The world’s most comprehensive
platform for celebrating and
experiencing the newest work in theater, dance, opera, music, and performance.
Photo from Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz Congress & Unity Festival
ABOUT US
Every January in New York City, more than 45,000 performing arts leaders, artists, and enthusiasts from across the globe converge for JanArtsNYC. A partnership among independent multidisciplinary festivals, indispensable industry convenings and international marketplaces, JanArtsNYC is one of the largest and most influential gatherings of its kind.
Featuring a diverse array of world-class public performances and innovative industry gatherings, JanArtsNYC is the world’s most comprehensive platform for celebrating and experiencing the newest work by artists in theater, dance, opera, music, and performance.
Celebrating 12 years of partnership, the festivals organizers and industry conveners of JanArtsNYC have emerged both independently and also symbiotically around the annual gathering of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, known as the APAP|NYC conference.
Promotional support provided by the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP).
JanArtsNYC PARTNER Events
Audience at the Yasser Tejeda performance at globalFEST 2024.
Photo by Adam Kissick/APAP.
Image from Benji Reid's "Find Your Eyes." Photo by Benji Reid.
Under the Radar Festival
January 4-19, 2025
Under the Radar is the United States' premier festival of experimental theater and performance art. As a long-time New York City-based platform for cutting-edge work hailing from around the globe, the festival prioritizes ingenuity, transparency, risk-taking and equity. Produced by ArKtype with Festival Director Mark Russell, UTR has been reimagined in its 20th annual season as a city-wide celebration that incisively speaks to our moment. Rather than being tied to a single host institution, Under the Radar's current iteration is curated collaboratively with an array of renowned arts organizations and curators, each harnessing the connective nature of the festival format to introduce some of the world's most innovative multidisciplinary voices to wider audiences. The 2025 edition of UTR will include over 33 distinct programs at 24 theater spaces, presenting more than 250 performances in only 16 days from January 4 to 19. The depth, breadth and excellence of this year's festival serves as proof that collaboration can power the American theater through this era of existential crisis into a reinvigorated future of conjoined artists ready to embrace diversity, challenge and reinvention.
Out-front! festival
january 7-13, 2025
The Out-FRONT! Festival is curated and produced by Pioneers Go East Collective and presented in partnership with BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and Judson Church.
The Out-FRONT! Festival is a high-visibility platform for radical choreographers and performing artists whose rigorous, playful, and fabulously outrageous creative practices speak to our community in new, unexpected, and beautiful ways. Centering LGBTQ+ and feminist emerging voices, the festival features works of high artistic merit, exploring bold new performance modes for a lively exchange of art and culture. The Festival is curated by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Philip Treviño, Daniel Diaz; Producer Remi Harris, and cultural organizer Joyce Isabelle. Now in its third year, with this latest edition, we look forward to continuing to be a place of community-building for artists and audiences alike.
Photo from Blaze Ferrer featuring Joey Kipp. Photo by Maria Baranova.
Image from the 2024 Unity Jazz Festival.
Jazz at Lincoln Center'S Jazz Congress & unitY FESTIVAL
January 8-11, 2025
Organized by Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazz Congress features a series of workshops, panels and networking opportunities, all geared to expanding the audience for jazz. Attendees include presenters, artists, managers, agents, journalists, radio programmers and other jazz professionals.
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After its successful debut in 2024, the Unity Jazz Festival returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center with a brand-new lineup featuring Rachael & Vilray and brings together acclaimed artists, first-time listeners, and longtime fans. A roster of diverse, intergenerational acts convene in the Ertegun Atrium, Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Studio, Dizzy’s Club, and the Appel Room to perform and uplift the JALC community.
Live Artery | New York Live Arts
January 8-18, 2025
New York Live Arts's dynamic Live Artery Festival features new and recent works by resident commissioned artists and curated guests. Live Artery provides a space for artists to network and share their work with presenters from around the world, which has led to commissions, tours and the building of long-term relationships. The festival includes co-presentations with partner Under the Radar Festival, and off-site performances at CPR - Center for Performance Research, Danspace, Triskelion Arts...and more!
