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

Tickets: $15/$25, sliding scale
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Qubit’s 2024 Innovator Lab artist-in-residence is the Zurich-based American composer Rama Gottfried. We’re teaming up with the PinkNoise ensemble, spending a week at CPR to workshop a variety of new pieces that involve video, puppetry, and costumes – promising to encompass the true spirit of a Halloween event. Qubit artistic director Alec Hall will join Rama to perform in several pieces, with costume design by Sally Rumble.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Rama Gottfried's recent works aim to increase our sensitivity to the web of relations that connect humans and the other animate and inanimate entities that surround us. His pieces are conceived as scenographic worlds — bodies with voices that move and interact in physical and immaterial environments, constructed from the medias of acoustic and electronic instrumental performance, puppet-, object-, material-theater, live-cinema, and the site-specific performance context. Brought to life through the collaborative actions of human and nonhuman performers, the works attempt to absorb the audience and physical space, subtly expanding our awareness of detail. Born in New York in 1977, Rama grew up in Burlington, VT, where he began instrumental and electronic music training at an early age, and pursued visual art studies before shifting focus to music performance and composition. After moving to NYC in 2001, he joined Ensemble Pamplemousse, collaborating with the group from 2003-2013 on developing approaches to the merging of sound, installation, and performance arts. Rama's works have been featured at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, MaerzMusik, SPOR, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, MATA, Klangwerkstatt, rainy days, and Ultima festivals, among others, and he has created sound installations for the Berliner Congress Center, Complice, Mino Washi Paper Museum, Stadtbad-Wedding, and the Pacific Basin Building.

PinkNoise is a New York-based chamber ensemble dedicated to musical improvisation and compositions in acoustic and electronic mediums. Their upcoming season includes appearances at the Kontrapunkt series in St. Gallen, Switzerland and as the Ensemble-in-Residence at the 2025 Music Biennale Zagreb in Croatia. 

Qubit is a contemporary music and performance art initiative founded in 2010. Based in NYC, its principal mission is to foster the development of emergent voices by working with composers whose work has yet to reach wider audiences. We place a particular emphasis on the exploration of new technologies in performance practice, sonic aesthetics, and public engagement.

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CARRIERS explores themes of guilt, failure, and shame as embodied experiences passed down through generations, shaped by systemic shifts, crisis, or personal tragedies. Through a blend of choreography, language, and sound, it examines the tension between giving in and giving up in post-capitalistic instability of not quite falling through the cracks.

*** Quels sont ces corps, fatigués mais pas prêts de s'abandonner?


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sophia Seiss is a choreographer, dancer, and performer based both in Marseille and Berlin. Her work investigates in a constant research on how improvisation with sound, text and movement inform one another and prepare a body of honesty and fragility, tenderness and roughness. She has collaborated with with divers Artists in and outside of Europe such as Marina Abramovic, Katie Duck, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Pol Pi, and the choir Glossa. CARRIERS is an adaptation of her latest piece REST HERE. HOPE DO. that premiered in Montpellier, France in 2024. 

Wibke Storkan is a freelance contemporary dancer, choreographer, dance facilitator, and dance/movement therapist based in Berlin. In her work, the human body, its relationships and communication play a central role. Different approaches and methods of bodywork interweave in her artistic research and therapeutic practice. She has collaborated in numerous projects, a.o. with Sasha Waltz & Guests, Stefan Kaegi / Rimini Protokoll, Theater Strahl, Saskia Oidtmann, Florian Bilbao, Yotam Peled, and Judith Sánchez Ruíz/JSR Company.

Axine M is the moniker of Maxine de las Pozas, a music artist residing in Brooklyn, NY, and a vessel for musical inquiries and creative impulses across multiple genres and sentiments, carving out a space for itself against the grain of the dystopian imaginary. Her recently released tape USUSUSESESERERER is a songwriterly exploration of interpersonal relationships under late-capitalism. Maxine currently is Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room, and a collective member and sound engineer for Chaos Computer.


ABOUT CONTAINER

Container NYC is a temporary, non-profit space in Chinatown, Manhattan, run by artists Anna Budniewski & Michael Dikta. container-nyc.com

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Filmmaker Elise Kermani presents the New York premiere of her latest short performance film, Without Fame (Antiklea), as well as three of her earlier works including SAND - a migrating performance, Agamemnon’s Daughter, and JUSTICE.

The evening will conclude with a Q&A with the filmmaker and audience.


PROGRAM

Without Fame (Antiklea) (2024), 8 min
Without Fame (Antiklea) centers on a tragic figure who is often forgotten amidst talk of Homer’s Odyssey, Antiklea, the mother of Odysseus. Although she is technically a minor character when compared to her famous wandering son (Antiklea literally means ‘without fame’ in ancient Greek), she is living proof of how a mother’s life can diminish once her child goes away. The film was shot in Malibu, CA and produced by Illium Pictures in Los Angeles, with cinematography by Kaliya Warren and featuring actor Chivonne Michelle. In May 2024, Without Fame  showed at the AGON International Archaeological Film Festival in Athens, Greece, and was one of 63 films from 24 countries selected from 1,250 submissions from 100 countries, and one of only two films selected from the US.

While Kermani’s film takes its inspiration from Book XI of Homer’s Odyssey (including voiceover in the original ancient Greek), the film honors the moments before and after Odysseus meets his mother in Hades — and when she is left alone. “What destiny brought you to the home of Death?” he asks her in the text. In a translation by Alexander Pope, Antiklea’s response is, “For thee, I lived — for absent, I expired!” “Without Fame” also features “Tzivaeri,” a traditional Greek song whose title translates to ‘my treasure,’ and whose inclusion is meant to be a call of adoration from a mother to her child. Kermani first heard the song on a trip to Greece 10 years ago, and knew she had to use it in a film.  

Without Fame also combines aspects of modern life with these mythological proceedings. In making it, Kermani was thinking a lot about the increasing number of migrants who’ve perished on the shores of Greece after attempting perilous boat trips across the ocean. They're fleeing to Europe in hopes of finding a better life. But many of these people end up with no identities — they are buried as unknowns, and most families will never learn what happened to their loved ones. That is why Kermani chose to begin the film with Antiklea washed up on a desolate beach; she is so often forgotten, too.

SAND - a migrating performance (2019), 12 min
Choreography and performances by Kristina Isabelle. Shot along the southern shores of Lake Michigan, with four dancers and a puppet. Cinematography by Diana Quiñones Rivera.

Agamemnon’s Daughter (2016), 4 min
Choreography and solo performance by Laurel Jenkins, 4 mins. Shot in Malibu, CA. Cinematography by Alexander Chinnici.

JUSTICE (2028), 12 min
A site specific performance with musicians and dancers filmed in NYC's Riverside Park on the Summer Solstice, 2017. With choreography and performance by Christine Elmo. Cinematography by Kaliya Warren.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Elise Kermani, currently based out of Northwest Indiana, is Managing Director of the Dunes Arts Foundation, located in Michigan City, IN. She is also Adjunct Lecturer of Media Art at Empire State University in New York. Heavily influenced by European theatrical video art, Kermani is primarily interested in adapting classic material and crafting her own unique, modernized interpretations; her projects consistently feature strong elements of music and dance. Particularly prevalent in the work is the idea of collage; not necessarily two-dimensional collage, but the layering of time itself, expanding a story back into the past and also forward into the present. Using varying levels of sound and fragmented visuals to comprise diverse, experimental performance pieces, Kermani aims to evoke a trance-like state – hypnotizing and even submerging a viewer within a strange new world. The music (much of which is sound designed by Kermani herself) is post-modern, emerging as a kaleidoscope of noise, a comingling of every kind of sound imaginable.

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Thursday, October 10 at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 12 at 7:30PM


[REDACTED] at birth

[Gagged by sticky labels and exhaustive heteronormativity] “Get out of your seat, label me baby, come on I’m waiting. Come closer honey and smell my green tuft of hair. Can’t you tell what I am?” [the green figure’s skin erodes] “Don’t take too long to decide, the show must go on.”

