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LayeRhythm | SWITCH
November 21 @ 7:00 pm
Prior Presents 2025–26
LayeRhythm
SWITCH
Free entry, open to all.
Join us before the interactive performance at 7 p.m. for a DJ set beginning at 6 p.m. to warm up and feel the vibe for the show. Come prepared to dance!
LayeRhythm (LR) highlights freestyle dance and music voices under-recognized in the traditional performing arts landscape while providing entertainment, building community through play, educating audiences in cultural history, preserving the legacy of street & club dance forms, transforming individuals’ relationship to music & dance and supporting emotional & social well-being. LR is dedicated to risk-taking improvisation and interactive audience engagement through performances and educational events.
Commissioned by Works & Process, LR’s performances and events have engaged audiences at Jacob’s Pillow, USC Kaufman School of Dance, Harris Theater, Movement Research at Judson Church, 92NY, Abrons Arts Center, National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Spiegeltent (Bard) and Bridge Street Theatre. LR has been presented by Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, SummerStage, NY Public Library for the Performing Arts, Gibney, The Church (Sag Harbor), Catskill Mountain Foundation and Manhattan West Plaza. LayeRhythm was nominated National Dance Institute’s Helen Stambler Neuberger Artist-in-Residence (22-23).
About the Program
In SWITCH, the audience is LayeRhythm’s muse. Through a series of games, audience ideas are collected and announced by the MC. Performers instantaneously draw from personal experiences and artistic knowledge to turn audience ideas into music, lyrics and movement. The evening’s events will take place in five parts:
6-7 p.m.
1st DJ Set
7 p.m. until end of show
1st Interactive Performance
2nd DJ Set
2nd Interactive Performance
3rd DJ Set
Details
Nov 21, 2025
6 p.m. – Welcome DJ Set
7 p.m. – Interactive Performances & Additional DJ Sets
Price
Free entry, open to all.
Venue
Boroughs Theatre
The Prior Performing Arts Center
“If dancing with others is an intimate act, LayeRhythm makes it communal.”
LayeRhythm Participating Artists
Stiggity Stackz – Dancer
Klassic – Dancer
Osyris Antham – MC
Simone Acosta – Musician (keyboard)
Pete Henry – Musician (bass)
Rodney Harrison – Musician (drums)
SC-One – DJ
About the Founder
Mai Lê Hồ is a French-Vietnamese movement artist, cultural strategist, curator, and educator based in New York City. She is the founder of LayeRhythm Productions, Inc., a nonprofit organization amplifying street/club dances and freestyle artistry. Since launching LayeRhythm in 2015—a groundbreaking performance platform layering freestyle dancers with live musicians and emcees, acclaimed by The New York Times—she has produced over 140 editions in NYC and beyond.
As a dancer, Mai Lê has performed and taught nationally and internationally for over 20 years, with past engagements at the National Dance Institute, USC Kaufman, 92NY, Lincoln Center, Harris Theater, Lehman College, FIAF, and others. She is a 2025 Simons Foundation & Gibney Open Interval Resident Artist., a 2024 Bogliasco Foundation fellow, a 2023 Dancing Futures resident artist at BAAD! through Pepatián, a 2021 virtual artist-in-residence with the Asian American Arts Alliance, and movement curator for Asian Cultural Council’s East West Fest. In 2014, she toured Europe with pioneering Detroit producer Theo Parrish and his live band.
First introduced to house dance by her late teacher Babson in France, Mai Lê has since won first place in this category at events including Ladies of Hip-Hop (NYC, 2015), Universole (Detroit, 2015), and Step Ya Game Up (NYC, 2013). She has judged competitions such as Sole Open Philly (2024), Footwork Frenzy (2022), House Dance UK (2015), Slick City (Chicago, 2015), and The Blueprint (Houston, 2013).
Mai Lê has served as a voting member of the Bessies Awards selection committee (2018-2020), and as a grant panelist for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Works & Process at the Guggenheim, New Music USA, and Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL).
Currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hunter College, she consults with institutions on integrating street and club dance cultures into programming, and reimagining artist-centered support systems.