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 Residence, Petra Zanki.

Petra Zanki (she/her) is a 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

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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.

Season Closing Event & Fundraiser (for the conservation and restoration of the Amazon rainforest through the Boa Foundation)

DANCE: Becoming by Alexandre Barranco: a solo act inspired by the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly
LIVE MUSIC: Denise Reis SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE: Ezra Campelli and Jeremy Clemente PERFORMANCE: Bottlecap by Fantasy Grandma POETRY: Reading by Honeychild Coleman
SOUND HEALING: Inner Sanctuary Activation with Boshko Boskovic
WISE WORDS: Fritjof Capra & Benki Piyako

+ Vegan Bites by Mariana Tamiozzy + Herbal elixirs by Crystal Drip Elixirs

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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 and by Council Member Lincoln Restler of District 33.

Sat, Oct 21 @NOoSPHERE Arts | @Last Frontier NYC | @Kingsland Wildflowers

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GUIDED TOURS:
~ Sign up through OHNY (12 PM & 1 PM)

OPEN ACCESS: ~ Our spaces will be open to the public between 2 PM-4 PM

VISIT HIGHLIGHTS:
~ Artist studio & Paintings at Last Frontier NYC
~ Site-Specific Installation: Westerlies by the 2023 season's KWBS Residency Award winners: Ezra Campelli and Jeremy Clemente (Upper Meadow)

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 and by Council Member Lincoln Restler of District 33.

@NOoSPHERE Arts | @Last Frontier NYC | @Kingsland Wildflowers
As a Kingsland Wildflowers partner, NOoSPHERE Arts is proud to present visual arts, dance, music, performance, and more across and below the rooftops! (Free & Open to All ) VISUAL ARTS:
~ Small-Works Exhibition: Nature’s Cycles (KWBS Community Room)
~ Paintings (Last Frontier NYC)
~ Site-Specific Installation: Westerlies by KWBS Residency Award winners: Ezra Campelli and Jeremy Clemente.
DANCE:
~ It’s Showtime New York! (Stage Roof and more)
LIVE MUSIC:
~ MOMENTUM + Dance Improvi by Matlakas & Gabrielle (Stage Roof)

~ Tyr Jami aka Syngja (Last Frontier NYC)
PERFORMANCE:
~Live painting by  Michel Platnic  (Last Frontier NYC)
~Puppetry: “Movement Dreaming with Soils” with Marina ‘heron’ Tsaplina and Moira Williams (Upper Meadow & Back Field)
WISE WORDS:
~ Fritjof Capra on the essential characteristics of life (Teepee)
WORKSHOP:
~ Nature painting for kids by Asia Sztencel - (CreekSide) 

Co-Hosts: Broadway Stages, Newtown Creek Alliance, and Alive Structures

Our programming is 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 and Broadway Stages.

An Ecstatic Solstice Celebration
ROOFTOP SEASON-OPENING EVENT
Sat, Jun 24 @NOoSPHERE Arts

We will kick off our outdoor season with a music, dance, and performing arts event celebrating the summer solstice. Held in the spectacular, one-of-a-kind setting of wildflower meadows stretching across the roofs of an industrial plant against the iconic backdrop of the NYC skyline, the event will be centered around a Sufi opening ritual honoring nature's cycles, performed by Whirling Dervish Farima Berenji. Farima—a Sufi Master and Magi from the bloodline of Iranian Zoroastrian Magi—and her sacred dancers will be accompanied by the klezmer music and Sephardic folk melodies of The Shul Band.

The ceremony has been designed as a unique blend of Muslim and Jewish elements—epitomizing the possibility of interfaith collaboration.

In addition, don’t miss the unveiling of Westerlies (a sonic and sculptural installation devised for the Kingsland Wildflowers Green Roof) by the 2023 season's KWBS Residency Award winners: Ezra Campelli and Jeremy Clemente

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.

