Jan 6 + 7 at Out-FRONT! Fest | Tone Pillar an opera about coming to shore

Overview

A Festival curated by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Remi Harris, Philip Treviño, and Joyce Isabelle.

Out-FRONT! Fest. A Festival curated by Pioneers Go East Collective and presented in partnership with Judson Memorial Church.

The Out-FRONT! Festival is curated by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Remi Harris Philip Treviño, and Joyce Isabelle. The Festival features award-winning artists who enlighten, entertain and promote conversations around aesthetic diversity and personal journeys on the intersection of mutual ideas, cultures, and meanings.

This performance will take place at Judson Memorial Church. General Admission and Free tickets available. All are welcome!

Sugar Vendil presents: Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia (World Premiere)

Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia is a memoir of a Filipinx American childhood that interweaves chamber music, dance, and nonlinear theater in an interdisciplinary performance. Excavating seemingly insignificant but deeply ingrained memories, Antonym envisions the future as an escape from pain and ponders how we can possess painful memories without being beholden to them. Using field recordings of New York City to create a rich sonic landscape, the four seasons serve as a cyclical frame and context for memory. "Antonym" invites audiences to reflect on their own relationships with memory, identity, and imagining their own futures.

Presented with collaboration and support from Pink Fang (pinkfang.org/ @pinkfangnyc)

Composer/Choreographer/Pianist/Performer: Sugar Vendil

Flutist/performer: Annie Nikunen 

Violinist/performer: Cindy Lan 

Vocalist/dancer: Marie Lloyd Paspe

Vocalist/dancer: Annie Wang

Director and Dramaturg: Mei Ann Teo, Pink Fang

Costume and Set Design: Harriet Jung

Lighting Design: Hao Bai 

Contributing Choreography: Cindy Lan, Annie Nikunen, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Annie Wang

Rehearsal Director: Katherine Paola De La Cruz

Stage Manager: orion 

Alexa Grae presents: Tone Pillar (World Premiere)

Tone Pillar is assembled from research and snapshots of a quarantine and uprisings, rooted in blackness, in trans-queer identity, in neurodiversity, and with magic. The veil has only continued to weaken, truths submerged rise to the surface. Tone Pillar accumulates through bent genres, arias of longing serve as musical anchors, movement that conjures meditative states open portals, protagonists building worlds and revolutions, this live work builds an absurd Atlantis and invites the audience in. Grae engages in the thrills of virtuosity through systems of alignment that focus on stories and vehicles of transformation that happen in the steps of a protest and the thump of the dancefloor.

Composer + Libretto: Alexa Grae

Choreogrpahy/Direction/ Video Projection Design: Stephanie Acosta

Costume Design + Construction: Isaac Pool

Performance: Alexa Grae, Nina Guevara, Hilary Brown-Istrefi, and Justin Mun Wong

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Pioneers Go East Collective, which directly supports artists and programs like this one!

DIRECTIONS:

Judson Church

243 Thompson Street

New York, NY 10012

Subway:

A, C, E, B, D, F, M to West 4th Street

R to NYU 8th Street.

Accessibility: Our accessible entrance is by way of 243 Thompson St. Use the lift to get to the Meeting Room on Level 3 or our accessible bathrooms on Level B (basement). Return to Level 1 for street access back to the corner of West 4th & Thompson St.

AUNTS FESTIVAL | June 16-21

I am so thrilled, excited, amped, all the energized vibes, to be a part of AUNTS FESTIVAL at Danspace Project this June!

Jess Pretty has taken up the mantle of lead AUNTIE and with her team of founding aunties, friendly aunties, foodie anties, production aunties, are launching the AUNTS way of holding artists and their creations across a whole week.

Including dance classes from CLASSCLASSCLASS and a stacked week of performances starting MONDAY June 16th it is a great time to come see works by incredible, mad, magical, absurd, intense, immense, creators.

Dance Parties follow every performance, and you won’t want to miss any of it. See you there!!!

