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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 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.

Tickets: $25
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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

Tickets: $20, $25, $30, sliding scale
Purchase Tickets


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

Tickets: $20, $30, $40, sliding scale
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Katie Devin Orenstein directs Hamlet as you have never seen before, we promise. This Hamlet will be unusual, disturbing, horny, wacky, and most importantly, gay. Our company have been perfectly anti-type cast, expect the unexpected.  

Tickets: $10
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*Advance tickets for this performance are sold out. An in-person wait list will open at 7PM.


The Book of Love is an interactive dance piece by performance artist and choreographer Mor Mendel. This work uses movement, music, poetry, and food to explore the subject of love in its many forms.

Love is one of the core commandments of Jewish teaching–the commandment to “love your neighbor as yourself” is considered by many to be the central lesson of the Hebrew Bible. And yet, love towards both ourselves and others can be difficult, especially in a world that feels divided. Thus, The Book of Love is also an exploration of love’s shadows: war, loss, hate, and revenge. 

This piece further explores love through hospitality–particularly the welcoming that takes place through food. Alongside the performance, Chef Daniel Soskolne will join us to share tasty seasonal favorites, latkes and sfinge (Moroccan doughnuts eaten on Chanukah).

Together we will reimagine what is possible if we choose to truly see one another – to love the other as we love ourselves. 

The Book of Love is produced by The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life. 


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Mor Mendel is a performance artist, choreographer, dance improviser, and educator, whose work explores who we are in our everyday life and movement that plays with imagination, intuition, and personal stories. For Mor, dance is the playground of poetry, of memories, relationships, music, and shared existence. Mendel’s teaching focuses on dance as an individual pathway to freedom inside ones’ body, creativity, and joy. Mendel earned her BA in Dance Theater in Tel Aviv as well as her Improvisation Mastery with dancer Ilanit Tadmor. In 2012, Mendel completed her Master’s in dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Over the years she has participated in numerous workshops and courses around dance, improvisation, and other somatic fields as well as university courses in psychology and creative therapies. In particular, Mendel has worked with Parkinson patients around personal liberation through movement. Mendel’s work has been performed at Tel Aviv galleries, Acco of Alternative Israeli Theater, Gowanus Arts Center, the 14th Street Y, Fridman Gallery, Brooklyn Studios For Dance, BAAD!, BAX, Movement Research at Judson Church, Pioneer Works, Collezione Maramotti (Italy), BigParadise, MOtiVE, CPR – Center for Performance Research, and in collaboration with artist Miriam Simun at New Museum (NY). Mendel is a mother of two curly boys.

Chef Daniel Soskolne was born in Jerusalem, Israel and began cooking in 2003, apprenticing in a restaurant on the island of Ischia, Italy. Following that, he worked in Spain, Australia, and then returned to cook in Israel. This formative period of making food around the world taught him cooking fundamentals that are now embedded in him. The signature aspect of Soskolne’s work is total respect for the ingredient. Simplicity and attention remain the backbone of his culinary approach. Now based in New York, Chef Daniel has combined his roots, values, intentions, and life’s work into LEV: a culinary duo project that focuses on site specific cooking events.

The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life is a Jewish community and cultural center in Brooklyn. We produce programs that raise up underrepresented perspectives and welcome the thousands of Brooklynites that have not yet found their Jewish home. We are creating a welcoming space that reflects the spirit of Brooklyn–future-thinking and deeply historical, iconoclastic, and sacred.

Tickets: free w/ RSVP

7:30 P.M. screening: RSVP *sold out
8:30 P.M. screening: RSVP


The films in Set Into Motion are the culmination of a year-long commission by Mono No Aware in collaboration with Westlab + Gallery. This commission invited six analog photographers who have previously exhibited work at Westlab + Gallery to extend their art practice into the realm of moving image, making films on 16mm for the first time.

Mono No Aware, in tandem with Westlab + Gallery, provided each commissioned artist with workshops introducing the Bolex Rex 5 Camera, support in developing film concepts, camera, film and equipment for shoot days, as well as a workshop on the 4-plate Steenbeck flatbed editing table for all of the artists to edit their projects by hand.


PROGRAM

Nyasia Pettway Rochelle (Petersburg, VA) & Christiane Nahu (New York, NY): ROXY

ROXY features a woman, blonde haired and brown eyed, who doesn’t know she’s dreaming. Escapism is her reality, her mind is the only place she feels comfortable enough to scream and cry in. This particular night, she sees a dream that isn’t her’s. Familiar sights of trees and buildings that feel like lost memories; a life she didn’t live but can see somehow. In color, at that, but she dreams in black and white. She sees the world for what it is, but she is lost in her mind, far from reality. The film explores the pieces of her she loves and hates; disorganized thoughts and memories, but beautiful nonetheless.

Kenzie King (Brooklyn, NY): Good Grieve

Good Grieve weaves together a portrait of grief, obsession, and nostalgia through imagery and objects that permeate our everyday lives.The film provides a symbolic landscape where the past intrudes upon the present in a looping rhythm of indelible imagery. Grief and memory take shape within the fleeting ephemera, as the familiar objects inexplicably evoke moments of pain. By revisiting these memories as intrusive images on loop, the objects in the film slowly shed the layers of narrative, leaning into the cyclical nature of grief in order to break free from it.

