TRISK PRESENTS
DOMINICA GREENE


ENUF

April 18-20, 2024
8PM

RUNTIME: 60 minutes with no intermission
This performance contains the use of water based haze and strobe lighting.

No videography or photography during this performance.

ENUF
An autobiographical, multidisciplinary ecosystem honoring land, nature, ancestry, and self love as the ultimate roots of transformation. Drawing inspiration from feminist prose by Ntozake Shange and Alice Walker, this evening length solo is for woman, of woman, by woman.

Dominica Greene — Concept and Performance

Tushrik Fredericks — Dramaturgy

Myssi Robinson — Courtyard Design / Creative Archiving

Malcolm-x Betts — Costume Design

Kate Williams — Costume Design

Drew Schuyler — Soil Consultant

Connor Sale — Lighting Design

Music by Hiroshi Yoshimura, Deadbeat & Om Unit, Dravier

Photo and Installation by Myssi Robinson

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you Guyana, for returning me to myself.
Thank you to my ancestors who lived so I could live, and who physicalize themselves through me daily. It is my greatest honor to embody you... us.

Thank you to my grandmother Joan Greene. There are no words to express what you mean to me. It is an honor to be of your blood.
Thank you to my grandfather Victor Greene, who in giving us his name, gave us everything.

Thank you to my parents, Santina Delligatta and André Greene, for giving me life, supporting my choices, and trusting my dreams every day since July 17, 1994. I love you. It was all meant to be.

Thank you to my family for being a family.
Thank you to the women and femme folk, particularly the elders, who have shaped me through their wisdom, lessons, meals, laughter, sorrow, and truths. You know who you are.

To Blackness, Queerness, Womanness...
To time, for teaching as only time can…
To love.

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Eternal and overflowing gratitude for every single generous and thoughtful being who shared & donated to this project's GoFundMe. It is because of you that we are here tonight, experiencing this world!
'ENUF' is supported by YoungArts. Thank you!

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Dominica Greene is a bi-racial Caribbean-American artist harnessing the elements, spirit, and womanness into an existence rooted in love, community, and regeneration. Residing on the unceded lands of the Munsee Lenape people, Greene creates conceptual, body-based art guided by her philosophy that dance is a ubiquitous energetic entity encompassing anything that moves. Her work seeks to reflect nature, human and otherwise, as a way of highlighting humanity and the stark sameness and differences and sameness in the differences between all of us.

Tushrik Fredericks, recipient of Princess Grace Award (Chris Helman dance honor), nominated by TRIBE (Founding artistic director, Shamel Pitts) in 2021 is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Growing up he found himself drawn towards the style ‘KRUMP‘. He graduated from the Peridance Certificate Program in NYC in June 2015 and has had the opportunity to work with Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY (Danielle Agami, Artistic Director), Sidra Bell Dance New York (Sidra Bell, Artistic director) and UNA Productions (Chuck Wilt). Fredericks was an assistant lecturer to Sidra Bell at The University of the Arts Philadelphia for Sophomore students (2016-2018). In May 2021 Fredericks received 3rd prize for dance at the SoloTanz Festival in Stuttgart for his first rendition of his self choreographed solo '(territory) of the heart' and in May 2023 he showcased the completed rendition of the solo at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn, NY.

Myssi Robinson (she / her) is a multi-disciplinary maker, bessie award-winning performer, and caregiver from Powhatan lands / Richmond, VA. She has interpreted many dances and is thankful to be in her second year on the care team of a special person who is navigating dementia. Her art practice currently involves creative archiving and mixed-media marking beside experiments in listening, ritual, and spatial design. Intuition and empathy play with maximalist instinct to give life to what comes. Myssi’s choices as an artist are directed by her vessel and spirit’s navigations of chronic illness and mood disorder management. Gratitude to Carolyn Johnson and Darrin Robinson for her life and abilities to create freely within it . . . to care deeply from it.

Malcolm-x Betts is a New York based visual and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His artistic work is rooted in investigating embodiment for liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. He has a community engagement practice allowing artistic freedom and making art accessible to everyone. Betts developed and presented work at La MaMa Umbria International in Spoleto, Italy. La Mama NYC, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Bronx Museum and Dixon Place. Betts showed excerpts of Midnight Glow: Kinfolk at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Movement Research at Judson Church and Draftworks at Danspace Project. Kinfolk Vol 2: Butch Queen was persented by Judson Arts in November 2021. Betts worked on Bronx Speaks with the Bronx Musuem with undocumented immgrants. Performed in works by luciana achuga, Jonathan Gonzalez, Snoogybox, Nile Harris and Alex Romania. Betts was a 2018 Artist and Resident with Movement Research.

Kate Williams is a multi-media artist. Her work centers around movement improvisation and choreography as well as designing clothing. She started her process of “dance” in college, where she began her focus into narrative dialogues based on personal experiences. Through movement she has been making it a part of her practice to learn how to further express and delve into these experiences, because it is a never-ending process. She is a self-taught sewer, making her own clothing since high school. This is a craft she continues to grow and learn more about.

Kate’s work is to merge her two practices at the center of expression—using clothing and wardrobe she creates as a sculptural element of her movement work. In addition to making her own costumes-in the past few years she has opened up her sewing practice and does commissioned seamstressing work-it ranges from tailoring projects to working with amazing artists and friends to help make their costume and clothing visions come to life.

She has performed in various places around New York City, and a couple shows abroad. Currently, she is part of the management team, as well as a member, of Otion Front Studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She attended Bard College (May 2020) where she was a joint major of Dance and Human Rights with a concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Drew Schuyler is a Bronx-based horticulturist, currently serving as Assistant Head Gardener at Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers, NY.

Connor Sale is a New York based lighting designer and the Resident Lighting Designer at Triskelion Arts. Recent projects include The Living Room Project (PSNY), The Dybbuk Part Two, or Still Between Two Worlds (Triskelion Arts), Helen (La Mama), Julia Antinozzi’s double bill (PAGEANT), the body || dust (Gibney), Earth Temple (with Nocturnal Medicine at SMUSH Gallery), and Sea Change (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). He tours internationally with the Akram Khan Company and with the production of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring that Sadler's Wells and École des Sables is producing. He’s interested in using the temporary nature of light to make people more active in space. More of his work can be found at connorsale.com and at @connorsalelight. 


We respectfully acknowledge that the work of Triskelion Arts is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We pay our respects to their land, water, and ancestors, past, present, and future. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and to learning to be better stewards of this land.


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