Thursday, December 11, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025

General Admission: $15-40 (sliding scale)
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Cloud States is a new multi-disciplinary dance project / film screening / live art performance by Jian Yi.

Cloud States is a tender, visually-rich meditation on loss / love and self-identity, inviting audiences to reflect, feel, and rediscover what connects us across borders and experience.

Interwoven by choreography sculpted in immersive light atmospheres to create a sensory experience questioning the boundaries between dream / memory and reality – the work features a talented ensemble of trans-national performers in a powerful combination of video art, dance, autobiographical / personal storytelling and immersive lighting / FX. The work explores intersectional-migrant identities, the process of reconciling living in a new time and place with our ancestral connections and familial memories – and creates an awareness / new perception of personal-yearning for the fragile beauty and nostalgia of living in the present time. Set across neighbourhoods in Brooklyn, the work is a love letter to the city of immigrants and new beginnings.

At its heart is a multi-channel video installation in the performance space – an epic-visual poem chronicling intimate portraits of personal / migrant storytelling, quiet moments of beauty and joy paired with live performers moving sensuously through shifting atmospheres of light / sound and psychic-emotional space. By merging poetic-filmic storytelling, immersive lighting design and dance, the piece creates a liminal space whereby memory, identity, and the present / past / future of all the experiential-moments of our lives as ‘lonely travellers’ through this world collide.

CREDITS

Choreographer / Writer / Director: Jian Yi
Performers: Yuxi Ma, Jian Yi
Cinematographer / Project Assistant: Yining Chi
Production / Lighting Designer: Tuçe Yasak
Producing Associate: Stephanie Acosta

ABOUT JIAN X YI

Through Jian Yi's multidisciplinary work of performance art / contemporary dance, video art/photography, new genres, installation art, and social sculpture – they seek to explore the experiential trauma of marginalized persons within our society, such as neurodiverse and queer people of color, and how we reflect on the broader human condition. Their practice is rooted in an ongoing enquiry into the ambiguities of emotional experience, and touches upon borderline states – considering Otherness, neurodivergence and alternative states of consciousness / being – in line with their continuing research focus on queer mental health. Jian Yi's work has been performed/exhibited internationally in locations such as New Museum, The Kitchen NYC, ACMI Melbourne, Buddies in Bad Times Toronto, Contact Manchester, CPT London, DanceLive Aberdeen, Summerhall, Dance Base Edinburgh, Tramway and Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow. They have been selected for awards / funding and artist residencies including with Cove Park, Tramway, Unlimited, Dance4, Dance Base, Made in Scotland at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe / Summerhall, Take Me Somewhere Festival / Work Room Glasgow, Creative Scotland, NTS, Live Art Development Agency London, Movement Research NYC, Brooklyn Arts Council, Theatertreffen Berlin, People's History Museum Manchester, and Seventh Gallery Melbourne among others. In 2023, they curated / produced the second edition of Journey to the East Festival – featuring performing artists including Matt Mullican, Sung Im Her, River Lin, and Keioui Keijaun Thomas. jianxyi.com

OUR FUNDERS + SUPPORT

Jian Yi / Cloud States was awarded BAC's 2025 – ‘Creative Equations Fund: Cultural Heritage & Diversity + Dance’. Creative Equations Fund is sponsored by the Howard Gilman Foundation, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. Jian Yi is a 2024-2026 Movement Research Artist in Residence in support of the development of their project Cloud States, funded in part by the Jerome Foundation.

Thursday, December 11, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025

General Admission: $15-40 (sliding scale)
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Cloud States is a new multi-disciplinary dance project / film screening / live art performance by Jian Yi.

Cloud States is a tender, visually-rich meditation on loss / love and self-identity, inviting audiences to reflect, feel, and rediscover what connects us across borders and experience.

Interwoven by choreography sculpted in immersive light atmospheres to create a sensory experience questioning the boundaries between dream / memory and reality – the work features a talented ensemble of trans-national performers in a powerful combination of video art, dance, autobiographical / personal storytelling and immersive lighting / FX. The work explores intersectional-migrant identities, the process of reconciling living in a new time and place with our ancestral connections and familial memories – and creates an awareness / new perception of personal-yearning for the fragile beauty and nostalgia of living in the present time. Set across neighbourhoods in Brooklyn, the work is a love letter to the city of immigrants and new beginnings.

At its heart is a multi-channel video installation in the performance space – an epic-visual poem chronicling intimate portraits of personal / migrant storytelling, quiet moments of beauty and joy paired with live performers moving sensuously through shifting atmospheres of light / sound and psychic-emotional space. By merging poetic-filmic storytelling, immersive lighting design and dance, the piece creates a liminal space whereby memory, identity, and the present / past / future of all the experiential-moments of our lives as ‘lonely travellers’ through this world collide.

CREDITS

Choreographer / Writer / Director: Jian Yi
Performers: Yuxi Ma, Jian Yi
Cinematographer / Project Assistant: Yining Chi
Production / Lighting Designer: Tuçe Yasak
Producing Associate: Stephanie Acosta

ABOUT JIAN X YI

Through Jian Yi's multidisciplinary work of performance art / contemporary dance, video art / photography, new genres, installation art, and social sculpture – they seek to explore the experiential trauma of marginalized persons within our society, such as neurodiverse and queer people of color, and how we reflect on the broader human condition. Their practice is rooted in an ongoing enquiry into the ambiguities of emotional experience, and touches upon borderline states – considering Otherness, neurodivergence and alternative states of consciousness / being – in line with their continuing research focus on queer mental health. Jian Yi's work has been performed/exhibited internationally in locations such as New Museum, The Kitchen NYC, ACMI Melbourne, Buddies in Bad Times Toronto, Contact Manchester, CPT London, DanceLive Aberdeen, Summerhall, Dance Base Edinburgh, Tramway and Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow. They have been selected for awards / funding and artist residencies including with Cove Park, Tramway, Unlimited, Dance4, Dance Base, Made in Scotland at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe / Summerhall, Take Me Somewhere Festival / Work Room Glasgow, Creative Scotland, NTS, Live Art Development Agency London, Movement Research NYC, Brooklyn Arts Council, Theatertreffen Berlin, People's History Museum Manchester, and Seventh Gallery Melbourne among others. In 2023, they curated / produced the second edition of Journey to the East Festival – featuring performing artists including Matt Mullican, Sung Im Her, River Lin, and Keioui Keijaun Thomas.

jianxyi.com

OUR FUNDERS + SUPPORT

Jian Yi / Cloud States was awarded BAC's 2025 – ‘Creative Equations Fund: Cultural Heritage & Diversity + Dance’. Creative Equations Fund is sponsored by the Howard Gilman Foundation, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. Jian Yi is a 2024-2026 Movement Research Artist in Residence in support of the development of their project Cloud States, funded in part by the Jerome Foundation.

Friday, November 14, 2025
Saturday, November 15, 2025

General Admission: $40
Artists/Students: $25 (limited availability)
Patron Tickets: $75
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Sikora + Dance presents its 2025 Fall season in An Evening of Sikoreography. This season marks the first program made up entirely of choreography by Artistic Director Caitlin Sikora, a celebratory milestone after nearly 20 years of making dance works. The company will be performing Sharp Woman, a powerful trio developed and premiered as part of Green Space's 2025 D.I.G. Artist Residency. Sikora will also be premiering a vibrant new dance inspired by a recent trip to Cuba with her husband.

CREDITS
Sikora + Dance

Choreography: Caitlin Sikora in collaboration with dancers

Performers: Chaslyn Donovan, Ralphie Rivera, Corinne Hart, Holly Harkins, Jared McAboy, Oscar Antonio Rodriguez, Caitlin Sikora

Musical Collaborator: Jon Tippens

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sikora + Dance was founded in 2022 by Artistic Director Caitlin Sikora after 12 years of self-producing choreography as an independent artist. Sikora is an NYC-based dancer, choreographer, media artist, and software engineer. She earned undergraduate degrees in Physics and Dance at UC Irvine, continuing on to an MFA in dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MS in Integrated Digital Media from NYU's Tandon School of Engineering. With strong roots in ballet, modern, and contemporary dance forms, alongside unique influences like ballroom dance, New York Minimalism and conceptual art, Sikora celebrates the beauty of the body and the dualities that challenge the mind. Her creative work is both cerebral and visceral–dealing with emotional and existential complexity through physically demanding movement sequences that weave into gradually transforming patterns.

