Beatriz Castro Mauri | girl crush: clean girl, tomato girl, girl dinner, girl math, cool girl, pick me girl, girl boss, corporate girl, good girl, bad girl, party girl, it girl, girl’s girl, babygirl. girl crush is a solo exploration on the consumption, glorification, and manufacturing of girl-ISH-ness as an unavoidable phenomenon of internet presence.
Carole Arcega | Hymen: In this Ciné-Corps film about looking for an organic cinema, an intimate relationship is created, a body moves and mutes to become the film’s skin.
Chloë Engel | Rubber is a solo experimental performance practice that explores rubber as medium. Chloë Engel draws from their experience as a play therapist, the child of a psychiatric survivor, and a rubber enthusiast to build a practice with rubber that engages questions of pleasure, pathology, queerness, and madness.
Johanna Meyer | Suit, Hanging: Johanna Meyer will present a new solo featuring performance/dance material that dives into the female body, fat, and movement. The piece explores desire and unattainable perfection.
Aya Shabu |LandED is a solo narrative dance journey about Aya Shabu, a second-generation African American woman of Bajan descent remembering her childhood memories marred by her grandmother’s colorism, gender norms, and prideful notions of Black mobility. Shabu upsets the matriarchal curse when she discovers a family secret. Aya Shabu is a 2023 Black Artist Space to Create Resident Artist.
Jordan Deal | capeforce: prologue, stillness of villianess: Through further explorations of chaos force as a current that can be harnessed and transformed into subversive material, capeforce: prologue, stillness of villianess, with flying boots and all bathes in the communal subterranean currents of the dead and the ghosts of the fugitive and social zombie. As a metzu zombie dance, this compositional and choreographic exploration invites the Black imagining and the borders of madness into a dance with triple consciousness herself. Jordan Deal is a 2023 Black Artist Space to Create Resident Artist.
Lo Fi Dance Theory | Move Freely: The Ciné-Corps film Move Freely is a documentary exploring dance as a life force within the marginalized Roma community in Belgrade, Serbia. This project brings together choreographer/director Wynn Holmes, cinematographer Andrew Amorim, and journalist Julia Kidder with a focus on Roma youth as they transcend imposed boundaries through dance and performance.
Mickey D & Friends| Visiting The Past To See The Future: In Visiting The Past To See The Future Mickey Davidson re-explores with the community two former pieces to physically re-discover the past to respect the future by facing the present. Mickey Davidson is a 2023 Black Artist Space to Create Resident Artist.
Mohamad Moe Sabbah| Khayef: The Ciné-Corps film Khayef is a public invitation to the personal living room of a young Middle Eastern boy belly dancing in front of his family, unveiling Arab society’s perception of effeminacy and androgyny. A celebration of fluidity and nonconformity that spans various different spectra such as transformation and creativity.
Tal Halevi | Hidden in a Closet My Mother Imagined Being Wrapped in Her Father’s Shawl is a solo piece exploring the body’s and mind’s protective wrappings. Tracing spirallic pathways, it follows movement across landscapes of memory. Tal Halevi is a 2023-24 LiftOff Resident Artist.
Yolette Yellow-Duke’s work is an exploration of mediums. Yellow-Duke is a 2023-24 LiftOff Resident Artist.
Shannon Yu/SHA Creative Outlet| Shapeshifter is a solo dance exploration of consciousness through textures of movement and sound. A mixed streamlining of Asian roots and hip-hop culture. Shannon was 2022-23 LiftOff Resident artist.
Arantxa Araujo | Breathsculpt: Transformations Unveiled: With Breathsculpt: Transformations Unveiled, artist Arantxa Araujo collaborates with sound artist Mariana Uribe to create an intricate and immersive experience. Araujo repeatedly submerges her face in molten yellow beeswax, crafting a series of transformative masks that represent her evolving identities over time. Throughout the performance, moments of hypoxia occur due to obstruction of airway passages with the wax. This, plus a resonating soundscape, which includes Araujo’s heartbeat as it changes overtime because of oxygen deprivation, deepens the exploration of self-discovery and the continuous cycle of metamorphosis. This captivating artistic experience unfolds over a duration of 20 minutes, engaging the audience in a profound journey of transformation and exploration.
Lena Engelstein will present Stage Direction.
Viktor Horváth | Twun: In this Ciné-Corps film Viktor Horváth presents a fashion video focused on shoes. Attention, it’s not a cakewalk!
*Ciné-Corps (films) **LiftOff resident artists *** Black Artists Space To Create resident artists
Photo credits: Beatriz Castro Mauri, photo by Steven Pisano; Chloë Engel, photo by Theo Cote; Johanna Meyer, photo by Nic Petry; Aya Shabu, photo by Dare Kumolu: Jordan Deal, photo by Emily Farthing; Mickey D & Friends, photo by Susan Ragan; Tal Halevi, photo by Jacques Menasche; Yolette Yellow-Duke, photo by Zach Stone; Shannon Yu/ SHA Creative Outlet, photo by Elyse Mertz; Arantxa Uribe, photo by Manuel Molina Martagon; Lena Engelstein, photo by Maria Baranova
“Thank you thank you and thank you to everyone who made this residency (Black Artist Space to Create) possible. These past two weeks have been a blessing! Not only have I been able to deepen my own personal/artistic practices, I was given the space to connect with people that I love! I was given space to reflect on love, and to prepare for what this next year (2021) will bring! Shout out to New Dance Alliance, Modern Accord Depot and Angie Pittman for the time, the space, and opportunity! I am forever grateful! It felt like a good meal, with dessert!”
– Johnnie Cruise Mercer
New Dance Alliance
182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
