SPLIT BILL #43 FEATURING CAYLEEN DEL ROSARIO & VERBAL ANIMAL
For Immediate Release
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
BROOKLYN, NY - Triskelion Arts is honored to present SPLIT BILL #43 featuring Cayleen Del Rosario and VERBAL ANIMAL, happening December 5-7, 2024 at 8PM each night. Our SPLIT BILL Series brings together pairings of early-career NYC-based movement and dance artists to premiere work in the Trisk theater. This evening features Del Rosario’s Caves and High Rocks, and IN EXCHANGE FOR ANONYMITY by VERBAL ANIMAL, with lighting design for both pieces by Connor Sale.
Caves and High Rocks is a solo work created and performed by Cayleen Del Rosario, with sound by Collin Ruffino, exploring the trouble in setting choreographic material. It is being in the dark and letting forms emerge without naming. VERBAL ANIMAL’s IN EXCHANGE FOR ANONYMITY surrenders itself into a hamster wheel of surveillance, allure, and indespicable display. As the three performers, Lavy, Ragin Smith, and Kenley Hardwick, traverse through scenes of unconscious and conscious observation, what choices become our own versus the choices of those surveying us? Indulging into the ethos of our own pleasure, IN EXCHANGE FOR ANONYMITY is an undoing into the obscure, absurd, and monstrous complex of social surveillance.
Tickets are on sale online now, or available for purchase at the Trisk box office beginning at 7:30PM, December 5-7.
TICKETS
EARLY BIRDS
$22 / $30 SUPERFAN / $50 🌟 SUPPORTER
$17 HEARTS Ticket for Queer, Trans, BIPOC – any or all
AT-THE-DOOR
$26 / $30 SUPERFAN / $50 🌟 SUPPORTER
$17 HEARTS Ticket for Queer, Trans, BIPOC – any or all
All seating is general admission.
What's Behind Our Ticketing Tiers?
We are thrilled to launch our new tiered ticketing, crafted to prioritize maximum compensation for our incredible artists, fair wages for our production team, and inclusive ticket prices for all our performances. This structure also addresses the financial challenges of producing live performances in NYC by aligning ticket costs more closely with the actual, unsubsidized value of each seat. Our ticket options now range from $17 to $50. Regardless of the ticket price, every attendee will enjoy the same magical experience.
Triskelion Arts, lovingly referred to as Trisk, is a nonprofit organization, live performance venue, and rehearsal space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, offering NYC-based dance and movement artists high-quality, sustainable opportunities to create and present work. Trisk partners with artists creating trailblazing work that broadens the cultural dialogue and elevates its community’s many voices and perspectives. Trisk is a home for artists and audiences to connect, to make art happen, to make magic. Trisk presents artists practicing, crafting, mining, experimenting, speaking up, and speaking out.
Trisk Presents is made possible with generous support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Harkness Foundation For Dance, Emma Sheafer Charitable Trust, NYC City Council Discretionary Funding, and NYS State Assembly Discretionary Funding.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
CAYLEEN DEL ROSARIO
Cayleen Del Rosario is a New York City- based dancer, choreographer, and psychoanalyst-in-training. She holds a BFA from studies at NYU Tisch and Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. She has presented work at Triskelion Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, Provincetown Dance Festival, CPR Center for Performance Research, Truro Center for the Arts, PAGEANT, Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, The Tank, and other spaces.
@cayleenanne | cayleendelrosario.com
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Photo by Elyse Mertz
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Lavy is a choreographic dance artist. Graduating with their BFA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College, Lavy founded VERBAL ANIMAL, a rotating cohort of interdisciplinary collaborators. Since its inception, Lavy has been commissioned by the 14th St Y, TADA! Theater, 3 Dollar Bill, and Triskelion Arts. VERBAL ANIMAL curates Queer Noise, a platform created to provide emerging queer choreographers an opportunity to present experimental and process centered work. Notably, Lavy was commissioned by Mare Nostrum Elements, as a returning choreographer, to premiere an evening-length work at Laguardia Performing Arts Center. Following, Lavy was commissioned to create a new work for the annual 2024 Making Moves Festival. Lavy is a Co-Producer for the NY show, Kiss My Face, while also performing as a collaborator with NVA & Guests. Additionally, they are the producer of PLAY ME TECHNO AND TELL ME IM PRETTY, along with being an active DJ in the NYC sphere.
@xlavvvy | @verbalanimalco | www.verbalanimal.com
RAGIN SMITH
Ragin Smith is a Brooklyn-based dance artist. She approaches building performances through surrealism, poetry, and visual sculpting. Ragin has created work as an artist in residence with Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation and Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre. She has also presented her work at Dance Hole, ESTIA Day Fest, Fabled Narcissism, and Arts on Site. After studying dance and composition at Marymount Manhattan College, Ragin has performed works by Sigrid Lauren, August Henderson, Brendan Fernandes, Shaquelle Charles, Evan Ray Suzuki, Michelle Thompson-Ulerich, Beatriz Castro, Valeria Gonzalez, Ryan Bailey, Morgan Bobrow-Williams, Troy Ogilvie, La Intrusa Company, and others. Alongside her freelance performances, Ragin is currently a collaborator with Wet Hairy Women, Hivewild, Verbal Animal, Headlights Theatre, and MORISATO Company.
@thats_so_ragin | www.raginsmith.com
KENLEY HARDWICK
Kenley Hardwick is a recent graduate from Marymount Manhattan College. Before coming to New York for college he began his training in South Carolina where he attended the South Carolina Governor's School for Arts and Humanities. Upon Graduation, Kenley began studies with Gibney Pro, working with choreographers such as Rena Butler, Maleek Washington, Laja Field, and Elia Mark. Recently, Hardwick joined VERBAL ANIMAL as a company member for their 2023 season.
@kvnlvy
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Photo by Travis Emery Hackett