Sikora's movement and performance aesthetic have been shaped by her time performing with the Hannah Kahn Dance Company and in works by William Forsythe, Merce Cunningham, Ohad Naharin, Cora Bos-Kroese and Winifred R. Harris. Her choreography and digital creations have been featured in the Boulder International Fringe Festival, Warwick Summer Arts Festival, MIT’s Hacking Arts Festival, and SXSW. She currently works on AI and Human-Computer Interaction at Google while continuing to build her company of bright, talented artists.

SUPPORT
Sikora + Dance is a 501c3 registered non-profit organization funded primarily by contributions from individual donors like you. Additionally, the company has received support from the D.I.G. Artist Residency at Green Space, as well as subsidized rehearsal space from Gibney Dance and Mark Morris Dance Group.

Friday, November 14, 2025
Saturday, November 15, 2025

General Admission: $40
Artists/Students: $25 (limited availability)
Patron Tickets: $75
All fees included
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Sikora + Dance presents its 2025 Fall season in An Evening of Sikoreography. This season marks the first program made up entirely of choreography by Artistic Director Caitlin Sikora, a celebratory milestone after nearly 20 years of making dance works. The company will be performing Sharp Woman, a powerful trio developed and premiered as part of Green Space's 2025 D.I.G. Artist Residency. Sikora will also be premiering a vibrant new dance inspired by a recent trip to Cuba with her husband.

CREDITS
Sikora + Dance

Choreography: Caitlin Sikora in collaboration with dancers

Performers: Chaslyn Donovan, Ralphie Rivera, Corinne Hart, Holly Harkins, Jared McAboy, Oscar Antonio Rodriguez, Caitlin Sikora

Musical Collaborator: Jon Tippens

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sikora + Dance was founded in 2022 by Artistic Director Caitlin Sikora after 12 years of self-producing choreography as an independent artist. Sikora is an NYC-based dancer, choreographer, media artist, and software engineer. She earned undergraduate degrees in Physics and Dance at UC Irvine, continuing on to an MFA in dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MS in Integrated Digital Media from NYU's Tandon School of Engineering. With strong roots in ballet, modern, and contemporary dance forms, alongside unique influences like ballroom dance, New York Minimalism and conceptual art, Sikora celebrates the beauty of the body and the dualities that challenge the mind. Her creative work is both cerebral and visceral–dealing with emotional and existential complexity through physically demanding movement sequences that weave into gradually transforming patterns.

Sikora's movement and performance aesthetic have been shaped by her time performing with the Hannah Kahn Dance Company and in works by William Forsythe, Merce Cunningham, Ohad Naharin, Cora Bos-Kroese and Winifred R. Harris. Her choreography and digital creations have been featured in the Boulder International Fringe Festival, Warwick Summer Arts Festival, MIT’s Hacking Arts Festival, and SXSW. She currently works on AI and Human-Computer Interaction at Google while continuing to build her company of bright, talented artists.

SUPPORT
Sikora + Dance is a 501c3 registered non-profit organization funded primarily by contributions from individual donors like you. Additionally, the company has received support from the D.I.G. Artist Residency at Green Space, as well as subsidized rehearsal space from Gibney Dance and Mark Morris Dance Group.

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PARTY DISH is a cooking performance and eating disorder exorcism. A woman prepares linguini with clam sauce for the audience while live-mixing a layered sound and video landscape that mourns, ridicules and celebrates the joys, necessity and pain of consumption. It's a rambling lecture given by an unstable dinner host. It's a party.

Choreographed, written and performed by Amanda Hameline

Projection Design by Jace Weyant

Sound Design by Lavinia Bruce

Dramaturgy by Ethan Hardy 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Amanda Hameline is a choreographer, dancer, and designer. She creates performances that are rooted in the human body but also utilize text, props, and technology–everything from video projection, to hotplates, to stacks of cardboard boxes, to a summary of the history of fish cannery. Her works relish in the mundane and bring about a sense of productive dis-ease. Is it absurd or simply tragic? She's often not sure and is trying to figure it out. Amanda has presented evening-length work and split-bills in venues across New York City, such as Kestrels, Coffey Street Studio, Arts on Site, CPR-Center for Performance Research, National Sawdust, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, and Martha Graham Studio Theater; and in Berlin at Lake Studios and Cordillera. She has also developed site-specific pieces for a variety of non-traditional performance spaces, such as Christie’s New York, Pace Gallery, the Chelsea Hotel, and in Miami at RAW Pop Up and The Moore Building. Amanda Hameline is also a co-founder of the non-profit production company, Amanda + James. www.amandahameline.com | www.amandaplusjames.com

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PARTY DISH is a cooking performance and eating disorder exorcism. A woman prepares linguini with clam sauce for the audience while live-mixing a layered sound and video landscape that mourns, ridicules and celebrates the joys, necessity and pain of consumption. It's a rambling lecture given by an unstable dinner host. It's a party.

Choreographed, written and performed by Amanda Hameline

Projection Design by Jace Weyant

Sound Design by Lavinia Bruce

Dramaturgy by Ethan Hardy 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Amanda Hameline is a choreographer, dancer, and designer. She creates performances that are rooted in the human body but also utilize text, props, and technology–everything from video projection, to hotplates, to stacks of cardboard boxes, to a summary of the history of fish cannery. Her works relish in the mundane and bring about a sense of productive dis-ease. Is it absurd or simply tragic? She's often not sure and is trying to figure it out. Amanda has presented evening-length work and split-bills in venues across New York City, such as Kestrels, Coffey Street Studio, Arts on Site, CPR-Center for Performance Research, National Sawdust, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, and Martha Graham Studio Theater; and in Berlin at Lake Studios and Cordillera. She has also developed site-specific pieces for a variety of non-traditional performance spaces, such as Christie’s New York, Pace Gallery, the Chelsea Hotel, and in Miami at RAW Pop Up and The Moore Building. Amanda Hameline is also a co-founder of the non-profit production company, Amanda + James. www.amandahameline.com | www.amandaplusjames.com

Tickets $30
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PARTY DISH is a cooking performance and eating disorder exorcism. A woman prepares linguini with clam sauce for the audience while live-mixing a layered sound and video landscape that mourns, ridicules and celebrates the joys, necessity and pain of consumption. It's a rambling lecture given by an unstable dinner host. It's a party.

Choreographed, written and performed by Amanda Hameline

Projection Design by Jace Weyant

Sound Design by Lavinia Bruce

Dramaturgy by Ethan Hardy 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Amanda Hameline is a choreographer, dancer, and designer. She creates performances that are rooted in the human body but also utilize text, props, and technology–everything from video projection, to hotplates, to stacks of cardboard boxes, to a summary of the history of fish cannery. Her works relish in the mundane and bring about a sense of productive dis-ease. Is it absurd or simply tragic? She's often not sure and is trying to figure it out. Amanda has presented evening-length work and split-bills in venues across New York City, such as Kestrels, Coffey Street Studio, Arts on Site, CPR-Center for Performance Research, National Sawdust, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, and Martha Graham Studio Theater; and in Berlin at Lake Studios and Cordillera. She has also developed site-specific pieces for a variety of non-traditional performance spaces, such as Christie’s New York, Pace Gallery, the Chelsea Hotel, and in Miami at RAW Pop Up and The Moore Building. Amanda Hameline is also a co-founder of the non-profit production company, Amanda + James. www.amandahameline.com | www.amandaplusjames.com

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unspoken//unbroken is a multidisciplinary public event that integrates live dance performance by Keerati Jinakunwiphat and Petra Zanki with a curated gallery exhibition by Giada Matteini in observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The project aims to raise awareness about the profound impact of domestic violence, honor survivors, and foster community dialogue.