TW: gender violence, cissexism

Accessibility Note: performance includes invitation to come onto the stage space (optional).

Movement Director, Performer, Costume Designer: Mars Garcia
Sound Designer, Performer: Alexander Millar:
Production Assistant/Guest Performer: Mary Ann Odete

Crossfade

A collective sustains smokey repetition in this exploration of techno and contemporary movement. 

TW: strobe lighting, loud music. 

Choreography: Alisya Razman, Mars Garcia
Performance and Improvisation by: Nikkie Samreth, Celine Abdallah, Alisya Razman, Mars Garcia, and Lilah van Rens
Sound design: Ali Aoun-IRL
Costume design: Mars Garcia


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Mars Garcia (they/them) is a genderqueer Mexican American mover, maker, and collaborator from unseated Acjachemen and Tongva lands (California). Their art is characterized by their family’s lineage of strong matriarchs and gatherings of gossip, cooking, and mending as sites of reuse, renewal, music, and social dance. Their collaborative creations have been presented at The Brick , Queensboro Dance Festival, The Tank/NYC, Pink Frog Cafe, Soapbox Gallery, parks across NYC, and at their self produced Harvesting artist festival (Fall 2020, Spring 2022). Gathering movement, improvisation, sewing, writing, scenic designs, and sarcasm, Mars explores how queerness, identity, and belonging informs our habits, interactions, and families. They have been a guest artist with companies such as Edisa Weeks/DELIRIOUS DANCES, Kai Hazelwood/Good Trouble Makers, and Marie de la Palme/Motion Tribe, and performed abroad at the Bagnolet Conservatoire Municipal de Danse (France), Institute of the Arts, Barcelona (Spain), and the ACUD Theater (Berlin, Germany). With a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Mars currently works as a freelance dancer (The Joyce Theater, ISSUE Project Room, Baryshnikov Arts Center as a part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial), a GYROTONIC® instructor (Fluid Fitness), Stage Manager (Priestess of Twerk 2024), and Producer (Practice Progress; 7NMS | Marjani Forté & Everett Saunders; Good Trouble Makers; Neuronite 2024). For bookings: DM @marsgarcia_works

Alisya Razman (she/her) is a Brooklyn based artist from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. While pursuing her BFA in Dance at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she studied contemporary dance and improvisation under Rashaun Mitchell, Pamela Pietro, and Jeremy Nelson. She performed works/processes by Merce Cunningham, Sidra Bell, Kate Wallich, Bill T. Jones, David Dorfman, and studied abroad in Berlin. Since graduating, she has danced professionally with UNA Productions, Helen Simoneau Danse, Dishman & Co Choreography, Cayleen Del Rosario, and Yang Sun while being a teaching artist at The Ailey School. She was commissioned to present work at the Ailey Citigroup Theater for the Professional Division program last spring. @alisyarazman

Alexander Millar (they/them) is a white queer nonbinary neurodivergent award-winning songwriter, composer, performer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. They combine a BFA in Musical Arts and an MFA in Performance & Composition from California Institute of the Arts with over 28 years of professional experience in the music industry and over 13 years of teaching experience. As a creative researcher Alex investigates how the systems of white supremacy shape the popular music industry, both historically and presently. They are especially interested in how toxic individuality, a byproduct of capitalism and a core tenant of white supremacy, drives the narrative of how we speak, write, and think about the concept of “success” in popular music, specifically as it pertains to the myth of the “self made” artist/group. Alex has a deep commitment to democratizing access to knowledge and research, as well as re-contextualizing creative research outside of Academia. Therefore, their research is publicly available in the form of TikTok videos; to date they have over 200k followers who engage with their research and likely never would have encountered it if it were not available on a popular social media app.

Nikkie Samreth (they/them) is a first generation Cambodian-Chinese multidisciplinary artist originally from Dallas, TX. They have a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and studied at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. They also graduated Summa Cum Laude at SUNY FIT with a Bachelor of Science in International Trade & Marketing and a triple minor in Economics, Creative Technology, and Ethics & Sustainability. Post-college, Nikkie worked as a professional dancer/performer/model in various music videos, campaigns, films, and performance projects with companies such as The Feath3r Theory, Company XIV, HBO Max, Vogue, Vogue Runway, Universal Music Group, and other artists. Throughout Nikkie’s career they have had the opportunity to perform works by Merce Cunningham, Anton Lachky, Raja Feather Kelly, Aszure Barton, and many others. Along with their professional career, Nikkie has supplemented their artistry with new skills such as cello, boxing, skateboarding, archery, acting, and other interests to reshape their perspective of dance and choreography. @highblush

Celine Abdallah (she/her) is a Lebanese-American dance artist based in NYC, whose sensory-based movement combines the history of her Arab roots with a playfulness that roots into the present. She received her BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Celine has performed in original works by choreographers such as Yin Yue, Christina Robson, Molissa Fenley, Davide Di Pretoro, Ambika Raina, Isa Spector, and Iliana Penichet-Ramirez. Beyond the stage, she is featured in music videos and live sets by artists such as Yaeji, Frawley, and Dania. As a Choreographer and Movement Director, Celine has collaborated with filmmakers Emily May Jampel, Saleem Gondal, and Mike Klubeck. With her experience in stage and film, coupled with her interdisciplinary dance background, she hopes to continue exploring the boundlessness of storytelling.

Lilah van Rens, born and raised in New York City, pursued her undergraduate studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, receiving a BFA in Dance. Continuing her education, Lilah earned her graduate degree in Dance/Movement Psychotherapy from Sarah Lawrence College, where she explored the intersection of movement, mind-body integration and mental health.

Ali (IRL) is a Bushwick-based DJ who draws sonic inspiration from their time spent between Detroit and Brooklyn, as well as his Lebanese heritage. No genre is off limits, prioritizing range over cohesion. His recurring event series’ Transmission and Lunar Tides express this mentality by connecting local talent and out-of-town guests through intimate settings.

Tickets $10
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Thursday, October 10 at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 12 at 7:30PM


[REDACTED] at birth

[Gagged by sticky labels and exhaustive heteronormativity] “Get out of your seat, label me baby, come on I’m waiting. Come closer honey and smell my green tuft of hair. Can’t you tell what I am?” [the green figure’s skin erodes] “Don’t take too long to decide, the show must go on.”

TW: gender violence, cissexism

Accessibility Note: performance includes invitation to come onto the stage space (optional).

Movement Director, Performer, Costume Designer: Mars Garcia
Sound Designer, Performer: Alexander Millar:
Production Assistant/Guest Performer: Mary Ann Odete

Crossfade

A collective sustains smokey repetition in this exploration of techno and contemporary movement. 

TW: strobe lighting, loud music. 

