Abrons Arts Center is the performing arts center of the Henry Street Settlement social services organization in the Lower East Side.
It has an illustrious history in dance, fashion and theater. Today it gives voice to Lower East Side immigrant communities.
Abrons Arts Center News
March 22, 2022
Ogemdi Ude’s dance is performance art. It’s different, but don’t discount it. Ude is a highly-trained, very serious and respected dancer and teacher. She is also a doula which is sort of a spiritual midwife who helps mothers through birthing. Ude is a bridge between women’s traditions in Mother Africa and New York.
“Dig” is the loss. “Hear” is processing the loss. “Sing” is getting over it.
Nigerian American Women’s Dance
Ogemdi Ude: Dig is Part 1: of the NY Nigerian American dancer’s “Dig/Hear/Sing” triptych about processing loss, at Abrons Arts Center in the Lower East Side on Thu, Mar 31 at 7pm. $21. 🇳🇬
Nigerian American Women’s Dance
Ogemdi Ude: Hear is Part 2: of the NY Nigerian American dancer’s “Dig/Hear/Sing” triptych about processing loss, at Abrons Arts Center in the Lower East Side on Fri, Apr 1 at 7pm. $21. 🇳🇬
Nigerian American Women’s Dance
Ogemdi Ude: Sing is Part 3: of the NY Nigerian American dancer’s “Dig/Hear/Sing” triptych about processing loss, at Abrons Arts Center in the Lower East Side on Sat, Apr 2 at 7pm. $21. 🇳🇬
The Art Show by the ADAA (Art Dealers Association of America), Presents America’s Top Galleries and Benefits Henry Street Settlement
PARK AVENUE ARMORY, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Abrons Arts Center Tickets
Abrons Arts Center
Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand St
(at Pitt St)
Lower East Side, Manhattan
Subways
(F)(M) or (J)(Z) to Delancey St – Essex St (walk 8 blocks)
The Art Show 2021 (ADAA) Brings America’s Top Galleries to New York
PREVIEW
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Benefits Henry Street Settlement
FAIR
Thu-Sun, November 4-7, 2021
PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Upper East Side
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Break Your Fiebre de Cabina (Cabin Fever) with Indie Music Curated from Santurce, Puerto Rico
ABRONSARTSCENTER.ORG | November 20 – December 23, 2020 🇵🇷 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇲🇽 🇺🇸
Navidad Flamenca 2019: A Flamenco Nutcracker
Fri-Sun, December 6-8, 2019
LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ Bring to life the holiday traditions of the Spanish diaspora in Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico and mother Spain at Abrons Arts Center
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A Very Big Little Theater
Abrons Arts Center is a small theater with an illustrious history in theater, dance and fashion. It was founded by the Lewisohn sisters as the Neighborhood Playhouse in 1915. It presented theater and film.
The center became known for avant-garde theatre. During the Roaring Twenties, famous dancers who performed there include Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. These are some of the beginnings of modern dance.
The center was renamed the Henry Street Playhouse in 1927. In the 1930s, co-founder Irene Lewisohn founded what would later become the Met Costume Institute.
The center has three theaters:
- Playhouse Theater seats 330
- Experimental Theater seats 60
- Underground Theater seats 97