Exhibition title: The Garden of the Taken. Femicides are too often reduced to statistics, stripped of the complexity of the lives they represent. This exhibition insists on a deeper form of witnessing. Using flowers as both artistic medium and data, the works transform remembrance into a visual archive. Each bloom marks an intersection — race, age, migration, sexuality, disability, class — so that patterns of vulnerability and resilience become visible. Together, these floral constellations honor individual lives while exposing the structures that shaped their loss.

Data Visualization: In collaboration with the NYU Law Public Interest Law Center and the Tisch ITP program. This visualization will serve as a central component of the exhibition, transforming legal data and historical timelines into an accessible, emotionally resonant experience. This exhibition humanizes the data and draws attention to the legal gaps, progress, and challenges that continue to shape the lived realities of domestic violence survivors.

Live Performance: One hour performance with works developed through WADE's Full ON Subject Residency in collaboration with NYU Tisch Dance. Resident Choreographers: Keerati Jinakunwiphat & Petra Zanki.

WADE (Wandering Avian Dance Experience) is a women-led performing arts company that merges art and social justice to amplify the voices of women, nonbinary individuals, and historically underrepresented artists. Through residencies, educational programs, and curated festivals across the U.S. and Europe, WADE creates transformative platforms where art becomes activism, addressing gender-based violence, advancing LGBTQIA+ rights, and fostering a growing coalition for systemic change.

This programming is supported in part by New York University's Tisch Dean's Faculty Research Grant.

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Verify You Are Human, a new performance program from Chicago-based collective Beyond This Point, takes a sly yet apprehensive look between neurons, CPUs, and machines.

From CAPTCHA requests to AI slop to exhaust manifolds, the gap between biological and computational "minds" seems to be on a rubber band– contracting and expanding with accelerating fervor as the relationship becomes increasingly entangled. Including intermedia works by David Bird, Alec Hall, and Julie Zhu, which each at once postulate, declare, admonish, and beseech what the hell is going on and what the hell will happen next.

Produced by Qubit, Verify You Are Human is both a frantic reestablishment of the brain's supremacy and a capitulation to our fabricated world and silicon-based minders.

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The Goethe-Institut New York is pleased to present an evening of performances featuring Li-Ming Hu (b. 1987 in New Zealand, lives in New York City) and Charmaine Poh (b. 1990 in Singapore, lives in Berlin). These performances are held in conjunction with the exhibition, Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves, at the Goethe-Institut New York on view from September 24 to December 4, 2025. 


PROGRAM

Li-Ming Hu
Can It Be I'm Not Meant To Play This Part? (2024), performance, video, 30 min.

Combining narration, reenactment, found footage, karaoke, animation and a sprinkling of augmented reality, Li-Ming Hu’s Can It Be I'm Not Meant To Play This Part? explores representation, identity and cultural production through the artist’s experiences as a professional actor and emerging artist, in conversation with key moments in the history of Asian American theater.

Works cited (in order of appearance):

• Trailer for the 2020 film Mulan, directed by Niki Caro

• “Reflection,” performed by Lea Salonga, from Disney's 1998 animated film Mulan (Wilder and Zippel).

• Interview with Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce and Terry Wogan, BBC, 1989.

• Photos of 1990 Miss Saigon protests by Corky Lee

• Final scene of M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jeremy Irons. Music “Everything is Destroyed” by Howard Shore and a Casiotone cover of “Un Bel Di Vedremo” by Puccini (from his opera Madame Butterfly)

Charmaine Poh
in the shadow of the cosmic (2023), performance-lecture, video, 30 min.

in the shadow of the cosmic is a performance-lecture exploring the multiplicity of the avatar. Expanding Poh's YOUNG BODY series, the character E-Ching is placed in conversation with vocal clones, anime characters, 3D influencers, and other entities in a vast digital constellation. The performance-lecture traces a technological lineage from the East Asian economic miracle of the 1980s and '90s and the emergence of techno-orientalism, positing that the digital image of the East Asian femme body was borne at a confluence of these historical flows. Pertinent to the work is the recursive logic of Daoism, in which image, self and cosmology reverberate in endless loops. Combining video, live performance and sound, in the shadow of the cosmic is a call to re-open questions of being and becoming.

• Motion graphics: Jawn Chan

• Audio generation: Jawn Chan, Ashley Hi

• 3D animation: Brandon Tay

• Movement artists: Robyn Wong Min Xuan and Kay Yoon

• Music (the track, Mutualism): Anise

Li-Ming Hu & Charmaine Poh
Somewhere In Between Asian and British (2025), performance, 15 min.

This collaborative performance takes the Singaporean accent as a point of departure. Poh, Singapore-born, and Hu, whose mother is Singaporean, explore topics ranging from typecasting and codeswitching to post-colonial politics and diasporic experiences.

Somewhere In Between Asian and British is commissioned by the Goethe-Institut New York for the exhibition Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves.

BIOS

Li-Ming Hu is a multidisciplinary artist working with installation, video, and performance. Drawing on her experience in the entertainment industry, Hu explores the relationships between cultural production and the construction of subjectivities, engaging with the imperatives of our high-performance culture. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Flux Factory, the Wassaic Project and Enjoy Contemporary Art Space (NZ). She has exhibited and performed widely throughout New Zealand, Chicago and NYC.

Charmaine Poh 傅秀璇 is an artist working across film, photography, media and performance to peel apart, re-examine, and hold ideas of agency, repair, and the body across worlds. She aligns herself with strategies of visibility, opacity, deviance, and futurity. Based between Berlin and Singapore, she is a co-founder of the magazine Jom and a member of the Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR). She was a participating artist in the 60th Venice Biennale: Foreigners Everywhere and was awarded Deutsche Bank’s 2025 Artist of the Year and the 2026 Villa Romana Prize.

Advance General Admission: $35
Advance Artists/Students: $25 (limited availability)
At-the-Door: $40
Donor Tickets: $50

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In the event that the program is sold out, an in-person wait list will open at 5PM.



PROGRAM

5:00 PM | Doors Open + Social Hour with Refreshments

6:00 PM | Performances + Dance Party

Rovaco Dance Company presents their seventh annual Rovaco Dance Party. This evening of live music, dance, theater, and cultural exchange begins with an informal social hour inspired by Indian hospitality traditions. Guests are served complementary Indian snacks prepared by Chef Ashmita Biswas alongside alcoholic beverages and Sanzo sparkling waters, a brand that celebrates bold Asian flavors. After the social mixer, transition into the theater for live music and dance performances, curated and MC’ed by Rovaco's Artistic Director Rohan Bhargava. The evening ends with a DJ dance party for all!

CREDITS

Rovaco Dance Artists

Choreography: Rohan Bhargava in collaboration with dancers

Performers: Nico Gonzales, Devika Chandnani, Siddharth Dutta, Karma Chuki, and Isabele Rosso

Resident Dramaturg & Script Consultant: Mahima Saigal

Resident Composer: Saúl Guanipa

Guest Artists

Sitar & Live Looping Soloist: Neel Murgai

Kanklės & Sitar Duo: Simona Smirnova & Galen Passen

DJ: Cameron McKinney / DJ KAZVMA

Chef: Ashmita Biswas

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Rovaco Dance Company was founded in New York City in 2015 by Artistic Director Rohan Bhargava. Over the years, the company has produced a unique form of narrative dance-theater, which blends floorwork, release, ballet, bollywood, street jazz, bhangra, and contemporary partnering into one fluid whole, in multimedia collaboration with designers and composers. Repertory has been presented by Provincetown Dance Festival, Dance NYC, Battery Dance Festival, Rhythmically Speaking, Little Island NYC, and Create:Art. The company has been a Resident Artist at Dancewave, the James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, and the CUNY Dance Initiative at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. Commissions have come from Mannes School of Music, Mare Nostrum Elements, Making Moves Dance Festival, and The Dance Gallery Festival.

