NEW YORK — Life often isn’t easy for small performing arts venues in New York. Even beloved spaces can struggle with the city’s high rents and competition for fundraising dollars. But JACK, an interdisciplinary performance space in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood, is showing that it is possible to thrive.

On Tuesday, Alec Duffy, the co-director of JACK, announced that the organization has signed a 10-year lease to move into a larger home.

JACK is known for hosting experimental and politically inclined theater, dance and music performances, as well as community forums on issues that are relevant to its neighborhood. Its new venue will be at 18 Putnam Ave., just a short walk from its current site, and it will include a backstage area, a lobby, space for an administrative office and a slightly increased audience capacity. The aim is to open in midsummer. JACK’s current lease ends March 31.

Duffy said the move was made possible by conservative budgeting, unexpected grants and a little bit of real estate luck. “We had a very good year last year, so we’re coming out of 2018 with a significant surplus, which is going toward building the space out,” Duffy said. “And the rent is pretty much on par with what we’re paying now.” But he acknowledged that the decision also includes “a huge leap of faith that the JACK family of supporters and their network can help us make this dream possible.” A fundraising campaign will help raise money for the new space.

JACK will embark on this venture with a new co-director, Jordana De La Cruz, whose appointment was also announced Tuesday. De La Cruz, who was program manager at the Park Avenue Armory, will be the organization’s first full-time co-director. She succeeds DeeArah Wright, who is now the director of education at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and a JACK board member. De La Cruz is no stranger to JACK. She directed Cristina Pitter’s “Decolonizing My Vagina” at the venue in 2018.

While Duffy strongly emphasized that the desire to upgrade JACK’s space was motivated by a desire to better support the artists it hosts and helps to cultivate, he also mentioned that the current JACK office is in his living room. “It’s tricky,” he said. “The mixing of the personal and the work is pretty fluid right now, and as we’re welcoming new employees and artists it will be a real boon for us to have an actual office on site.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.