Annie Grey (Brooklyn, NY): Pretty Girls Always Smile

Gustavo Lopes (Brooklyn, NY): CATARINA

A short film that offers an intimate glimpse into the life of a Brazilian transwoman living in Brooklyn, NY in 2024. Through a series of vivid vignettes, the film paints a poignant portrait of Catarina's life as she asserts her right to exist. CATARINA invites viewers to reflect on the universal desire to belong and challenges us to empathize with the experiences of those navigating the intersections of identity in an ever-evolving world. Brazil has a grim track record when it comes to violence against LGBTQ+ people, with the highest number of murdered transgender individuals in the world. As a transwoman, Catarina's journey is particularly fraught with danger and adversity. This film serves as a reminder of the urgent need for unity and allyship in the pursuit of a more inclusive society. Catarina's determination to live authentically underscores the importance of embracing our shared humanity and the inherent dignity within us all.

Coco Villa (New York, NY): I Am Swimming With Zaza

What can I do to honor you, now that it is too late? You, and the You that I come from, and the You that occasionally stands in for me. Coco Villa presents I Am Swimming With Zaza, an ongoing intimacy between fact and the fantastical, real and imagined.

Raine Roberts (New York, NY): Dove Stone

Dove Stone is an experimental documentary/dance film juxtaposing the erosive tendencies of human behavior and the erosive nature of our environment. Color portion shot on location at Fort Tilden beach; Black and White portion shot in studio.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Catarina is a resilient and driven creative force within the film industry, having carved a unique niche as a filmmaker producing her own work. A Brazilian immigrant living in the United States for the past three years, she brings over 8 years of experience in film production and costume design, blending a distinct multicultural perspective with fresh, queer lenses.

Annie Grey is a queer nonbinary multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work is community-based and an ongoing conversation involving nature, a sociological exploration of fear and trauma, and questioning societal norms.

Kenzie King is a Brooklyn-based photographer and artist whose work explores themes of obsession, identity, and connection through film photography. Her work was featured in a solo exhibition at Westlab + Gallery, coinciding with the release of her debut book, Colder Than Cobalt, in 2023. In addition to her fine art practice, Kenzie works as a freelance photographer, specializing in fashion and portraiture.

Beginning his career in the world of fashion photography, Gustavo Lopes has since transitioned to focus on film photography and capturing narratives that shed light on important social issues. As a Brazilian immigrant living in New York for the past eight years, Gustavo brings a multicultural perspective to his work, highlighting diversity and inclusivity in every frame. He is particularly dedicated to amplifying the stories of the LGBTQ+ community, creating powerful images that foster empathy. Through his evocative photography, Gustavo continues to make an impact on the lives of those he captures and those who view his work.

Christiane Nahu is a budding actor, artist, and model based in New York and has been honing her acting skills at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute for the last two years. She is working on finding ways to blend her skills in acting, writing, photography, and performance art and bring about a perfect marriage of all her creative passions. Moving to the city has allowed her to challenge herself to grow in all these areas, and has provided her the means and connections to extend the range and reach of her talents. Her aim in all of her work is truth, individual and universal.

Raine Roberts is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, photographer, filmmaker, and multimedia artist. Raine earned her BFA in Film Productions and BA in Communications from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2019). After working in documentary filmmaking, Raine went on to study at the International Center of Photography (2023). She has exhibited her works locally and internationally, in solo exhibitions with Westlab+Gallery and APStudioBk; group exhibitions with WORTHLESS STUDIOS, Haus Am See in Switzerland, VisualAIDS, and Brooklyn Film Camera. Her work has been published locally and internationally in MuséeMagazine, Este País, Bushwick Daily, and BK Reader. She was the most recent Photographer in Residence for the FREE FILM PROJECT -- leading free community-based workshops and developing her ongoing project. Raine is a member of the photography group SmallTable Collective.

Nyasia Pettway Rochelle (they/them) is a Black artist creating black and white film photography in Petersburg, Virginia. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Nyasia always had a love for creating art and taking pictures, but in the last two years or so, they would start to take self portraits and never look back. In this film, you’ll get to see their introduction to shooting on 16mm film, and how Nyasia took it as their chance to visually develop and beautify the story of a lost soul searching for spiritual connection.

Coco Villa is a Jamaican-Colombian American dancer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. Tightly bound to identity, Villa leads an art-research practice investigating relations between body, object, and landscape. They utilize movement languages to tell autobiographical stories, explore human intimacy, and build familial archives through self-portraiture and choreography. Driven by historical and scientific discovery, Villa thrives in the ocean, in the woods, in the dance studio, darkroom, design lab, film set and library, playfully creating by hand.


ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS

Shrey Mendiratta is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Ridgewood, Queens, born and [half-]raised in New Delhi, India. He is the owner and operator of Westlab + Gallery in Bushwick, and serves as the chief curator for their exhibition programming. Shrey has received several awards for his work, including the Queens Art Fund New Work Grant in 2021, the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize in 2018, and has served as a panelist with the Queens Art Council. With the support of MONO NO AWARE he completed and exhibited the film जान की ओर (Jaan Ki Or) in 2022, and has been an instructor with the organization since taking his first class in 2020. His work has shown at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Museum of Moving Image, Anthology Film Archives, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Mono No Aware, and many DIY/non-institutional spaces around New York City and beyond.

