A third-floor loft at 537 Broadway in SoHo turns into a performance space again this Sunday, October 25, when Sundays on Broadway opens its fall 2026 season. The series, run by Cathy Weis Projects in the space it calls WeisAcres, presents four one-night-only evenings of dance and performance through November 22. Each show starts at 6 p.m., doors open at 5:45 p.m., and admission is a suggested donation of $5 to $20, with every dollar going to the performers.

The fall lineup

Each Sunday pairs several artists on one bill, and no program repeats. The season, curated by Cathy Weis with co-curators David Guzman and Zo Williams, runs as follows:

  • October 25: mayfield brooks, Osmani Tellez and Jo Warren
  • November 8: Jonathan Matthews-Guzman, Nailah Murray, Quiet Ambassador and Sakura Shimada
  • November 15: Ellen Fisher, Eddy Levin and Hana van der Kolk, and Cathy Weis with Lisa Kraus
  • November 22: Jennifer Miller, Annabel Sexton-Daldry and YiYi

What is on this Sunday

The opening night brings three very different pieces. mayfield brooks presents Wave Jumper, a dance made in conversation with Drexciya, the Detroit underground electronic music duo whose mythology imagines a civilization of underwater beings descended from African women thrown overboard from slave ships. That story first appeared in the liner notes of Drexciya's 1997 release The Quest. brooks is a movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer and writer who developed a dance practice called Improvising While Black, and has received the biennial Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Osmani Tellez, a Cuban-born dancer, choreographer and filmmaker trained at Cuba's Escuela Nacional de Arte, performs Fire the Editor, a work about the gap between who we are and who we think we should be, built from movement, text, sound and transformation. Tellez has spent more than three decades in dance, and his dance film Crossing was selected for three festivals this year, including Dance on Camera at Symphony Space.

Jo Warren closes the night with Somebody's Dream (a working title), a solo that grows into an ensemble piece and pokes at the myth of the rugged individual. Warren describes it as a piece about failing and falling down and says it includes a man falling to his death in slow motion.

About the series

Cathy Weis founded Sundays on Broadway in 2014 as a showcase for choreographers and performance artists. It runs two full seasons each year and is now in its 12th consecutive year. Weis, a dancer, choreographer, producer and videographer, moved to New York in 1983 after a career that included dancing as a soloist with the Louisville Ballet. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in dance and a Bessie Award.

Her co-curators this season are both working performers. David Guzman is a cross-disciplinary artist who leads ecology-themed performance workshops, performs with Circus Amok and is touring in Faye Driscoll's Weathering. Zo Williams, a Brooklyn dancer and dancemaker and a Bennington College graduate, has twice toured all five boroughs as a stilt dancer with Circus Amok.

The performances take place in a third-floor loft space above Broadway rather than a conventional theater, so the audience sits close to the performers. The SoHo Broadway Initiative, the neighborhood improvement district for the Broadway corridor, lists the series on its community calendar.

Going

  • Where: WeisAcres, 537 Broadway, #3 (between Prince and Spring streets), SoHo, Manhattan
  • When: Sundays October 25, November 8, November 15 and November 22, 2026, at 6 p.m.; doors at 5:45 p.m.
  • Cost: suggested donation of $5 to $20, all of which goes to the artists

The loft is steps from the Prince Street station on the R and W trains, a short walk from Spring Street on the 6 and from Broadway-Lafayette Street on the B, D, F and M. Seating in a loft is limited, so arriving when doors open at 5:45 p.m. is the safest plan. Cathy Weis Projects posts each evening's details on its calendar page.

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