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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A performance of new work by Kat Brown with an opening performance by J. Alex Mathews.

Kat Brown
Archive of Forgotten Vibrations (extended)

Archive of Forgotten Vibrations is an ongoing project that works through relational vignettes, duration and repetition. The work is an attempt to catch the vibrational dust of embodied memory and to stay with it. The work leans into the ways in which transformation insists upon itself, living in the tension between this becoming and the fixed point of the archive. The work is narratively spacious and takes on the feeling of a landscape or a softly breathing image.

Performers: Kat Brown, Emily Rose Cannon, mimi doan, Cole Stapleton

J. Alex Mathews
unbearable lightness

unbearable lightness is a sonic love letter to the lightness of being alive. It is a reflection on the notion of lightness that begins as an exploration of breath with a latex balloon —a simple, sentimental, and lightweight object. As the balloon gives shape to breath, opportunities emerge for breath to give shape to the body. All together creating a soundscape and a dance within which to dwell. 

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Fri, May 17 at 7:30 P.M.
Sat, May 18 at 7:30 P.M.


URBAN / TRIBE, founded by Mathew James Talaugon, serves as a dynamic platform for fostering an artistic community inspired by tribal principles. As an enrolled member of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians and a queer artist, Mathew James draws upon his intricate identity and ancestral heritage to explore contemporary culture through a distinct lens. With a focus on harnessing the body’s potential, Mathew crafts cinematic experiences characterized by courageous physicality and raw emotional depth.

Maybe in the future, I deserve you, delves into the enigmatic realms of the multiverse and the complex negotiations of relationships. This production marks the latest chapter in a series of works examining the interconnectedness of past, present, and future. Maybe in the future, I deserve you delves into profound existential inquiries: Who am I? Who am I in relation to you? What do we become together? And who am I in the aftermath of our encounters?

Through a captivating fusion of kinetic movement and cinematic elements, Maybe in the future, I deserve you invites audiences to witness intimate exchanges between performers as they navigate the complexities inherent in their connections. Each step, each gesture, serves as a conduit for exploring the intimacy and interplay of identities, revealing the elusive spaces that exist between individuals.

Artistic Director & Choreographer: Mathew James Talaugon

Performers: Isabelle Dayton, Ryan Fish, Savannah Gaillard, Jamie Kleinschnitz, Erke Rosen, Mason Teichert, Mathew James Talaugon

Tickets: $25
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Fri, May 17 at 7:30 P.M.
Sat, May 18 at 7:30 P.M.


URBAN / TRIBE, founded by Mathew James Talaugon, serves as a dynamic platform for fostering an artistic community inspired by tribal principles. As an enrolled member of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians and a queer artist, Mathew James draws upon his intricate identity and ancestral heritage to explore contemporary culture through a distinct lens. With a focus on harnessing the body’s potential, Mathew crafts cinematic experiences characterized by courageous physicality and raw emotional depth.

Maybe in the future, I deserve you, delves into the enigmatic realms of the multiverse and the complex negotiations of relationships. This production marks the latest chapter in a series of works examining the interconnectedness of past, present, and future. Maybe in the future, I deserve you delves into profound existential inquiries: Who am I? Who am I in relation to you? What do we become together? And who am I in the aftermath of our encounters?

Through a captivating fusion of kinetic movement and cinematic elements, Maybe in the future, I deserve you invites audiences to witness intimate exchanges between performers as they navigate the complexities inherent in their connections. Each step, each gesture, serves as a conduit for exploring the intimacy and interplay of identities, revealing the elusive spaces that exist between individuals.

Artistic Director & Choreographer: Mathew James Talaugon

Performers: Isabelle Dayton, Ryan Fish, Savannah Gaillard, Jamie Kleinschnitz, Erke Rosen, Mason Teichert, Mathew James Talaugon

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Mon, May 13 at 7PM
Tues, May 14 at 7PM


Ready to Jam!! It’s been 5 years since The Jam last presented its JAMboree – in which New Georges’ artist-led, collaboration-based “performance gym” presents proof-of-concept slices of Jam-generated works that demonstrate each collaboration’s ultimate vision for their piece. In other words: we take ‘em out for a test drive. The Jam is a mini-community, forging relationships with deep impact on Jammers’ work and careers. New Jammers are chosen every two years in an open application process–new cycle upcoming, watch for it!