WESTLAB + GALLERY is a color film lab and art gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Their exhibition programming aims to support, promote, and exhibit works by local artists who work primarily on film, and have been historically underrepresented in the arts. Westlab has shown several group and solo exhibitions, featuring works in photography, sculpture, video, and painting.

MONO NO AWARE is a cinema arts non-profit organization and learning lab based at 33 Flatbush Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, New York. Established in 2007, MONO is a community of working individuals of commensurate interests concerning cinema, its histories, its practices, its technologies and its possibilities. This is a community broadly appreciative of the cinematic art-form and its variants spanning generations. MONO constitutes a haven and facility for the exploration, practice, exhibition, production and preservation of the cinematic arts. MONO receives year-round support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, Festival partners and patrons such as yourself. Learn more at MONONOAWAREFILM.COM

Tickets: free w/ RSVP

7:30 P.M. screening: RSVP *sold out 
8:30 P.M. screening: RSVP *sold out 

* This program is sold out. An in-person waitlist will open 30 minutes before each screening time.


The films in Set Into Motion are the culmination of a year-long commission by Mono No Aware in collaboration with Westlab + Gallery. This commission invited six analog photographers who have previously exhibited work at Westlab + Gallery to extend their art practice into the realm of moving image, making films on 16mm for the first time.

Mono No Aware, in tandem with Westlab + Gallery, provided each commissioned artist with workshops introducing the Bolex Rex 5 Camera, support in developing film concepts, camera, film and equipment for shoot days, as well as a workshop on the 4-plate Steenbeck flatbed editing table for all of the artists to edit their projects by hand.


PROGRAM

Nyasia Pettway Rochelle (Petersburg, VA) & Christiane Nahu (New York, NY): ROXY

ROXY features a woman, blonde haired and brown eyed, who doesn’t know she’s dreaming. Escapism is her reality, her mind is the only place she feels comfortable enough to scream and cry in. This particular night, she sees a dream that isn’t her’s. Familiar sights of trees and buildings that feel like lost memories; a life she didn’t live but can see somehow. In color, at that, but she dreams in black and white. She sees the world for what it is, but she is lost in her mind, far from reality. The film explores the pieces of her she loves and hates; disorganized thoughts and memories, but beautiful nonetheless.

Kenzie King (Brooklyn, NY): Good Grieve

Good Grieve weaves together a portrait of grief, obsession, and nostalgia through imagery and objects that permeate our everyday lives.The film provides a symbolic landscape where the past intrudes upon the present in a looping rhythm of indelible imagery. Grief and memory take shape within the fleeting ephemera, as the familiar objects inexplicably evoke moments of pain. By revisiting these memories as intrusive images on loop, the objects in the film slowly shed the layers of narrative, leaning into the cyclical nature of grief in order to break free from it.

Annie Grey (Brooklyn, NY): Pretty Girls Always Smile

Gustavo Lopes (Brooklyn, NY): CATARINA

A short film that offers an intimate glimpse into the life of a Brazilian transwoman living in Brooklyn, NY in 2024. Through a series of vivid vignettes, the film paints a poignant portrait of Catarina's life as she asserts her right to exist. CATARINA invites viewers to reflect on the universal desire to belong and challenges us to empathize with the experiences of those navigating the intersections of identity in an ever-evolving world. Brazil has a grim track record when it comes to violence against LGBTQ+ people, with the highest number of murdered transgender individuals in the world. As a transwoman, Catarina's journey is particularly fraught with danger and adversity. This film serves as a reminder of the urgent need for unity and allyship in the pursuit of a more inclusive society. Catarina's determination to live authentically underscores the importance of embracing our shared humanity and the inherent dignity within us all.

Coco Villa (New York, NY): I Am Swimming With Zaza

What can I do to honor you, now that it is too late? You, and the You that I come from, and the You that occasionally stands in for me. Coco Villa presents I Am Swimming With Zaza, an ongoing intimacy between fact and the fantastical, real and imagined.

Raine Roberts (New York, NY): Dove Stone

Dove Stone is an experimental documentary/dance film juxtaposing the erosive tendencies of human behavior and the erosive nature of our environment. Color portion shot on location at Fort Tilden beach; Black and White portion shot in studio.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Catarina is a resilient and driven creative force within the film industry, having carved a unique niche as a filmmaker producing her own work. A Brazilian immigrant living in the United States for the past three years, she brings over 8 years of experience in film production and costume design, blending a distinct multicultural perspective with fresh, queer lenses.

Annie Grey is a queer nonbinary multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work is community-based and an ongoing conversation involving nature, a sociological exploration of fear and trauma, and questioning societal norms.

Kenzie King is a Brooklyn-based photographer and artist whose work explores themes of obsession, identity, and connection through film photography. Her work was featured in a solo exhibition at Westlab + Gallery, coinciding with the release of her debut book, Colder Than Cobalt, in 2023. In addition to her fine art practice, Kenzie works as a freelance photographer, specializing in fashion and portraiture.

Beginning his career in the world of fashion photography, Gustavo Lopes has since transitioned to focus on film photography and capturing narratives that shed light on important social issues. As a Brazilian immigrant living in New York for the past eight years, Gustavo brings a multicultural perspective to his work, highlighting diversity and inclusivity in every frame. He is particularly dedicated to amplifying the stories of the LGBTQ+ community, creating powerful images that foster empathy. Through his evocative photography, Gustavo continues to make an impact on the lives of those he captures and those who view his work.