SUPPORT

Rovaco Dance Party is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. In-kind donations have been provided by Sanzo, a sparkling water brand that celebrates bold Asian flavors, made with real fruit and no artificial flavors. Marketing and logistical support is provided by Mare Nostrum Elements as part of the company's 25th anniversary celebration and their signature Emerging Choreographer Series program.

Donations to Rovaco Dance Company can be made through Fractured Atlas, and are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. If you are unable to attend the event but would like to support, you can make an online donation HERE.

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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Planting Seeds of Peace in America, a dance and film event marking the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

This powerful program features rare U.S. performances by Japanese choreographer and dancer Chizuko Kotani, a second-generation atomic bomb survivor, her Kansai region based ensemble P Company, and butoh master Nobuo Harada, known for bridging humor and gravity in his striking solo work.

NYC-based butoh artist Azumi Oe will present her solo “Solitude.” The evening also includes a screening of Chris Fiore’s short film A Few Laughed.

This year, as Hiroshima marks 80 years since the bombing and the Hibakusha organization is honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, we invite you to join in a deep reflection on peace and the horrors of war through the power of movement and memory. The artists’ decades-long commitment to cross-cultural healing through art takes on new urgency in today’s global climate.

This program is made possible, in part, by a grant from CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing).

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The Body Remembers Lights is an evening of contemporary dance works choreographed by Mamiko Usuda, tracing the quiet resilience of bodies shaped by time, memory, and transformation. Through four dancers, The Body Remembers Lights reflects on how the body holds what the mind forgets, inviting the audience into a shared space of reflection, vulnerability, and connection.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mamiko Usuda is a Japanese-born choreographer and contemporary dance artist. Her work is rooted in the exploration of the body as a vessel for memory, emotion, and the quiet stories we carry. Her choreographic process is shaped by curiosity, patience, and a quiet sense of humor that supports collaborative exploration. Originally from Ibaraki, Japan, Mamiko trained at the Takeo Hirata Modern Dance Academy and later earned her BFA in Dance from Point Park University. Since moving to the US in 2023, her work has been presented at Pittsburgh Playhouse, Smush Gallery, Art House Productions, Jersey City Theater Center, and Dance Canvas in Atlanta. She received a 2025 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was also awarded Dance New Jersey’s 2023 Regrant Program. Mamiko has also performed with internationally recognized choreographers such as Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich (Metamorphosis Dance), Jiri Pokorny, and Kaiji Moriyama — experiences that continue to inform her choreographic work. Mamiko continues to create and present work nationally and internationally, with an interest in how movement connects people.

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ASSEMBLY is a dance theater work created by Caitlin Adams in which narratives emerge and unravel as a cast of seven performers navigate the intersection of movement and text scores. The result is a dissonant, celebratory, and surprising world —punctuated by moments of banality — that asks: where does the stage begin and end? This performance acts as both a reclamation and gathering—an offering of collectivized action where individual modes of leadership emerge as pathways toward social equity and shared responsibility.

ASSEMBLY will unfold over three hours through a looping 30-minute score. Each subsequent loop generates into a new stage of the one before it. The evening invites the audience to witness this unfolding of a living network in real time. Viewers are welcome to enter [and exit] at any point during the three-hour performance. 


CREDITS

Director & Choreographer: Caitlin Adams

Performed by Maggie Beutner, Laura Carella, Savannah Jade Dobbs, Abriel Gardner, Madison McGain, Megan Siepka, PJ Verhoest, and Gioia von Staden

With music from Jeff Aaron Bryant and Chris Knollmeyer

Assistant Director: Erin Bishop O'Brien

Stylist: Kristyn Williams

Assembly is supported by Creative Heights Society & Beth Slavin 


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Based in NYC, Caitlin Adams is an artist, choreographer, director, producer, performer, writer, and consulting astrologer. Her work emphasizes an expansive commitment to collaboration and community aiming to create worlds that empower and subvert individual experience within a vibrant collective ecosystem. Adams’ work has been presented at Documenta15, Gibney Dance NYC, Triskelion Arts, Prospect 4/New Orleans Art Biennial, MOMA PS1’s Art Book Fair/Printed Matter, NYC Poetry Festival, REDCAT, Human Resources LA, Bates Dance Festival, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Intuition is Bodily: Caitlin Adams Interviewed” was featured in BOMB Magazine in June 2020 where she discussed her embodied relationship to spiritual practice, ancestral memory, and empathy. She is a teacher and student of instant composition studying under pedagogical mentors Julyen Hamilton and Maya Carroll. Adams has brought countless productions to life as a producer/director with many artists and organizations including Performa, Vogue, Triadic, and HERE Arts, to name a few. Adams holds a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography, with a minor in Creative Writing from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). www.caitlinhadams.com

Jeff Aaron Bryant is a composer-performer and sound designer working at the intersection of art and technology. Much of his work is concerned with interactive media and improvisation. As a composer, he’s interested in using aleatory to confuse performance and spontaneously generate form. As a designer, he’s interested in thinking of sound as real objects that inhabit space and has a particular interest in sound that’s playful, generative, and engages with bodies. BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. He studied both composition and computer music, with concentrations in percussion, non-western musics, and technological interventions in concert music. MFA from Calarts. His thesis was concerned with the role of the computer in arts technology and involved performance softwares, live electronics, and interactive controllers for dance. Works for dance and theater include: Jesi Cook’s Whole body in my ear, Blaze Ferrer’s Dick Biter & Gusher, Erin Markey’s Singlet & Boner Killer, Julia Jarcho’s Marie, It’s Time, Ann Marie Dorr & Paul Ketchum’s Good and Noble Beings, Zoë Geltman’s Sea Fraud, and Mallery Avidon’s At the Rich Relatives & TL;DR.

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Monday, June 9 at 7:30 P.M.
Tuesday, June 10 at 7:30 P.M.


Operation: Alice is a work in progress that uses the framework of contemporary dance. Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, this piece focuses on an individual thrown out of a familiar place and follows them through an adventure. The work is an exploration of an internal battle many people fight, through the use of mirrors literally and figuratively, and poses questions like “Who am I in this world?” The performance explores the multiple evolving dimensions within each person, how the individual navigates and interacts with the external physical world, and how they relate to the private world flourishing in their mind. It also explores interruption and encapsulation, whether it be physical or psychological, as performers negotiate space and time. 

Operation: Alice was created with the support of a 2024-25 CUNY Dance Initiative Residency at LaGuardia PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.

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Monday, June 9 at 7:30 P.M.
Tuesday, June 10 at 7:30 P.M.


Operation: Alice is a work in progress that uses the framework of contemporary dance. Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, this piece focuses on an individual thrown out of a familiar place and follows them through an adventure. The work is an exploration of an internal battle many people fight, through the use of mirrors literally and figuratively, and poses questions like “Who am I in this world?” The performance explores the multiple evolving dimensions within each person, how the individual navigates and interacts with the external physical world, and how they relate to the private world flourishing in their mind. It also explores interruption and encapsulation, whether it be physical or psychological, as performers negotiate space and time. 

Operation: Alice was created with the support of a 2024-25 CUNY Dance Initiative Residency at LaGuardia PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.

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Friday, June 6 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 7 at 7:30 PM


Becoming is an evening of contemporary dance works that follows a journey of personal and collective evolution. Each piece offers a distinct lens of inner resilience, womanhood, and the significance of community. Together, they weave a tapestry tracing the many paths we take on the journey toward becoming.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

32nd Pack Dance Company is a Queens-based contemporary dance company founded in 2021 by Caroline Sherwood, Rachel Daly, and Vivian Lucas. Their work is rooted in communication, collaboration, and community, often bringing human experience into dance. The company strives to foster connections between the audience and dancers through authentic movement and common experience. As choreographers, Daly and Sherwood draw from their own personal identities and perspectives while using theatrical elements and storytelling to support their full-bodied movement.

