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Radio Renmen is an interdisciplinary dance-theatre work conceived as a three-part performance series inspired by the mechanics of machines: Actuator, Transmission, and Operator. The work uses the radio as both a physical object and metaphor for communication, transmission, and distortion. Radio Renmen asks what happens when our relationships begin to function the same way as radio waves that carry invisible signals across great distances, yet every transmission risks interference, delay, or loss. As technology promises greater connection, we increasingly communicate through devices rather than with one another, relying on algorithms and computers to interpret our emotions, memories, and decisions. It asks what is lost when we stop listening to ourselves and each other, and whether authentic connection can survive in a world where every signal must pass through a machine before it reaches another human being.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Quaba Venza Ernest is a Brooklyn-born, St. Lucian-American interdisciplinary artist whose work merges contemporary dance, theater, writing, and sound to create immersive performance worlds. My relationship to movement is deeply rooted in lineage, the conversation between past, present, and future—and in choreography as a way of carrying dreams across generations. He trained at Dance Theatre of Harlem, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, and Springboard Danse Montréal. His choreography and films have been presented locally and internationally at venues and festivals including Triskelion Arts, Arts On Site, BAAD!, Jamaica Dance Festival, Making Moves Dance Festival Cinedanza, (Italy), Quinzena de Dança de Almada (Portugal), Dance Camera Istanbul, ADF’s Movies By Movers (2023), Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, and the 92Y Future Dance Festival. He is the founder of Venza Dance and Ernest Records, platforms through which he develops interdisciplinary work and supports the artistic community. His distinctions include the Works & Process Residency Artist (2026-2027), Center for Performance Research Resident Artist (2026), Dancing While Black Fellowship (2026), Pepatián/BAAD Dancing Futures Residency (2025), Chelsea Factory Summer Residency (2024), the Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow (2021), and the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts (2019).