Noa Weiss

Noa Rui-Piin Weiss is a dancer, writer, and unlicensed archivist based in Manhattan Valley.

Vanessa Anspaugh’s mourning after mornings offers a sprawl of unruly movement and intergenerational tenderness at New York Live Arts.
Vanessa Anspaugh, mourning after mornings, New York Live Arts, November 2022. Photo: Maria Baranova.
Two writers wade into the hazy environment of David Thomson’s new work to grapple with opacity and transparency, the magical and mundane. Where one sees an M, the other sees a W, yet both come away with a sense of intimacy in the unknown.
David Thomson's VESSEL at The Chocolate Factory, October 26-29, 2022. Photo: Ian Douglas.
Dirt Trip is a beautiful blend of tightly researched monologues and manic physical improvisation. Tatarsky explicates esoteric clowning traditions, then riffs on them effortlessly.
Alex Tatarsky, Dirt Trip, MoMA PS1, June 5, 2022. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Angela Cholmondeley.
Kelsey Rondeau’s MAIN CHARACTER SYNDROME desperately wants to entertain you.
Kelsey Rondeau in Main Character Syndrome. Photo: Natalia Neuhaus.
Sperber’s signature minimalism is, at its core, an exploration of friction and weight. The dancers set limbs against torso, fabric against wind, shoes against roof. These experiments produce movement and sound in equal measure.
Myssi Robinson, Emma Judkins, Anna Sperber, and Angie Pittman in Bow Echo, 2021. Photo: Maria Baranova-Suzuki.
Over three weekends in June, Movement Research collaborated with River to River to curate a series of processional performances in Battery Park City. I attended Okwui Okpokwasili and Emilý Æyer’s “Procession,” which proved to be both simple and challenging.
Okwui Okpokwasili and Emilý Æyer’s Processions, June 20, 2021. Photo: Ian Douglas.
Dance is back in theaters. The productions are better than ever, but the real choreography is happening in the audience. As we navigate a safe return to indoor space, how do we hold on to the pleasures of attending a show?
Patrons at SOCIAL! the social distance dance club, rehearsal in Park Avenue Armory's Drill Hall, 2021. Photo: Stephanie Berger Photography/Park Avenue Armory.
deadbird + can anybody help me hold this body? is a reflection on devynn emory’s time as a COVID-19 hospice nurse and the American aversion to grief, death, and bodies in transition. emory brings their whole self into the piece, exposing the transitional nature of all people, especially those who are dying.
Joseph M. Pierce and devynn emory, Prospect Park, NY, April 1, 2021. Photo: Ian Douglas for Danspace Project.
As the slow crawl of ballot counting across America began on November 3, Dragonfly/Robin Laverne Wilson performed her own crawl through the streets of New York. Dressed as a statue of fugitive slave Ona Maria Judge Staines, the artist summons the power of a living monument.
ABSCONDED by Dragonfly. Photo: Dayeon Kim
In his description of The Master and Form (2018), Brendan Fernandes claims to “queer” the illusionistic discipline of ballet by focusing on effort, which would be radical if it weren’t a few years late.
Brendan Fernandes, The Master and Form, June 7, 2019. Left to right: Amy Saunder, Mauricio Vera, Tyler Zydel (bottom), Tiffany Mangulabnan, Tyler Zydel. Photo: Paula Court.

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