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Site-specific dances across the urban meadows
Rooftop Concert by Duo Livia & Fred
Wise words by Fritjof Capra: Earth Ethics
DANCE (Curated by CreateART):
~ Solo by Princess Lockeroo: Lotus
~ Choreography by Thryn Saxon: Mother Tongue | Performers: Maggie Costales and Jamie Klienschnitz; Live Music by Bre Short
LIVE MUSIC: ~ Visiting from Brazil, Livia Nestrovski & Fred Ferreira form a dynamic duo of voice and electric guitar that is both subtle and virtuosic, experimental and elegant: the potency of a minimal set in a journey through old and new songs from Brazil and the World.

WE ARE NATURE 2022 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). 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.

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Itonje Søimer Guttormsen: Gritt
Outdoor feature film screening + Q&A with filmmaker
The film follows the title character on her journey from Bushwick, Brooklyn, to Oslo and beyond. Gritt is on a passionate quest to manifest her performance, “The White Inflammation”, a radical collective ritual meant to pierce the complacent fog cloaking privileged Scandinavia. With each hurdle, Gritt grows more desperate, and her mission to bury capitalism and the patriarchy takes her to increasingly unexpected places. Pushed by forces beyond her control, Gritt finds her way into the deep forests, where nature opens hidden doors.

WE ARE NATURE 2022 is sponsored, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts and also the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). NOoSPHERE Arts’ 2022 programming is 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.

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Fritjof Capra: The Emergence of Novelty
Gjert Rognli: What Nature Knows
Performance, Film, Photos, and Installation

Gjert Rognli’s project What Nature Knows - Dan maid luondu diehtá reflects a personal connection with Arctic Northern Norway – a region defined by light, darkness, and stark seasonal contrasts. Rognli, who hails from the Indigenous Sámi people, works across film, photography, sculpture, and performance, drawing on a passionate bond with the organic world. This multimedia project is a mythological journey into deep forests and across misty waterways—where surreal phenomena guide the viewer through the unknown.

WE ARE NATURE 2022 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). 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.

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VISUAL ARTS:
~ Print Show by Kingsland Editions (KWBS Community Room)
~ Paintings (Last Frontier NYC)
~ Site-Specific Installation by Sabrina Barrios (Upper Meadow)
DANCE (Curated by CreateART):
~ Stephen Shynes with Momentum (Stage Roof)
~ EB Dance (Middle Roof/Upper Meadow)
~ Nicki Miller and Benjamin E. Oyzon of Sticks & Stone
(Last Frontier NYC)
LIVE MUSIC:
~ Musical Resistance with dancers Oksana Horban & Dulce Crespo
( Stage Roof)
WISE WORDS:
~ Fritjof Capra on The Web of Life (Teepee @Last Frontier NYC)

WE ARE NATURE 2022 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). 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.

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Inti Raymi Indigenous Solstice Celebration:

Dance & music by Ñukanchik Llakta Wawakuna, Ñawpa Mashikuna, Pakarina Humbracuna, and Comunidad Andida from the Andes and local practitioners of Danza Mexica; concert by Afro-Cuban Melvis Santa & her band, La Rumba de Santa; and wise words on Nature’s Cycles by internationally renowned ecoliteracy scholar Fritjof Capra. Mensajes Espirituales by La Aurora, a Santera Mayor, on Wildflowers’ Lower Meadow. On the Upper Meadow, you can experience a site-specific installation by Brazilian artist Sabrina Barrios: an eco-feminist take on ancient celestial mythology.

WE ARE NATURE 2022 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). 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.

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6:30pm -Doors Open; Musical Prelude by Singing Cellist Lenna Pierce
7:00pm Opening Dance Ceremony by
Thunderbirds Native-American Dancers
7:45pm Introduction by Fritjof Capra : Thoughts on Water
8:00pm Dance Performance by NVA & Guests, curated by CreateART 8:30pm Musical Postlude by Singing Cellist Lenna Pierce

On this opening night of our summer season, we are thrilled to announce Brazilian artist Sabrina Barrios as the inaugural winner of
Broadway Stages’ Residency Award @ Kingsland Wildflowers:
Her site-specific installation will remain will remain on view on Upper Meadow throughout the evening and entire season.

