THIS HAS BEEN THIS

Choreographed by Claire Louise Goldes

Performed by
Claire Louise Goldes
Joey Anderson

Lighting by
Anna Wotring

Music
"3 Chords" by Rival Consoles, "Cross Talk IV / Radio Lonelys" by Oneohtrix Point Never, "My Way - 2008 Remastered" by Frank Sinatra, "The Pure and the Damned" by Oneohtrix Point Never, Iggy Pop, “This Bed of Shattered Bone” by Colin Stetson, “Tip Toe Thru’ the Tulips with Me” by Tiny Tim

Claire Louise Goldes is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work encompasses performance, choreography, movement direction, and Pilates instruction. Claire’s choreographic work has been presented at PAGEANT and now Triskelion Arts, thanks to CreateART. She’s also presented at Spark Theatre Festival, Bridge for Dance’s Uptown Rising, and SCOPIXdance in LA. Claire performs with Trainor Dance, CROSS THE LINE Dance Company, LanDance, Adaptations Dance Theater, and more. She is also a mentor and faculty for Adaptation’s summer training company, PIVOT. She’s danced in projects with Chelsea Thedinga, Joey Anderson, Abby Rose Chenard, and Taylor Hollingsworth, and music videos for Ok Cowgirl and Sam the Woo. She was a member of the inaugural GibneyPRO cohort under the direction of Alexandra Wells and Gilbert T Small II. She also assisted Alexandra Wells in her IMAGE TECH for dancers classes at SpringboardX skills + process. Claire holds BFAs in Dance Performance and Choreography and a BA in Psychological Science from the University of California, Irvine. @clairegoldes

Special thanks to Triskelion Arts' Space Subsidy program supported by the New York State Council on the Arts for helping make this creation possible. Come see an expanded version of this work at inQUAD, hosted by Inclined Dance Project at JACK in Brooklyn on December 6th and 7th.

DOGGOD?

*This piece contains partial nudity and sharp lighting.

Choreographed by Valentina Bache

Performed by
Sharon Zulay
SarahIsoke Days
Cristina Moya-Palacios
Valentina Bache

Original score produced and performed by Quique featuring Dr. Enrique Rios-Ellis on Saxophone

Lighting by Anna Wotring

Planted on blood-drenched earth are birth sapphic messengers of chaos. They drag bodies through mud, gasping for air and reaching out of the rubble for each other. Once found, they sink lower into themselves emptying and becoming concave. They tease each other's greatness and tickle each other's new growths. Their growths begin to spiral becoming a never-ending spin they spin to see it all become omnipresent to resist oppression to escape and to stay, to get intoxicated on the blurred chaos, they spin because something is always turning. In a maelstrom of nostalgia, they find themselves finally coming home.

Valentina Baché Rodríguez (they/them) was born and raised in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. At 15, they skipped high school, to attend Bard College at Simon's Rock, and obtained an associate degree in Biology and dance. Then moved to NYC to attend Hunter College for a BA in Dance, graduating in 2020. Their works have been featured in incredible events throughout New York, including Movement Research at Judson Church, Kaye Playhouse, BK Art Haus, New York Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center, Recess, their pedagogy shared at Performance Space New York April 2024. 2024 Gallim's Moving Artist Residency Recipient. Valentina is constantly rediscovering their ancestral bodily archives to best inform how change happens within the body first, through recognizing and witnessing profoundly effective energies such as rage, discomfort, and sorrow. They showcase the power of pleasure and joy through resilient, stubborn, and unbound honesty.
valentinabache.com

we are never the same and always ourselves

Choreographed & Performed by Catie Leasca

Lighting by Anna Wotring

"10. my body is bored by answers" - Deborah Hay

Catie Leasca is a dance artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. With roots in Massachusetts, she has traveled and danced abroad in Israel, France, Belgium, and Germany. Catie has worked professionally with Netta Yerushalmy, Helen Simoneau Danse, Jessie Young, MG+Artists, and Bryn Cohn + Artists. Catie has been awarded choreographic residencies at Gibney Dance, New Dance Alliance, MOtiVE and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Catie has shown her work at Movement Research through Judson Church, FAILSPACE at The Woods, Center for Performance Research, WIP IV at STUDIO4, among others. Catie is currently a Guest Faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College, Joffrey Ballet School and teaches a weekly class at Peridance Center. She graduated with her B.F.A. in Dance from The University of the Arts.
https://www.catieleasca.com // @Catie Leasca 

INTERMISSION

Further Considerations of Black Stars

*This piece contains the use of water based haze and strobe lighting.