Christiane Nahu is a budding actor, artist, and model based in New York and has been honing her acting skills at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute for the last two years. She is working on finding ways to blend her skills in acting, writing, photography, and performance art and bring about a perfect marriage of all her creative passions. Moving to the city has allowed her to challenge herself to grow in all these areas, and has provided her the means and connections to extend the range and reach of her talents. Her aim in all of her work is truth, individual and universal.

Raine Roberts is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, photographer, filmmaker, and multimedia artist. Raine earned her BFA in Film Productions and BA in Communications from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2019). After working in documentary filmmaking, Raine went on to study at the International Center of Photography (2023). She has exhibited her works locally and internationally, in solo exhibitions with Westlab+Gallery and APStudioBk; group exhibitions with WORTHLESS STUDIOS, Haus Am See in Switzerland, VisualAIDS, and Brooklyn Film Camera. Her work has been published locally and internationally in MuséeMagazine, Este País, Bushwick Daily, and BK Reader. She was the most recent Photographer in Residence for the FREE FILM PROJECT -- leading free community-based workshops and developing her ongoing project. Raine is a member of the photography group SmallTable Collective.

Nyasia Pettway Rochelle (they/them) is a Black artist creating black and white film photography in Petersburg, Virginia. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Nyasia always had a love for creating art and taking pictures, but in the last two years or so, they would start to take self portraits and never look back. In this film, you’ll get to see their introduction to shooting on 16mm film, and how Nyasia took it as their chance to visually develop and beautify the story of a lost soul searching for spiritual connection.

Coco Villa is a Jamaican-Colombian American dancer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. Tightly bound to identity, Villa leads an art-research practice investigating relations between body, object, and landscape. They utilize movement languages to tell autobiographical stories, explore human intimacy, and build familial archives through self-portraiture and choreography. Driven by historical and scientific discovery, Villa thrives in the ocean, in the woods, in the dance studio, darkroom, design lab, film set and library, playfully creating by hand.


ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS

Shrey Mendiratta is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Ridgewood, Queens, born and [half-]raised in New Delhi, India. He is the owner and operator of Westlab + Gallery in Bushwick, and serves as the chief curator for their exhibition programming. Shrey has received several awards for his work, including the Queens Art Fund New Work Grant in 2021, the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize in 2018, and has served as a panelist with the Queens Art Council. With the support of MONO NO AWARE he completed and exhibited the film जान की ओर (Jaan Ki Or) in 2022, and has been an instructor with the organization since taking his first class in 2020. His work has shown at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Museum of Moving Image, Anthology Film Archives, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Mono No Aware, and many DIY/non-institutional spaces around New York City and beyond.

WESTLAB + GALLERY is a color film lab and art gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Their exhibition programming aims to support, promote, and exhibit works by local artists who work primarily on film, and have been historically underrepresented in the arts. Westlab has shown several group and solo exhibitions, featuring works in photography, sculpture, video, and painting.

MONO NO AWARE is a cinema arts non-profit organization and learning lab based at 33 Flatbush Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, New York. Established in 2007, MONO is a community of working individuals of commensurate interests concerning cinema, its histories, its practices, its technologies and its possibilities. This is a community broadly appreciative of the cinematic art-form and its variants spanning generations. MONO constitutes a haven and facility for the exploration, practice, exhibition, production and preservation of the cinematic arts. MONO receives year-round support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, Festival partners and patrons such as yourself. Learn more at MONONOAWAREFILM.COM

Tickets: $15, $20, $25, sliding scale
Purchase Tickets

Proceeds go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation

*** In the event that tickets are sold out online, there will be an in-person wait list starting at 4:30PM. We anticipate there being room for all.

Screen Play is a “series” of “readings” hosted by Catalina Alvarez, with work by Alvarez, Berisha Fareau, Paige Finley, Daniel Fishkin, Nicole Kugel, Samuel Lang Budin, Catarina Real, Ron Shalom, Femi Shonuga-Fleming and Ashley Yang-Thompson.


PROGRAM

Nicole Kugel: The Shrimple Life
An essay about experiencing nature through computers.

Ashley Yang-Thompson: MY ANUS (delivers ephemeral, anti-capitalist art every most day[s])
The (highly unprofessional) philosophical pedagogy of ash yang-thompson 
(which is in a perpetual state of flux)
(because life resists comprehension)
(excerpt)

Catarina Real: Color 
A book of poems and visual works.

Catalina Alvarez and Daniel Fishkin: Modos de Transporte: Bois de Rose 
Modos de Transporte is a multilingual travel series. In the pilot episode, “Bois de Rose” the host takes a high speed rail train from Paris to Bordeaux and there discovers the studio of Jose Le Piez, builder of “abrassons,” a type of friction drum sculpted from trees that sings with the simple caress of a hand. 

Femi Shonuga-Fleming: Thanks to the ground beneath my feet
A multimedia essay ritual

Samuel Lang Budin: Vicinity
A poem of dashed expectations on the apps.