Choreography: Alisya Razman, Mars Garcia
Performance and Improvisation by: Nikkie Samreth, Celine Abdallah, Alisya Razman, Mars Garcia, and Lilah van Rens
Sound design: Ali Aoun-IRL
Costume design: Mars Garcia


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Mars Garcia (they/them) is a genderqueer Mexican American mover, maker, and collaborator from unseated Acjachemen and Tongva lands (California). Their art is characterized by their family’s lineage of strong matriarchs and gatherings of gossip, cooking, and mending as sites of reuse, renewal, music, and social dance. Their collaborative creations have been presented at The Brick , Queensboro Dance Festival, The Tank/NYC, Pink Frog Cafe, Soapbox Gallery, parks across NYC, and at their self produced Harvesting artist festival (Fall 2020, Spring 2022). Gathering movement, improvisation, sewing, writing, scenic designs, and sarcasm, Mars explores how queerness, identity, and belonging informs our habits, interactions, and families. They have been a guest artist with companies such as Edisa Weeks/DELIRIOUS DANCES, Kai Hazelwood/Good Trouble Makers, and Marie de la Palme/Motion Tribe, and performed abroad at the Bagnolet Conservatoire Municipal de Danse (France), Institute of the Arts, Barcelona (Spain), and the ACUD Theater (Berlin, Germany). With a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Mars currently works as a freelance dancer (The Joyce Theater, ISSUE Project Room, Baryshnikov Arts Center as a part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial), a GYROTONIC® instructor (Fluid Fitness), Stage Manager (Priestess of Twerk 2024), and Producer (Practice Progress; 7NMS | Marjani Forté & Everett Saunders; Good Trouble Makers; Neuronite 2024). For bookings: DM @marsgarcia_works

Alisya Razman (she/her) is a Brooklyn based artist from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. While pursuing her BFA in Dance at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she studied contemporary dance and improvisation under Rashaun Mitchell, Pamela Pietro, and Jeremy Nelson. She performed works/processes by Merce Cunningham, Sidra Bell, Kate Wallich, Bill T. Jones, David Dorfman, and studied abroad in Berlin. Since graduating, she has danced professionally with UNA Productions, Helen Simoneau Danse, Dishman & Co Choreography, Cayleen Del Rosario, and Yang Sun while being a teaching artist at The Ailey School. She was commissioned to present work at the Ailey Citigroup Theater for the Professional Division program last spring. @alisyarazman

Alexander Millar (they/them) is a white queer nonbinary neurodivergent award-winning songwriter, composer, performer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. They combine a BFA in Musical Arts and an MFA in Performance & Composition from California Institute of the Arts with over 28 years of professional experience in the music industry and over 13 years of teaching experience. As a creative researcher Alex investigates how the systems of white supremacy shape the popular music industry, both historically and presently. They are especially interested in how toxic individuality, a byproduct of capitalism and a core tenant of white supremacy, drives the narrative of how we speak, write, and think about the concept of “success” in popular music, specifically as it pertains to the myth of the “self made” artist/group. Alex has a deep commitment to democratizing access to knowledge and research, as well as re-contextualizing creative research outside of Academia. Therefore, their research is publicly available in the form of TikTok videos; to date they have over 200k followers who engage with their research and likely never would have encountered it if it were not available on a popular social media app.

Nikkie Samreth (they/them) is a first generation Cambodian-Chinese multidisciplinary artist originally from Dallas, TX. They have a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and studied at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. They also graduated Summa Cum Laude at SUNY FIT with a Bachelor of Science in International Trade & Marketing and a triple minor in Economics, Creative Technology, and Ethics & Sustainability. Post-college, Nikkie worked as a professional dancer/performer/model in various music videos, campaigns, films, and performance projects with companies such as The Feath3r Theory, Company XIV, HBO Max, Vogue, Vogue Runway, Universal Music Group, and other artists. Throughout Nikkie’s career they have had the opportunity to perform works by Merce Cunningham, Anton Lachky, Raja Feather Kelly, Aszure Barton, and many others. Along with their professional career, Nikkie has supplemented their artistry with new skills such as cello, boxing, skateboarding, archery, acting, and other interests to reshape their perspective of dance and choreography. @highblush

Celine Abdallah (she/her) is a Lebanese-American dance artist based in NYC, whose sensory-based movement combines the history of her Arab roots with a playfulness that roots into the present. She received her BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Celine has performed in original works by choreographers such as Yin Yue, Christina Robson, Molissa Fenley, Davide Di Pretoro, Ambika Raina, Isa Spector, and Iliana Penichet-Ramirez. Beyond the stage, she is featured in music videos and live sets by artists such as Yaeji, Frawley, and Dania. As a Choreographer and Movement Director, Celine has collaborated with filmmakers Emily May Jampel, Saleem Gondal, and Mike Klubeck. With her experience in stage and film, coupled with her interdisciplinary dance background, she hopes to continue exploring the boundlessness of storytelling.

Lilah van Rens, born and raised in New York City, pursued her undergraduate studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, receiving a BFA in Dance. Continuing her education, Lilah earned her graduate degree in Dance/Movement Psychotherapy from Sarah Lawrence College, where she explored the intersection of movement, mind-body integration and mental health.

Ali (IRL) is a Bushwick-based DJ who draws sonic inspiration from their time spent between Detroit and Brooklyn, as well as his Lebanese heritage. No genre is off limits, prioritizing range over cohesion. His recurring event series’ Transmission and Lunar Tides express this mentality by connecting local talent and out-of-town guests through intimate settings.

Advance General Admission: $35
Advance Artists/Students: $25 (limited availability)
At-the-Door: $40
Donor Ticket: $50
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In the event that the program is sold out, an in-person wait list for the 6PM performance will open at 5PM.


PROGRAM

5:00 PM | Doors Open + Social Hour
6:00 PM | Music, Performances, Dance Party

Rovaco Dance Company presents their sixth annual Rovaco Dance Party. This evening of live music, dance, theater, and cultural exchange begins with an informal social hour inspired by Indian hospitality traditions. Guests are served delectable Indian snacks prepared by Chef Ashmita Biswas alongside complimentary Lunar Hard Seltzers, an award-winning Asian American brand. After the social, transition into the theater for live music and dance performances, curated and MC’ed by Rovaco Artistic Director Rohan Bhargava. The evening ends with a DJ dance party for all!


CREDITS

Rovaco Dance Artists
Choreography: Rohan Bhargava in collaboration with dancers
Performers: Nico Gonzales, Devika Chandnani, Siddharth Dutta, Karma Chuki, Isabele Rosso, and Jihyun Kim
Resident Dramaturg & Script Consultant: Mahima Saigal
Resident Composer: Saúl Guanipa

Guest Artists
Viola: Dudley Raine IV
Ghazals & Guitar: Ria Modak
DJ: Cameron McKinney/DJ KAZVMA
Chef: Ashmita Biswas


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

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


SUPPORT

Rovaco Dance Party is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. In-kind donations have been provided by Lunar Seltzer, an award-winning craft hard seltzer made with real fruit from Asia. Baraat by Rovaco Dance Company is supported by the NYU Artist Development Program for Dance and The Choreography Pilot Program 2024 of Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc.

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

Tickets: $20
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Traveling through portals, the puppet and puppeteer enter and experience various dreams, observing fragments of daily life, altered realities, nightmares, and imagination. An immersive puppet performance with live-puppetry, live-feed camera, projections, and a musical score by EEVRI.


PORTALS: a journey through dreams is a proud recipient of a 2024 Workshop Grant from The Jim Henson Foundation, and is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.

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fracture is a multimedia installation that explores the experience of trauma, inspired by the artist’s own recovery from a life-threatening brain hemorrhage 10 years ago. Through visual, sonic and sculptural components, the concept of “fracture” serves as a metaphor for the physical, psychological and emotional effects of a life-altering injury. The work explores an alienation from one’s own body, the journey of coming back into one’s self, and the sense of discovery that can come through the process of healing.

The installation will be on view between 5pm and 8pm.

Tickets: $12, $18, $25 (sliding scale)
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RE-PAIR dances our aging and our resilience, what dissolves and what persists. With a synergy rooted in 30+ years of collaboration, this evening of works by Pamela Vail and Jennifer Kayle RE-PAIRS their signature humor and strength of craft.

In the opening work, they improvise with longtime New York collaborators Anna Adams Stark, Lena Lauer, Stephanie Miracle, Edward Rice, Maurice Watson, Donnell Williams, and musician Jason Palamara. The closing work, a ritual of re-making, features new-to-New York dancers Alyssa Alber, Ellie Daley, Maggie Steimel, and Zoe Miller.

