Chicken Soup, from 1981, was inspired by Blondell Cummings’s “childhood memories of her grandmother in the kitchen,” as the Danspace Project program notes. By reimagining the solo nearly forty-five years later, Marjani Forté-Saunders expands upon Cummings’s rendering of familial histories, breathing a new life into the work—one brimming with grief, unity, and unadorned radiance.

CARVALHO PARK presents New York City Ballet (NYCB) dancers Taylor Stanley and Alec Knight’s new choreographic work titled Ephemeral solace (in passing). As part of CARVALHO PARK’s performance series, the work interacts with Nicola Turner’s installation Fabric of Undoing, breathing life into the artist’s sculptural forms.

The Dance on Camera Festival presents Who Cares About Pal Frenak, directed by Glória Halász, as one of their 2025 feature film selections at Symphony Space. The documentary follows French-Hungarian contemporary choreographer Pál Frenák from his tumultuous childhood to his inventive career in dance.