MX Oops [NONFATAL_ERROR] "UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL" Program

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UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL

APR 25 AT 7:30PM - APR 26-27 AT 9PM, 2024

Creative Direction by MX Oops

Choreography by Jason A. Rodriguez and MX Oops

Music by Tr!ggered, stefa marin alarcon, MX Oops

Vocal Artistry by stefa marin alarcon

Lighting Design by Fabian Gomez

Dramaturgy by Vincent Cacalano

Research Advising by Thomas F. Defrantz

Video & Photography by Sekou Luke

Poetry by Renée Alberts and MX Oops

Video Design by MX Oops

Costume by Jivomir Domoustcheiv and MX Oops

Collective Advising by Olubode Shawn Brown

Run time: 120 mins

Please enjoy Mind Training On The Dance Floor, a guided meditation created by MX Oops. You can use this meditation to prepare for the performance, and use it as a support for your party practice after the show.

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FUNDING

UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by New York Live Arts in partnership with the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 651 Arts, Dance Place and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information, visit npnweb.org.

UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL has received support from the PSC CUNY Research Foundation, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Creative Engagement Grant.

We thank our Partners for New Performance for supporting Live Feed: Alexes Hazen, Linda Hirschson, Julie Orlando, Andrea Rosen, Nina Stricker.

SPECIAL THANKS

Makeda Thomas/Dance & Performance Institute, Offbeat Travel, Lite Brite Neon, Powerhouse Arts, FM Leather, Queerium

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We acknowledge and pay respect to Lenape people, elders, and ancestors past, present, and coming in the future. We acknowledge Indigenous people who may be present right now. We acknowledge and offer deep gratitude to Lenapehoking where we are now - the land, and waters of the Lenape homeland.

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company

Photo: Fred Attenborough

BIOGRAPHIES

Eva Davidova explores behavior, ecological disaster, and the social implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. She questions what we give for granted, and explores possibilities for agency through uncertainty and play. Davidova often deliberately “misuses” technology in order to disturb its acceptance, and that of the prevalent emotional manipulation that both physical and informational architecture exert.

Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the UVP at Everson Museum, Buffalo AKG Museum, MACBA, CAAC Sevilla, and La Regenta. Her latest solo exhibitions were at ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks, Instituto Cervantes, and Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in New York.

Fabian Fernando Gomez is a native New Yorker / photographer / videographer / editor raised in Queens and based out of Brooklyn. His work has been published in PAPER magazine, the Public Theater,

VOGUE Arabia, and featured in various online platforms for Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Museum of Fine Art Boston, OUT, Remezcla and most recently in the New York Times. A believer in collaboration in its truest sense, he enjoys working closely with his clients so that each production is never forced, overly produced or contrived. His commitment to etiquette and trust enables him to find the essence of each moment as a photographer and documentor. Jason Anthony Rodriguez is a Dominican-American actor/ dancer. He was born and raised in Washington Heights in New York City. Went to SUNY Purchase where he received a BA in Arts Management while also studying dance. He co-stars in Ryan Murphy’s Emmy and Golden Globes nominated show Pose as Lemar Wintour. He is also the Movement Coach and Choreographer for Season 2 of Pose. He guest-stars on the Season Finale of The Deuce on HBO as Enrico. He has been featured in the New York Times 4 times by Siobhan Burke, Gia Kourlas and Illise S. Carter.

MX Oops is a multimedia performance artist and educator whose work centers hybridity, encouraging ecstatic disobedience as a path toward embodied wellness. Their vision is of a world where we can each be held in the fullness of our complexity. The party is the point of departure, a queer site of transnational Afro-diasporic imagining. Their creative practice links urban arts [breaking, house, vogue femme, rap, dj, vj, fashion], somatic studies [yoga, thai yoga massage, energy healing, sound baths], media studies, and gender studies. Through this transdisciplinary approach, their work questions whether consciousness itself is the primary medium. These mediums come together to welcome party people into a lush world of queer becoming. Their work has been supported by the Jerome Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, National Performance Network, Research Foundation CUNY. Residencies include: Dance Theater Workshop Studio Series, CultureHub NYC Resident Artist, Ammerman

