Touring with Andrea Peña & Artists 6.58: MANIFESTO
I will be joining the cast of 6.58: MANIFESTO for a tour to Paris April 24 & 25 and Falkenberg, Sweden May 2nd. I am so excited to dive into this piece with such an incredible cast!
I will be joining the cast of 6.58: MANIFESTO for a tour to Paris April 24 & 25 and Falkenberg, Sweden May 2nd. I am so excited to dive into this piece with such an incredible cast!
I will be creating a new work for Oregon Ballet Theater, that will premiere June 6th in Portland, OR as part of their Made in Portland 2023/2024 Program.
Check out the company and their work here: https://www.obt.org/about-obt/
I am creating a new piece for Arts Umbrella Tour. that will be touring through the Vancouver North Island Region presented by BC Movement Arts Society.
I will be premiering Reservoir a new solo, at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn NY as part of their Split Bill series. I am excited to be sharing the evening with Kashia Kancey performing her solo I Believed It Too.
March 14th and 15th at 8pm
Tickets can be purchased here: HERE (they’re cheaper in advance, so don’t wait!)
"Fortress" by Livona Ellis and Rebecca Margolick, exploring the vulnerability of Matriarchs, and "Here it is" by Anya Saugstad, a unique duet confronting the fear of death.
Inspired by Sheila Heti, this performance on January 25, 2024, at Left of Main (7pm), delves into the essence of womanhood and the brevity of life.
Tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/plasticorchidfactory/1011889
This month, Chutzpah! Festival is hosting Livona Ellis and I for a two-week residency to continue the creation of our collaborative duet “Fortress”.
I will be a guest performer and choreographer for LITVAK Dance’s Fall Concert in Encinitas, California on November 18th and 19th 2023. I will be performing my short solo Harbour.
SUMMIT: THROUGH HER RISE is a movement summit that has commissioned five female identifying choreographers to share their creative works and wisdom with U-M students and the public at large with workshops happening October 27-28 and a performance on October 28th at 7pm. SUMMIT is a platform where underrepresented artists can come together to present their work at U-M, an R1 university, with the goal of introducing excellent and thought provoking pieces to the Ann Arbor community. This platform aims to create new opportunities to network, share resources and expand U-Ms impact to the broader artistic landscape. Conceived, curated and produced by Associate Professor of Dance, Shannon Gillen, SUMMIT positions itself as a celebratory opportunity for women makers to unite and share their visions broadly.
For tickets and information: Here
Tushrik and I will continue creating our duet throughout a 4-week residency at BAC in NYC.
There will be a free in studio work in progress showing on November 16th at 13h. Stay tuned for RSVP details.
Over three days in October, choreographer Alexandra Waierstall will present choreographic interludes within the exhibition of Rita McBride: Arena Momentum. In this series of engagements, collectively called Momentum, she will bring together local New York professional dancers and her frequent collaborators from Europe in a unique gathering – a first of its kind. This event will foster a connection between these communities, the public, and the sculpture Arena’s physical space. Alexandra’s choreographic practice has a rich history and has engaged in dialogue with the Arena in various contexts since 2016. Momentum is an opportunity to see the development of a dialogue between two female artists opening new possibilities.
The choreography itself opens a space of attention in which everyone present can find themselves. The process is ongoing, as we address the past, acknowledge the present, and move towards the future.
Momentum, curated by Alexis Lowry, is initiated by visual artist Rita McBride with choreographer Alexandra Waierstall and the experimental performance collective, discoteca flaming star (founded by Cristina Gomez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer).
Choreographic interludes by Alexandra Waierstall with and for the dancers: Maxi Canion, Ying Yun Chen, Rachel Gill, Scott Jennings, Amy Josh, Dasol Kim, Rebecca Margolick, Andrea Farley Shimota, Karolina Szymura.
With artistic contributions from: Volker Bertelmann, Stavros Gasparatos, Cédric Hopf, Judith Jaeger, Valeria Lampadova, Lucia Vonrhein
Choreographic interludes production by Noema Dance Works e.V., in collaboration with Dia Art Foundation. Supported by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
I will be performing an excerpt of Bunker + Vault at Broadway Presbyterian Church on 114th and Broadway, NYC at 20hr. The show is Free!
On the program will be dance, visual art, and live music with:
Maya Orchin, Stefanie Nelson, Mignolo Dance, Justin Randolph Thompson, Bradly Dever Treadaway, Erez Kreitner, Jonah Kreitner, & Davison Paul
More information here
I will be performing my solo Reservoir at EDANCO Festival 2023 in a split bill with Spanish artist Carmen Werner.
I will be performing Bunker +Vault in Istanbul on September 18th at ENKA Sanat and September 23rd at Arter. I will be sharing the program with another U.S based dance artist Becca Hoback.
More information and tickets HERE
I will be premiering a new 25 minute solo Reservoir at Festival Quartiers Danses at Studio-Théâtre des Grands Ballets Canadiens | Édifice Wilder in a mixed program with Jane Mappin and Nicholas Zemmour
Tickets available HERE
I will be in a creation residency and teaching at NECIA Studios in Oaxaca creating a new collaborative duet with Montreal based dance artist Jason Martin.