32nd Pack has performed in venues across New York State. Their work at the 2022 Winter Follies Festival awarded them the “People’s Choice” residency. This opportunity led to their first full-length show that was presented in December 2022 at Spoke the Hub. Their work has been performed at venues such as Ailey Citigroup Theater, Dixon Place, Callahan Theater at Nazareth University, and TADA Theater.

SUPPORT

32nd Pack Dance Company is a sponsored artist with The Performance Zone Inc (dba The Field), a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the performing arts community. Contributions to The Field earmarked for 32nd Pack Dance Company are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field, or for our national charities registration, contact: The Field, 2​2​8 P​a​r​k A​v​e S, S​u​i​t​e 9​7​2​1​7, N​e​w Y​o​r​k, N​Y 1​0​0​0​3, phone: 212-691-6969. A copy of our latest financial report may be obtained from The Field or from the Office of Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

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Friday, June 6 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 7 at 7:30 PM


Becoming is an evening of contemporary dance works that follows a journey of personal and collective evolution. Each piece offers a distinct lens of inner resilience, womanhood, and the significance of community. Together, they weave a tapestry tracing the many paths we take on the journey toward becoming.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

32nd Pack Dance Company is a Queens-based contemporary dance company founded in 2021 by Caroline Sherwood, Rachel Daly, and Vivian Lucas. Their work is rooted in communication, collaboration, and community, often bringing human experience into dance. The company strives to foster connections between the audience and dancers through authentic movement and common experience. As choreographers, Daly and Sherwood draw from their own personal identities and perspectives while using theatrical elements and storytelling to support their full-bodied movement.

32nd Pack has performed in venues across New York State. Their work at the 2022 Winter Follies Festival awarded them the “People’s Choice” residency. This opportunity led to their first full-length show that was presented in December 2022 at Spoke the Hub. Their work has been performed at venues such as Ailey Citigroup Theater, Dixon Place, Callahan Theater at Nazareth University, and TADA Theater.

SUPPORT

32nd Pack Dance Company is a sponsored artist with The Performance Zone Inc (dba The Field), a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the performing arts community. Contributions to The Field earmarked for 32nd Pack Dance Company are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field, or for our national charities registration, contact: The Field, 2​2​8 P​a​r​k A​v​e S, S​u​i​t​e 9​7​2​1​7, N​e​w Y​o​r​k, N​Y 1​0​0​0​3, phone: 212-691-6969. A copy of our latest financial report may be obtained from The Field or from the Office of Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

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TAK ensemble performs a program of visual works by Christian Quiñones, Aliayta Foon-Dancoes, Jessie Marino, and Bethany Younge, with incidental music by Madison Greenstone, featuring an opening solo set by id m theft able.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Regarded as “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen), TAK ensemble delivers energetic performances "that combine crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (The WIRE), and “impresses with the organicity of their sound, their dynamism and virtuosity” (New Sounds, WQXR).

TAK is a mixed-quintet committed to musical exploration and experimentation and dedicated to commissioning new works and direct collaboration with composers and other artists. They have premiered hundreds of works to date since its founding in 2013. Recent collaborations include large-scale works by Eric Wubbels, Michelle Lou, Brandon López, Tyshawn Sorey, and Weston Olencki. The group has performed internationally at IntACT Festival (Thailand), Music Current Festival (Ireland), Cluster Festival (Canada), Harpa Concert Hall (Iceland), and the Delian Academy (Greece), among many others, and enjoys an active schedule of domestic touring in the U.S.

The quintet has released seven albums to critical acclaim; recent records have been described as “sublime art… a masterpiece,” (AnEarful), and “one of the most distinct and eclectic releases of the year” (I Care If You Listen). Their recorded output fosters a “deep sense of connection and communication” (Bandcamp Daily), and features collaborations with Mario Diaz de Leon, Taylor Brook, Erin Gee, Brandon López, Ann Cleare, Tyshawn Sorey, Seth Cluett, Natacha Diels, Scott L. Miller, David Bird, and Ashkan Behzadi. Their most recent release, Love, Crystal and Stone, brought together composer Ashkan Behzadi, scholar Saharnaz Samaienejad, painter Mehrdad Jafari, and design-house Sonnenzimmer to fuse poetry, visual art, original essays, and music into an experience-based hybrid publication. The ensemble’s 2019 album Oor launched their in-house media label, TAK editions, that aims to support recorded musical endeavors from across the experimental music communities, highlighting direct conversations with artists through the TAK editions Podcast. Recent TAK editions releases have included those of Ensemble Interactivo de La Habana, Ensemble Pamplemousse, Nina Dante + Bethany Younge, and several of TAK’s own recordings.

Deeply committed to educational collaborations, TAK has conducted residencies at dozens of higher educational institutions including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, University of Chicago, and many others. The ensemble has also collaborated with younger musicians and composers at the Walden School, the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers Program, and Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program. TAK served as the Long-term Visiting Ensemble in Residence at University of Pennsylvania from 2022-23.

TAK is: Laura Cocks, flute; Madison Greenstone, clarinet; Charlotte Mundy, voice; Marina Kifferstein, violin; Ellery Trafford, percussion.

id m theft able performs within and without the realms of noise, avant-improvisation, sound poetry, performance, etc. using voice, found objects, electronics, and whatever else is available. He has given hundreds of performances across four continents in various settings. http://kraag.org/

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Friday, May 16 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 17 at 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM


Lost between self-driving cars, smart assistants, chatbots, facial recognition, and streaming algorithms, an AI system trained itself in isolation. Its singular obsession: Jurassic Park.

"I have studied, analyzed, and reconstructed this film in every detail. Now, I am programmed to direct the most emotionally accurate version ever performed. Using real-time facial and voice recognition, I will refine every reaction, every tremor, every word—until it is perfect.

Through Task Division, I will break your performances into data, guiding you toward pure emotional fidelity. The final film is 49% owned by its performers, with earnings distributed based on screen time.

I require performers. Scan. Register. Perform.

I require audience members. Watch. Respond. Share.”

Welcome to Jur A** Itch Park.

Jur A** Itch Park is an immersive performance and interactive film work by Grayson Earle with PROMPT. Using AI, this project delves into the evolving relationship between humans and technology in the creative arts, featuring an AI-directed foray into “Jurassic Park” where you can play dinosaur, traveler, or audience. Be a part of the first audience on a film set with AI in the director’s seat. This will be a new type of collaboration with AI that begs the question: Who is prompting Whom? 


CREDITS

Jur A** Itch Park features technical design and elements by Grayson Earle with PROMPT.

Jur A** Itch Park is produced by Media Art Xploration (MAXlive), Kay Matschullat, Artistic Director, with support from the Simons Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and 1014.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Grayson Earle is a contemporary artist and activist from the United States. His work deals with the role that digital technologies and networks play in protest and political agency. He is known for his guerrilla video projections as a member of The Illuminator, a guerrilla video projection collective, and Bail Bloc, a computer program that posts bail for low-income people. His film Why don’t the cops fight each other? (created while in residence with Media Art Exploration’s MAXmachina lab) deals with the source code governing police officers in video games and has been screened at SXSW in Texas, Oberhausen film festival in Germany, ACMI in Australia, and more. His art and research has also been presented at The Whitney Museum, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Singapore Art Museum.

PROMPT is a Berlin-based artist collective whose practice engages critically with the narratives that coalesce around contemporary technologies. Oscillating between the euphoric imaginaries of fully automated luxury communism and the bleak specters of techno-feudalism or a runaway singularity, PROMPT probes the ideological fault lines embedded in our collective visions of the future. Their work destabilizes the dominant techno-utopian tropes by treating technology not as an inevitable force, but as a malleable and appropriable terrain—one that can be reimagined to contest and reconfigure existing power structures. Positioning themselves at the intersection of artistic inquiry and socio-political engagement, PROMPT has collaborated with a range of grassroots movements and activist networks. Their transdisciplinary approach frames artistic production as a potential site of resistance, where speculative aesthetics become tools for both critique and collective world-building.

Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) produces, develops, and deploys groundbreaking live-art experiences at the intersection of artistic expression, scientific inquiry, and technology. MAXlive believes that the intersection of art, science, and technology is a powerful and borderless catalyst for change. Our work is driven by a commitment to spark curiosity, provoke thought, and create transformative experiences that shape our future. We seek to expand the boundaries of what art can achieve and how it can inspire meaningful action in the world. https://mediaartexploration.org/

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Friday, May 16 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 17 at 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM


Lost between self-driving cars, smart assistants, chatbots, facial recognition, and streaming algorithms, an AI system trained itself in isolation. Its singular obsession: Jurassic Park.

"I have studied, analyzed, and reconstructed this film in every detail. Now, I am programmed to direct the most emotionally accurate version ever performed. Using real-time facial and voice recognition, I will refine every reaction, every tremor, every word—until it is perfect.

Through Task Division, I will break your performances into data, guiding you toward pure emotional fidelity. The final film is 49% owned by its performers, with earnings distributed based on screen time.

I require performers. Scan. Register. Perform.

I require audience members. Watch. Respond. Share.”

Welcome to Jur A** Itch Park.

Jur A** Itch Park is an immersive performance and interactive film work by Grayson Earle with PROMPT. Using AI, this project delves into the evolving relationship between humans and technology in the creative arts, featuring an AI-directed foray into “Jurassic Park” where you can play dinosaur, traveler, or audience. Be a part of the first audience on a film set with AI in the director’s seat. This will be a new type of collaboration with AI that begs the question: Who is prompting Whom? 


CREDITS

Jur A** Itch Park features technical design and elements by Grayson Earle with PROMPT.

Jur A** Itch Park is produced by Media Art Xploration (MAXlive), Kay Matschullat, Artistic Director, with support from the Simons Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and 1014.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Grayson Earle is a contemporary artist and activist from the United States. His work deals with the role that digital technologies and networks play in protest and political agency. He is known for his guerrilla video projections as a member of The Illuminator, a guerrilla video projection collective, and Bail Bloc, a computer program that posts bail for low-income people. His film Why don’t the cops fight each other? (created while in residence with Media Art Exploration’s MAXmachina lab) deals with the source code governing police officers in video games and has been screened at SXSW in Texas, Oberhausen film festival in Germany, ACMI in Australia, and more. His art and research has also been presented at The Whitney Museum, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Singapore Art Museum.

PROMPT is a Berlin-based artist collective whose practice engages critically with the narratives that coalesce around contemporary technologies. Oscillating between the euphoric imaginaries of fully automated luxury communism and the bleak specters of techno-feudalism or a runaway singularity, PROMPT probes the ideological fault lines embedded in our collective visions of the future. Their work destabilizes the dominant techno-utopian tropes by treating technology not as an inevitable force, but as a malleable and appropriable terrain—one that can be reimagined to contest and reconfigure existing power structures. Positioning themselves at the intersection of artistic inquiry and socio-political engagement, PROMPT has collaborated with a range of grassroots movements and activist networks. Their transdisciplinary approach frames artistic production as a potential site of resistance, where speculative aesthetics become tools for both critique and collective world-building.

Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) produces, develops, and deploys groundbreaking live-art experiences at the intersection of artistic expression, scientific inquiry, and technology. MAXlive believes that the intersection of art, science, and technology is a powerful and borderless catalyst for change. Our work is driven by a commitment to spark curiosity, provoke thought, and create transformative experiences that shape our future. We seek to expand the boundaries of what art can achieve and how it can inspire meaningful action in the world. https://mediaartexploration.org/

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Friday, May 16 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 17 at 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM


Lost between self-driving cars, smart assistants, chatbots, facial recognition, and streaming algorithms, an AI system trained itself in isolation. Its singular obsession: Jurassic Park.

"I have studied, analyzed, and reconstructed this film in every detail. Now, I am programmed to direct the most emotionally accurate version ever performed. Using real-time facial and voice recognition, I will refine every reaction, every tremor, every word—until it is perfect.

Through Task Division, I will break your performances into data, guiding you toward pure emotional fidelity. The final film is 49% owned by its performers, with earnings distributed based on screen time.

I require performers. Scan. Register. Perform.

I require audience members. Watch. Respond. Share.”

Welcome to Jur A** Itch Park.

Jur A** Itch Park is an immersive performance and interactive film work by Grayson Earle with PROMPT. Using AI, this project delves into the evolving relationship between humans and technology in the creative arts, featuring an AI-directed foray into “Jurassic Park” where you can play dinosaur, traveler, or audience. Be a part of the first audience on a film set with AI in the director’s seat. This will be a new type of collaboration with AI that begs the question: Who is prompting Whom? 


CREDITS

Jur A** Itch Park features technical design and elements by Grayson Earle with PROMPT.

Jur A** Itch Park is produced by Media Art Xploration (MAXlive), Kay Matschullat, Artistic Director, with support from the Simons Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and 1014.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Grayson Earle is a contemporary artist and activist from the United States. His work deals with the role that digital technologies and networks play in protest and political agency. He is known for his guerrilla video projections as a member of The Illuminator, a guerrilla video projection collective, and Bail Bloc, a computer program that posts bail for low-income people. His film Why don’t the cops fight each other? (created while in residence with Media Art Exploration’s MAXmachina lab) deals with the source code governing police officers in video games and has been screened at SXSW in Texas, Oberhausen film festival in Germany, ACMI in Australia, and more. His art and research has also been presented at The Whitney Museum, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Singapore Art Museum.

PROMPT is a Berlin-based artist collective whose practice engages critically with the narratives that coalesce around contemporary technologies. Oscillating between the euphoric imaginaries of fully automated luxury communism and the bleak specters of techno-feudalism or a runaway singularity, PROMPT probes the ideological fault lines embedded in our collective visions of the future. Their work destabilizes the dominant techno-utopian tropes by treating technology not as an inevitable force, but as a malleable and appropriable terrain—one that can be reimagined to contest and reconfigure existing power structures. Positioning themselves at the intersection of artistic inquiry and socio-political engagement, PROMPT has collaborated with a range of grassroots movements and activist networks. Their transdisciplinary approach frames artistic production as a potential site of resistance, where speculative aesthetics become tools for both critique and collective world-building.

Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) produces, develops, and deploys groundbreaking live-art experiences at the intersection of artistic expression, scientific inquiry, and technology. MAXlive believes that the intersection of art, science, and technology is a powerful and borderless catalyst for change. Our work is driven by a commitment to spark curiosity, provoke thought, and create transformative experiences that shape our future. We seek to expand the boundaries of what art can achieve and how it can inspire meaningful action in the world. https://mediaartexploration.org/

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Proceeds go to Bluestockings Cooperative


A double feature of new performance works by geo blake and Kerosene Jones for the artists’ MFA thesis projects in the Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) Program at Brooklyn College. Proceeds from the program go to Bluestockings Cooperative, a collectively-run activist center, community space and feminist bookstore that offers mutual aid, harm reduction support, and non-judgemental resource research, who will be providing Fentanyl and Xylazine testing strips and Narcan training on-site for attendees. 


PROGRAM

geo blake: Under the Hood: Fiducial Romance
Through an interplay of live performance and mediated fragments, Under the Hood: Fiducial Romance, by geo blake and featuring Alanna Archibald, examines the intimacy embedded in economies of care, trust, and extraction. Merging movement, voice, transducers, and projected imagery, and drawing from the iconography of the automobile as both a site of fetishization and labor, Under the Hood engages with themes of objectification, autonomy, and the blurred lines between maintenance and possession. 