Center for Art and Technology, Henan Normal University, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Old Dominion University. Their work has been presented at Abrons Art Center, The Box, American Realness, Witte de Witte Contemporary Art Center, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Gala, Socrates Sculpture Park Benefit, and the GoDown Center in Nairobi Kenya, as a Cultural Envoy of the US State Department. A certified yoga instructor (500hr RYT) and practitioner of Thai Yoga Massage, trained in various forms of energy healing, they completed a BA in dance and religion at the George Washington University and completed an Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Dance, Multimedia Performance, and Somatic Studies in the Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre, and Dance at Lehman College, City University of New York, USA.

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Olubode Shawn Brown is a lawyer, author and the founder

of BLOOM - a global collective of creatives. Olubode works with creative leaders who are thinking collectively, working cooperatively and acting globally. He is the author of BLOOM The Essential JourneyA New Guide to Balance Growth & Well-Being and FINDING

YOUR B.I.G. - Finding New Purpose In Changing Times.

Rooted in the five elements of nature, Olubode’s work offers a new life-balancing paradigm to people who are seeking to live more authentic lives as they deliver urgent gifts to the planet.

IG: @olubode | bloomeducation.institute

Renée Alberts crafts language, sound, image, metal, crystal, and breath to explore our innate bodily wisdom as the root of our sovereignty and the antidote to cultural disempowerment. Her poems and performances are recognized for their cathartic, raw, and empowering nature, and she has curated and performed in numerous multidisciplinary works. Creations have appeared in print, galleries, dance performances, radio shows, and at least one tattoo. She is the creator of Moonwise Designs,

her jewelry, home décor, and art company, and founder of Realize Breathwork, her healing practice. She lives on the island of Hawai’i. moonwisedesigns.com

Sekou Luke is a Harlem-based filmmaker and producer whose creative mediums include over 10 years of directing, filmmaking, photography, acting, and other forms of media & content creation. Sekou Luke is the CEO and founder of Sekou

Luke Studio and REBEL Media, whose established creative collaborators include Amazon

Prime Video, The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage, The Billie Holiday Theatre, ROC-United, V-Day, The Schott Foundation, Ford Foundation, Family Values @ Work, Step Afrika, The Creative Jenius Report and PopMatters Magazine. Focusing on working collaboratively during the pandemic, Sekou has launched REBEL MEDIA, with an emphasis on creating visually rich story content that is transformative, community-building, and generative.

stefa marin alarcon aka STEFA* is a genderless, genreless

vocalist, composer and multimedia performance artist born and raised in Queens, NY. Using an amalgamation of punk, experimental rage pop, and classical minimalism with queer maximalist aesthetics, stefa builds worlds that offer a somatic decolonial respite for the misfits, the displaced, and future generations of Brown and Indigenous radical artists of the diaspora. Their ritual film Born With An Extra Rib won the 2022 Queer|Art Recent Work Prize and a 2023 TRANSlations Seattle FIlm Festival Jury Award. Their debut album will be released Summer 2024 on Figure & Ground Records. @stefalives

Thomas F. DeFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance| Culture|Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. DeFrantz received the 2017 Outstanding Research in Dance award from the Dance Studies Association. DeFrantz acted as a consultant for the Smithsonian Museum of African American Life and Culture, contributing concept and a voice-over for a permanent

installation on Black Social Dance that opened with the museum in 2016. DeFrantz believes in our shared capacity to do better, and to engage our creative spirit for a collective good that is anti-racist, antihomophobic, proto-feminist, and queer affirming.

Tr!ggered was born in Brooklyn New York where he studied art and design with his parents at a young age, but slowly became engrossed in the world of music. His work combines a technical analog forms such as concert piano and cello, with a conceptual approach informed by performance art. Tr!ggered has coproduced award winning projects such as This is Detroit, performed at the historical Stonewall Inn, toured internationally performing with artist like MX Oops, and showed in artist Collectives like the YAMs.

