Till It Tear Us Apart – evening-length immersive choreography by Petra Zanki
Back by popular demand! After burning through NYC venues in 2025, this work returns for a special APAP 2026 showcase. One night only performance featuring seven stellar dancers with live DJ sets by DJ Autogyro (peak-driving techno) and S'aint Panic (dark house/vogue/Baltimore club fusion)! This immersive dance experience pulses with NYC's underground rave culture, explosive contemporary dance like you have not seen before, featuring imaginative lighting design by Joe Petrowski (The Box, Art Bath, Illumination NYC) alongside electrifying live electronic soundscapes.

Choreography / Petra Zanki
Featuring DJs // Autogyro // S'aint Panic
Dancers // Michael Bishop / Solenn Étienne /Chisato Fujii / Margot Hartley / Toni Owens / Caleb Patterson /Trace Yeames.
Light Design / Joe Petrowski

What is the truest, purest, and most basic form of human relating that we can observe? The need to connect and to be loved deeply. It is an essential and relatable universal truth.
Two or more bodies, conditioned by the system in power and managing day-to-day survival in not-so-humane capitalism, hold onto what is dear and special to them: a yearning to relate. Being torn apart so often and recomposed into another provisory connection, how do we grow this short-lived love? Inspired by her own New York life and the lives of people navigating the magnetic fields of various short-lived relationships in today's NYC, together with dancers, Petra translates this reality into a place of communion: a Brooklyn rave where various variables, such as dreams, jobs, pillow talks, and star alignments, all come together in one room, on a dance floor.

Styling: Shelby Green
Photography: Robin Michals

Executive producers: John C. Robinson, Ben Goosman
Special thanks: Vallejo Gantner, DJ McDonald, Avery Redic, Jordan Oldham, Dance Theatre of Harlem.

"Till It Tear Us Apart" Petra Zanki is fiscally sponsored by NYLA.

- All sales are final. -