Choreographed & Directed by Morgan Gregory

Performed by
Tyler Isaiah Bey
Sydnie Cooper

Elinor Kleber Diggs - Composer, Original Score
Jess Montijo - Visual Media
Alessia Mandanici- Original Film Edit
Mark Naison - Thesis Mentor

Lighting by Anna Wotring

Further Considerations of Black Stars is a work based on the first chapter of a three-part film, Reflections of a Black Star, created as a BFA thesis project at Fordham University this past spring. The film and original thesis entitled Afro-futurism: The Black Body as an Immortal Canvas of Storytelling, Resistance, and Mysticism explores the concept of Afro-futurism through examples in historic multi-media spheres and diasporic movement cultures. The aim of the new, in-person work, is to hone in on the first chapter of the film “cake walkin” which inserts Blackness, in a pervasive and stereotypical way, into unfamiliar/hyper-familiar spaces by way of a green screen. Through this act, the work will further develop and explore the meaning behind racial tropes and double-consciousness.

Morgan Gregory, originally from Richmond, Virginia, is a graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA program, and majored in Africana Studies and Dance. She was honored as the Denise Jefferson Memorial Scholar for her graduating Ailey/Fordham BFA class. Professionally, Morgan has performed works by Jacolby Satterwhite, Annie Rigney and is collaborating with visual artist Julien Creuzet and choreographer Ana Pi on an continuing multi-disciplinary project that explores sound, shapes and movements within the African diaspora. Further, holding the identity of an American Black woman, Morgan is constantly exploring ancestral importance. In this continuous effort of understanding, Morgan finds herself creating in spaces of intersectionality: Academia, Womanhood, Blackness, Dance, and Theater. She has premiered her work Homage (2023) at The Ailey School, The Craft and Steps Beyond. Additionally, she has debuted a short movement-based film, Reflections of a Black Star (2024) which will premiere at Arts on Site, September 2024.The original film, which was created as a thesis project, we be premiered at Arts On Site at the Dual Rivet Made by Women Festival, September 26, 2024.
www.themorgangregory.com

Swimmers

Choreographed by Chloe Crenshaw

Performed by
Marc Anthony Gutierrez
Sydney Chow

Ben Waters (composer)
Jules Przybylska (costume designer)

Lighting by Anna Wotring

Loosely inspired by “To the Harbormaster,” a poem by Frank O’Hara, “Swimmers” harnesses physical tethers and temporal links to convey friction between characters. Throughout, dancers form and undo connection, describing harmony as well as incongruity.

From Los Angeles, Chloe Crenshaw is a choreographer and dancer based in New York. Commissions include new creations for Whim W’him (2025), Ballet Collective (2025), and Houston Contemporary 2 (2023). She was a 2024 finalist at the International Choreographic Competition in Hannover, and was a choreographic resident at Tanztendenz in Munich the same year. She has also presented work at Asbury Park Dance Festival, and was a 2024 recipient of the Eryc Taylor Dance New Choreographer Grant. Chloe is a member of GALLIM Dance Company and previously danced with Ballet BC. She has also performed at venues including the Kennedy Center, New York City Center, the Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Chelsea Factory, and REDCAT. She holds a BFA in Dance from the California Institute of the Arts.

Musical Performance by Eleanor Dubinsky and Dario Acosta Teich

Duo Eleanor Dubinsky and Darío Acosta Teich (USA/Argentina) take audiences on a feel-good trip around the world with fresh interpretations of jazz, beloved classics in Spanish, French, Portuguese and original songs.

Eleanor is a USA-born vocalist/cellist/songwriter from St. Louis, MO. Darío, a masterful guitarist, is from Tucumán, Argentina. Together, the NYC based duo inspires with elegant performances transcending genre and geography. Their engaging concerts invite audiences to clap, dance and sing along - all in celebration of the beautiful diversity in our world. Past appearances include Ball State University (IN), Kent State Tuscarawas (OH), Lotus Education and Arts Foundation (IN), Payomet PAC (MA), Jazz Aspen-Snowmass, Arrowhead Center For The Arts (MN), Joe’s Pub at The Public (NYC), Frankfurt Book Fair, Airbnb, Instacart, U.S. Embassies in Mauritania, Honduras, Guatemala and Argentina, Bebop Club (ARG), Lonely Planet, Septiembre Musical Festival (ARG) and many more.

Educational outreach is a key element of Eleanor and Darío’s offerings. Their workshops and residencies emphasize accessibility and inclusion and can be adapted for elementary through university level. Eleanor and Darío serve as cultural ambassadors via the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Arts Envoy program and African Regional Services. The New York City based duo is fluent and teach in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Hebrew.
https://www.eleanoranddario.com