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DA participated in numerous festivals and performance series in New York, such as the Evolution Festival at the Center at West Park, Performance Studio Open House (PSOH) at the Center for Performance Research, Take Root at Green Space Studio, Open Performance for Movement Research, Under Exposed at Dixon Place, and SharedSpace at the Mark Morris Dance Center.
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DA repertoire includes six full-length works and over 20 short performance pieces that combine dance with multimedia, theater, music, and visual arts. Its most recent piece, Pathways & Architecture (2025), premiered at the Evolution Festival at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, featuring collaborations with renowned artists including Emilio Teubal, Horacio Martinez, and Vadit Suwatcharapinun.
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DA was a resident artist at the Center at West Park between 2021 and 2022, creating and presenting the create-your-own-adventure, immersive dance experience, Welcome to Imagi*Nation (2022).​​
Photo Credit Carmen Caceres
DanceAction is a contemporary dance company based in New York, led by Argentinian dance artist Carmen Caceres. Our culturally diverse team includes artists across disciplines, such as dance, music, drama, media, and visual arts. Together, we create dance works that reflect social realities, relationships, and social justice. Our primary purpose is to interpret these issues and use our works to propel change.
DanceAction is a fiscally sponsored member of New York Live Arts, Inc., a non-profit, tax-exempt organization.
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Photo Credit Carmen Caceres
DA has self-produced multiple performing events. Most recently, its multimedia piece, The Price is Right (De-Valued) (2024), was presented at the Center for Performance Research for two consecutive evenings. Carmen Caceres and DA also produce the DanceAction Garden Series. This performance event brings together artists from diverse disciplines (Dance, Music, Theater, & more) to showcase short works rooted in improvisation and spontaneous composition on Friday evenings between June and September at the DanceAction Garden Space.
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DA's interactive experience, BLINDSPOT (2019), inspired by George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, premiered as a full-length multimedia performance piece at the Mark Morris Dance Center, James and Martha Duffy Performance Space in Brooklyn, NY. In January 2018, DA produced an entire evening of works inspired by political activism and social justice at the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, NY. DA's works have been awarded the Brooklyn Arts Fund Community Grant, the Dance/NYC Emergency COVID-19 Grant, the City Artist Corps Grant, and the LMCC Creative Engagement Grant.
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DA has also been invited to international dance festivals in different cities. Its first full-length work, Game Night (2015), was part of the First International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City (FIDCDMX) in August 2016. In July 2018, the company participated in the International Contemporary Dance Festival and Campus Ticino in Danza in Ticino, Switzerland, performing 2 Minutes Hate (2017). The company also presented this thought-provoking piece in October 2018 at Women Center Stage Festival – Directors Weekend II, organized and curated by Culture Project.
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