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    Sandman Sleeps | Dirt Birth | Carissa Johnson

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    Sunday, June 7, 2026

    8:00 PM

    Berlin

    25 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    Sandman Sleeps, Dirt Birth and Carissa Johnson perform at Berlin. Johnson's work—rooted in calisthenics, body-weight and strength training from her online fitness instruction—suggests an approach to dance that foregrounds stamina, agility and controlled physicality; the evening offers a chance to hear how that practice converses with the other acts' approaches.

    About Sandman Sleeps

    “Sandman Sleeps” is a dance work currently playing at Berlin, presented as a live event in an intimate club setting. Featured performer Carissa Johnson moves through material that draws on sleep, restlessness, and the blurred edge between waking and dream logic. The piece reads as a study in tempo and attention, using repetition to make small shifts register as narrative. No NYC premiere history is publicly established; for New York audiences, its significance lies in how it brings contemporary dance into nightlife infrastructure rather than a traditional theater.

    About the Artist

    Carissa Johnson

    Carissa Johnson

    Take your strength, stamina, and agility to the next level. Challenge yourself in our one of a kind Online Fitness Classes. Carissa Johnson mixes calisthenics, body weight, and strength training exercises.