Catalina Alvarez, w Berisha Fareau & Paige Finley + Minivan: App 
A short story about phones with a movement performance featuring Minivan’s Everyone Gets it But Me (App Mix)


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Catalina Alvarez is the director of the feature-length anthology documentary Sound Spring (2024). She heads the Art & Engagement program at Fordham University and currently lives in New York, NY.

Samuel Lang Budin was co-editor of their high school lit mag.

Daniel Fishkin’s ears are ringing. Composer of musical instruments. He is the only luthier that studied directly with the daxophone’s inventor, Hans Reichel; Daniel’s instruments have traveled the world, including Canada, California, Norway, Germany, France, Japan, Kazakhstan, and Australia. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Composition and Computer Music at the University of Virginia.

Nicole Kugel is a recent graduate of Columbia’s MFA in Creative Writing. Her work can be read in SKOO and LitHub. She is currently the Fiction Reader for The Hudson Review  and working on a collection of short stories.

Catarina Real works in the intersection between artistic practice and theoretical research in the Literatura, Visual Arts and Pe, mostly working in long-term collaborative projects that address the question of how can we better live collectively. She is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies at Minho University with a research that crosses art, love and capital.

Ron Shalom’s electropop drag spectacle, Minivan, features custom live-controlled lights, instructional dance, and original music. His sound sculptures are exhibited internationally, and he is often engaged as a producer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer for film and theater.

Femi Shonuga-Fleming is studying architecture at RISD and performs sonic rituals as Sadnoise.

Ash Yang-Thompson is the author of How to be the Worst Laziest Fattest Most Incontinent Piece-of-Shit in the world EVER (Bateau Press, 2021) and the chapbook Sky Mall (above/ground press, 2020), which was written collaboratively with Mikko Harvey. She almost won a Pushcart Prize for her poem White Fur Rug. She currently lives in Portland, OR.

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Parrhesia is not a skill; it is something which is harder to define. It is a stance, a way of being which is akin to virtue, a mode of action. 
– Foucault

Parrhesia: The Courage of Truth in Five Scenes — with psychoanalytic insights in the margins is a dance-theatre work which takes as its point of departure Michel Foucault’s lectures The Courage of Truth (1983/84) and the concept of parrhesia – saying, expressing everything, and telling the truth to power. The work engages the relationship between first, the silent action and speech; second, deliberate creation of spectacle (representation), and unconscious (repressed) expression.

The scenes revolve around five truth procedures: socratic wisdom, cynic’s homeless existence, labor protests, revolutionary consciousness, and art/criticism.

Choreographic concept in collaboration with the performers: Marija Krtolica
Performed by: Jason Ciaccio, Theresa Duhon, Julie Fotheringham, Emilee Lord, Alessandro Magania, and Despina Sophia Stamos
Videography: Charles Dennis
Textual sources: Foucault, Marx, Freud, Badiou, Didi-Huberman, and Peggy Phelan

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Care Package VII is a new iteration of Kyoung eun Kang’s continuously evolving performance series Care Package, which has been developing over the last 15 years. Together, the audience and the artist will explore a care package from her mother in South Korea. Through poetry, sound, movement, and participation, this performance invites the audience into the uniquely intimate relationship that has evolved between the artist and her mother over their period of long separation. As the piece unfolds, we'll unpack the notions of home, care, time, and distance.


Care Package VII 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 (BAC).


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kyoung eun Kang is an interdisciplinary artist born in South Korea and based in New York. Her practice spans performance, video, photography, and installation. Bringing together her Korean heritage and immigrant experience in America, Kang's work transcends geographical and cultural boundaries to capture parallel lives, rituals, and emotions. Her pieces encourage an exchange of interest, curiosity, and empathy across socio-culturally imposed barriers to relationships, forging human connection in an ever-evolving world.

Kang has presented her work both internationally and throughout the United States, with exhibitions in galleries such as A.I.R. Gallery, Collar Works, NURTUREart, BRIC Project Room, and the ISCP project space in New York. Other exhibitions include the Korean Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Australia, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea. She has performed in venues across America, including the Queens Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, Arario Gallery, FiveMyles, and Essex Flowers in New York, along with The Momentary in Bentonville, AR.

Kang has received residencies and fellowships at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Smack Mellon, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, BRIC Media Arts, NARS Foundation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the LES Studio Program, ISCP, and New York Foundation for the Arts, among others.

Kang holds a BFA and MFA in painting from Hong-ik University in Seoul, South Korea, as well as an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York.

$10 students/seniors
$25 general admission
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Celebrate the 18th anniversary of Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama with the premiere of the 20-minute dance film Listen to Your Mother and an intimate performance by the artists. 

Listen to Your Mother is a choreographic research project dedicated to the lives of women-identifying artists who are immigrant mothers living in New York City. The project seeks to capture these underrepresented women's stories to inspire dialogue, appreciation, and social support instead of the ongoing prejudice endured that is historically placed against mothers and women in the arts.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Since 2006, Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama has presented 400 performances, created 15 choreographic works at 100 venues, produced 10 dance films presented in over 200 festivals both nationally and internationally. www.AnabellaLenzu.com


CREDITS

Director & Choreographer: Anabella Lenzu
Videographer, Editor, and Music Composition: Todd Carroll
Text: Anabella Lenzu & Jerzy Grotowski
Drawings: Anabella Lenzu
Performers: Anabella Lenzu & Fiamma Lenzu-Carroll
Additional Choreography: Isadora Duncan “Le Mere” (1921)
Music: Alexander Scriabin
Coach/ Reposition Isadora Duncan Repertory: Catherine Gallant

The dance film Listen to Your Mother is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and The Vermont Community Foundation.