Tickets + Schedule HERE

DRAW CLUB a virtual art hang | Spring 2025

RSVP for zoom link HERE

SUPER NOTHING | WORLD PREMIERE | JAN 2025

January 12-18

Tickets start at $30 // Presenter tickets $15

World Premiere
Runtime: 70 minutes

Jan 12 at 7:30pm
Jan 13 at 5:30pm and 8:30pm
Jan 15-17 at 7:30pm – Jan 17 Stay Late Discussion
Jan 18 at 2pm and 7:30pm – matinee tickets pay-what-you-wish

Super Nothing is a new quartet for performers from New York (Justin Faircloth, Wendell Gray II) and Los Angeles (Jay Carlon, Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez). 

What can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in our lives? Super Nothing presents four dancers whose actions and choreographic relationships are analogues for how people support each other to survive. Interdependence takes multiple forms, as the performers move through representations of the past to create a blueprint for a new future. This piece extends Gutierrez’s interest over the past few years in creating “choreography for the end of the world.”

Super Nothing premieres at New York Live Arts Live Artery Festival January 12-18, 2025 as the culmination of the 2023-24 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist program. Return to Home Page for upcoming tour dates.

Choreographer: Miguel Gutierrez

Performers: Jay Carlon, Justin Faircloth, Wendell Gray II, Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez
with contributions from Ajani Brannum

Music composed by: Rosana Cabán with contributions from Miguel Gutierrez
Lighting: Carolina Ortiz
Costumes: Jeremy Wood

Dramaturgy: Stephanie Acosta

Additional movement contributions by Marty Kudelka and Kathryn Hunter
Some of the dance material in Super Nothing was generated from contributions from past collaborators: Michelle Boulé, Hilary Clark, Luke George, K.J. Holmes, mickey mahar, James McGinn.

All photos and video by Amelia Golden.
Pictured above and below, l to r, Wendell Gray II, Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez, Jay Carlon, Justin Faircloth

09.14 | SCREENING | CLEA RSKY NYC CURATES VIDEO NIGHT @ SPRINGS PROJECTS

CLEA RSKY NYC CURATES VIDEO NIGHT @ SPRINGS PROJECTS
Sep 14 2024
6 - 8 PM
20 Jay Street, 311b Brooklyn

CLEA RSKY NYC CURATES VIDEO NIGHT @ SPRINGS PROJECTS
Sep 14 2024
6 - 8 PM
20 Jay Street, 311b Brooklyn

Stephanie Acosta
Hayley Bloomquest
Stephen Dean
Anne Delaporte
Glenn Goldberg
Jay Hamade
Tommy Hartung
Sarah Jordenö
Dante Lentz
Isaac Pool

AUNTS Archive at Governors Island June 10-22 | Welcome to the BARchive

 
The AUNTS BARCHIVE is a public facing community-centered hub for the collection, organization, and creation of an archive for AUNTS! 

Past AUNTS artists, organizers and new visitors participate in the archive by contributing materials, images, oral histories, or by witnessing. Collectively assembling an archive at our triangular sports bar in the style of Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party,” the BARCHIVE at LMCC’s Art Center on Governors Island will be open throughout June where visitors can visit the bar to view and participate in the archive-in-progress. Look at photos and videos from past events, attend live performances, talks, and join us for a drink at the bar.

RIVER TO RIVER Happy Hour events at the BARCHIVE

Sat 6.10 4-7pm OPENING  A night of Toasts, Hosted by Stephanie Acosta

Sun 6.11 2-5pm SOUND at AUNTS, Hosted by Rena Anakwe

Tues 6.13 4-7pm MESSES at AUNTS, Hosted by Cara Francis

Thurs 6.15 4-7pm WRITING and GLOSSARY at AUNTS, Hosted by Mariana Valencia

Fri 6.16 4-7pm ROVING at AUNTS, Hosted by Leyya Mona Tawil

Sat 6.17 4-7pm REFLECTIONS from the Personal Archive, Hosted by jess pretty

Sun 6.18 2-5pm AUNTIE-INSTITUTIONAL, Hosted by Travis Chamberlain

Additional events June 20-27 to be announced soon! 

AUNTS experimental archivist: Stephanie Acosta

Oral Histories project: Biba Bell

June 1, 2023 - June 30, 2023 All Day Event LMCC Arts Center on Governors Island 110 Andes Rd, New York, 10004, Free

A, E, I, O, You and sometimes WHY | Amber Sloan

Such a pleasure to work on this piece with Amber. Her description below, my experience was one of supporting an artist who has been DO IT with commitment, with immense energy, with magic.