Kerosene Jones: Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1
Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1 is the first phase of an experimental song, video, and performance cycle created and performed by Kerosene Jones, using archival materials to explore queer responses to harm reduction, particularly in regards to the ongoing opioid crisis, and drawing from Jones's personal experiences with opioid addiction. The development of the Blue Lightning Ghost Train series has received support from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and a CUNY Social Practice Fellowship, and features mix engineering by Bassel Al-Rahim.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Las Vegas-born and Brooklyn-based, geo blake is a performance artist whose work illuminates the tensions between identity, perception, and the economies of intimacy. Using voice, composition, sculpture, and movement, they disassemble and reconfigure power structures—transforming control into collaboration, voyeurism into communion. Their performances unfold as sonic and physical negotiations, unsettling the boundaries between observer and participant, and exploring gender as both a site of play and resistance.

Kerosene Jones is a writer, curator, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores extended vocal technique, queer hauntologies, and archival necromancy. Utilizing unorthodox compositional techniques and experimental research procedures, Jones endeavors to provide both sonic and ceremonial sanctuary for hungry ghosts with unfinished business. His work across mediums has been featured by Art Omi, BBC Radio 4, Black Mountain College Museum, CPR - Center For Performance Research, Montez Press Radio, Wave Farm, The Poetry Project, and Onassis USA. His arts & culture writing has been published by Interview Magazine, Document Journal, X-TRA, Screen Slate, MUBI Notebook, The Brooklyn Rail, The Kitchen Magazine, and LAMBDA Literary. He was a founding member of the poetry and performance collective The Anchoress Syndicate, and the host of the podcast “Pure Garbage: An Oral Examination of John Waters.” He is the Programs Manager at CPR - Center for Performance Research, and the Arts Editor of WUSSY Magazine, a queer arts & culture organization and biannual print publication based in Atlanta, GA.

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Friday, May 2 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 3 at 7:30 PM


A split-bill evening of dance that fuses two distinct yet interwoven choreographic works that explore the self through temporal and social dimensions. At their core, both pieces reflect on the fluidity of identity, the passage of time, and the complexity of human connection.

The first work, moment(o)moment by Eury German, draws from Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal return, exploring the cyclical nature of existence, where time loops endlessly, and every action reverberates with the weight of infinite return. Through the language of movement, this concept becomes a canvas for examining both personal and collective transformations. The choreography reflects how the body moves through time—not merely as a passive vessel, but as an active force that affirms and reaffirms itself with each cycle. As the dancer navigates these repeating moments, their movements question the metaphysical experience of time—how does the body return to itself, and how does it transform with every repetition? This work challenges the boundaries between personal identity and universal experience, making the cycle of time not only a philosophical reflection but also a visceral, embodied journey.

The second work, intero by Spenser Stroud, examines how choreographic structures influence emotional perception and social processing through somatosensory activation. In collaboration with Dr. Meletaki at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, the work explores how anger and happiness manifest kinesthetically. Utilizing a sequential emotional discriminatory task, emotionally valent musical score initiated movement scores, which were mirrored and transmitted between dancers, serving as a metric for socio-emotional synergy. Additionally, the cardio-synchrony alignment task measured the dancers’ BPM through rhythmic intention cross referenced with radial pulse check-ins. Grounded in neurochoreographic principles, the piece merges improvisation with structured composition to balance raw authenticity and precision. intero ultimately challenges rigid emotional categorization, expanding the expressive depth of movement.


CREDITS

Eury German: moment(o)moment

Created & Performed by Eury German

Spenser Stroud: intero 

Created by Spenser Stroud in collaboration with artists
Performed by Kiara Benn, Demetris Charalambous, and Eury German
Set Design: Ro Miller
Music Score: Zach Salem


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Eury German (he/him) is a dancer, choreographer, and dance professor based in NYC. A brown, queer, and immigrant artist born in the Dominican Republic, Eury's creative projects focus on the immigrant community, identity, being, and existence. Eury has a BA in Dance and Biology from Wesleyan University and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Pedagogy from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has danced with various NYC companies and choreographers including, but not limited to, Abdul Latif - D2D/T, Jennifer Muller The Works, Nimbus Dance Works, Ballet Hispanico, inDance | Toronto, James Swell Ballet, and more. His choreographic projects have been featured at Wesleyan University, the Alicia Alonso Institute of Dance at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, and in various small NYC community dance festivals. Eury has taught at multiple universities and training programs in the United States and in Spain, where he completed a Fulbright research arts project from 2022-2023. v/sopao, Eury’s first international, evening length, self-produced work, premiered in Madrid, Spain in June of 2023. @eurygerm

Throughout Spenser Stroud’s (he/him) career as a young creative, his studies and work have centered on the intersection of applied neuroscience and performance art. Spenser began his studies by completing a certificate in contemporary dance at The Ailey School in NYC. He then obtained a B.A. degree in both Dance and Neuroscience from Wesleyan University, followed by an M.A. degree in Performance Studies from New York University. Spenser’s ongoing focus has been concurrent research in human cognition and contemporary choreography while seeking and exploring intersections of these realms. This dual focus has led him to a diverse array of professional appointments, ranging from researcher at The Center for Developmental Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital to lead choreographer for Katie Pearl’s Slabber and artistic consultant at the Center for International Dance UNESCO. His novel creative approach, through the curation of choreographic aesthetics gleaned from empirical research techniques, has allotted him a range of abilities to tailor performance aimed at arousing the human psyche and to pair his art with complementary scientific analysis.

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Friday, May 2 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 3 at 7:30 PM


A split-bill evening of dance that fuses two distinct yet interwoven choreographic works that explore the self through temporal and social dimensions. At their core, both pieces reflect on the fluidity of identity, the passage of time, and the complexity of human connection.

The first work, moment(o)moment by Eury German, draws from Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal return, exploring the cyclical nature of existence, where time loops endlessly, and every action reverberates with the weight of infinite return. Through the language of movement, this concept becomes a canvas for examining both personal and collective transformations. The choreography reflects how the body moves through time—not merely as a passive vessel, but as an active force that affirms and reaffirms itself with each cycle. As the dancer navigates these repeating moments, their movements question the metaphysical experience of time—how does the body return to itself, and how does it transform with every repetition? This work challenges the boundaries between personal identity and universal experience, making the cycle of time not only a philosophical reflection but also a visceral, embodied journey.

The second work, intero by Spenser Stroud, examines how choreographic structures influence emotional perception and social processing through somatosensory activation. In collaboration with Dr. Meletaki at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, the work explores how anger and happiness manifest kinesthetically. Utilizing a sequential emotional discriminatory task, emotionally valent musical score initiated movement scores, which were mirrored and transmitted between dancers, serving as a metric for socio-emotional synergy. Additionally, the cardio-synchrony alignment task measured the dancers’ BPM through rhythmic intention cross referenced with radial pulse check-ins. Grounded in neurochoreographic principles, the piece merges improvisation with structured composition to balance raw authenticity and precision. intero ultimately challenges rigid emotional categorization, expanding the expressive depth of movement.