WE ARE NATURE 2022 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). 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.

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Creekside Bandstand behind Last Frontier NYC

Get ready to dance and celebrate with a last hurrah of summer at the closing of this year’s WE ARE NATURE Series! As a coda to the previous day’s multidisciplinary homage to the migration of monarchs from Mexico, NOoSPHERE Arts is pleased to present:

~ A butterfly-inspired opening act by dancer Alexandre Barranco
~ Our very own Hermanos Villalobos, this time with all three brothers united on one stage! Acclaimed as one of today’s leading Contemporary Mexican groups, the original compositions and arrangements of The Villalobos Brothers masterfully fuse and celebrate the richness of Mexican folk music with the intricate harmonies of jazz and classical music.

Better wear your dancing shoes – we wanna see everyone moving along the water! FREE ADMISSION with support from the New York City Artist Corps Program

NOoSPHERE Arts’ Stage Roof | Kingsland Wildflowers

NOoSPHERE Arts X CreateART X Newtown Creek Alliance Present:
A Monarch's Journey: an Insectageddon satellite event in collaboration with The Highline, Saturday, September 25:
3 PM-4 PM (KW Rooftop to Paige Ave)
5 PM-6 PM (Paige Ave to KW Rooftop)

An immersive site-specific dance & music performance among the wildflowers of industrial Greenpoint inspired by the migration of Monarchs from their overwintering home in Mexico up to Canada and back again. Choreographers: Rebecca Margolick + Erick Montes
Specially composed musical narrative: Katy Gunn

This project will also be featured virtually in St. Petersburg, Russia, as part of the 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival:

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NOoSPHERE Arts Stage Roof below Kingsland Wildflowers

~ In response to popular demand, another round of Jester Eggs:
a humorous homage to the digester eggs looming behind our
Stage Roof. Concept, costumes and choreography: Molly Gorin
Dancers: Molly Gorin + Liz Hepp

~ Unearthed by IDA: Isabel Umali (dancer) & Dustin Carlson  (guitar/composition) + artists Lauryn Hayes (dancer) and
Lathan Hardy (saxophone). Created specifically for our Back Roof
with its backdrop of monumental recycling plants.

~ Cavalcade of SHORT FILMS: Adele Fournet; Marita Isobel Solberg; Pierre Lionel Matte; Gjert Rognli;  Jannicke Låker; Maximilien Luc; Espen Tversland; Rich Blundell (Oika); and Sichong Xie,
followed by Q & A with some of these international filmmakers.

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NOoSPHERE Arts Stage Roof below Kingsland Wildflowers

Site-specific, outdoor dance performance: NEST, Vol. 2
Director and Creator: Kelly Ashton Todd
Performers: Jennifer Payán and Kevin Pajarillaga
Musical Accompaniment: Christiaan van Voorst van Beest
Choreography: Jennifer Payán, Kevin Pajarillaga & Kelly Ashton Todd
Producers: Kevin Specter, Tracy Grogan, and Amelia Tsai
Costume Design: Allison Dyke
Opening and closing ceremonies: Sparrowhawk
Native plant & feather installation: seeds grown on site donated by Kingsland Wildflowers + materials provided by Vanishing Point Farm .
After sunset screening of Under Review: Katahdin, Vol. 2 in environmental dance film series that brings awareness to the public lands threatened by industrial development.

