Encouraging new directions for live performance while paying homage to the form’s history & making way for its future, this year’s biennial artists include: Zheng Mahler, Simon Fujiwara, Juliana Huxtable, Robin Rhode, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Edgar Arceneaux, Erika Vogt, Jérôme Bel & Jesper Just, to name a few.

At various locations across New York City, visit: performa.org

Above: Photo of the Tai Wah Wing Cantonese opera troupe taken at the Sun Sing theatre in Lower Manhattan, 1950. Courtesy of Performa.