The 2025 Live Artery programming will be announced soon, please visit and learn more at NewYorkLiveArts.org.
Image from Miguel Gutierrez's "Super Nothing." Photo by Amelia Golden.
NYC Winter Jazzfest 2025 festival lineup poster.
nyc winter jazzfest
january 9-15, 2025
Celebrating 21 years, NYC Winter Jazzfest is proud to continue highlighting artists deserving greater attention while nurturing an audience for Black American Music, and amplifying artists' messages of justice, wellness and progressive change on and off stage. Our artist-in-residence this year, drummer, beatmaker and exploratory mixtape artist Makaya McCraven, will perform in at least four different configurations over the course of the festival. A prolific drummer, composer and producer, McCraven has been aptly called a “cultural synthesizer,” with a unique gift for collapsing space, destroying borders and blending past, present and future into poly-textural arrangements of post-genre, jazz-rooted 21st-century folk music. His festival collaborators will include Joel Ross, Theon Cross, Ben Lamar Gay, Marquis Hill, Junius Paul, Matt Gold, Josh Johnson and Gilles Peterson in a celebration of 10 years since his boundary-shattering In the Moment was released. Other Festival highlights include the signature two-day marathon in each Manhattan (Jan 10) and Brooklyn (Jan 11), the music of Strata-East Records at Town Hall, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme's 60th Anniversary at Roulette, Les Filles de Illighadad at Public Records, nightly shows at Nublu, and much more.
PhysFestNYC
january 9-19, 2025
PhysFestNYC is a community-led festival that celebrates, enriches, and envisions our field of physical theater. From January 9th - 19th, PhysFest will offer over 50 unique events, including nightly performances, work-in-progress shares, diverse workshop offerings, panel discussions, and dance parties. As an annual gathering, PhysFestNYC provides space for practitioners, audiences, and the physical-theater-curious to connect and exchange ideas. We define physical theater as “any performing art form that centers the body.” This can include Mime, Clown, Dance Theater, Commedia dell’arte, Butoh, Drag, Indian Classical Dance, and limitless genre-mixing or -defying styles. PhysFest is led by a horizontal leadership model and hosted at Stella Adler Center for the Arts in FiDi.
Image of Broken Box Mime Theater. Photo by Bjorn Bolinder.
Image credits from top to bottom, left to right: Kristin Marting, Matthew Soltesz, Louis Stein, Miami Light Project, Wasserman Media, and Santiago Felipe.
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PROTOTYPE FestivaL
January 9-19, 2025
PROTOTYPE Festival is a co-production of Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, two trailblazers in the creation and presentation of contemporary, multi-disciplinary opera-theatre and music-theatre works. The pioneering festival is the only one of its kind in New York City and is a model now emulated around the country – producing and presenting a wide spectrum of works, from intimate black-box experiences to larger chamber opera productions, valuing artistic, curatorial, and producorial risk-taking.
Works & Process underground uptown dance festival
January 9-13, 2025
Gather round the Guggenheim with Works & Process and celebrate New York City’s extraordinary club, street, and social dance traditions sharing the stage with concert dance. Intergenerational and rooted in the circle and cipher, one-night-only events span the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed subterranean theater, and culminate in social dances and battles in the rotunda. Resourcing artists long-term from studio-to-stage, all featured projects are provided with iterative presentations and/or fully-funded creative residencies across the Works & Process LaunchPAD network of 14 residency centers in MA, NJ, NJ, and VT.
Image from Works & Process Rotunda Social Dance with Dance Is Life featuring Kristine Bendul and Abdiel. Photo by Works & Process/Erick Munari.
Image of Award of Merit Honoree Terence Blanchard and APAP Board Chair Renae Williams Niles at The 2024 APAP Honors.
Photo by Adam Kissick/APAP.