Tickets: Free
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CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS:
SPLIT ENDS AND OTHER STORIES
with film maker Lauren Oliver presenting in-person
presented by MONO NO AWARE

PROGRAM

PRIÈRE DE TOUCHER (PLEASE TOUCH)
(3 min, 2018, 16mm)
Prière de toucher (Please Touch) is a 16mm film inspired by 'Le Surréalisme en 1947' an exhibition catalog conceived by André Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Enrico Donati. The original catalog cover features a soft, foam-rubber breast mounted on a black velvet background, encouraging the reader to engage in this intimate and sensual gesture of touching. Instead of the faux flesh, her film focuses on the vibrant textures of various flowers, inviting viewers to imagine the tactile experience and give in to the temptation to touch.

STEPPING INTO THE FRAME
(10 min, 2022, 16MM Triple Projection Performance) 
Stepping into the frame, is an intimate glance into the artist’s paradoxical self-portraiture practice. Best known for her still photographic work, Oliver now turns her gaze to her process. Through the use of a 16mm bolex, the artist has opened her self-portraits beyond the moment of capture, allowing viewers into her unique process. Oliver often meticulously pre-plans each of her shots but, because she must step out of the frame to reset the camera between each image, it is impossible for her to recreate each scene exactly. Viewers are brought to a better understanding of the ephemeral nature of Oliver’s photography and the fluidity and freedom behind her portraits.

SPLIT ENDS
(3 min, 2024, 16MM with live narration by the artist)
Split Ends is an animated addendum to her recently published book of the same title. This film flows from a text that inspired the ideas and questions explored in the book, delving into Oliver's relationship with her hair as a lens to understand her identity, lineage, and cultural heritage.
In the film, the artist uses vegetable roots as symbols for split ends—those old, often hidden or trimmed parts of hair. Instead of concealing them, the film celebrates their age, complexity, and perseverance. The film is accompanied by a live narration from the artist's diary.

The program will include a Q&A with the artist.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lauren Oliver (b. 1992, Forest Hills, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist working in Brooklyn, NY. Experimenting with photography, performance, and film making, Oliver's creative practice is deeply rooted in both the technical and metaphoric significance of light in analog image making. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from SUNY Purchase. Her photographs have been featured on i-D, Buzzfeed, F-stop Magazine, and The Luupe. Her first monograph, “Temple of the Self,” published by Monolith Editions in 2020, is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2024, she published her second book, "Puntas Abiertas," with Matarile Ediciones. In addition to her artistic practice, Lauren teaches analog photography and film making at the International Center of Photography, Gowanus Community Darkroom, and Mono no Aware. In September 2024, she will start her graduate studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology.


ABOUT THE MONO NO AWARE SCREENING SERIES

The CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA series will present the work of artists, film-makers and curators who are traveling or presenting special interactive programs in-person. Our hope is to engage the community by showing work with a focus on post-screening discussion. This series is made possible by support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

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The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture presents Conference Call: Moving Image, which marks the second iteration of Skowhegan's Alumni Alliance exhibition programming.

Alumni Alliance members Christian Amaya Garcia (A ’23), Jesus Benavente (A ’12), Danny Greenberg (A’ 18), Eleanor Kipping (A ‘18), and Chelsea Flowers (A ’22) have each curated screenings around a theme of their choosing featuring moving image artworks selected through an open call process. This project aims to create meaningful and impactful experiences for both artists and curators, as well as showcase the richness of the Skowhegan community to a broader audience. 

Curated by Eleanor Kipping (A’18) for the screening at CPR – Center for Performance Research, When the Eye Speaks features the work of Ronald Hall (A '16), Jack Hogan (A '19), Yasi Ghanbari (A '18), Zhiyuan Yang (A '17), Jordan Wong (A '22), Kearra Amaya Gopee (A '18), and Steven Cottingham (A '15). The evening explores the use of moving images and the desktop essay to explore ideas of identity, place, gender, and the geopolitical implications of surveillance through the use of monologue, performance, object making, the Internet and screen recording. Following the screening will be a pre-recorded experimental discussion with the group that also serves as a desktop essay.

Throughout the summer and fall of 2024, Conference Call: Moving Image screenings will take place at a range of venues across New York City including CPR – Center for Performance Research (July 25), Hi-ARTS (August 1), Olympia Gallery (August 15), and more TBA.

Tickets: $25, $35 (includes a BODYSONNET pin!)
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Performances at 5:30 PM and 8:00 PM


INSTAL is a multi-room installation performance produced by BODYSONNET and features the work of Mio Ishikawa, Olga Rabetskaya, Gabe Katz, Kevin Pajarillaga, Amari Frazier, Colin Frederick, and Moscelyne ParkeHarrison.

Half of the performance will be set in CPR’s Small Studio, while the other will take place in CPR’s Large Studio. With works in each room happening simultaneously, the audience will experience both installation performances over the course of an hour, with each half of the audience switching spaces half-way through. INSTAL is a meditation on time and our relationship to space.


Learn more about BODYSONNET: www.bodysonnet.org

Support Season 5: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/satellite-collective-inc/bodysonnet-season-23

Tickets: $25, $35 (includes a BODYSONNET pin!)
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Performances at 5:30 PM and 8:00 PM


INSTAL is a multi-room installation performance produced by BODYSONNET and features the work of Mio Ishikawa, Olga Rabetskaya, Gabe Katz, Kevin Pajarillaga, Amari Frazier, Colin Frederick, and Moscelyne ParkeHarrison.

Half of the performance will be set in CPR’s Small Studio, while the other will take place in CPR’s Large Studio. With works in each room happening simultaneously, the audience will experience both installation performances over the course of an hour, with each half of the audience switching spaces half-way through. INSTAL is a meditation on time and our relationship to space.


Learn more about BODYSONNET: www.bodysonnet.org

Support Season 5: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/satellite-collective-inc/bodysonnet-season-23

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Opening hours: 5:00 – 9:00 P.M.


Have you ever shapeshifted? 

Encountered: Studies on Finding calls you to imagine the currents of unknown worlds. Our collection of paintings, film, and sound illuminates the work of emerging artists reckoning with perceptions of transformation. We invite you to enter the mutable space of unsettling, with offerings that reveal new realms and shared realities that exist just beyond the shift...

Encountered features paintings and visual works by emerging artists: Jadyn Fauconier-Herry, Emelia Gertner, Mary Rose McClain, and Anna Romanofsky set against sonic landscapes by Kambaba Jasper and A Lonely Wandering Meteor. The works in this show highlight a range of media and painting techniques centering the concept of shapeshifting as a recurring theme.

This showcase was born out of our fascination with transformation in the artistic process: the moment a film/painting/sound alters before you; the place(s) you go as part of the journey; how the art moves with and beyond you. Where do you shapeshift in your artistic practice? What sparks the shift and when does it end? Does it end?

Performances: $15
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Roundtables: free w/ RSVP
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Fri, June 28
7:30 P.M. Performance

Sat, June 29
2:00 P.M. Roundtable
7:30 P.M. Performance

Sun, June 30
2:00 P.M. Roundtable
6:00 P.M. Performance


Perfect City is a working group that addresses the design, policy-making, and zoning of cities. This June, Perfect City’s lead artists Tiffany Zorrilla (aka Lola Libre), Jahmorei Snipes, and Aaron Landsman present Perfect City for Sale: a weekend of performances, installations, roundtable discussions, and a zine launch.

Presented by Abrons Arts Center.


PERFORMANCES

At the conclusion of their 2-year residency through the Creatives Rebuild New York's Artist Employment Program, Perfect City members Aaron Landsman, Jahmorei Snipes and Tiffany Zorilla share their individual artistic practices with presentations of performances-in-progress.

Your ticket includes a free copy of our new issue of the Perfect City zine! The zine includes working group writing, collaged images from the community, and critical contributions from collaborators in our partner city of Amsterdam around visibility, safety, design and youth leadership.

Jahmorei Snipes: PILLAR
A series of poetic monologues exploring the world through the lens of Black womanhood. Through spoken word performance, Snipes considers place, safety, and identity from her own perspective, building on themes of storytelling and visibility from Perfect City’s 2023 art and research project Invisible Guides. The development of PILLAR began in 2018 from Snipes’ frustration as a woman forced to maintain patriarchal structures. In her own words, “The function of pillars is to hold up a structure in order to keep it from collapsing. Black women have become the pillars that maintain the structure of our community”.