Vincent Cacialano, an interdisciplinary artist recently working at Tulane University and Arizona State, holds Bachelor and Masters of Fine Arts degrees. Vincent was a George Washington University Fellow,

studying movement research and the Stanislavski method.

Vincent was a permanent staff member at the School for New Dance Development and has performed improvisatory work alongside renowned artists Monstah Black, Steve Paxton, Benoit Lachambre, and Miguel Gutierrez a.o. Vincent has received support from the Heinz Endowment, Arts Council England, Amsterdam Funds, and the Institute for Performance Research.

Vincent’s compositions often consider the “bodily expressions of affect” and how these and other “in between spaces” inform meaning.

LIVE ARTS CONTRIBUTORS

New York Live Arts is deeply grateful to all the individuals listed below for their vital gifts to New York Live Arts over the last year:

$500,000 and higher

Anonymous

Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker

$100,000-$499,999

Anonymous

Ruth & Stephen Hendel

Eleanor Friedman

Ellen M. Poss

Alex Katz Foundation

$50,000 - $99,999

Zoe Eskin

Helen Haje

Suzanne Karpas

Lorraine Gallard & Richard H. Levy

Barbara & Alan Marks

Matthew Putman

Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel | Semel Charitable Foundation

$25,000 - $49,999

Dance/NYC

David Dechman & Michel Mercure

Adam Flatto

William Floyd

Darnell L. Moore

Amy Newman & Bud Shulman

Andrea Rosen

Jonathan & Jennifer Soros

Diana Wege / Wege Foundation

$10,000 - $24,999

Anonymous

Jody & John Arnhold

Patricia Blanchet

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Paula Cooper

Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy

Agnes Gund

Alexes Hazen

Colleen Keegan

Michael Malafronte & Julia Haley

Julie Orlando

Ellen M. Poss

John Robinson

Wendy Smith

Nina Stricker

Pat Stryker

Tito’s Handmade Vodka

Warner Bros. Discovery

$5,000 - $9,999

Derrick Adams

Rose C. Cali

Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

Lawton W. Fitt

Jason Keehn

Robert Longo

Ellen Pechman

Randy Polumbo

Herb Ritts, Jr. Foundation

Thomas Rom

Cindy Sherman

Jeffrey Schneider & Jeffery Povero

David Schwartz Foundation

Catharine Stimpson

$1,000 - $4,999

Ayala Abrams

The Angelson Family Foundation

Derek Brown & Deborah Hellman

Kathleen Chalfant

Jeannie Colbert

Boykin Curry

Terence Dougherty & Pierre Duleyrie

Kimberly Drew

Emma Friedman-Cohen

Mimi Garrard

Sandy Gelfond

Sean Giancola

Michael & Deborah Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg

Thomas & Barbara Gottschalk

Andrew Halliday

Kevin Harter

Tom Hennes

Barbara Hoffman

Jenny Holzer

Michael Houston

Laura & Richard Hunt

Judy Johnson

Bill T Jones & Bjorn Amelan

Andrew Keegan

Gavin Kenny

Esperanza Martinez in memory of Vicktorianna Gardner-Davis

Bella Meyer

Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss

Susan Micari

Helen Mills & Gary Tannenbaum

Meridee Moore & Kevin King

Momoko Myre

Alessandra Nicifero

Scott Norman

Mark O’Donnell

Eric Oberstein

Buck Parson

Corey Robinson

Jordan & Laura Rogove

Erin Rossitto

Beth Rudin DeWoody

Dee Dee Sides

Wendy Smith in memory of Jon D. Smith

Mickalene Thomas

Robyn Trani

Billie Tsien & Tod Williams in memory of Yvonne Tsien

James A. Turrell & Kyung-Lim Lee Turrell

JP Versace

Kimberly Welch

Robert Zweig

$500 - $999

Jordan Baker-Kilner

Stefan Beckman

Fabian Bernal

Donald Bernstein

Saami Bloom

Michael Brady

Amanda Burden

Alexandra Chasin

Kent Cole

William Critzman

Antoine Drye

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Erika Ehrman

Elizabeth Frankel

Naima Green

Linda Hunt

