PROVINCETOWN COMMUNITY MOVEMENT WORKSHOPS
ALL AGES, ALL LEVELS OF DANCE EXPERIENCE WELCOME
June 1, Monday
Veterans' Memorial Community Center
2 Mayflower Street
10.15 - 11.45 am
June 07, Sunday
Provincetown Inn / Breakwater
1 Commercial Street
11 am - 1 pm
June 08, Monday
Veterans' Memorial Community Center
2 Mayflower Street
10.15 - 11.45 am
June 13, Saturday
Gifford House
9 Carver Street
12 pm - 2 pm
PRESENTATIONS
S-SD Summer Benefit at Gifford House
June 6, 2026
a special benefit event at the Gifford House, hosted by our friends and patrons, to celebrate our Provincetown projects and support the next phase of EROSIONS. Proceeds will support free community workshops, artist fees, rehearsal time, site-specific performances, film production, and public programming. For more information about the event, the host committee or to purchase a ticket please visit this link .
Provincetown Art Association and Museum Exhibition ( in Collaboration with the Center for Coastal Studies )
May 15–July 19, 2026
Site-Specific Dances will present a five-channel media installation in Persistent Curiosity: Charting the Rippled Fabric of the Sea | The Center for Coastal Studies 50th Anniversary at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Curated by Mark Adams and Christine McCarthy, the exhibition brings together contemporary artists and works from PAAM’s collection reflecting on marine ecology, coastal landforms, whale biology, tides, currents, and life by the sea. Our piece focuses specifically on environmental erosion and incorporates fieldwork made with the Center for Coastal Studies. Presented across five screens arranged on a corner, the installation extends EROSIONS into a museum context, translating site-based fieldwork into a carefully edited moving-image artwork. Opening Reception: Friday, May 22 at 6:00 PM.
Provincetown International Film Festival 2026 ( PIFF )
June 10-14, 2026
We’re thrilled to share that EROSIONS, a new film emerging from our broader residency and research project in Provincetown, has been selected for a special screening at the Provincetown International Film Festival this June. Moving between interview portraits, archival material, and dance film, the work explores coastal erosion as a powerful metaphor for cultural erosion, reflecting on queer memory, belonging, access, social continuity, and the inevitability of change. EROSIONS will screen on Wednesday, June 10 at 4:30 PM at Provincetown Town Hall. The official festival lineup has been featured by IndieWire; please visit the Provincetown Film Festival website for tickets and screening details. EROSIONS screens on June 10, at 4.30 PM.
Site-Specific Dances, Site-Specific Dances, led by Michael Spencer Phillips and Dino Kiratzidis, is an interdisciplinary performing arts collective of artists, choreographers, musicians, and designers. Much like architecture, our projects emerge from a direct engagement with a particular place. Our work moves beyond the stage to engage deeply with the world around us, with the site as a protagonist - and not a backdrop.
Our practice unfolds across three primary typologies
STAGE PIECES about sites
SITE ACTIVATIONS in spaces not designed for performance
COMMUNITY-DANCE, a participation-based project that invites local participants to create a community performance in public space
Our performances often feature original scores by collaborating composers in a range of styles, frequently performed live. Recent collaborating composers have included Phong Tran, Darian Donovan Thomas, Steven Sametz, Polina Nazaykinskaya, Emma O’Halloran and Dmitry Selipanov.
Site-Specific Dances began its location-based work during the pandemic and officially launched in April 2023 with a sold-out series of media-performances at the Paul Taylor Dance Studios in New York City. Recent projects include site-specific performances at Frederic Church’s Olana in 2023, a summer 2024 performance at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at Pocantico, and a collaboration with MASS Design Group Fringe Cities Design Lab to activate a decommissioned water cistern in Poughkeepsie as part of a broader urban initiative.
S-SD’s performance works are inspired by the theatricality inherent in the world around us, the growing awareness of pressing environmental issues, and the belief that performance, when liberated from the confines of the conventional stage, can affect positive change in communities and places.
S-SD’s projects hope to foster a diverse and ever-expanding network of interdisciplinary collaborators around the world.
Site-Specific Dances is a registered 501(c)(3).
Support: Site-Specific Dances has received generous support from the Charles E. Culpeper Program of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy, The O’Donnel Green Music and Dance Foundation, ArtBridge, ArtsEverywhere Canada, The Musagetes Foundation, The Olana Partnership, Guild Hall, ALLARTS, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The Bloody Sunday Trust, and The Swedish Arts Council.