I am performing Bunker + Vault in a split bill with Jason Martin performing his solo Étude nO.1 at Teatro Polivente on Saturday September 2nd at 20hr.
I will be in a creation residency at Centro de las Artes in San Luis Potosí creating a new collaborative duet with Montreal based dance artist Jason Martin.
I will be teaching a week long dance and choreography workshop, using task based improvisation, training, conditioning, and teaching repertory.
More information soon…
I will be in residency for a week with BC Movement Arts Society on Malcolm Island, B.C. to continue creating my new solo Reservoir to premiere at Festival Quartiers Danses in September in Montreal.
Tushrik Fredericks and I are beginning a new duet creation. We have received financial support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding to have residencies in Zagreb at the Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance, and in Sofia at Derida Dance Center. Thank you to TMU, Atanas Maev and Mirna Zagar for supporting this new project!
I am excited to join the cast and perform this work by Annie Rigney on June 23rd + June 24th at the 92Y NYC.
For more information and tickets: 92ny.org/event/annie-rigney
“...she was becoming untethered.”, paints a surrealistic portrait of a woman in both ecstasy and constraint. The work explores points along a continuum of beauty and the grotesque; the mundane and the absurd. The process began by asking if the overwhelming emotion of Opera music could be matched and explored through extreme sustained movements and at what point does heightened emotion tip over the edge from expression, to absurdity, and even into comedy? The dance also serves to ask and answer the questions: what supports us? What uplifts us? And what holds us back?
Come experience a beautiful collaboration of dance and music exploring the theme of finding one's voice in a sea of pollution, predators, competitors, unknowns and uncertainty. Through a 5-part thematic performance, Chelsea Edwardson (music) and Rebecca Margolick (dance) will reflect the paradoxical nature of being human: feeling alone yet also knowing and searching for our interconnectedness. Together, through movement and sound, they dive deep to shine a light on the Inner Ocean, and reveal the beauty of both the darkness and the light on the path towards self-discovery.
I will be performing a new piece with live music from David Moore (Bing & Ruth) inside a sound reactive lighting installation for the closing night of Derrick Belcham's The You Voice exhibition at MANA Contemporary in Jersey City.
Please join us to witness this hauntingly powerful exhibit before it closes.
There will be post-show drinks in the foyer!
The performance is FREE for the public, please click HERE to reserve a spot.
MANA is very easily accessible by the PATH Train (20 min train ride + 10 minute walk).
When: Saturday February 11th 2023 at 7pm
Where: MANA Contemporary 888 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07306
I will be sharing an excerpt of my solo Bunker + Vault at the Moving Memory Project, organized by Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup, alongside works by Kayla Farrish/Decent Structure Arts and Mignolo Dance.
The performance is FREE for the public, please click HERE to RSVP (required)
When: Friday February 10th at 7:30 pm
Where: Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 West 114th Street New York, NY 10025
Dominica Greene and I will be performing a durational piece as part of tedted Performance Group’s annual fundraiser.
Ticket link and more information below: https://tedted.ticketleap.com/deepbreath/
I will be performing again in NYC in December in The Other Half, a duet created by Vanessa Goodman and Belinda McGuire. This piece will be shown as part of Belinda's mixed evening of works that she is presenting in Brooklyn. Belinda, Vanessa, Spencer Wieidi and I remounted this work in the Fall and toured it to the Dominican Republic in early October, and I'm looking forward to sharing it with audiences here!
When: December 8,9,10,11 at 19:30
Where: The Mark O'Donnell Theater 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn
For more information and tickets please click here: tickets and information
I will be performing in NYC at Gibney Dance Centre in Mirrors, an evening of a collection of works by UNA Productions.
Mirrors questions to intentionally deepen themes of Queer intimacy, experiences within the gender spectrum, and what it means to uncover our authenticity and experience life outside societal norms.
Performers: Styles Alexander, Kira Fargas, Dominica Greene, Dasol Kim, Rebecca Margolick, Jobel Medina, Hadassah Perry and Chuck Wilt
When: Friday November 11 & Saturday November 12 at 20:00
Where: Gibney Dance Centre 280 Broadway
For more information and tickets please click here: tickets
I'm traveling to Frankfurt and Friedrichshafen, Germany from October 20 - 28 to perform Bunker as part of the 2022 SOLOCOREOGRAFICO Festival.
The mixed program of solo works will be shown:
October 20-21 at 20:00: Gallus Theatre, Frankfurt Am Main
October 26 - 27 at 19:30: Banhof Fischback, Friedrichshafen
I will be in Northwest San Diego County for a week in October creating a new work on Litvak Dance to the music of Yale Strom. This piece will be shown as part of the company's Fall performances as well as their performances of LIGHT in December.
Litvak's website
I will be performing Bunker + Vault at the 20th Festival Quartiers Danses in Montreal on September 16th at 8pm in a shared program with Jane Mappin.
For tickets please visit HERE