Pride: The House Party Program

New York Live Arts Pride 2021

ON RASHID JOHNSON’ S RED STAGE

JUNE 26, 4-8PM

Live Arts Pride 2021: THE HOUSE PARTY JUNE 26 4:30PM - DJ THELIMITDOESNOTEXIST 5PM - WELCOME : Bill T. Jones (Artistic Driector, New York Live Arts), Tyler Ashley & Untitled Queen, Pride Co-curators.

5:15PM - SWITCH N’ PLAY: Divina GranSparkle, K.James, Nyx Nocturne, the Illustrious Pearl, and Zoe Ziegfeld, hosted by Miss Malice 5:45PM - BUBBLE_T: Sammy Kim, Keekai, Sina, Kiko Soiree, Snix 6:15PM - OOPS!: Chiquitita & West Dakota 6:45PM - RAGGA NYC: Viva Ruiz, Shawn Neon, Batalá New York 7:15PM - LINDA LA & THE PERFECT POISON: Linda La, The Perfect Poison, Rozay LaBeija, Äscen X //Ë11VËN, Lexlyrics ASL interpretation by Kathleen Taylor & Candace Davider

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BIOGRAPHIES THELIMITDOESNOTEXIST is a Brooklyn-based queer Asian DJ originally from Singapore who plays hyperpop club beats. He is a member of the queer asian collective BUBBLE_T.

storytelling using elements of Hip Hop, R&B and House/Ballroom music and culture. She has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and W Magazine.

Last year she performed under the direction of Bill T. Jones and Lee Mingwei at the MET and made Bubble_T is an Asian/Pacific her return to the theater stage Islander collective focused on in the Obie Award winning The supporting and uplifting the Fire this Time Theater Festival.

Queer and Trans community This year, she made her film we share. We are a collective of television debut as “Swan” in the collaborative and creative minds television series finale of POSE continuing the conversation around Asian visibility, inclusivity, on FX. She is currently working on her first studio project set to diversity and love. A dance include original music and poetry. party for everyone, our DJs Her work can be found on all serve Filipino garage-party streaming platforms and archived R&B, freestyle and Hip-Hop at the Brooklyn Museum in the anthems with house and pop in “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: the mix, featuring special live Art 50 Years After Stonewall” performances. exhibit. Find out more at Lindala.world Linda La & The Perfect Poison IG: @LindaLa.world Linda La is an international, FB: Linda La multidisciplinary SAG-AFTRA performer, writer, recording artist, cashapp: $LindaLaFM venmo: @LindaLaFM teacher, curator, host and model from the Boogie Down Bronx, New paypal: @lindalabeija York. Born out of the Iconic House THE PERFECT POISON of La’Beija, her experimental Victoria Von Blaque has gone by sound has been articled in both many names as she navigated AFROPUNK and The Fader. She her discovery as a transgender has become well known for her woman, especially during her sex honest and autobiographical work phase, which started before performance poetry and

graduating from college in 2004.

She had her hand in just about every opportunity in the trans adult entertainment field. In 2015, Victoria shifted her focus and started working with nonprofits to protect LGBTQ youth from the harms of homelessness and empowering them with the tools needed to live independently.

When she’s not educating the world about the struggles of BIPOC TGNB people, she’s performing as a lip-sync Queen where she is continuing her work in the community. Äscen X // Ë11VËN, is a New York native, multimedia artist ,performer & activist. All booking inquiries email: ascen.ix97@gmail. com IG: andro.flux._ Hear and follow Ë11VËN on SoundCloud New York transplant and Futurehood affiliate Rozay LaBeija first teamed up with artist Celestial Trax to bring his vogue-infused hiphop off of the runway and into the club with their New Flesh EP, containing Mixmag’s Bass Tune of the Month “I Can Do That Too”. Past releases include remixing Skyshaker of GHE20GOTHIK and a second EP featuring Orlando Volcano, DaiBurger, Jay Boogie and Quay

Dash. After performing at MoMA PS1, SXSW, and Boiler Room, Rozay is now preparing their first international tour after the release of their debut album Alchemy. As a member of the legendary House of LaBeija, Roosevelt can be seen at balls all across New York. All booking inquiries email rozaythemartian@ gmail.com Alexander Rey Perez (Ifa Segun Funmi) or Lexlyrics believes in the power of manifesting a healed world through radical inclusion of diverse individuals accompanied by comprehensive support systems through guidance from our ancestors and the enriching complexities of the collective.

Lex is a homie, an activist, and his word is bond. Follow him at @ Lexlyrics or e-mail at lexp893@ gmail.com if you are interested in knowing more about his work/ or hiring him. To support his valuable work, you can find him on Cashapp at $AlexanderReyPerez and Venmo at @Lexflex893.

Oops! is an ever-evolving queer collective formed around our weekly Wednesday night show which ran from 2017-2020, until lockdown where it transitioned to a digital format. It is currently made up of drag sisters Chiquitita

and West Dakota. We value inclusivity, community, uplifting queer voices, and not taking ourselves too seriously. Oops! was awarded Best Party and Best Drag Performance Party at the 2019 Brooklyn Nightlife Awards. Oops!