Lola Libre: BUYME
A metamodern interactive art project that investigates the existence of digital colonialism and its role in perpetuating the exploitation of femme bodies both on and offline. The installation incorporates web-based art, installation, and performance activation to challenge our understanding of power dynamics in digital landscapes and encourage reflection on who and what receives protection online.

Aaron Landsman: All The Time in the World
A new performance work about collective self-regard and the ways capital-driven social media algorithms define how we apprehend the world now. The text is designed and rendered as an original card game - a combination of Uno, Exploding Kittens and Five-Card Draw - played by four actors at a folding table in front of an audience. All the Time in the World takes the ‘media’ out of social media and leaves the gathering and the words. The piece invites us to consider moments in our lives that escape our lenses and render more strongly as memory than our image diaries allow.


ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

Perfect City will offer two roundtables that invite participants to think together about how our neighborhoods and cities can thrive in an increasingly difficult climate. Each discussion begins with Avoidance Mapping, a social exercise and workshop that makes our invisible knowledge about the city visible. How do you belong when you move through a place? What protects us in the city, and how does our need for protection change depending on our age, race, ability, gender or size?

Saturday, June 29 roundtable focuses on how the nature and discussion of gentrification has shifted since Perfect City’s 2016 founding. Sunday, June 30 roundtable tackles the digital commons, citizenship, activism and the city.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jahmorei Snipes is an actress, advocate and artistic activist. Originally from El Barrio, she currently resides in Harlem, New York. With a profound care for her city and the world around her, Jahmorei joined The Youth Channel at Manhattan Neighborhood Network Youth Media Center. In 2017, she joined Perfect City and co-founded The Catcalling Project. She received a BFA in Acting with a minor in political science from Marymount Manhattan College, Jahmorei has continued to pursue her passions as an actor, theater-maker, and activist. She has presented workshops regularly through Perfect City at CUNY, Princeton and ASU, and with the Confident Futures project alongside other artists and advocates in Amsterdam.

Tiffany Zorrilla is a Dominican woman who was born and raised in the Lower East Side and currently resides in El Barrio in Harlem. Tiffany is a prolific artist with fluency in many media, including but not limited to poetry, ceramic sculpture, painting, video-making, and non-fiction writing. Her research and work exist conceptually within studies of anti-misogynist, anti-colonial resistance, and literary criticism. A published writer and strong advocate for her community, she co-founded The Catcalling Project, sings jazz and plays the piano.

Multidisciplinary artist Aaron Landsman formed Perfect City in 2016, from the understanding that many sustainability initiatives in urban planning do not address systemic inequities, and often lead to cities becoming more exclusive. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, support from major foundations and residencies at ASU and Princeton, where he continues to teach.


ABOUT PERFECT CITY

Formed by Aaron Landsman in 2016, Perfect City is a multiracial, multigenerational working group that addresses the design, policy-making and zoning of cities. Much of our current work focuses on how the city often renders low-income women, families of color and trans people escaping domestic violence unsafe, even within the shelter system. Led by working group members Tiffany Zorrilla and Jahmorei Snipes, Perfect City’s offshoot The Catcalling Project looks at how the rhetoric of real estate development and that of street harassment both propagate displacement and a lack of safety for women of color. In 2019, Zorrilla and Snipes began to offer Avoidance Mapping workshops for residents at Henry Street Settlement’s Urban Family Center (UFC), a residential shelter with counseling and other services.


ABOUT ABRONS ARTS CENTER

Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. A core program of the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons believes that access to the arts is essential to a free and healthy society. Through performance presentations, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the transformative power of art.


ABOUT CREATIVES REBUILD NEW YORK’S ARTIST EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM

Perfect City For Sale is made possible with support from the Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Employment Program, a two year initiative that funds employment for up to 300 artists, culture bearers, and culture makers (artists) in collaboration with dozens of community-based organizations across New York State.

Performances: $15
Purchase Tickets

Roundtables: free w/ RSVP
RSVP


Fri, June 28
7:30 P.M. Performance

Sat, June 29
2:00 P.M. Roundtable
7:30 P.M. Performance

Sun, June 30
2:00 P.M. Roundtable
6:00 P.M. Performance


Perfect City is a working group that addresses the design, policy-making, and zoning of cities. This June, Perfect City’s lead artists Tiffany Zorrilla (aka Lola Libre), Jahmorei Snipes, and Aaron Landsman present Perfect City for Sale: a weekend of performances, installations, roundtable discussions, and a zine launch.

Presented by Abrons Arts Center.


PERFORMANCES

At the conclusion of their 2-year residency through the Creatives Rebuild New York's Artist Employment Program, Perfect City members Aaron Landsman, Jahmorei Snipes and Tiffany Zorilla share their individual artistic practices with presentations of performances-in-progress.

Your ticket includes a free copy of our new issue of the Perfect City zine! The zine includes working group writing, collaged images from the community, and critical contributions from collaborators in our partner city of Amsterdam around visibility, safety, design and youth leadership.

Jahmorei Snipes: PILLAR
A series of poetic monologues exploring the world through the lens of Black womanhood. Through spoken word performance, Snipes considers place, safety, and identity from her own perspective, building on themes of storytelling and visibility from Perfect City’s 2023 art and research project Invisible Guides. The development of PILLAR began in 2018 from Snipes’ frustration as a woman forced to maintain patriarchal structures. In her own words, “The function of pillars is to hold up a structure in order to keep it from collapsing. Black women have become the pillars that maintain the structure of our community”.

Lola Libre: BUYME
A metamodern interactive art project that investigates the existence of digital colonialism and its role in perpetuating the exploitation of femme bodies both on and offline. The installation incorporates web-based art, installation, and performance activation to challenge our understanding of power dynamics in digital landscapes and encourage reflection on who and what receives protection online.

Aaron Landsman: All The Time in the World
A new performance work about collective self-regard and the ways capital-driven social media algorithms define how we apprehend the world now. The text is designed and rendered as an original card game - a combination of Uno, Exploding Kittens and Five-Card Draw - played by four actors at a folding table in front of an audience. All the Time in the World takes the ‘media’ out of social media and leaves the gathering and the words. The piece invites us to consider moments in our lives that escape our lenses and render more strongly as memory than our image diaries allow.


ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

Perfect City will offer two roundtables that invite participants to think together about how our neighborhoods and cities can thrive in an increasingly difficult climate. Each discussion begins with Avoidance Mapping, a social exercise and workshop that makes our invisible knowledge about the city visible. How do you belong when you move through a place? What protects us in the city, and how does our need for protection change depending on our age, race, ability, gender or size?

Saturday, June 29 roundtable focuses on how the nature and discussion of gentrification has shifted since Perfect City’s 2016 founding. Sunday, June 30 roundtable tackles the digital commons, citizenship, activism and the city.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jahmorei Snipes is an actress, advocate and artistic activist. Originally from El Barrio, she currently resides in Harlem, New York. With a profound care for her city and the world around her, Jahmorei joined The Youth Channel at Manhattan Neighborhood Network Youth Media Center. In 2017, she joined Perfect City and co-founded The Catcalling Project. She received a BFA in Acting with a minor in political science from Marymount Manhattan College, Jahmorei has continued to pursue her passions as an actor, theater-maker, and activist. She has presented workshops regularly through Perfect City at CUNY, Princeton and ASU, and with the Confident Futures project alongside other artists and advocates in Amsterdam.

Tiffany Zorrilla is a Dominican woman who was born and raised in the Lower East Side and currently resides in El Barrio in Harlem. Tiffany is a prolific artist with fluency in many media, including but not limited to poetry, ceramic sculpture, painting, video-making, and non-fiction writing. Her research and work exist conceptually within studies of anti-misogynist, anti-colonial resistance, and literary criticism. A published writer and strong advocate for her community, she co-founded The Catcalling Project, sings jazz and plays the piano.

