JUN 16 & 17, 7:30PM
Lighting Design by Corey Whittemore
Production Stage Manager: Megan Dechaine
Miguel Alejandro Castillo
loud and clear
Choreographed by Miguel Alejandro Castillo
Performed by Miguel Alejandro Castillo and Daniella Barbarito
Music-Sound design by Daniella Barbarito
Costume design by Lexy Ho-Tai
Scenic design Xinan Ran
This piece was developed with additional support from Middlebury College and MOtiVE.
Jade Charon
Gold Pylon
Choreographed by Jade Charon
visual designer and technician: Ker Chen
musician & composer: Farai Malianga
Kristel Baldoz
Yellow Fever
Choreographed and Performed by Kristel Baldoz
Sound Design by Christopher DarBassie
Text Advisor: Brenson Thomas
Choreographic Articulator: Iréne Hultman
This work was developed with additional support from NYU Tisch Department of Dance
Too soon to discover planets, too late to discover islands
Choreographed by Orlando Hernández, with improvisation by the dancers
Performed by Orlando Hernández, Leonardo Sandoval, Lucas Santana, Isabella Serricella, Liberty Styles, Danny FisherLochhead, and Gregory Richardson
Music by Orlando Hernández, Danny Fisher-Lochhead, and Pharoah Sanders
Masks and apparel by Raúl Ayala, Jonathan Becker, Crooked Crow Masks, & Nick Carter/ASMR homegoods
The development of this work was also supported by the Center for Performance Research. Thank you to Music From the Sole for generously providing the tap dance floor that we use in this piece.
Niggas at Sundown
Choreographed and performed by Malcolm-x Betts in collaboration with Nile Harris, Andy Kobilka, Arien Wilkerson
Sound Design by Andy Kobilka
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Miguel Alejandro Castillo is a queer interdisciplinary artist from Caracas, Venezuela. A choreographer, director, installation artist, educator, and performer, he is drawn to the permeability of art forms and the new inquiries that arise from cross-disciplinary and multicultural collaborations. His current research investigates diasporic imagination and future folklore. Through this work, he wields imagination both to discover what is true and to expand the realm of what is possible.
Castillo is a Fresh Tracks artist in residency at New York Live Arts and the movement director for Prisoner of The State, a new opera by David Lang commissioned by the New York Philharmonic. As a dancer, Miguel has performed in the U.S and internationally in the works of Faye Driscoll, Jawole
Willa Jo Zollar, Jeanine Durning, Maria Hassabi, Tzveta Kassabova, Alex Springer & Xan Burley, Peter Schmitz, Laurel Jenkins, Delfos
Danza Contemporánea, among others. In 2021 Castillo was a danceWEB scholar at the
Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. He is also a company member of Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre.
Castillo is a proud United World College alumnus, holds a bachelor’s in dance and theatre from Middlebury College and an M.F.A in Choreography and Performance from Smith College.
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Daniella Barbarito is a multidisciplinary artist from Caracas, Venezuela currently based in Barcelona. From a young age Daniella was part of choirs, participated in theater, modern and folkloric dance groups, and became a self-taught multiinstrumentalist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Arts from Central University of Venezuela and studied Photography at Roberto Mata’s workshop before fleeing the country in 2014. During that migration process, she began developing what would be her main sources of investigation regarding the body, tenderness, memory, womanhood and the migratory condition through a wide range of media that kept
growing along with the curiosity stimulated with creative stops in Mexico City, Tijuana, New York, San Francisco, Middlebury, Aranda de Duero and Barcelona. She was the art director in The Moonfish and the Knife(2018), a dance/ theater piece at Middlebury College. Her photography essay In Absentia is exhibited in Sala Mendoza’s gallery as well as a sample of her work in La Ong, both being notoriously important art galleries in Venezuela. Her poems have been published by Poemas sin casa and Poesía en casa, two digital magazines gathering Latin American contemporary writers. She is currently working on her most ambitious project, a music album titled “éramos muchos y parió la abuela” in which she aims to combine all the disciplines she has cultivated in a collaborative process that emphasizes identity, folklore and community.
Lexy Ho-Tai is a Chinese-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work explores world-building through craft and play. Working in a range of mediums, her collaborative and participatory work often employs humor, imagination, and absurdity to invite viewers to contemplate
pressing social and environmental issues. Monsters, celebration of otherness, and tending to the inner child are recurring themes in her work. She believes that joy is an act of resistance, and that play forges a powerful space to envision and work towards alternative futures.
