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June 11, 2022 | emily | General

36th Annual Performance Mix Festival

at Abrons Arts Center, as part of the @Abrons Series

June 9-12, 2022

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Discounted ticket packages available here if you attend multiple performances!

Saturday, June 11th at 12pm • Program A
– Free event at Prospect Park –

Meet outside B/Q Train Prospect Park Subway Station on Lincoln Road at 12pm! Pre-registration required for this free event.

Produced in partnership with New Dance Alliance, TheREDprojectNYC is happy to share the second curational year of their BAPTISM series: A BAPTISM of my Backbone. This year’s curated artist is Mikaila Ware, a maker who worked with TRPNYC in 2019 and a current member of The Urban Bush Women. With the support of Artistic Coordinator Adrianne Ansley, Mikaila prepares to take a self-guided metamorphosis toward physically, emotionally, and spiritually letting go. Learn more about the artists →

Featuring Music by dj Om-Amari

This event will also be streamed live on New Dance Alliance and TRPNYC’s IG: @newdancealliance, and @jcm_redprojectnyc.

Saturday, June 11th at 6pm • Program B

binbinFactory/Satoshi Haga Rie Fukuzawa, photo by Reggie Shiobara

binbinFactory/Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa’s new work fuses aspects of Eastern and Western culture psychologically and spiritually by means of dance, movement, and theater. The performers play their own guardian deities. Learn more →

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Saturday, June 11th at 7pm • Program C
– Includes post-show reception –

Daina Ashbee, performer Benjamin Kamino, photo by Vanessa Fortin

“It’s (Laborious Song) equal amounts of vulnerability and empowerment, violence and power. I saw this piece very clearly on the performer I chose (Benjamin Kamino). There’s a heaviness of a subdued, imaginary landscape which is quite present.”
– Daina Ashbee Interviewed by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone for BOMB Magazine

Read full article about Daina Ashbee’s piece for PM36 →

Drawing on an imagery imbued with her personal history, Canadian choreographer Daina Ashbee traces the contours of a vulnerability that transcends genders. Laborious Song, created in 2020, explores the interstices between the angst and playful jubilation of a peripheral and naked body. Performed by Benjamin Kamino, who abandons himself to an obsessive, repetitive, and accumulative leitmotif almost like a summoning of a self-destructive violence that brings about temporary relief. Gianni Bardaro’s music infiltrates the hollow spaces of all present bodies, and its throbbing drone slowly dissipates the collective pain. (The performance repeats on Sunday at 1PM.) Learn more →

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