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to spiral seems to be the only option

 
In to spiral seems to be the only option, ferreira immerses her own body and person within the histories of the spirited many who leapt, sometimes together, from the slave-ships that were heading to Northern America and the Caribbean, and the underwater communities they formed. There is a parallel history between the archipelagos that hold New York City and the Dominican Republic, embodied in ferreira, too. One thinks of Marsha P. Johnson’s dead body that was found floating in the Hudson—the unknowns of her death, how she’d made a pact with Sylvia Rivera to “cross the River Jordan” together—or Mami Wata, Yemallá, and sister oceanic beings. to spiral seems to be the only option engages histories, mythologies, and the confluence of both across space and time, disrupting said spacetimematterings, opening our minds to the potential of para-knowability. Through ferreira’s work, we piece together new worlds by giving in to the fact that not everything makes sense—some is felt.
 

*ASL will be available on December 21. If you have any questions please email boxoffice@PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org.
 

Commissioned by Performance Space New York. This project is supported in part by a grant from the Jerome Foundation.

AIR

 
In AIR, Valencia creates a performance where she pays homage to the work of artists of Mexican descent, such as the Los Angeles based collective ASCO, and Mexican television and film characters like Don Ramon, El Chavo, Cantinflas or Maria Felix. She acknowledges that exposure to these figures has informed her work as much as New York’s experimental downtown dance history. It is a nod to generations of mestiza and Latinx artists who grew up in the United States existing in a hybridity of cultures, positioned in-between, learning how to belong and not belong to the one or the other.
 
In AIR, Valencia draws commonalities and kinships to this diaspora as they synthesize within her body of work and research as a Latina artist. Valencia shows us we are all listening through osmosis. This is all in her air, so to speak.
 
*ASL will be available on January 11. If you have any questions please email boxoffice@PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org.
 

Commissioned by Performance Space New York. AIR is made  possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Adonis Fuentes

My Names is Adonis Fuentes, I’m in my 3rd Year at Pratt Institute studying Advertising. One interesting thing about me is that I never learned to dance or have ever practiced dancing, but apparently, everywhere I go people can’t get enough of my moves.

Make Adonis dance!

$ 3 for 1 minute
$ 100 for 1 hour
$ 1000 for 6 hours
$ 2000 for 12 hours STRAIGHT!

or pay what you can!

 

Shari Loeffler

Shari Loeffler is a dancer, author, model and speaker whose work focuses on identity, beauty standards, and using movement as a mechanism for self discovery. As a performance artist she uses the feedback from her body to understand and process her emotions. From dancing to sports, each discipline unfolds a new psychological awareness of herself which fuels her constant journey to connect her mind, body and soul. Shari has over 15 years of formal training in ballet and has also performed modern, jazz, hip hop, ballroom, and Persian dance. There isn’t a dance floor in the world that Shari has said no to.

Make Shari dance!

$ 3 for 1 minute
$ 100 for 1 hour
$ 1000 for 6 hours
$ 2000 for 12 hours STRAIGHT!

or pay what you can!

 

Ray Allen Fritz

Make Ray Allen dance!

 

$ 3 for 1 minute
$ 100 for 1 hour
$ 1000 for 6 hours
$ 2000 for 12 hours STRAIGHT!

or pay what you can!

 

Ray Allen Fritz is a East Village Singer/Actor/Director with an insatiable appetite for classic disco and dirty funk.

He is happiest when dancing for hours and hours and hours…..he can’t wait for you to make him reach hour 12!!

Time to HUSTLE and SWEAT for RADICAL PROGRAMMING.

Photo By Blaine Pennington

 

 

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