The performance Listen to Your Mother was developed in part during the 2022 Parent Artist in Residency at Movement Research and Artist-in-Residency at Carroll Hall, Brooklyn, as well with grants from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, The Vermont Community Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, and Brooklyn Arts Council. 

General Admission: $35, $30, $25 (sliding scale)
Artists/Students/Seniors: $15
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Friday, November 15 at 7:30 P.M.
Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 P.M.


The Price is Right (De-Valued) is a full-length interactive performance that reflects and explores the concept of devaluation and self-value in relation to labor, economics, and social justice. This work introduces the format of the famous TV show "The Price is Right" into an interactive experience where the audience will support four performers participating in a competition to determine the right price for various items. Scanning a QR code with their smartphones, the audience will connect to an online poll system where they will select the price or vote on the value of the items displayed. The participant who earns the most points will take home a surprising award!

Ultimately, this work offers a critical view on an issue affecting our systems of value in all aspects of life, including democracy, human labor, social stability, and health and wellness.


CREDITS

Choreography: Carmen Caceres (in collaboration with the dancers)
Dancers & Collaborators: John Trunfio, Maddie Barry, Shizu Higa, and Sofia Ameglio
Actor: RJ Sachdev
Costumes, Video Projections, and Design of Interactive Experience: Carmen Caceres

Music: 
“Per un pugno di dollari #1 (A fistful of dollars #1),” “Per un pugno di dollari #2 (A fistful of dollars #2),” “Doppi giochi,” “Extrasensorial (The Link),” “Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Finale),” “Quasi morto (Almost dead),” “Per un pugno di dollari - Titoli (A fistful of dollars - Titles),” “Scambio di prigionieri,” “Musica sospesa,” “Alla ricerca dell'evaso,” “Cavalcata,” “Per un pugno di dollari - Finale (A fistful of dollars - Final),” “The Ecstacy of Gold” By Ennio Morricone
“The Price Is Right Theme (Live)” by The Session
“The Price Is Right - Game Show Theme” by TV Tunesters
“Ladies on the Loose” by Gary Combs
“Stayin’ Alive” by Bee Gees

Special Thanks: Kalyan Sayre and Larry Discenza


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Carmen Caceres is a dance artist originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been creating dance works in Argentina and NY since 2009. She has performed and presented work in renowned venues, including New York Live Arts, Judson Memorial Church, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, The Martha Graham Studio, Dixon Place, Green Space, Triskelion Arts Center, The Mark Morris Dance Center, The Center at West Park, and CPR – Center for Performance Research. In 2013, she founded DanceAction, a dance company that works as a creative platform to produce performing arts works in collaboration with musicians, dramaturges, and visual artists. She worked with artists such as Lisa Parra, Sarah Berges, Elia Mrak, and Jody Oberfelder as a performer and collaborator. Carmen received a BA in Dance and Education at SUNY Empire and deepened her studies in dance at the former Merce Cunningham Studio. She has also studied with renowned artists like David Zambrano, Shelley Senter, Robert Swinston, and Ashley Tuttle. In her native city, she graduated from the National School of Dance and studied Dance Composition at UNA. Carmen also works as a dance educator and consultant in different organizations in NYC.

DanceAction is a contemporary dance company based in New York, led by Argentinian dance artist Carmen Caceres. With a culturally diverse team of artists, we create educational opportunities and artistic experiences that foster collaboration and inclusion and promote critical thinking. Together, we develop performing arts works that reflect social realities that concern people, relationships, and social justice. Our primary purpose is to interpret these issues and use our works to propel change. DanceAction participated in numerous festivals and performance series in New York and abroad, including Take Root at Green Space, Under Exposed at Dixon Place, Women Center Stage Festival at Teatro SEA, Festival FIDCDMX in Mexico City, and Ticino in Danza in Switzerland. DanceAction has self-produced and presented several full-length works, such as BLINDSPOT (2019) at the Mark Morris Dance Center and Game Night (2015) at CPR – Center for Performance Research. DanceAction’s awards include the Brooklyn Arts Council Community Fund, the City Artist Corps, and the LMCC Creative Engagement Grant. DanceAction has been a resident artist at the Center at West Park between April 2021 and November 2022, developing and presenting their immersive experience Welcome to Imagi*Nation: The Trilogy (2022). Most recently, DanceAction premiered their latest interactive piece, The Price is Right (De-Valued) (2024), at the Evolution Festival at the Center at West Park. 

Carmen Caceres/DanceAction is a fiscally sponsored member of New York Live Arts, Inc., a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. To make a tax-deductible donation online, please follow this link: https://shorturl.at/9Gdhk. 

General Admission: $35, $30, $25 (sliding scale)
Artists/Students/Seniors: $15
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Friday, November 15 at 7:30 P.M.
Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 P.M.


The Price is Right (De-Valued) is a full-length interactive performance that reflects and explores the concept of devaluation and self-value in relation to labor, economics, and social justice. This work introduces the format of the famous TV show "The Price is Right" into an interactive experience where the audience will support four performers participating in a competition to determine the right price for various items. Scanning a QR code with their smartphones, the audience will connect to an online poll system where they will select the price or vote on the value of the items displayed. The participant who earns the most points will take home a surprising award!