Has been featured in Vogue, Vice, W Magazine and The Cut, as well as other publications.

Chiquitita is a drag performer & Trans Latina born & raised in New York. She has been a staple in the Brooklyn drag scene since 2017, producing & participating in some of the boroughs most exciting parties!

RAGGA NYCis a hybrid of ideas that began as late night conversations over familial island roots, current social politics, empanadas vs. beef patties, pum pum shorts, scamming and a longing for a party that provides a for queer Caribbeans and their kin. A non profit platform founded

by Christopher Udemezue (Neon Christina), RAGGA NYC connects a growing network of queer Caribbean artists and allies working across a wide range of disciplines—including visual art, fashion, poetry and more—to explore how race, sexuality, gender, heritage, and history inform their work and

their lives. RAGGA fosters an extended family that makes space for solidarity, celebration, and expression, with deep commitments to education and grassroots organizing. #BIGUPUNNOSELF Batalá New York is an all women, Black-led, Afrocentric drumming ensemble. We understand AfroBrazilian culture to be the product of Black resistance, and promote and collaborate with living AfroBrazilian artists, especially those in New York. We are also transforming images of women by presenting a loud, fearless and resilient community of female drummers. We perform all over the city, at community centers and gardens, on the streets, at protests, and at top cultural institutions. Batalá New York is part of global arts project of over thirty bands playing AfroBrazilian music with percussive instruments and costumes hailing from Salvador de Bahia, in northeast Brazil.

Shawn Neon is a Brooklynbased musician, lyricist, and performance artist. His most recent release,“Bello”, is an EP consisted of a fusion of rap and Shawn’s CELESTIAL CARIBBEAN roots. Shawn Neon’s art and

sound refuses to conform to toxic gender norms by pushing inclusivity throughout his work.

VIVA RUIZ is the queer Latinx progeny of Ecuadorian immigrants and a community and nightlife educated advocate and artist from and based in New York City. The underlying thrust of all mediums is to dismantle white supremacy and exorcise the colonial / colonized mindset. Highlights include programming sex education and practical spirituality workshops as an invited curator for the New Museum’s “Scamming the Patriarchy” youth event and “ProAbortion Shakira: A Thank God For Abortion Introspective” a 5 week solo show at Participant Inc showing collected works and hosting conversations within the multimedia abortion destigmatization experiment THANK GOD FOR ABORTION. More about Viva and TGFA at IG: @thankgodforabortion / thankgodforabortion.com Switch n’ Play (SnP) Queer in every sense of the word, Switch n’ Play spans the gender spectrum in life and onstage.

The collective’s roster of artists includes Divina GranSparkle, K.James, Miss Malice, Nyx

Nocturne, Pearl Harbor, Vigor Mortis, and Zoe Ziegfeld. Winner of the Brooklyn Nightlife Award for Best Burlesque Show in 2017, 2018, and 2019, Switch n’ Play has been a staple of queer Brooklyn nightlife since 2006. In 2019, the collective was the subject of an award-winning feature documentary, “A Night at Switch n’ Play.”

Arnie Zane (1948-1988), cofounder Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones began their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk. Mr. Zane’s first recognition in the arts came as a photographer when he received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in 1973. Mr. Zane was the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for choreography, as well as two Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983 and 1984). In 1980, Mr. Zane was co-recipient, with Bill T. Jones, of the German Critics Award for his work, Blauvelt Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Mr. Jones, was filmed

for television, co-produced by WGBH-TV Boston and Channel 4 in London.

presented by Performa, Friends of the High Line, Times Square Alliance, NADA Art Fair, BOFFO, and seen at Art Basel, The Knockdown Center, The Chocolate Factory, Movement Research, Danspace Project and more.

Untitled Queen (Co-curator) is an artist, a child of Boriquen and the so-called Philippines, drag queen, poet, decolonizer, and community Ashley is also known as The organizer based on the stolen Dauphine - a nightlife personality, land of the LenapeHoking, (soperformer, and promoter. The called Brooklyn, NY). She is the Dauphine started the party called recipient of the Drag Queen of BABY TEA, which has raised over the Year 2015 for the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards. She is a resident $30k for LGBTQAI youth advocacy and queer art programs over the performer at Rupaul’s Drag course of seven fundraisers. The Race Season 9 Winner Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns. in 2020, She Dauphine has performed and/ or promoted at The Brooklyn presented Untitled (World), the Museum, Brooklyn Academy of first global LGBTQIA+ digital Music, NADA Art Fair, BUSHWIG drag show, with 47 drag artists ’14 - ‘17, Club Cumming, The Austin each representing 1 country, International Drag Festival, and benefitting 3 HIV/AIDS BOFFO, The Kitchen, New York organizations in honor of World Live Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, MANA AIDS Day. Contemporary and more.

Tyler Ashley (Co-curator) is Director of Communications at New York Live Arts and Curatorial Organizer of Live Arts Pride.

