Pöhler Dance Company (PDC) is a New York City–based 501(c)(3) contemporary dance company working between New York and Paris. Led by french choreographer Naïma Pöhler, the company creates evening-length and mid-length works that weave movement, theater, and music, engaging with the world as it is now: climate anxiety, social tension, migration, grief, and the stubborn, ordinary ways people keep going.

Alongside its own productions, PDC curates the PDC Live Arts Festival at Brooklyn Music School, a one-night platform for emerging choreographers. The festival offers a professional stage, shared ticket income, and clear conditions so that early-career artists can show finished works or works-in-progress without paying to be seen or carrying the entire financial risk alone.

Why support a dance company at all, when so many other causes are asking for attention? Philosophers and psychologists have long pointed to the same intuition: art is one of the ways a community makes sense of itself, tests its values, and keeps its imagination alive. In a performance, experiences that are usually private (fear, desire, shame, hope) take visible form and can be shared, argued with, remembered. A company like PDC is one of the modest places where this collective inner life is given time, bodies, and continuity.

Donations to Pöhler Dance Company keep that work possible in concrete terms. They help pay dancers and collaborators fairly, secure rehearsal and theater space in New York and Paris, bring performances into schools and partner organizations, and make the PDC Live Arts Festival happen each year. Your support helps maintain a living bridge between two cities and ensures that live dance continues to exist in front of people, not just as an idea.

Pöhler Dance Company - PDC LIVE ARTS FESTIVAL 2026

March 15th 2026