Since its inaugural season, Beach Sessions has built a reputation for bringing New York audiences non-traditional and multi-sensory live performance programming. Each summer invited artists have the opportunity to present site-specific work on the shorelines of the beach with the ocean as their backdrop. The programming footprint spans twenty blocks, from Beach 86th to Beach 106th, and is free to the public. A popular destination, this area of the beach is dense with locals and daily beach goers. The series has introduced the Rockaways as a promising place for artmaking and cultural events.

Over the past nine editions, the series has offered a unique venue for New York choreographers like no other anywhere in the city. The site has enabled them, and challenged them, to think of their practice and processes through different lenses than would be required by a proscenium stage. Beach Sessions has presented more than 80 established to emerging choreographers to an audience of more than 10,000 people.

The performance series was founded in 2015 by Sasha Okshteyn.

Beach Sessions Team

Sasha Okshteyn, Artistic Director, Producer
Morgan Griffin, Co-producer
Alex Munro, Video Documentation
Something Special Studios, Visual Identity