In-Person: Reflection – A Dance Performance Benefiting the New York Insight Meditation Center
featuring Marijke Eliasberg and The Next Stage Project
Friday, October 17th, 2025 | Performances at 7:00pm and 8:30pm ET
Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
Join us for the first ever dance performance taking place at New York Insight Meditation Center. Dancers will be sharing a both meditative and energetic movement creation inspired by the calmness and aliveness of our space.
All proceeds benefit the New York Insight Meditation Center.
Choreographer Marijke Eliasberg will, in collaboration with her dance troupe The Next Stage Project (TNSP), create a performance inspired by the poem “Reflections in Time” by Robert Longley. Our world has beauty and mystery at the same time. You can choose to just see it the way you want to, or you can look deeper.
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Reflections in time
By Robert Longley
Above there is reflection
Colorful and bright
Dancing in the sunlight
Shimmering at night
Just below the surface
Another world awaits
Holding onto mysteries
Until some future date
Our view will let us marvel
That these two coexist
And think on our experiences
And those we might have missed
The world is full of beauty
And also some surprise
Perhaps it is the future
Reflecting in our eyes
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The Next Stage Project artists:
Hannah Albin, Clara Franklin, Delia Wada-Gill, Hwajin Kim, Sara LaPadula, Chauncey Pauley, Sophia Pielet, Sara Pizzi, Abby Register, Rosa Silva, Tristan Walsh, Janina Amber Young & Miguel Zapico
The Next Stage Project:
Founded in 2002 by Artistic Directors Marijke Eliasberg and Jana Hicks, The Next Stage Project (TNSP) is known for an organic movement style, full body movement and small obscure interactions, portrayed by talented and expressive dancers. By forming partnerships between selected artists from around the globe and seeking creative venues to perform our works, TNSP aims to give dancers, choreographers and artists an opportunity to connect and share their art and passion. The TNSP directors are offering Dance, Tai Chi Chuan, Yoga and Yoga4Cancer classes to the community. Company dancers are selected for their commitment, passion, talent and genuine interest in collaborating with the Artistic Directors.
There will be two performances: one at 7:00pm and one at 8:30pm. Please select your ticket from the form corresponding to your desired showtime.
Registration: 7:00pm Showing
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Registration: 8:30pm Showing
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Volunteering
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Teacher(s)
Marijke Eliasberg
Marijke is a native of the Netherlands, and Founder and Co-Artistic Director of her dance troupe; The Next Stage Project (TNSP). She has been dancing, teaching and choreographing for the past 27 years in New York City. With TNSP, she travels around the world, teaching, creating, mentoring and making exchange and performance projects possible.
Marijke holds a BFA in physical education with a specialization in dance. She continued her modern dance studies at the Rotterdam Dance Academy (Codarts) in The Netherlands and Dance Space Inc. in NYC. Marijke is teaching and sharing her Tai Chi Chuan learnings from Chinese Great Grandmaster William C. C. Chen, with whom she has been studying intensely for many years. Her form studies include: 60 Movements Short Form, Long Form, Form Refinement, Sword Form and Push hands/Sensing hands. For the past years, she also has been assisting GGM Chen with his online and in-person classes and workshops in New York, Bloomington, Saratoga and Washington.