Multidisciplinary artist Aaron Landsman formed Perfect City in 2016, from the understanding that many sustainability initiatives in urban planning do not address systemic inequities, and often lead to cities becoming more exclusive. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, support from major foundations and residencies at ASU and Princeton, where he continues to teach.


ABOUT PERFECT CITY

Formed by Aaron Landsman in 2016, Perfect City is a multiracial, multigenerational working group that addresses the design, policy-making and zoning of cities. Much of our current work focuses on how the city often renders low-income women, families of color and trans people escaping domestic violence unsafe, even within the shelter system. Led by working group members Tiffany Zorrilla and Jahmorei Snipes, Perfect City’s offshoot The Catcalling Project looks at how the rhetoric of real estate development and that of street harassment both propagate displacement and a lack of safety for women of color. In 2019, Zorrilla and Snipes began to offer Avoidance Mapping workshops for residents at Henry Street Settlement’s Urban Family Center (UFC), a residential shelter with counseling and other services.


ABOUT ABRONS ARTS CENTER

Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. A core program of the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons believes that access to the arts is essential to a free and healthy society. Through performance presentations, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the transformative power of art.


ABOUT CREATIVES REBUILD NEW YORK’S ARTIST EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM

Perfect City For Sale is made possible with support from the Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Employment Program, a two year initiative that funds employment for up to 300 artists, culture bearers, and culture makers (artists) in collaboration with dozens of community-based organizations across New York State.

Performances: $15
Purchase Tickets

Roundtables: free w/ RSVP
RSVP


Fri, June 28
7:30 P.M. Performance

Sat, June 29
2:00 P.M. Roundtable
7:30 P.M. Performance

Sun, June 30
2:00 P.M. Roundtable
6:00 P.M. Performance


Perfect City is a working group that addresses the design, policy-making, and zoning of cities. This June, Perfect City’s lead artists Tiffany Zorrilla (aka Lola Libre), Jahmorei Snipes, and Aaron Landsman present Perfect City for Sale: a weekend of performances, installations, roundtable discussions, and a zine launch.

Presented by Abrons Arts Center.


PERFORMANCES

At the conclusion of their 2-year residency through the Creatives Rebuild New York's Artist Employment Program, Perfect City members Aaron Landsman, Jahmorei Snipes and Tiffany Zorilla share their individual artistic practices with presentations of performances-in-progress.

Your ticket includes a free copy of our new issue of the Perfect City zine! The zine includes working group writing, collaged images from the community, and critical contributions from collaborators in our partner city of Amsterdam around visibility, safety, design and youth leadership.

Jahmorei Snipes: PILLAR
A series of poetic monologues exploring the world through the lens of Black womanhood. Through spoken word performance, Snipes considers place, safety, and identity from her own perspective, building on themes of storytelling and visibility from Perfect City’s 2023 art and research project Invisible Guides. The development of PILLAR began in 2018 from Snipes’ frustration as a woman forced to maintain patriarchal structures. In her own words, “The function of pillars is to hold up a structure in order to keep it from collapsing. Black women have become the pillars that maintain the structure of our community”.

Lola Libre: BUYME
A metamodern interactive art project that investigates the existence of digital colonialism and its role in perpetuating the exploitation of femme bodies both on and offline. The installation incorporates web-based art, installation, and performance activation to challenge our understanding of power dynamics in digital landscapes and encourage reflection on who and what receives protection online.

Aaron Landsman: All The Time in the World
A new performance work about collective self-regard and the ways capital-driven social media algorithms define how we apprehend the world now. The text is designed and rendered as an original card game - a combination of Uno, Exploding Kittens and Five-Card Draw - played by four actors at a folding table in front of an audience. All the Time in the World takes the ‘media’ out of social media and leaves the gathering and the words. The piece invites us to consider moments in our lives that escape our lenses and render more strongly as memory than our image diaries allow.


ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

Perfect City will offer two roundtables that invite participants to think together about how our neighborhoods and cities can thrive in an increasingly difficult climate. Each discussion begins with Avoidance Mapping, a social exercise and workshop that makes our invisible knowledge about the city visible. How do you belong when you move through a place? What protects us in the city, and how does our need for protection change depending on our age, race, ability, gender or size?

Saturday, June 29 roundtable focuses on how the nature and discussion of gentrification has shifted since Perfect City’s 2016 founding. Sunday, June 30 roundtable tackles the digital commons, citizenship, activism and the city.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jahmorei Snipes is an actress, advocate and artistic activist. Originally from El Barrio, she currently resides in Harlem, New York. With a profound care for her city and the world around her, Jahmorei joined The Youth Channel at Manhattan Neighborhood Network Youth Media Center. In 2017, she joined Perfect City and co-founded The Catcalling Project. She received a BFA in Acting with a minor in political science from Marymount Manhattan College, Jahmorei has continued to pursue her passions as an actor, theater-maker, and activist. She has presented workshops regularly through Perfect City at CUNY, Princeton and ASU, and with the Confident Futures project alongside other artists and advocates in Amsterdam.

Tiffany Zorrilla is a Dominican woman who was born and raised in the Lower East Side and currently resides in El Barrio in Harlem. Tiffany is a prolific artist with fluency in many media, including but not limited to poetry, ceramic sculpture, painting, video-making, and non-fiction writing. Her research and work exist conceptually within studies of anti-misogynist, anti-colonial resistance, and literary criticism. A published writer and strong advocate for her community, she co-founded The Catcalling Project, sings jazz and plays the piano.

Multidisciplinary artist Aaron Landsman formed Perfect City in 2016, from the understanding that many sustainability initiatives in urban planning do not address systemic inequities, and often lead to cities becoming more exclusive. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, support from major foundations and residencies at ASU and Princeton, where he continues to teach.


ABOUT PERFECT CITY

Formed by Aaron Landsman in 2016, Perfect City is a multiracial, multigenerational working group that addresses the design, policy-making and zoning of cities. Much of our current work focuses on how the city often renders low-income women, families of color and trans people escaping domestic violence unsafe, even within the shelter system. Led by working group members Tiffany Zorrilla and Jahmorei Snipes, Perfect City’s offshoot The Catcalling Project looks at how the rhetoric of real estate development and that of street harassment both propagate displacement and a lack of safety for women of color. In 2019, Zorrilla and Snipes began to offer Avoidance Mapping workshops for residents at Henry Street Settlement’s Urban Family Center (UFC), a residential shelter with counseling and other services.


ABOUT ABRONS ARTS CENTER

Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. A core program of the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons believes that access to the arts is essential to a free and healthy society. Through performance presentations, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the transformative power of art.


ABOUT CREATIVES REBUILD NEW YORK’S ARTIST EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM

Perfect City For Sale is made possible with support from the Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Employment Program, a two year initiative that funds employment for up to 300 artists, culture bearers, and culture makers (artists) in collaboration with dozens of community-based organizations across New York State.

Performances: $15
Purchase Tickets

Roundtables: free w/ RSVP
RSVP


Fri, June 28
7:30 P.M. Performance

Sat, June 29
2:00 P.M. Roundtable
7:30 P.M. Performance

Sun, June 30
2:00 P.M. Roundtable
6:00 P.M. Performance


Perfect City is a working group that addresses the design, policy-making, and zoning of cities. This June, Perfect City’s lead artists Tiffany Zorrilla (aka Lola Libre), Jahmorei Snipes, and Aaron Landsman present Perfect City for Sale: a weekend of performances, installations, roundtable discussions, and a zine launch.

Presented by Abrons Arts Center.


PERFORMANCES

At the conclusion of their 2-year residency through the Creatives Rebuild New York's Artist Employment Program, Perfect City members Aaron Landsman, Jahmorei Snipes and Tiffany Zorilla share their individual artistic practices with presentations of performances-in-progress.