CREDITS

Eury German: moment(o)moment

Created & Performed by Eury German

Spenser Stroud: intero 

Created by Spenser Stroud in collaboration with artists
Performed by Kiara Benn, Demetris Charalambous, and Eury German
Set Design: Ro Miller
Music Score: Zach Salem


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Eury German (he/him) is a dancer, choreographer, and dance professor based in NYC. A brown, queer, and immigrant artist born in the Dominican Republic, Eury's creative projects focus on the immigrant community, identity, being, and existence. Eury has a BA in Dance and Biology from Wesleyan University and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Pedagogy from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has danced with various NYC companies and choreographers including, but not limited to, Abdul Latif - D2D/T, Jennifer Muller The Works, Nimbus Dance Works, Ballet Hispanico, inDance | Toronto, James Swell Ballet, and more. His choreographic projects have been featured at Wesleyan University, the Alicia Alonso Institute of Dance at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, and in various small NYC community dance festivals. Eury has taught at multiple universities and training programs in the United States and in Spain, where he completed a Fulbright research arts project from 2022-2023. v/sopao, Eury’s first international, evening length, self-produced work, premiered in Madrid, Spain in June of 2023. @eurygerm

Throughout Spenser Stroud’s (he/him) career as a young creative, his studies and work have centered on the intersection of applied neuroscience and performance art. Spenser began his studies by completing a certificate in contemporary dance at The Ailey School in NYC. He then obtained a B.A. degree in both Dance and Neuroscience from Wesleyan University, followed by an M.A. degree in Performance Studies from New York University. Spenser’s ongoing focus has been concurrent research in human cognition and contemporary choreography while seeking and exploring intersections of these realms. This dual focus has led him to a diverse array of professional appointments, ranging from researcher at The Center for Developmental Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital to lead choreographer for Katie Pearl’s Slabber and artistic consultant at the Center for International Dance UNESCO. His novel creative approach, through the curation of choreographic aesthetics gleaned from empirical research techniques, has allotted him a range of abilities to tailor performance aimed at arousing the human psyche and to pair his art with complementary scientific analysis.

By invitation only.

For more information, please contact Gwen Welliver, Arts in NYC Interim Director, at gwelliver@fsu.edu.


Works by Holly Borrelli, Jessica Cassette, Heather Cruise, Alexandra Di Castro, Katherine Enoch, Marin Gold, Kayla Goldstein, Kathryn Green, Emmett Higgins, Gemma Leary, Elizabeth Mineau, Erin Slogar, Sarah Kate Stolz, and Amanda Tanner.

Arts in NYC proudly presents What has been - what is now, a showcase of works created by the Spring 2025 cohort of Florida State University and University of Florida BFA and BA dance students. As a celebration of growth and individual expression, this collection of works immerses the audience in a world of storytelling and collaboration.

Influenced by the multi-faceted arts scene in NYC, the dancers explore a range of artistic mediums in their works, including dynamic movement, multi-genre music, photography, captivating film work, and costuming to address themes of human connection, nature, family legacy, self-identity, spirituality, and home.

With the recent passing of Nancy Smith Fichter, the former Chair of FSU’s School of Dance (1964-1997), we honor her legacy and passion for dance through this performance and carry her determination, tenacity, and commitment as we emerge into the professional field. We will forever live by her motto, “do it with love.”

Mentored by Arts in NYC teaching faculty Marilyn Maywald Yahel.

Special thanks to Gwen Welliver and Ashley Pierre-Louis.

Tickets: Free
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Works by NYU graduate composers Yve Délice, Rosie Kaplan, Cecilia Lopez, Will Martin, Victoria Smith, and Trevor Van de Velde.

Cecilia Lopez will present a duo with Zeena Parkins followed by Yve Délice’s duo with Jazzie Lock. TAK ensemble will then perform works by Kaplan, Martin, Smith and Van de Velde.

View the program here.

Tickets: $15, $20, $25, sliding scale
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Sunday, April 6 at 6:00 PM
Wednesday, April 9 at 7:30 PM


(my battery is low) and it is getting dark is a contemporary dance work by rogue wave director Catherine Messina. When a star dies, it explodes into a supernova right before, illuminating colors and light. It is this idea, the idea of getting big to get quiet that was the first impetus for this work. From there, it led into so much more. 


CREDITS

Company: Aryanna Allen, Caroline Alter, Emily Hoff, JG Luitje, Catherine Messina, and Mayu Nakaya

Tickets: $15, $20, $25, sliding scale
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Sunday, April 6 at 6:00 PM
Wednesday, April 9 at 7:30 PM


(my battery is low) and it is getting dark is a contemporary dance work by rogue wave director Catherine Messina. When a star dies, it explodes into a supernova right before, illuminating colors and light. It is this idea, the idea of getting big to get quiet that was the first impetus for this work. From there, it led into so much more. 


CREDITS

Company: Aryanna Allen, Caroline Alter, Emily Hoff, JG Luitje, Catherine Messina, and Mayu Nakaya

Tickets: $20, $25, $30, sliding scale
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Friday, March 21 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, March 22 at 7:30 PM

*In the event advance tickets are sold out, an in-person wait list will open at 7PM, and we do our very best to get everyone comfortably inside.


Display Case is an interdisciplinary performance by Ben Green and Ohad Mazor, dancers, choreographers, former members of the acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company, and life partners. Drawing on their personal and professional partnership, Display Case delves into themes of queerness, marriage, grief, language and migration, using the performing body as a “case study”.

A rose bush rises from a mound of dirt. It stands at the center of the room insulated inside a glass terrarium, wheeled around, watered, nurtured and mourned. This emblem of death is comprised of living artifacts, ripped away from their natural habitat, in an effort of preservation. Un-contextualized life fragments haunt the performance, echoing from outside a glass case the performance itself exists in. Inevitably, what begins in morgue-like confines spills out and onto the performers, altering them unrecognizably. The piece unfolds as a living artifact, questioning and experimenting with the ways in which the transient – be it human experience or natural beauty – is preserved and presented, mourned and iconized.


CREDITS

Created & Performed by: Ben Green and Ohad Mazor
Sculpture / Set Design: Meredith Wheeler of Secret Flowers

Music: 
"Piano on Tape" by Christina Vantanzou, Michael Harrison, John Also Bennet
"Blue Moon" by Elvis Presley
"Groovy" by JMSN
"Entrance March" by Mushio Funazawa 
"Abendlied Op. 85, No. 12" by Robert Shuman, Lucerne Festival Strings, Daniel Dodds
"Introduccion" by Nicolas Jaar
"Waving 2" by DM Stith
"ויהי בוקר" by Efrat Ben Zur

Original Text: Ben Green and Ohad Mazor

Special Thanks: Scott Putman, VCU Department of Dance & Choreography, The Branch Museum, Katie Foster, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Morgan Whitehead, Sharona Cantor, Jack Fox and Hannah Mayfield. 


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ben Green (they/he) is a choreographer and performance maker originally from Nevada. After performing with Batsheva Dance Company (Tel Aviv) for 7 years they began developing their own independent performance projects. They perform with P.OR.K under the direction of Marlene Monteiro Freitas. They have participated in residencies at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, New York and TanzFarm Art Residency, Michigan. In 2023, they were selected to participate in a workshop for theatre makers as part of the 2023 Venice Biennale Teatro College. They founded the performance collective HIND LEGS in 2023. Additionally, they are a certified Gaga teacher.

Ohad Mazor is a non-binary independent choreographer, performer, writer, Gaga teacher, and former member of Batsheva Dance Company (2016-2023). In their time in the company, Ohad took part in the original creations of 2019 and MOMO by Ohad Naharin and The Look by Sharon Eyal. Ohad's research lies at an intersection between dance, drag, and confession while dealing with themes of identity, grief, gender, and their politics through a hyper personal lens, be it through autobiography or cosplay. Their work has been presented by CCA: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Habait Theatre and Intimadance Festival 2023. Ohad serves as a guest teacher for Gibney Dance Company, SUNY Purchase College, and Mark Morris Dance Center. They write a personal Substack on gender and immigration, "The Emancipation of MeMe."

Secret Flowers is a floral design studio based out of Richmond, VA and run by Meredith Wheeler. With an aim to create a place “Where Springtime Lingers”, Secret Flowers exhibits a surreal and imaginative artistry to floral design. The set design for Display Case exudes that same concept, attempting to combat, stall, or preserve the ephemera of the natural world.


ARTIST NOTE

As an Israeli artist it is important for me to acknowledge the atrocious ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people being carried out in my name, especially as Israel violates a ceasefire agreement in the days before this performance. I ache at this overwhelming bloodshed, and call for an immediate ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages, and a solution of safety, equality, and dignity for Palestinians and Israelis in the region. Created collaboratively with my partner Ben Green, this piece is, in part, a grappling with personal grief. We hope that in the face of grief being highly politicized, radical empathy prevails.

– Ohad Mazor