Ted Kamoutsis

Otho Kerr

Michael Mizrahi

Michael Naimy

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Paul Pelssers

Robert Rosenberg

John Sansone

Martha Sherman

Ward Simmons

Ellynne Skove in memory of Nancy Topf

Deborah Swiderski

Emma Taylor

Wade Turnbull

Maureen Ellen Veitch

Anna Wheeler

Carol Yorke & Gerard Conn

Gifts and commitments between January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023

Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, The Brant Foundation, Inc., Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/ NYC, Ford Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Muriel Pollia Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, One World Fund, The Poss Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Tides Foundation.

Corporate support for New York Live Arts includes Con Edison, Google, Tito’s Handmade Vodka.

Public support for New York Live Arts is from National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

STAFF & BOARD

Artistic Leadership

Bill T. Jones Artistic Director

Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director

Programming, Producing & Engagement

Kyle Maude Producing Director

Hannah Emerson Jernigan Producer

Jessica Prince Producing Associate

Production

Chanel Pinnock Production Manager

Leo Janks Lighting Manager

James Bennett Audio/Video Manager

Megan Dechaine Production Stage Manager

Tricia Navigato Assistant Production Manager

Creative Director

Bjorn G. Amelan

Community Engagement & Education

Bianca Bailey Community Engagement & Education Manager

Communications

Tyler Ashley Director of Communications

Augustus Cook Digital Marketing Manager

Hannah Seiden Communications Manager

Taylor Adams Front of House Assistant

Liliana Dirks-Goodman Graphic Designer

Pentagram Pro-Bono Branding

Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist

Miguel Gutierrez

Executive Leadership

Kim Cullen Executive Director & CEO

Ali Burke Chief of Staff Development

Dave Archuletta Chief Development Officer

Nina Phuong Ha Development Manager

Julie Davis Special Events & Donor Engagement Manager

Felix Reyes Institutional Giving Associate Finance

Nupur Dey Chief Financial Officer

Manathus Dey Finance Associate

Operations

Gregory English Operations Manager

Marcus Retegues Facilities Coordinator

Adalid Nunez-Mendoza Custodial Assistant

Human Resources

ADP TotalSource

Legal Services

Lowenstein Sandler, PC Pro-Bono Counsel

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company

Barrington Hinds, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, Danielle Marshall, Nayaa Opong, Marie Paspe, Jacoby Pruitt, Huiwang Zhang

Front of House Staff

Taylor Adams, Julia Antinozzi, Ezra Mitchell, Jailyn Phillips-Wiley, Sabrina Herbosa-Reyes, Calley

Luman, Cove Haselton, Campbell

Ives, Paulina Meneses, Jessy Crist, Johnny Mathews, Ishmael

Gonzales, Anna Ticknor, Cristina Moya-Palacios, Salma Kiuhan

Board of Directors

Stephen Hendel Co-Chair

Richard H. Levy Co-Chair

Helen Haje Vice Chair

Slobodan RandjeloviĆ Vice Chair

Alan Marks

Treasurer

Aimee Meredith Cox

Secretary

Bill T. Jones

Artistic Director Ex-Officio

Kim Cullen

Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio

Bjorn Amelan

Sarah Arison

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Charla Jones

Colleen Keegan

Darnell L. Moore

Amy Newman

Randy Polumbo

Ellen M. Poss

Matthew Putman

Jane Bovingdon Semel

Ruby Shang

Catharine R. Stimpson

Board Emeritus

Derek Brown

Terence Dougherty

Eleanor Friedman

Advisory Council

Alberta Arthurs

Beverly D’Anne

Lisa Frigand

Jenette Kahn

Susan Micari

Lois Greenfield

Martha Sherman