SPLIT BILL #40
BEATRIZ CASTRO
EFFY GREY
APRIL 27 & 28, 2023
8PM
$20 in advance / $25 at-the-door
Our SPLIT BILL Series brings together pairings
of NYC-based movement artists.
Photo on the left by Steven Pisano, photo on the right by Effy Grey
Beatriz Castro
Flat Circles
Flat Circles is a quartet about the experience of time, both within monochronic and polychronic cultures, as an identity marker that is malleable, permeable and readable. Dancers explore their relationship to timing, groove, exhaustion, touch and cool, both individually and collectively. The piece looks at the duration of touch, memory as a site of polychronic awareness and the role of intimacy in time negotiation to expose time as unreliable, imprecise and more often than not, unmeasurable.
Beatriz Castro (she/they) is a movement artist from Costa Rica, currently based in New York City. She received a BFA in Dance and a BA in Business from Marymount Manhattan College where she performed in works by Earl Mosley, Anthony Morigerato, Chase Brock, Tami Stronach, and Sidra Bell. Since graduating, Beatriz has performed with NYC-based groups Spark Movement Collective and Verbal Animal.They have also appeared in HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness and the On Running x MoMA PS1 campaign under the direction of Damani Pompey. Internationally, she has performed self-choreographed work at the Graciela Moreno Choreographers Festival, the longest-running contemporary dance event in Costa Rica. They have presented work at Arts On Site, Bridge for Dance, Green Space, Triskelion Arts and Dixon Place. Beatriz has been awarded residencies for the exploration and development of new work through the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, MOtiVE Brooklyn, and Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative.
www.beacastrom.com
@beacastrom
Photo by Sangeeta Yesley
EFFY GREY
grey.doc
Grey.doc is, in a sense, a diary or a love note. It’s a dance about embodying Effy’s mind. With similarities to their work, Little Bonds, how does dance connect to non dancers? If Little Bonds connected with Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson by way of queer coded monsters and Doom Patrol with "Once upon a time, my world was big and filled with monsters, but now the world is small and I am the monster." Then grey.doc is Crazy Jane’s "her" and Anne Carson’s Red Doc>’s vignettes of how those monsters survived. If you feel the same way as Miranda July saying, "All I ever wanted to know is how other people are making it through life – where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how they cope inside of it," then you've found the right place.
Effy Grey (they/them) is a dance artist, photographer and veterinary technician living in Brooklyn, NY. They started dancing by taking elective classes at Ohio State University while obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Zoology. Effy worked with wonderful local choreographers in Columbus for both dance and aerial arts as well as being supported through a Columbus Dances Fellowship. After moving to Brooklyn, though guided towards dance photography, opportunities came to perform with BoyFriday, Baira MVMNT PHLSPHY and Coco Karol while cultivating a process to create their own work. In 2019 Effy was a Fellow for the Leimay OUTSIGHT series, which was performed in NYC as a quartet and Berlin as a solo, focusing on connection, hope and a touch of queerness. Effy is still continuing to advance those themes within their physicality and storytelling to generate more accessibility to less explored queer and social experiences.
Please note: portions of this piece contain haze
Photo by Effy Grey