Brokeback Mountain, the Ballet Premiere Opens Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival

Works & Process presents the 5th Underground Uptown Dance Festival January 13-18, 2027, gathering audiences at Guggenheim New York for a dynamic celebration of ballet, dance-theater, modern, and tap, featuring artists supported from studio to stage with fully funded Works & Process creative residencies.

The premiere of Brokeback Mountain, the Ballet, opens the festival. The Works & Process production and commission based on the acclaimed short story by Annie Proulx will feature choreography by Pontus Lidberg and music by David Conte. The festival also includes works by David Dorfman Dance, Orlando Hernández & The Knee-Heart Connection, Julia Antinozzi, and John Manzari. Limón Dance Company’s The Moor’s Pavane Reimagined by internationally acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan closes the festival. Part of JanArtsNYC, the festival illuminates the creative process behind new work, bringing audiences closer to the artists, ideas, and collaborations shaping the future of the performing arts.

Also in January is The Minotaur by Luis Quintero, directed by Lisa Peterson, a Hudson Valley Shakespeare commission developed through a Works & Process residency at Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and presented in collaboration with Under the Radar – Under Construction.

Tickets starting at $15. worksandprocess.org

Peter B. Lewis Theater

Guggenheim New York

New York, NY 10128