Outside of the office, Ashley is a choreographer and performer based in Brooklyn, NY and has performed in the work of Elizabeth Streb, Walter Dundervill, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Yackez, Katy Pyle, Biba Bell, and Charles Atlas among others. Ashley’s own performances have been

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 Eleanor Friedman Ruth & Stephen Hendel Alex Katz Foundation Ellen M. Poss Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel / Semel Charitable Foundation $50,000 - $99,999 Zoe Eskin Suzanne Karpas Barbara & Alan Marks $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous Patricia Blanchet / Ed Bradley Family Foundation David Dechman & Michel Mercure Adam Flatto Lorraine Gallard & Richard H. Levy Helen & Peter Haje James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguyen in memory of Linda Grass Shapiro Charla Jones Amy Newman & Bud Shulman Randy Polumbo / Plant Construction Matthew Putman Alanna Rutherford Diana Wege $10,000 - $24,999 Bloomberg Philanthropies Alexes Hazen Colleen Keegan Julie Orlando Andrea Rosen Ruby Shang $5,000 - $9,999 Derek Brown & Deborah Hellman Paula Cooper & Jack Macrae Agnes Gund Bill T. Jones & Bjorn Amelan Jeffrey B. & Wendy Liszt Deborah Ronnen Melissa Schiff Soros Cindy Sherman Williams Family Foundation

$1,000 - $4,999 Anonymous Gerald Appelstein Charlotte & Charles Buchanan Jonathan J. Cohen Charitable Fund Jeannie Colbert Kim Cullen Joan Davidson Lil and Jim DeMarse Dobkin Family Foundation Margaret Doyle Philip Gallo Mimi Garrard Judith & Steven Gluckstern Michael & Deborah Goldberg Otho Kerr Glenn Ligon Anna Maltby & Akshay Patil Tommy McCall & Victor Zonana Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss Susan Micari Meridee Moore & Kevin King Thomas Nichols & Daniel Chadburn Deborah Pines Rita Salzman The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation Catharine R. Stimpson Kristalina & Jack Taylor Kate Whitney & Franklin Thomas James & Azin Wilcox Bruce & Megumi Williams Timothy Wu & Eric Murphy $500 - $999 Arthur Aviles Timothy Benning The Marshall Frankel Foundation Sharon Gerstel Olivia Katz Kenneth Machlin John Sansone Deborah Swiderski Gifts and commitments between 4/1/2020-3/31/2021

Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation,, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, The Brant Foundation, Inc., Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/NYC, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, 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, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Tides Foundation Corporate support for New York Live Arts includes Con Edison, Google, Otter AI, Tito’s Handmade Vodka.

Public support for New York Live Arts is from Humanities New York, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Correction, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council with special thanks to Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

We thank our Partners for New Performance for supporting the Live Feed, Fresh Tracks and engagement programs: Alexes Hazen, Linda Hirschson, Julie Orlando, Andrea Rosen, Nina Stricker.

STAFF & BOARD Artistic Leadership

Executive Leadership

Board of Directors

Bill T. Jones Artistic Director

Kim Cullen Executive Director & CEO

Stephen Hendel Co-Chair

Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director

Development

Richard H. Levy Co-Chair

Dave Archuletta Chief Development Officer

Helen Haje Vice Chair

Kyle Maude Producing Director

Ali Burke Individual Giving & Special Events Manager

Slobodan RandjeloviĆ Vice Chair

Hannah Emerson Producing Associate

Erin Baskin Institutional Giving Manager

Veronica Falborn Producing Associate & Production Stage Manager

Bianca Bailey Member Services & Education Coordinator

Production

Candystore Development Assistant

Kim Cullen Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio

Hillery Makatura Director of Production

Hans Rasch Institutional Giving Assistant

Bjorn Amelan

Creative Director

Finance

Bjorn G. Amelan

Nupur Dey Director of Finance

Communications

Gregory English Rentals Coordinator

Programming, Producing & Engagement

Tyler Ashley Director of Communications Mayadevi Ross Digital Media Coordinator

Alan Marks Treasurer Alanna Rutherford Secretary Bill T. Jones Artistic Director Ex-Officio

Sarah Arison Aimee Meredith Cox LaToya Ruby Frazier Charla Jones Colleen Keegan Darnell L. Moore Amy Newman

Human Resources

Randy Polumbo

ADP TotalSource

Ellen M. Poss Matthew Putman

Hannah Seiden Front of House Coordinator

Legal Services

Jane Bovingdon Semel

Liliana Dirks-Goodman Graphic Designer

Lowenstein Sandler, PC Pro-Bono Counsel

Ruby Shang

Pentagram Pro-Bono Branding Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Faye Dricoll Raja Feather Kelly Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Barrington Hinds, Dean Michael Husted, Shane Larson, s. Lumbert, Marie Paspe, Nayaa Opong, Huiwang Zhang

Catharine R. Stimpson Diana Wege Board Emeritus Derek Brown Terence Dougherty Eleanor Friedman Advisory Council Margaret Doyle, Chair Alberta Arthurs Beverly D’Anne Lisa Frigand Jenette Kahn Susan Micari Alton Murray Lorraine Gallard Lois Greenfield Martha Sherman