Jammers presenting in JAMboree 2024: Liz Appel, Lydia Blaisdell, Lyndsey Bourne, Amina Henry, Kimille Howard, Sauda Aziza Jackson, Charlene Jean, abigail jean-baptiste, Katelynn Kenney, Divya Mangwani, Eli Nixon, Thalia Sablon, Nadira Simone, Julia Sirna-Frest, Ashley Olivea Teague, Dina Vovsi

Jammers supporting, not presenting: Raquel Almazan, EllaRose Chary, Alex Keegan, Raecine Singletary, reid tang

2023-24 Jam facilitator: Deepali Zeer


ABOUT NEW GEORGES

Founded in 1992, New Georges (Susan Bernfield, Artistic Director/Producer; Jaynie Saunders Tiller, Executive Director/Producer) advocates for an intergenerational ecosystem of exuberant theatrical minds, furthering fierce new works along with long-term wellbeing, expanding aesthetic boundaries and gender equity in tandem. A pivotal home and launchpad for now two generations of artists, our impact reaches every corner of the culture. www.newgeorges.org

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Mon, May 13 at 7PM
Tues, May 14 at 7PM


Ready to Jam!! It’s been 5 years since The Jam last presented its JAMboree – in which New Georges’ artist-led, collaboration-based “performance gym” presents proof-of-concept slices of Jam-generated works that demonstrate each collaboration’s ultimate vision for their piece. In other words: we take ‘em out for a test drive. The Jam is a mini-community, forging relationships with deep impact on Jammers’ work and careers. New Jammers are chosen every two years in an open application process–new cycle upcoming, watch for it!

Jammers presenting in JAMboree 2024: Liz Appel, Lydia Blaisdell, Lyndsey Bourne, Amina Henry, Kimille Howard, Sauda Aziza Jackson, Charlene Jean, abigail jean-baptiste, Katelynn Kenney, Divya Mangwani, Eli Nixon, Thalia Sablon, Nadira Simone, Julia Sirna-Frest, Ashley Olivea Teague, Dina Vovsi

Jammers supporting, not presenting: Raquel Almazan, EllaRose Chary, Alex Keegan, Raecine Singletary, reid tang

2023-24 Jam facilitator: Deepali Zeer


ABOUT NEW GEORGES

Founded in 1992, New Georges (Susan Bernfield, Artistic Director/Producer; Jaynie Saunders Tiller, Executive Director/Producer) advocates for an intergenerational ecosystem of exuberant theatrical minds, furthering fierce new works along with long-term wellbeing, expanding aesthetic boundaries and gender equity in tandem. A pivotal home and launchpad for now two generations of artists, our impact reaches every corner of the culture. www.newgeorges.org

Tickets: $20
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Due to high demand, an earlier 6pm performance has been added, and the original 7:30pm showtime has been moved slightly later to 8pm.

In the event that one or both performances are sold out, an in-person wait list will open 30 minutes prior to showtime. We encourage you to join the wait list!


An album release show/interdisciplinary theatre piece/initiation rite. New York-based multidisciplinary artist, actor, and songwriter Katy Pinke turns her eight-song debut album into a performance ritual: encompassing live music, singing, movement, and text.

In collaboration with Loud Relations (choreographer/dancers Lindsey Weaving and Sophie Bromberg) and Dome Theatre (director Forrest Gillespie), as well as Brooklyn musicians Jason Burger, Jeremy Gustin, Nico Osborne, and Adam Brisbin, Pinke will fully inhabit, move through, and depart from the world of her eight-song debut album to celebrate releasing into the world.

Tickets: $20
6pm show – Purchase Tickets
8pm show – Purchase Tickets

Due to high demand, an earlier 6pm performance has been added, and the original 7:30pm showtime has been moved slightly later to 8pm.

In the event that one or both performances are sold out, an in-person wait list will open 30 minutes prior to showtime. We encourage you to join the wait list!


An album release show/interdisciplinary theatre piece/initiation rite. New York-based multidisciplinary artist, actor, and songwriter Katy Pinke turns her eight-song debut album into a performance ritual: encompassing live music, singing, movement, and text.

In collaboration with Loud Relations (choreographer/dancers Lindsey Weaving and Sophie Bromberg) and Dome Theatre (director Forrest Gillespie), as well as Brooklyn musicians Jason Burger, Jeremy Gustin, Nico Osborne, and Adam Brisbin, Pinke will fully inhabit, move through, and depart from the world of her eight-song debut album to celebrate releasing into the world.