Ultimately, this work offers a critical view on an issue affecting our systems of value in all aspects of life, including democracy, human labor, social stability, and health and wellness.


CREDITS

Choreography: Carmen Caceres (in collaboration with the dancers)
Dancers & Collaborators: John Trunfio, Maddie Barry, Shizu Higa, and Sofia Ameglio
Actor: RJ Sachdev
Costumes, Video Projections, and Design of Interactive Experience: Carmen Caceres

Music: 
“Per un pugno di dollari #1 (A fistful of dollars #1),” “Per un pugno di dollari #2 (A fistful of dollars #2),” “Doppi giochi,” “Extrasensorial (The Link),” “Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Finale),” “Quasi morto (Almost dead),” “Per un pugno di dollari - Titoli (A fistful of dollars - Titles),” “Scambio di prigionieri,” “Musica sospesa,” “Alla ricerca dell'evaso,” “Cavalcata,” “Per un pugno di dollari - Finale (A fistful of dollars - Final),” “The Ecstacy of Gold” By Ennio Morricone
“The Price Is Right Theme (Live)” by The Session
“The Price Is Right - Game Show Theme” by TV Tunesters
“Ladies on the Loose” by Gary Combs
“Stayin’ Alive” by Bee Gees

Special Thanks: Kalyan Sayre and Larry Discenza


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Carmen Caceres is a dance artist originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been creating dance works in Argentina and NY since 2009. She has performed and presented work in renowned venues, including New York Live Arts, Judson Memorial Church, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, The Martha Graham Studio, Dixon Place, Green Space, Triskelion Arts Center, The Mark Morris Dance Center, The Center at West Park, and CPR – Center for Performance Research. In 2013, she founded DanceAction, a dance company that works as a creative platform to produce performing arts works in collaboration with musicians, dramaturges, and visual artists. She worked with artists such as Lisa Parra, Sarah Berges, Elia Mrak, and Jody Oberfelder as a performer and collaborator. Carmen received a BA in Dance and Education at SUNY Empire and deepened her studies in dance at the former Merce Cunningham Studio. She has also studied with renowned artists like David Zambrano, Shelley Senter, Robert Swinston, and Ashley Tuttle. In her native city, she graduated from the National School of Dance and studied Dance Composition at UNA. Carmen also works as a dance educator and consultant in different organizations in NYC.

DanceAction is a contemporary dance company based in New York, led by Argentinian dance artist Carmen Caceres. With a culturally diverse team of artists, we create educational opportunities and artistic experiences that foster collaboration and inclusion and promote critical thinking. Together, we develop performing arts works that reflect social realities that concern people, relationships, and social justice. Our primary purpose is to interpret these issues and use our works to propel change. DanceAction participated in numerous festivals and performance series in New York and abroad, including Take Root at Green Space, Under Exposed at Dixon Place, Women Center Stage Festival at Teatro SEA, Festival FIDCDMX in Mexico City, and Ticino in Danza in Switzerland. DanceAction has self-produced and presented several full-length works, such as BLINDSPOT (2019) at the Mark Morris Dance Center and Game Night (2015) at CPR – Center for Performance Research. DanceAction’s awards include the Brooklyn Arts Council Community Fund, the City Artist Corps, and the LMCC Creative Engagement Grant. DanceAction has been a resident artist at the Center at West Park between April 2021 and November 2022, developing and presenting their immersive experience Welcome to Imagi*Nation: The Trilogy (2022). Most recently, DanceAction premiered their latest interactive piece, The Price is Right (De-Valued) (2024), at the Evolution Festival at the Center at West Park. 

Carmen Caceres/DanceAction is a fiscally sponsored member of New York Live Arts, Inc., a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. To make a tax-deductible donation online, please follow this link: https://shorturl.at/9Gdhk. 

$30 General Admission
$20 Students
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Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9
6:30PM | Reception
7:30PM | Performance


Join VALLETO as they celebrate a decade of provocative and transformative dance with the grand finale of the Eternal Bonds trilogy. This landmark event not only commemorates their 10th year but also confronts the universal experience of grief through the lens of memory and joy, inviting audiences into a sacred space of communal healing and remembrance.

ETERNAL BONDS expands VALLETO’s company to ten dancers, each embodying the threads of collective memory that define who we are. This performance intertwines the abstract theatricality of Eternal Bonds.1 with the intimate revelations of Eternal Bonds.2, delving into the profound depths of memory, the echoes of joy, and the shadows of grief. Through narratives and utopian moments where grief is transformed into hope and mourning into celebration.

Please join VALLETO for a 10th Anniversary pre-show celebration at CPR starting at 6:30 P.M. each night of the performance.

Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9
6:30PM | Reception
7:30PM | Performance


CREDITS

Artistic Director/Concept: Valeria Yvette Gonzalez
Choreography: Valeria Yvette Gonzalez in collaboration with the dancers
Re-staging Assistant: Sheila Jackson
Rehearsal Director: Sheila Jackson
Co-producers: Valeria Yvette Gonzalez and Cali Ibarra
Costume Designer: Alba Garcia
Photographer/Filmmaker: Alba Garcia
Makeup and hair: Cassie Mills
Intern/assistant: Maris Krystosek

FEATURING:

Dancers: Abigail Linnemeyer (she/they), Alex Schmidt (she/her), Lindsay Jorgensen (she/her), Lucia Tozzi (she/her), Elisa Meyer (she/her), Ashton Atteberry (they/them), Isa Segall (she/they), Gracen Nelson (she/her), Katie LeHoty (she/her), and Sheila Jackson (she/her)

This season was co-produced and made possible by Valeria Y. Gonzalez and Cali Ibarra and the wonderful humans who have donated and keep believing in VALLETO.

About VALLETO

VALLETO is a contemporary and experimental dance theater company that focuses on creating thought-provoking choreographic work that create a sense of liveliness and excitement, leaving a lasting impact on its audiences and collaborators. VALLETO is a unique dance company and platform that brings together talented dancers from diverse backgrounds each season.

Over the years, VALLETO has evolved into a company dedicated to amplifying female-identifying and non-binary voices, creating inclusive spaces where these artists can thrive.
VALLETO is also comprised by the heal project, and tour biennial summer and winter intensives.  

Mission
– Inspiration, connection, and empowerment through a safe and welcoming environment for dance artists
– Create compelling work for our audiences. Works that challenge systems of oppression and works that create a sense of liveliness and excitement for our audiences and collaborators.
– Amplifying female-identifying and non-binary voices, creating inclusive spaces where these artists can thrive.

$30 General Admission
$20 Students
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Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9
6:30PM | Reception
7:30PM | Performance


Join VALLETO as they celebrate a decade of provocative and transformative dance with the grand finale of the Eternal Bonds trilogy. This landmark event not only commemorates their 10th year but also confronts the universal experience of grief through the lens of memory and joy, inviting audiences into a sacred space of communal healing and remembrance.

ETERNAL BONDS expands VALLETO’s company to ten dancers, each embodying the threads of collective memory that define who we are. This performance intertwines the abstract theatricality of Eternal Bonds.1 with the intimate revelations of Eternal Bonds.2, delving into the profound depths of memory, the echoes of joy, and the shadows of grief. Through narratives and utopian moments where grief is transformed into hope and mourning into celebration.

Please join VALLETO for a 10th Anniversary pre-show celebration at CPR starting at 6:30 P.M. each night of the performance.

Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9
6:30PM | Reception
7:30PM | Performance


CREDITS

Artistic Director/Concept: Valeria Yvette Gonzalez
Choreography: Valeria Yvette Gonzalez in collaboration with the dancers
Re-staging Assistant: Sheila Jackson
Rehearsal Director: Sheila Jackson
Co-producers: Valeria Yvette Gonzalez and Cali Ibarra
Costume Designer: Alba Garcia
Photographer/Filmmaker: Alba Garcia
Makeup and hair: Cassie Mills
Intern/assistant: Maris Krystosek

FEATURING:

Dancers: Abigail Linnemeyer (she/they), Alex Schmidt (she/her), Lindsay Jorgensen (she/her), Lucia Tozzi (she/her), Elisa Meyer (she/her), Ashton Atteberry (they/them), Isa Segall (she/they), Gracen Nelson (she/her), Katie LeHoty (she/her), and Sheila Jackson (she/her)

This season was co-produced and made possible by Valeria Y. Gonzalez and Cali Ibarra and the wonderful humans who have donated and keep believing in VALLETO.

About VALLETO

VALLETO is a contemporary and experimental dance theater company that focuses on creating thought-provoking choreographic work that create a sense of liveliness and excitement, leaving a lasting impact on its audiences and collaborators. VALLETO is a unique dance company and platform that brings together talented dancers from diverse backgrounds each season.

Over the years, VALLETO has evolved into a company dedicated to amplifying female-identifying and non-binary voices, creating inclusive spaces where these artists can thrive.
VALLETO is also comprised by the heal project, and tour biennial summer and winter intensives.  

Mission
– Inspiration, connection, and empowerment through a safe and welcoming environment for dance artists
– Create compelling work for our audiences. Works that challenge systems of oppression and works that create a sense of liveliness and excitement for our audiences and collaborators.
– Amplifying female-identifying and non-binary voices, creating inclusive spaces where these artists can thrive.

$15 artists and students
$20 general admission
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When fire meets mountain is a work in progress collaboration between Leila Lois and Hussein Smko, part remotely, part in the studio at CPR. They explore lived experience of diaspora, and themes of joy, loss, and connection.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Leila Lois is a dancer, choreographer, writer, and curator of Kurdish-Celtic origin based in Australia and New Zealand. 

Hussein Smko is a Kurdish dancer, choreographer, and director with a career spanning 16+ years. His works have graced prestigious festivals and residencies, including the One Journey Festival, the Kennedy Center, Battery Dance Festival, CUNY Dance Initiative, Laguardia Performing Arts Center, Rough Draft, Bethany Art Center, the Watermill Center, Rockefeller Center (Pocantico), and the Chicago Cultural Center's Surviving the Long Wars. The Performance, a documentary directed by Alfredo Chiarappa and produced by Caterina Clireci, offers an in-depth look into Smko’s artistic journey. In 2019, he founded Project Tag, a dynamic dance theater company. Sarah, a physical theater piece created by Smko and creative director Khalil Ayed is set to premiere in 2025.