WestFest Dance Festival presents the works of dance artists through two distinct programs: WestFest: Top Floor and WestFest: All Over Westbeth. 

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WestFest: Top Floor 2027  presents two programs of visionary artists at Westbeth, bringing audiences and artists together in an intimate, immersive performance environment. This year, we’re letting the building surprise us: WestFest’s 2027 Top Floor home is still being determined, but will be one of two premier performance spaces within the Westbeth campus. As we finalize the space, artists should be prepared to present their work in a range of settings, from a traditional theater configuration to a more unconventional performance environment. You can count on WestFest to deliver a performance experience that showcases a breadth of choreographic excellence in New York City dance, while fostering a warm, welcoming community of artists. Selected artists will present an up-to-8-minute piece—new or adapted—across three shared performances.

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WestFest: All Over Westbeth is a site-specific program showing a variety of unconventional and unique approaches to dance and space within the historic Westbeth Artists Residence buildings. Each artist will be assigned a unique space in and around the Westbeth building in which they will have the opportunity to rehearse and build a dance. We ask that artists create a short (4-5 minute) piece that can be performed 5-6 times in succession during a 3-hour performance period for groups of audiences touring the sites.