“Choreographed and performed by Amber Sloan, “A, E, I, O, You, and Sometimes Why” is an autobiographical, evening-length solo dance performance that explores the psyche through four separate but interconnected topics: Aging, Ego, Injury, and Obsession, all as witnessed through the audience’s lens. Part preparation for battle, part celebration of maturity, the work functions as a love letter to the exhilaration and anguish that comes with a lifetime onstage.”

Coming in September! A, E, I, O, You and sometimes WHY created and performed by Amber Sloan

Triangle Studio Summer in Dumbo

STUDIO NEWS | Headed to Dumbo for Summer 2022

Shifting spaces in precarious times can be so wild and after two years I have left our beloved Treasure Town studio where I spent the pandemic surviving a crisis just in time to join the brilliants over at Triangle Arts in Dumbo for the summer. I’ll be working on new projects, hosting visits and small sharings, and hopefully you!

If you are a writer, curator, engager of the art thing, and would like to visit my work this summer please feel free to contact me and book a visit!

TEETH at Coffey Studios | May 20 + 21

Jessie Young is back with her electric ensemble for one more showing of the remarkable TEETCH

I’ve been lucky to join Jessie on multiple stages of this work and research and watching this team ans specifically these magic movers build new vocabularies and shake floorboards has been a revelation. Shana Crawfords lights, Stevie May’s construction and Alexa Grae’s sonic offering really blows it out. Go catch this before it goes back into the cosmos!

Big love to these brilliant artists.

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Dance+ is annual interdisciplinary dance event curated by A+J Founding Director and choreographer Amanda Hameline.

About this event

Dance+ Live Media will feature choreography by Jessie Young and Amanda Hameline. Both of their works employ media controlled live by the performers and explore the reciprocal relationship between the body and the built and natural environment. Rather than using technology to expand or polish the performance space, they instead involve elements of sound, light and projection in their choreography to reflect upon and highlight the absurd and grotesque sides of reality. 

Featuring:

Teeth Choreography by Jessie Young with Lighting Design by Shana Crawford and Sound Design by ALEXA

Performers: Bree Breeden, Justin Faircloth, Nina Guevara, Mia Martelli, Ariana Speight, and Meghann Trago

Walking After Choreography and Sound Design by Amanda Hameline, created in collaboration with performers Anna Hull and Jace Weyant

Coffey Street Studios

FOMO : DIPTYCH at Chocolate Factory Theatre | May 19, 20, 21

Thrilled to have joined this wild bunch as dramaturg and hope you will go check out the way it is DONE! This work is sincerely dreamy, deeply absurd, and necessary for all. GO GO GO!

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Notes on the show BELOW

Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.

View the show program.

The chameleon’s eyes move independently of one another, offering an almost 360 view of its surroundings. Even when both eyes focus on the same object, they do so independently, making the chameleon’s vision a naturally occurring diptych. This remarkable ocular duet is the basis for Berg’s new work FOMO:DIPTYCH. A densely layered performance installation to study the diptych: as a form, a way of viewing, listening, feeling, and consuming. A place where missing something is guaranteed (and ok).

FOMO:DIPTYCH asks if performance – as an inherently ephemeral experience – can help us recognize our capacity to hold multiple perspectives at once, and when considered collectively, reveals the cacophonous jumble of inputs we piece together to make meaning. Our eyes move independently of the eyes of our neighbor, each of our brains collecting only the objects we choose to let in. And where we sit affects what we encounter.

FOMO:DIPTYCH invites the audience to observe the performance from two distinct vantage points: a white box art gallery (with bubbles and conceptual canapes) or a seat at the sports bar (with cheap beer and celebrity bartenders) both within the Chocolate Factory Theater’s new raw space.

created by Laurie Berg in collaboration with Matt Romein (technical design); Madison Krekel and Omar Zubair (sound); Jodi Bender, Ayano Elson, Marion Spencer, Laurie Berg and more (performance); Charlie Welch (sports bar); jess pretty (creative consultant); Shana Crawford (lighting); Shomit Barua (technical associate); and Myssi Robinson (trainview designer).