By invitation only.

For more information, please contact Hannah Schwadron, Arts in NYC Director, at hschwadron@fsu.edu.


Program A | Fri, April 26 at 7:00 PM
Works by Aleck Condon, Io Ermoli, Rachel Fontenot, MacKenzy Jordan, Sophie Lehman, Shannon McKelvey, Abigail Nelson, Sophia Pfitzenmaier, and Caroline Walshe

Program B | Sat, April 27 at 7:00 PM
Works by Sky Barnes, Jasmine Burelsmith, Callee Egan, Celia Fishbein, Emma Edy Morris, Katie Rolph, Elise St. Cyr, Adele Strauss, and Kelsey Zimmerman


Arts in NYC proudly presents The Otherside: A Beginning. In tribute to the dancers' transformative experiences within the Arts in NYC semester program and in conclusion of their time together in NYC over the past four months, this weekend's performances will act as a celebration and send off to what comes next. The collection is more than just a dance showcase—it's a fusion of creativity, passion, and study.

Exploring a range of artistic catalysts and forms, our performers draw inspiration from a myriad of artistic mediums, including live music, visual artistry, immersive projection designs, and captivating films.

Join us for two unforgettable performance evenings, as we celebrate the power of expression, the beauty of collaboration, and the vibrancy of life in NYC. After four years of brilliant resiliency, and the undeniable efforts of continuing to show up, these BFA dance majors have made it to The Otherside, finally. It is only the beginning of their journeys in the “real world”, and they take with them a profound sense of how to, as is the FSU School of Dance mantra, Do It With Love.

Mentored by Arts in NYC teaching faculty Marilyn Maywald Yahel.

Special thanks to Hannah Schwadron and Ashley Pierre-Louis.

By invitation only.

For more information, please contact Hannah Schwadron, Arts in NYC Director, at hschwadron@fsu.edu.


Program A | Fri, April 26 at 7:00 PM
Works by Aleck Condon, Io Ermoli, Rachel Fontenot, MacKenzy Jordan, Sophie Lehman, Shannon McKelvey, Abigail Nelson, Sophia Pfitzenmaier, and Caroline Walshe

Program B | Sat, April 27 at 7:00 PM
Works by Sky Barnes, Jasmine Burelsmith, Callee Egan, Celia Fishbein, Emma Edy Morris, Katie Rolph, Elise St. Cyr, Adele Strauss, and Kelsey Zimmerman


Arts in NYC proudly presents The Otherside: A Beginning. In tribute to the dancers' transformative experiences within the Arts in NYC semester program and in conclusion of their time together in NYC over the past four months, this weekend's performances will act as a celebration and send off to what comes next. The collection is more than just a dance showcase—it's a fusion of creativity, passion, and study.

Exploring a range of artistic catalysts and forms, our performers draw inspiration from a myriad of artistic mediums, including live music, visual artistry, immersive projection designs, and captivating films.

Join us for two unforgettable performance evenings, as we celebrate the power of expression, the beauty of collaboration, and the vibrancy of life in NYC. After four years of brilliant resiliency, and the undeniable efforts of continuing to show up, these BFA dance majors have made it to The Otherside, finally. It is only the beginning of their journeys in the “real world”, and they take with them a profound sense of how to, as is the FSU School of Dance mantra, Do It With Love.

Mentored by Arts in NYC teaching faculty Marilyn Maywald Yahel.

Special thanks to Hannah Schwadron and Ashley Pierre-Louis.

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Join John Jasperse Projects in a showing of material in development towards a new evening-length performance, hexenzirkel, to premiere in 2025. The multi-generational cast includes performing collaborators Vicky Shick, Jodi Melnick, Cynthia Koppe, Maria Fleischman, and Jace Weyant. Some material in this evening’s performance was developed for an earlier iteration of this work, which included the participation of performing collaborator Allysen Hooks.  

The performance will be followed by a brief Q and A with the artists. 

Thanks to the Bogliasco Foundation and to Baryshnikov Arts Center for residency support of the early stages of this project in Spring 2023.

The activities of John Jasperse Projects in the 2023-2024 season are supported, in part, by grants from the Cultural Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council On the Arts, and the James E. Robison Foundation, as well as by individual donations.