Generously supported by Lisa & Mike Springle
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Arts content curated by NOoSPHERE Arts:
MUSICAL ACTS:
Elsa Nilsson + Marta Sànchez + Chris Morrissey
Katy Gunn
VISUAL ARTS:
Print Show by Kingsland Printing
10th Anniversary Exhibit by NOoSPHERE Arts
PERFORMANCE ART:
Andreas Sjöstrand
DANCE co-organized with CreateART:
Elizabeth Burr
Molly Gorin + Liz Hepp
Michelle Thompson Ulerich: Nikki d'Arnault & Quaba Venza Ernest
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Creekside behind Last Frontier NYC

Queen Robert announces:
~ An excerpt from Cory and Smin's Love Conquers the Earth,
an eco-medy by Billy McEntee directed by Charles Quittner |
Co-produced by Nick Auer
Design by Rodrigo Hernandez Martinez
Featuring Rob Christie; E.B. Hinnant & Declan Zhang

~ A cavalcade of environmentally-conscious bits by Fantasy Grandma;
Chris of Hur; and our "ever-green" emcee Queen Robert

~ Pinc Louds: fun tunes for fun times on our outdoor dance floor
by the river -- bring your DANCING SHOES !!!

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Opening of Public Outdoor Season | 10th Anniversary Celebration
SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 6 - 10 PM @, above and around Last Frontier NYC
FYI: GATES CLOSE @ 7:15PM — STRAGGLERS ARE OUT OF LUCK!

~ Dance collaborations across our roofs:
Brianna Taylor/Confluence Performance Project with live music by Nico Tower + Maira Duarte/Dance to the People
~ Reveal of site‐specific sculpture for Kingsland Wildflowers by Yvonne Shortt in collaboration with Anhkhlave Arts Alliance
~ Live music acts against the Manhattan Skyline: 
Katy Gunn ;  Matapena and more…
~ Silent auction of artworks by international NOoSPHERE Artists
~ After party: Let’s dance by the Creek with joyful La Banda Chuska !

All proceeds to benefit our WE ARE NATURE programming:
This summer, our rooftop series will feature live music, dance performances, theater, performance art, visual art, a short-film festival, and lectures by international luminaries. Please keep returning to this page for a continuously updated calendar of events, or sign up for our mailing list here.

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Follow Up & Reflection Hour

As a counterbalance to the consumption-driven madness that is Cyber Monday, our team of artists and activists invited the public to a moment of shared reflection on our fragile reality:
~ Q & A with renowned Activist, Scientist and Author Fritjof Capra on his methods and thoughts around climate awareness
~ Discussion with choreographers Kelly Ashton Todd and Cameron KcKinney on their process of creating site-specific works for this unique setting
~ Live water-themed musical act by singer-songwriter Katy Gunn

Recording of 2-hour zoom session available here.

Sun, Sep 27 | WATER:
Site-specific dance piece inspired by Newton Creek by Kizuna Dance and live music by singing cellist Lenna Pierce

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PHOTOS by Effy Grey

Part of the official Climate Week 2020 programming, the live events were scheduled as bookends to the annual environmental summit hosted by the United Nations and the City of New York. Each featured a theme introduction by renowned scientist, educator, writer and activist Fritjof Capra (view video here) a newly commissioned site-specific dance work performed across several outdoor stages, and guest artist performances.

A co-production by NOoSPHERE Arts & CreateART sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

Site-specific dance piece inspired by bird migration by Kelly Ashton Todd with live music by Christiaan van Voorst van Beest; opening & closing ceremonies by Sparrowhawk & Lady Kabbaz.

See videos here https://vimeo.com/485207394 and here https://vimeo.com/484510148.

PHOTOS by Effy Grey

Part of the official Climate Week 2020 programming, the live events were scheduled as bookends to the annual environmental summit hosted by the United Nations and the City of New York. Each featured a theme introduction by renowned scientist, educator, writer and activist Fritjof Capra, (see video here https://vimeo.com/484646990) a newly commissioned site-specific dance work performed across several outdoor stages, and guest artist performances.

A co-production by NOoSPHERE Arts & CreateART sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).