“Are you going to Aunts?”

Depending on how much time you spend in contemporary dance circles, that question might mean nothing or everything. On certain nights, it ricochets through theater lobbies and rehearsal studios, exchanged between friends who don’t know where the night will take them, especially if the answer is yes.

Founded in 2005 by the dancers Rebecca Brooks and James Kidd (Ms. Kidd, at the time, went by JBird Leary), Aunts is not a specific place, not an organization, not really a collective. Roving among loft spaces, theaters and repurposed buildings — a former convent, a former hospital — it has no permanent home and no aspirations to find one. When you go to Aunts, you go to something like a party: a gathering that orbits around multiple, overlapping performances, structured to facilitate chaos. As its current organizers, Laurie Berg and Liliana Dirks-Goodman, sometimes say, “Aunts is about having dance happen.”

“I think we don’t define it very clearly on purpose,” Ms. Dirks-Goodman said during a recent interview with Ms. Berg, in which the two involuntarily finished each other’s sentences. “It allows people to enter with their own expectations, with what they want it to be.”

Over the last few months, Aunts has been developing its most ambitious project to date, a collaboration with the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan and two institutions in Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum and the nightclub TrouwAmsterdam. Working closely with Travis Chamberlain, the New Museum’s associate curator of performance, Ms. Berg and Ms. Dirks-Goodman have organized “Auntsforcamera,” an installation of nine video works, some of them interactive, produced during a weeklong open studio at the New Museum. The installation, first shown at TrouwAmsterdam, recently moved to the New Museum and will be on view through Feb. 15.