Your ticket includes a free copy of our new issue of the Perfect City zine! The zine includes working group writing, collaged images from the community, and critical contributions from collaborators in our partner city of Amsterdam around visibility, safety, design and youth leadership.

Jahmorei Snipes: PILLAR
A series of poetic monologues exploring the world through the lens of Black womanhood. Through spoken word performance, Snipes considers place, safety, and identity from her own perspective, building on themes of storytelling and visibility from Perfect City’s 2023 art and research project Invisible Guides. The development of PILLAR began in 2018 from Snipes’ frustration as a woman forced to maintain patriarchal structures. In her own words, “The function of pillars is to hold up a structure in order to keep it from collapsing. Black women have become the pillars that maintain the structure of our community”.

Lola Libre: BUYME
A metamodern interactive art project that investigates the existence of digital colonialism and its role in perpetuating the exploitation of femme bodies both on and offline. The installation incorporates web-based art, installation, and performance activation to challenge our understanding of power dynamics in digital landscapes and encourage reflection on who and what receives protection online.

Aaron Landsman: All The Time in the World
A new performance work about collective self-regard and the ways capital-driven social media algorithms define how we apprehend the world now. The text is designed and rendered as an original card game - a combination of Uno, Exploding Kittens and Five-Card Draw - played by four actors at a folding table in front of an audience. All the Time in the World takes the ‘media’ out of social media and leaves the gathering and the words. The piece invites us to consider moments in our lives that escape our lenses and render more strongly as memory than our image diaries allow.


ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

Perfect City will offer two roundtables that invite participants to think together about how our neighborhoods and cities can thrive in an increasingly difficult climate. Each discussion begins with Avoidance Mapping, a social exercise and workshop that makes our invisible knowledge about the city visible. How do you belong when you move through a place? What protects us in the city, and how does our need for protection change depending on our age, race, ability, gender or size?

Saturday, June 29 roundtable focuses on how the nature and discussion of gentrification has shifted since Perfect City’s 2016 founding. Sunday, June 30 roundtable tackles the digital commons, citizenship, activism and the city.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jahmorei Snipes is an actress, advocate and artistic activist. Originally from El Barrio, she currently resides in Harlem, New York. With a profound care for her city and the world around her, Jahmorei joined The Youth Channel at Manhattan Neighborhood Network Youth Media Center. In 2017, she joined Perfect City and co-founded The Catcalling Project. She received a BFA in Acting with a minor in political science from Marymount Manhattan College, Jahmorei has continued to pursue her passions as an actor, theater-maker, and activist. She has presented workshops regularly through Perfect City at CUNY, Princeton and ASU, and with the Confident Futures project alongside other artists and advocates in Amsterdam.

Tiffany Zorrilla is a Dominican woman who was born and raised in the Lower East Side and currently resides in El Barrio in Harlem. Tiffany is a prolific artist with fluency in many media, including but not limited to poetry, ceramic sculpture, painting, video-making, and non-fiction writing. Her research and work exist conceptually within studies of anti-misogynist, anti-colonial resistance, and literary criticism. A published writer and strong advocate for her community, she co-founded The Catcalling Project, sings jazz and plays the piano.

Multidisciplinary artist Aaron Landsman formed Perfect City in 2016, from the understanding that many sustainability initiatives in urban planning do not address systemic inequities, and often lead to cities becoming more exclusive. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, support from major foundations and residencies at ASU and Princeton, where he continues to teach.


ABOUT PERFECT CITY

Formed by Aaron Landsman in 2016, Perfect City is a multiracial, multigenerational working group that addresses the design, policy-making and zoning of cities. Much of our current work focuses on how the city often renders low-income women, families of color and trans people escaping domestic violence unsafe, even within the shelter system. Led by working group members Tiffany Zorrilla and Jahmorei Snipes, Perfect City’s offshoot The Catcalling Project looks at how the rhetoric of real estate development and that of street harassment both propagate displacement and a lack of safety for women of color. In 2019, Zorrilla and Snipes began to offer Avoidance Mapping workshops for residents at Henry Street Settlement’s Urban Family Center (UFC), a residential shelter with counseling and other services.


ABOUT ABRONS ARTS CENTER

Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. A core program of the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons believes that access to the arts is essential to a free and healthy society. Through performance presentations, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the transformative power of art.


ABOUT CREATIVES REBUILD NEW YORK’S ARTIST EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM

Perfect City For Sale is made possible with support from the Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Employment Program, a two year initiative that funds employment for up to 300 artists, culture bearers, and culture makers (artists) in collaboration with dozens of community-based organizations across New York State.

Performances: $15
Purchase Tickets

Roundtables: free w/ RSVP
RSVP


Fri, June 28
7:30 P.M. Performance

Sat, June 29
2:00 P.M. Roundtable
7:30 P.M. Performance

Sun, June 30
2:00 P.M. Roundtable
6:00 P.M. Performance


Perfect City is a working group that addresses the design, policy-making, and zoning of cities. This June, Perfect City’s lead artists Tiffany Zorrilla (aka Lola Libre), Jahmorei Snipes, and Aaron Landsman present Perfect City for Sale: a weekend of performances, installations, roundtable discussions, and a zine launch.

Presented by Abrons Arts Center.


PERFORMANCES

At the conclusion of their 2-year residency through the Creatives Rebuild New York's Artist Employment Program, Perfect City members Aaron Landsman, Jahmorei Snipes and Tiffany Zorilla share their individual artistic practices with presentations of performances-in-progress.

Your ticket includes a free copy of our new issue of the Perfect City zine! The zine includes working group writing, collaged images from the community, and critical contributions from collaborators in our partner city of Amsterdam around visibility, safety, design and youth leadership.

Jahmorei Snipes: PILLAR
A series of poetic monologues exploring the world through the lens of Black womanhood. Through spoken word performance, Snipes considers place, safety, and identity from her own perspective, building on themes of storytelling and visibility from Perfect City’s 2023 art and research project Invisible Guides. The development of PILLAR began in 2018 from Snipes’ frustration as a woman forced to maintain patriarchal structures. In her own words, “The function of pillars is to hold up a structure in order to keep it from collapsing. Black women have become the pillars that maintain the structure of our community”.

Lola Libre: BUYME
A metamodern interactive art project that investigates the existence of digital colonialism and its role in perpetuating the exploitation of femme bodies both on and offline. The installation incorporates web-based art, installation, and performance activation to challenge our understanding of power dynamics in digital landscapes and encourage reflection on who and what receives protection online.

Aaron Landsman: All The Time in the World
A new performance work about collective self-regard and the ways capital-driven social media algorithms define how we apprehend the world now. The text is designed and rendered as an original card game - a combination of Uno, Exploding Kittens and Five-Card Draw - played by four actors at a folding table in front of an audience. All the Time in the World takes the ‘media’ out of social media and leaves the gathering and the words. The piece invites us to consider moments in our lives that escape our lenses and render more strongly as memory than our image diaries allow.


ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

Perfect City will offer two roundtables that invite participants to think together about how our neighborhoods and cities can thrive in an increasingly difficult climate. Each discussion begins with Avoidance Mapping, a social exercise and workshop that makes our invisible knowledge about the city visible. How do you belong when you move through a place? What protects us in the city, and how does our need for protection change depending on our age, race, ability, gender or size?

Saturday, June 29 roundtable focuses on how the nature and discussion of gentrification has shifted since Perfect City’s 2016 founding. Sunday, June 30 roundtable tackles the digital commons, citizenship, activism and the city.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jahmorei Snipes is an actress, advocate and artistic activist. Originally from El Barrio, she currently resides in Harlem, New York. With a profound care for her city and the world around her, Jahmorei joined The Youth Channel at Manhattan Neighborhood Network Youth Media Center. In 2017, she joined Perfect City and co-founded The Catcalling Project. She received a BFA in Acting with a minor in political science from Marymount Manhattan College, Jahmorei has continued to pursue her passions as an actor, theater-maker, and activist. She has presented workshops regularly through Perfect City at CUNY, Princeton and ASU, and with the Confident Futures project alongside other artists and advocates in Amsterdam.

