Discover adventurous work by six NDA LiftOff Resident Artists!
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In Black Girls Who Don’t Like Watermelon Unite, Morgan Amirah Burns explores the nature of seeing people as trees. An exploration in acceptance, she shape-shifts, responding to her 2019 work A Tree Named Kevin, utilizing text, movement, and video art to merge her faith and feeling as she situates herself in a forest.
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Autonomía de lo soñado/ Autonomy of the dreamt (working title), Rafael V. Cañals Pérez’s latest work, is an organized series of improvisatory states of being in a movement journey of self-realization. A figure in space taking control of its own weight, surrendering to gravity in a balancing dance that always goes and never arrives.
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Whatever happened to ____?
About their new work, Maxi Hawkeye Canion writes: “Finally, see me at my worst, as bubblegum chewed for too long…a gorgeous color. I vehemently wonder how the body can be a safe house, a home, and simultaneously the cruelest extension of hope. Sometimes shit is just bleak.”
Clarity is a movement essay about the physical experience of performing. “Delicate, subtle, vulnerable, and simple,” writes Juan Jesús Guiraldi. “The continuum, a life which is born, death immediately after, and rebirth. The clear feeling of eternity which remains just a feeling.”
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K.J. Holmes will perform an excerpt of her dance/ theater/ installation entitled 900 Bees are Humming. The work was researched when she was an NDA Resident Artist in spring 2022. It is a work that enters an interior of the body as a landscape within, surrounded by an ecology of time, weight, and space.
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Friday Performance: NEPOBABYPASTAGIRL enacts a butoh-ish gestural choreographic landscape ranging from disjointed order to organized chaos. Taking inspiration from Juzo Itami’s idea of the “ramen western,” the work offers an abstracted yet unflinching look at the wild west of the internet culture machine.
Sunday Performance: NEW WORK. In collaboration with film and video artist, Frenchie Cavallo Phelps, this work in development presents a detailed exploration of butoh performance and experimental video in tandem. The work is inherently more sculptural than symbolic, and seeks an aesthetic of pixelation and artifice in response to the artists’ questions about inherited memory and mythology in the postinternet world.
Get your tickets!Béatriz Mediavilla • Juli Brandano • Morgan Amirah Burns • Juan Jesús Guiraldi/UNA Constante • Kaveh Nabatian • Rafael V. Cañals Pérez • Ayan Felix • Raúl Tamez • Mistaya Hemingway • Katerina & Jay • Maho Ogawa • evan ray suzuki • Jean‑Christophe Yacono (yako) • LayeRhythm • Jil Guyon • Alexander Diaz • Ayano Elson • Marlene Millar/Sandy Silva/ Migration Dance Film Project • Alex Romania • Psychic Wormhole/Stacy Lynn Smith • Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo • K.J. Holmes • Nora Sharp • Thomas Corriveau • Maxi Hawkeye Canion • Rebecca Patek and Connor Voss
To learn more about the artists and performance schedule, visit the Performance Mix Festival page.
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K.J. Holmes, photo by Elyse Mertz
“Performance Mix Festival has its own life, and Karen and the staff continue to evolve with the times in a way I appreciate…it was tremendous to be a Liftoff AIR and then get to show the work I had continued to explore as an AIR a year later at PMF!”
– K.J. Holmes
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