Works & Process Announces Underground Uptown Dance Festival, A Part of JanArtsNYC

Works & Process announces the 2026 Underground Uptown Dance Festival, a festival of commissioned dances January 9-13, 2026.

Gather round the Guggenheim theater and rotunda for one-night-only events bringing together street, social, and club traditions with ballet, contemporary, and modern dance. Continue the conversation with complimentary wine in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda.

Transcend the proscenium. Embody joy. Build community. Connect audiences and artists along the continuum of spectating and participating. 

Every project in the festival is supported with fully funded Works & Process creative residencies to support the development of new works and commissions spanning intergenerational connections, Afrobeat, Ballet, Ball Culture, Contemporary, Freestyle, Harlem Lite Feet, Hip-Hop, House, Improv, Mambo, Modern, NYC Underground Club Culture, Poppin, Salsa, Street Jazz, Vogue, West African, and more!

*Works & Process Commission

Works & Process Uptown Underground Dance Festival is a proud partner of JanArtsNYC, the annual collection of world-class public performances and innovative industry gatherings taking place throughout the month of January at various NYC venues, presented by the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and the APAP|NYC Conference.  

"We are so proud to once again feature Works & Process Uptown Underground Dance Festival as a participant of JanArtsNYC, a collection of best-in-class live performance events taking place this January throughout our beloved city," said Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment Commissioner, Pat Swinney Kaufman. "For 13 years, JanArtsNYC has helped position January as "Performing Arts Month" in NYC, where the world's best come annually to premiere a vast unfolding of the newest works in theater, dance, opera, music and performance, centered around the annual APAP|NYC Conference."