BIOGRAPHIES

Loud And Clear

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 miguelalejandro.art

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.

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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 jadecharon.com @jade_charon

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.

Yellow Fever

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

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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