Europe among which two-year choreographic scholarship from ICK-Amsterdam/Emio Greco and Croatian HIPP-TSP. Her works have been shown across Europe, US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. In NYC she presented her works at Estrogenius Festival NYC, PRELUDE Festival/ Segal Center Cuny, DanceFest-Dance Parade, Mark Morris Dance Center, Movement Research/Judson Church, PS122/Dixon place, ChaShaMa/Gambit Works, and Pen & Brush. The texts about her works have been published in magazines Tanz, Performance Art Journal-MIT, Performance Research Journal, and The Bomb. Growing up in Croatia during the war, Petra’s main interest remains the transformation of pain into landscapes of beauty for the benefit of humanity.
This residency invites Petra Zanki to engage deeply with NOoSPHERE Arts’ rooftop spaces and seasonal programming, creating and presenting new or evolving site-specific choreographic work inspired by our annual theme and the surrounding urban ecology. Throughout the WE ARE NATURE season, Petra will activate our rooftop gardens and open-air environments as both stage and source, drawing from the rhythms, climate, and community of the space. Her residency will culminate in public performances that explore the intersection of movement, place, and ecological awareness.
Someone I Used to Know is a dance duet of memory and identity, where two bodies move like voices in conversation: exploring the lingering presence of someone once loved or known, how that person’s essence imprints and echoes inside you, and how fragments of others: past relationships, past selves, layer into your search for who you are now. The choreography unfolds like a memory surfacing: intimate, seeking, sometimes tender, sometimes distant. Movements loop and break, gestures repeat with variation, like echoes trying to return to their source. This is a duet you think of while gazing into a Brooklyn sunset: soft light grazing rooftops, the hum of the city below, the warmth of the day slipping away. It lives in that space between presence and absence where nostalgia feels almost physical, and the body becomes a vessel for everything unsaid.
- A Live Set by Lulada Club: a NYC's premier all-women salsa orchestra, a groundbreaking ensemble that showcases the incredible talent and creativity of female musicians at the forefront of the city's music scene. These powerhouse performers bring their unique voices and energy to every note. Lulada Club creates a dynamic, unforgettable experience that resonates with audiences from all walks of life. Each performance is not just a concert but an invitation to dance, connect, and celebrate the vibrant, inclusive community they’ve built—a celebration of culture, rhythm, and the strength of women in music.
Doors: 6:15PM
Show: 6:45PM
Sunset: 8:15PM
Our programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.