Lexy has had solo shows at the Museum of Arts and Design and Flux Factory, and has also shown work at the Abrons Art Center, The Highline, and Little Berlin. She is a core member of eco-theater groups Superhero Clubhouse and Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre. Past residencies include Watermill Center, Flux Factory, ARoS Museum, Everglades National Park, Art Farm, Elsewhere Museum, Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center and the Museum of Arts and Design, where she was a Van Lier Fellow.
Xinan (Helen) Ran (b.1994. Inner Mongolia, China) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from Hunter College (2022), and BFA from Pratt Institute (2017). She specializes in fabric, language, and found objects to construct emotional landscapes. She searches for the point where trauma, nihilism, and
humor converge. Xinan is a mentee in New York Foundation for the Arts’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (2023), was a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center resident (2022), and an OxBow Summer Fellow (2016). Apart from her studio practice, Xinan is an art educator, and an aspirational set designer for new theaters.
Jade Charon is an award-winning, groundbreaking intercessory artist whose work uses dance, film, writing, theater, and digital media. Charon is a 2022-2023
New York Live Arts Fresh Track Artist in Residence, 2020 Hicks Choreography Fellow for the School of Jacob’s Pillow, and 2018 Chuck Davis Emerging Choreographer Fellow at BAM. Her films received critical acclaim since premiering online in 2016. As a filmmaker, her films have been accepted in festivals and conferences such as Montreal Independent Film Festival, Mke Film Festival, The Manhattan Film Festival, The Charlotte Black Film Festival, Toronto International Women’s Film Festival, American Dance Festival Movie By Movers, and The Outland Dance Project
Dance Film Festival. She was awarded the jury select Cream City Award from Mke film festival and the semi-finalist for Best Experimental Film for Montreal Independent Film Festival.She received an MFA in Dance from UCLA, and BA in Interdisciplinary Arts with a concentration in Dance and Theater from Columbia College Chicago. Charon believes her gift is to bring awareness to the community and connect them to a higher power: their higher self, consciousness, and spirit. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Dance and Digital Media at Medgar Evers College. She recently released a children’s book titled, Gold: Made Just for You.
jadecharon.com @jade_charon
Kristel Baldoz is a FilipinaAmerican artist from Delano, California, home to the Table Grape Strike. As a choreographer who works with ceramics and film, she develops an aesthetic grounded in the textuality of objects, experimenting with how bodily movements translate into objects and how they become a conduit that materializes colonial relations. She was an EmergeNYC fellow at the Hemispheric Institute, artist-
in-residence at Tisch/Danspace
Residency and the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation | Chez Bushwick, and a Brooklyn Art Exchange Space Grant Recipient. Recently, she was an artist-in-residence at Chautauqua Institution School of Visual Art and Art Cake. As a performer, she has worked with Reggie Wilson, Wilmer Wilson IV, and Alex Da Corte.
kristelbaldoz.com
@reallygoodatmath
Christopher Darbassie is an interdisciplinary artist. (Select Credits): A Bright New Boise (Signature Theater), Camp Siegfried (2nd Stage), Patience (2nd Stage), A Case for the Existence of God (Signature Theater), This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane Theater, TheaterLab), PS (Ars Nova), Fly Away (Petzel Gallery), Preparedness, Black Exhibition (The Bushwick Starr). Chris has designed for installations, radio plays, devised works and theatrical productions in collaboration with Alliance Theater, The Movement Theater Company, The Public, New York Theater Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, The TEAM, Theater for a New Audience, The Atlantic, and The Shed. Wingspace 2019-2020
Brenson Thomas is a Black and queer writer, actor, and theatremaker. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA Theatre program, Brenson has collaborated with and performed in productions by Tony Award Winner Stew, Raja Feather Kelly, Lightning Rod Special, Arden Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, 1812 Productions, and the Wilma Theater. Brenson’s plays include how i got over, or... red Kool-Aid stains on bubblegum lips; What We Lost & Never Knew; and How We Return. He also writes for TV/Film, most recently on Emmy Award winner Lena Waithe’s Twenties. When he’s not hunched over his laptop crying about blank Google docs, Brenson enjoys long walks around his beloved Philly, doing bad accents, smashing patriarchal white supremacist structures, and Beyoncé.
Iréne Hultman is a native of Sweden and a New York based choreographer, performer and educator. She has toured extensively with her own company and is a former member and rehearsal Director of Trisha Brown Dance Company. She is a
recipient of multiple grants and awards including the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her current research interest is how media, affect and speculative theories influence movement and art production. Ms. Hultman is a former member of The Bessie Committee and currently on the Artist Advisory Board at Danspace Project and serves as faculty in Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University.
