“Profound, subtle, unconventional, Overground Physical Theater is the avant-garde epitome of kinetic intelligence and esoteric vision…” Theatre Magazine

Overground Arts Alliance is a 501-C3 arts & culture promoting organization based in NYC focused on producing groundbreaking interdisciplinary dance and theater works, while offering a creative and holistic educational platform to foster cross-genre research, book publishing and cross-cultural exchange.  

The company invites visionary artists from around the world to create original groundbreaking work. It promotes international exchange through workshops and festivals and raises urgent social, philosophical and global concerns while providing space for creative inspiration and spiritual growth. By nurturing the “Informavore” of the digital age OAA offers a holistic educational platform, structured in the form of a “polyversity.” Overground’s “polyversity” encompasses: experimental dance & post-dramatic theatre, eco-somatic training, innovative yoga classes and certified teacher training programs, cultural anthropology and performance art research publications, interfaith lectures and eco drama events.

Contemporary dancers performing a cross-cultural, inter-disciplinary work of dance, theatre and video at Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, NY.
Motoko Tadano performing BeeHave an experimental inter-disciplinary project at Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York City.
Valentina Priolo and Richard Scandola performing IDEN-defy, an inter-disciplinary project of dance theater at the HERE Art Center in New York City.

The key points of the Alliance are:

CREATE

Our mission: Overground Physical Theater company creates original multidisciplinary work that captures the pulse of the Liquid Modernity that we live in today. We are instant capturers who catch poignant moments of an evolving world through the lens of dance, film and theater, as we strive to devise compelling hybrid art that reflects the undulating landscape of our human condition. 

EDUCATE

Our academic/creative and holistic platforms: We provide professional academic training and education in contemporary dance, post physical performance, theater and yoga through company classes, workshops and performing arts forums. 

INNOVATE

Our Maverick Vision: We envision the morphing of artforms into a play-space for engendering experiences.

OVERGROUND ARTS

OVERGROUND ARTS

Antonia Katrandjieva performing X-Stream, a cross-cultural, inter-disciplinary work of dance, theatre and video at BAM Fisher in New York City.

Overground Arts Alliance is considered a cutting edge off-off Broadway Physical Theater lab of iconoclastic vision. It has received critical acclaim for its signature physical theatre style works performed by Overground Physical Theater Company at illustrious New York venues, such as New York Live Arts, City Center, La Mama Experimental Theater, Here Arts Center, Judson Memorial Church, New Dance Group, Dance New Amsterdam, Manhattan Arts & Movement Center, Connecticut College, TED Platform for progressive thinking, Connecticut College, BRIC, Dumbo Dance Festival, and Salvatore Capezio Theater, among others.