Tiffany Zorrilla is a Dominican woman who was born and raised in the Lower East Side and currently resides in El Barrio in Harlem. Tiffany is a prolific artist with fluency in many media, including but not limited to poetry, ceramic sculpture, painting, video-making, and non-fiction writing. Her research and work exist conceptually within studies of anti-misogynist, anti-colonial resistance, and literary criticism. A published writer and strong advocate for her community, she co-founded The Catcalling Project, sings jazz and plays the piano.

Multidisciplinary artist Aaron Landsman formed Perfect City in 2016, from the understanding that many sustainability initiatives in urban planning do not address systemic inequities, and often lead to cities becoming more exclusive. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, support from major foundations and residencies at ASU and Princeton, where he continues to teach.


ABOUT PERFECT CITY

Formed by Aaron Landsman in 2016, Perfect City is a multiracial, multigenerational working group that addresses the design, policy-making and zoning of cities. Much of our current work focuses on how the city often renders low-income women, families of color and trans people escaping domestic violence unsafe, even within the shelter system. Led by working group members Tiffany Zorrilla and Jahmorei Snipes, Perfect City’s offshoot The Catcalling Project looks at how the rhetoric of real estate development and that of street harassment both propagate displacement and a lack of safety for women of color. In 2019, Zorrilla and Snipes began to offer Avoidance Mapping workshops for residents at Henry Street Settlement’s Urban Family Center (UFC), a residential shelter with counseling and other services.


ABOUT ABRONS ARTS CENTER

Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. A core program of the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons believes that access to the arts is essential to a free and healthy society. Through performance presentations, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the transformative power of art.


ABOUT CREATIVES REBUILD NEW YORK’S ARTIST EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM

Perfect City For Sale is made possible with support from the Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Employment Program, a two year initiative that funds employment for up to 300 artists, culture bearers, and culture makers (artists) in collaboration with dozens of community-based organizations across New York State.

Tickets: $10, $15, $20, $25, sliding scale
Purchase Tickets


Cultivate Theatre Project is a transdisciplinary conservation-theatre project aimed to foster science identity, environmental stewardship, and science communication in the theatre industry by empowering theatre artists to see themselves as participants of science and agents of change within their medium.

After a weekend of science literacy, nature connection, and community engagement activities in Brooklyn, NY, participating playwrights, directors, and actors have crafted three new short plays based on their learnings and reflections. In this unique and powerful merging of art and science, science communication can be fostered and strengthened in both artists and audiences alike. Join us for the world premiere of these new short plays followed by an audience talkback.

Featuring three new short plays written by Rachel Leighson, Steven San Luis, and Samekh Resh with direction by Nora Hurley, Ann Kreitman, and Nicky Maggio. Cast members include: Chloe Chappa, Skylar D’Andrea, Dana Jackson, Parker Jenkins, Leo Merrick, Sophia Marilyn Nelson, Kamau Nosakhere, Izabella Paz, and Shilpa Raju.


Cultivate Theatre Project 2024 has been made possible in part by The Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, The Puffin Foundation, through sponsorship of The Field, and through the contributions of our generous donors.

Tickets: $15, $20, $30, sliding scale
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If so, was it good? is a new dance theater project by Brooklyn/Lenapehoking-based artists Sofia Engelman, Lindsey Jennings, Delaney McDonough, and Em Papineau. 

The quartet enlists strategic storytelling, assertive speculation, everyday clamor, and deception to grapple with the polarization of personal and political identity and ideology in present-day USA. In this Ozian dystopia, Engelman, Jennings, McDonough, and Papineau move through practices of Inauthentic Movement and improvisational interviews, toggling between and falling into roles of interrogators, newscasters, childhood friends, therapists, love interests, survivalists, conspiracists, tricksters, and more.

From the tales of a QANON-devout grandmother to memories of chronic high school academic dishonesty to an aimless news segment generated by Chat GPT, the strategies of the fake news machine and fraudsters everywhere are employed to craft a dark, dysfunctional performance scape. A climate of urgency and a need to survive through the noise, reign supreme.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sofia Engelman + Em Papineau are life partners, educators, and choreographic collaborators living in Lenapehoking // Brooklyn, NY. Sofia + Em's first collaborative project was presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts while they were students at Smith College. Since then, they have held choreographic residencies at The Living Room, Ponderosa, The Dance Complex, MOtiVE Brooklyn, The Croft, Mana Contemporary, Sky Hill Farm Studio, The Floor on Atlantic, College of the Atalantic, and School for Contemporary Dance & Thought to develop works in their INSTANT SAVIORS series and their 2022 project, GRIEF CAROUSEL, a collaboration with Albert Mathias. In addition to presenting their work at these residency spaces, the pair have performed at festivals including FRESH Festival, EstroGenius Festival, AS220's Providence Movement Festival, Queer Spectra, Post/Future Performance Festival, and Dancing Queerly Boston, as well as other spaces they love dearly such as Judson Church, Green Street Studios, BAAD!, Triskelion Arts, and freeskewl. Their work has been supported by NEFA, NYFA, FCA, and Northampton Arts Council and their individual performance credits include projects by Kathleen Hermesdorf, David Appel, Michael Figueroa, Tyler Rai, Claudia-Lynn Rightmire, Simon Thomas-Train, and Alice Gosti. They founded and directed freeskewl (now skewl), a platform for dance, discussion, education, and reparations during the COVID pandemic (2020-2022).

Lindsey Jennings is a dance-artist, teacher, collage-maker, and performer based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). She currently works as a freelance dancer, designer, and teacher for organizations such as Bates Dance Festival, Notes in Motion Outreach Dance Theatre, and Artichoke Dance Company and has been an Artist-in-Residence and Teaching Artist at MOtiVE Brooklyn. She's danced with/for artists such as Abby Zbikowski, Kendra Portier/BANDPortier, Jennifer Monson, Kaitlin Fox, Betsy Miller Dance Projects, and Marion Spencer, among others, and has shared work in various digital, performance, and material mediums at Martha Graham Studios (New York, NY) The Field Center (Bellows Falls, VT), Waxworks at Triskelion Arts (New York,NY), Greenspace (New York, NY), Movement Research (New York, NY), MOtiVE Brooklyn (NY), Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (Urbana, IL), Krannert Art Museum (Urbana, IL), Bates Dance Festival New Works Showcase (Lewiston, ME), Links Hall (Chicago, IL), and online with freeskewl.

Delaney McDonough is an events producer and dancer based in Brooklyn, NY. They’ve performed with the late great Kathleen Hermesdorf’s FAKE Company, Quentin Burley Dance Group, Annie Kloppenberg, Heidi Henderson, Martha Tornay, and in Haegue Yang’s 'Handles' installation at MoMA. Delaney's early career was spent in rural Maine at the Denmark Arts Center (Denmark, ME) and The Living Room (Portland, ME) hosting and producing the work of hundreds of artists from around the world. They taught dance to students ages 4-80 in schools, studios, libraries, islands and arts centers across Maine and the Northeast including a semester at Bates College and two semesters at Colby College. Bates Dance Festival holds a huge place in Delaney's heart where they spent many summers as a Mentor for the Young Dancers' Intensive. After leaving Maine, they worked for years as a Production Manager for dance festivals across the country, including Performance Mix Festival (NY), KHFRESH Festival (CA), and Lions Jaw Dance & Performance Festival (MA). Delaney has also worked for many individual artists including as Production Manager for Anh Vo's Babylift, Administrative Associate for Sara Juli, and Projection Integrator for Brother(hood) Dance!'s Bessie Nominated Afro/Solo/Man. Delaney now works full time as a Project Manager for creative agency Prodject LLC producing events for brands including Khaite, Cartier, and The Met Gala.