Matthew Westerby Company Performance Season 2025
At the Murray Haber Theatre at Hudson Guild (446 West 26th St. btw. 9th & 10th Aves.)
Thursday through Saturday, April 24, 25, 26 at 7:30pm and Sunday, April 27 at 5pm.
Tickets are $30 General Admission, $20 for students, artists, older adults. To purchase, click here
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MWC’s Third Annual Youth Dance Platform
Saturday, April 26 at 3pm and Sunday, April 27 at 2:30m
Three world premieres alongside repertory works from the last 17 years promise to cultivate tones both celebratory and cautionary, when Matthew Westerby Company’s 2025 Season comes to Hudson Guild’s Murray Haber Theatre.
Among the repertory works is an excerpt from Piers, which MWC Aristic/Executive Director Matthew Westerby describes as “a movement reflection on the gay scene that existed on Manhattan’s West Side piers in the 1970s & 80s.” Elsewhere on the program is Out Here, in the Middle, described by Westerby as “a reflection on my own middle age, still wanting to lose myself in the exuberance of dance and celebrating the incredible humans that make up MWC.
Featuring a spoken word score that gives voice to “the female spirit of power and resilience,” Womanhood, notes Westerby, was created by the collective work of “thirteen incredible women.” And mindful of our current political climate is the world premiere of When At First, They Came For Me. The collaboration with composer John P. Hastings includes a solo with actor Lori Brown-Niang and ample food for thought, says Westerby, about “what we might do to resist, repel, and find strength in ourselves and with each other.”
Over 200 young dancers will be featured as part of MWC’s Third Annual Youth Dance Platform. The dynamic collection of talent is drawn from distinguished companies and ensembles based in NYC and beyond. Program A, performed at 3pon Saturday, April 26, delivers work from, among others, the Main Street Theatre Dance Alliance, MindLeaps, Peridance, and Covenant Ballet Theatre CBT-2. Program B, performed at 3pm on Sunday, April 27, presents work from Dancewave, Pan American International High School, Rivertown Dance Academy, Taylor Teen Ensemble, and others.
Also on Friday evening, a special reception to celebrate MWC’s dancers & collaborators, hosted by the MWC Board of Directors. For tickets to that event and all performances, click here.
—Compiled by Scott Stiffler
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