You Need Me aka not yet titled | New Work Screening

You Need Me a.k.a not yet titled (2022)

Conceived + Performed by Mette Loulou von Kohl

Director | Stephanie Acosta

DP | James Tate

Produced by Intrinsic Grey Productions

Filmed at Treasure Town, Acosta's studio in Brooklyn, NY February 2022

Project Description by artist Mette Loulou von Kohl "not yet titled, explores the position and identity of the zionist entity as existing in a perpetual state of self-defense and moral exception. It asks how my body, as a Palestinian body, can reveal this claim as fantasy through sensuality, dominion and disgust."

Acosta + von Kohl have previously collaborated on the staged work 'No One Likes an Ugly Revolutionary' at Abrons Arts Center March 2020 prior to the Covid Pandemic.

Pain + Resilience Public Talk with Megan Moe Beitiks

Shut Up! Closing Event and Book Reading

Closing Event with Stephanie Acosta.

Closing Reception & Reading:
Tuesday, March 22, 5-7pm
NARS Project Space

Shut Up is a meditation on light and confinement. Drawing upon previous work with reflections, breath, trauma, and self-awareness, artist Meghan Moe Beitiks will redirect light from the Project Space window with mirrors and reflective surfaces. Patterns in the space, from mirrored pixels to rotating displays to sequined pillows, are based on pixelations of the surface of the sun. A meditation on time, celestial bodies, isolation and ecologies in the pandemic.

As a closing event for the exhibition, on March 22 at 5pm, Beitiks, joined by Stephanie Acosta, will read an excerpt from her book Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain , recently published with Routledge, in the space as the sun sets, and discuss it with visitors and friends.

Meghan Moe Beitiks is an artist working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. She analyzes perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site, history, emotions, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. She was a Fulbright Student Fellow, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She exhibited her work at the I-Park Environmental Art Biennale, Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery in Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the House of Artists in Moscow, and other locations in California, Chicago, Australia and the UK. She received her BA in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. www.meghanmoebeitiks.com

Funding support for this exhibition provided by University of Florida College of the Arts.

Good Day God Damn in The LATINX Project | READ

Overwhelmed by the thoughtful witnessing of this write up on The Latinx Project about our wild closed world of Good Day God Damn. Feeling huge gratitude! Go check it out and soak up all their great content!

BIG LOVE to Alex Santana for seeing and believing

888 Performance Fundraiser at CPR for Red Canary Song

888 is a marathon performance fundraiser for Red Canary Song

888 is organized by Jesi Cook + Ayano Elson and co-presented with Center for Performance Research

Saturday, June 18, doors at 2:45, shows at 3-6 PM 

Center for Performance Research | 361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hosted by Tess Dworman

Featuring luciana achugar, Stepahnie Acosta, Chia-Lun Chang, Leslie Cuyjet, Aruni Dharmakirthi, Francesca D’Uva, Sam Kim, TingYing Ma, Mina Nishimura, Lai Yi Ohlsen, Anh Vo, Lu Yim, and more!

Writer Alexander Chee will be matching the first $444 of donations

If you are unable to attend the event but would still like to donate, please send donations to https://venmo.com/u/Ayano-Elson. 

Apocalypse Talks: a Dumpster-fireside Chat | Series LAUNCH

Introducing Apocalypse Talks: a Dumpster-fireside Chat Series. Join us weekly on Wednesdays at 7pm as we get into the textures, sensations, emotions, landscapes, materials, aromas, by-products, aesthetics, and other messiness of living in a multi-crisis reality. With a range of guests we’ll talk about how we are dealing, and how our practices and processes refract life in the end times.

Next event: March 31, 2021 at 7pm, featuring imogen xtian smith (register here).

These are the core themes in Stephanie Acosta’s upcoming exhibition Good Day God Damn (opening May 2021 at the new Chocolate Factory space), where we will start our conversation, but where we go only the fire knows.

Sign in and drop questions, join this bit of cosmic chaos while Acosta chats with artists, makers, astronomers, and you!

Organized by Stephanie Acosta and Alexis Wilkinson.