APAP|NYC Conference
January 10-14, 2025
APAP|NYC is the world's premier gathering of the performing arts presenting, booking, and touring industry and the annual members conference of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. Called by the Wall Street Journal "the spawning ground for the world-wide music and performing arts industries," the APAP conference has been the gravitational hub for the JanArtsNYC festivals and convenings for decades. In 2025, more than 3000 conference attendees—artists, agents, presenters, producers, venue operators, funders, and arts administrators—will convene for community, commerce, learning, and discovery, as well as the networking, inspiration, and opportunities that drive the live performing arts forward.
GlobalFEST Annual Wavelengths Conference
January 10, 2025
The Wavelengths Conference is an annual gathering of a wide array of arts professionals including arts organizations, artists, venues, agents, managers, media, funders, activists, and others that are part of the global music community. The conference creates a space for dialogue around critical issues facing the field and as a social hub for networking. It is also a friendly and generous resource for those looking at career development, exploring new touring projects, and booking opportunities. As the only music conference in the States with a focus on international music, it has become the de facto gathering place to bring a unique community of arts professionals together. The 2025 conference will lean into issues that are important to our expansive constituency while strengthening networks and deepening our understanding of the role of the arts, artists and arts professionals in a world in conflict. This event is free, but you must register to attend. You do not need to be an APAP member to attend this event.
Image of panel at Wavelengths 2020.
Photo by Adam Kissick/APAP.
Image of Michela Marino Lerman and Love Movement.
National Sawdust Artists in Residence
January 11 & 26, 2025
National Sawdust commissions, produces, and presents cultural programming rooted in sound, supporting artists in various disciplines who are passionate about experimentation and innovation. In its intimate venue equipped with a state-of-the-art spatial sound system, National Sawdust connects audiences to the performing arts’ powers to inspire deep thinking, joy, and uphold human dignity.
This January, we welcome you to Work In Progress presentations from Helga Davis and Kaneza Schaal and Vivian Fung, Andrea Núñez and Royce Vavrek.
Globalfest
January 12, 2025
The cultural catalysts at globalFEST have been promoting the world's greatest musical traditions for over 20 years. Their annual festival features an eclectic array of musical discoveries from today's hottest international sounds to styles born and bred in the U.S. The New York Times calls the festival, "a joyful and often raucous celebration of diversity and culture." The blockbuster, ten-sets-in-one-night evening returns to David Geffen Hall for another full-theater takeover, populating all the floors and venues of the building with soul-stirring performers from across the planet and around the corner. This year's lineup includes Zar Electrik (Morocco/France), Maruja Limón (Spain), Bamba Wassoulou Groove (Mali), Kommuna Lux (Ukraine), Mireya Ramos and the Poor Choices (U.S.), Ghazi & Boom.Diwan x Arturo O’Farrill (U.S./U.A.E.), Akshara Music Ensemble (India/U.S.), Paul Beaubrun (Haiti/U.S.), Rebolu (Colombia/U.S.), and Elida Almeida (Cape Verde/Portugal).
Top left image of Paul Beaubrun.
Top right image of REBOLÚ.
Bottom left image of Kommuna Lux.
Bottom right image of Zar Electrik.
Image of fellows at ISPA 75th Anniversary Congress.
Photo by Juan Patino.
ISPA 2025 New York Congress
January 14-16, 2025
ISPA 2025 New York Congress welcomes 500 arts leaders from 50 regions to address leadership under Leading with Creativity. Join us as leadership takes center stage. The international performing arts community faces new realities including global conflicts, changing workplace culture, divisions around social issues, AI, and the climate emergency. At ISPA’s 2025 New York Congress, we’ll explore innovative approaches and leadership models that leverage creativity to inspire and lead with impact. Whether you’re an artist, presenter, manager, administrator, or cultural advocate, join us as we navigate the unique challenges and opportunities of arts leadership in today’s rapidly shifting, often polarized world.
JanArtsNYC RETURNS in 2025!
Watch this video from 2019 by All Arts to learn more about how the JanArtsNYC partnership celebrates the performing arts and brings people together.
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