Orlando Hernández is a tap dancer and choreographer who has presented his work at On the Boards, Joe’s Pub, Brown University, the SPACE Gallery, Movement Research at the Judson Church, the Provincetown Dance Festival, and La Casa de Cultura Ruth Hernández Torres. He is a member of the companies
From the Sole and Subject:Matter and has danced with Michela Marino Lerman’s Love Movement, the Tap Family Reunion, Arc Iris’ iTMRW, and Danny FisherLochhead’s Tap Quartet. Orlando holds a B.A. in English from Yale University. He has received
fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the New England Foundation for the Arts, and he is currently an Artistin-Residence at the Center for Performance Research. You can find him atorlyhernandez.com or @pineappleju_icefrog
Leonardo Sandoval (dancer) is a Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer renowned for blending America’s great tap tradition with Brazil’s rich rhythmic and musical heritage. He founded Music From The Sole with composer Gregory Richardson in 2015, and he has been a core member of Dorrance Dance since 2014. He was one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch” and is the recipient of a 2022 Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise and a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Choreography.
Lucas Santana (dancer) is originally from Pernambuco in the Northeast of Brazil. He started studying tap at 8 and has since performed across Brazil, on TV, and, with Music From The Sole, at Jacob’s Pillow, The Yard, Harlem Stage, and Works & Process at the Guggenheim. Lucas also directs the group Afetos Sonoros in Rio,
holds a philosophy degree from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and a master’s degree in Theatre from UdeSC in Florianópolis.
Isabella Serricella (dancer) is a dancer, actress and choreographer based in NYC. She holds a dance degree from Angel Vianna University in Rio de Janeiro and is a graduate student in Pedagogy from Estácio de Sá University (distance learning). She is part of the cast of Companhia Motirô, awarded 2nd place as best show with Catarse at 2018 Festival Set, Portugal. She is currently a student of the “Training & Preparation” Program with Dormeshia and part of the “NY Tap Ensemble” directed by Derick Grant.
Liberty Styles (dancer) is a tap dancer, singer, and producer. She has performed internationally and on NYC stages including The Apollo Theater, Nublu, and ShapeShifter Lab. Liberty is a co-founder of The Spell, an NYC-based electronic duo creating improvisational dance music. Liberty also performs with Boston-based tap company Subject:Matter, and recently toured the UK as a tap dancer with the Xhosa Cole quartet.
Danny Fisher-Lochhead (saxophonist, composer, musical director) grew up in New York and started playing cello when he was young. Later he picked up the saxophone, which continues to be his main access point into the world of music as a performer. He has released seven records as a leader -- Tools of the Abstract, Piano Songs and Piano Songs 2, Wake The Baby Up, On Ceremony, small talk, and most recently Homebody. He lives on Mount Desert Island, Maine, and teaches saxophone at the University of Maine, Orono.
Gregory Richardson (bassist) is a composer and multiinstrumentalist. He is the cofounder and co-artistic director of Music From The Sole, and the musical director of Dorrance Dance. As a composer for dance, he’s created work at Lincoln Center Education, Jacob’s Pillow, The Yard, National Dance Institute, Works & Process, BAM, The Joyce, and New York City Center. Recent credits include performing with Toshi Reagon in her opera Parable of the Sower, touring with indie band Darwin Deez, and playing with Grammy-winning artists Keyon Harrold and Marcus Gilmore.
Malcolm-x Betts is a New York based visual and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His artistic work is rooted in investigating embodiment for liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. He has a community engagement practice allowing artistic freedom and making art accessible to everyone. Betts developed and presented work at La MaMa Umbria International in Spoleto, Italy. La Mama NYC, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Bronx Museum and Dixon Place. Betts showed excerpts of Midnight Glow: Kinfolk at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Movement Research at Judson Church and Draftworks at Danspace Project. Kinfolk Vol 2: Butch Queen was persented by Judson Arts in November 2021. Betts worked on Bronx Speaks with the Bronx Musuem with undocumented immgrants. Performed in works by luciana achuga, Jonathan Gonzalez, Snoogybox, Nile Harris and Alex Romania. Betts was a 2018 Artist and Resident with Movement Research.
Corey Whittemore (He/Him) has designed shows with North Shore Music Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Company, Eclipse Group Theatre, Salem Theatre Company, Columbia University, New York University. He was recently nominated for an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for his production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He is also frequently an Associate Lighting Designer to Rich Latta at Ogunquit Playhouse. Corey received his MFA at New York University and his BFA at Salem State University.
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Megan Dechaine (Production Stage Manager) is a New York City based stage manager originally from Washington State. She graduated from Western Washington University with a B.A. in Theatre. Selected credits include: the American Dance Festival, Sleep No More, Mimi Garrard Dance, Jody Oberfelder Projects, Sara Juli, Bellingham Repertory Dance, and Kuntz and Company. Megan joined the Company in 2022.
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