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Watching Storyboard P dance feels like glimpsing into another world. His dancing reminds us that our conventional understandings of what a human body is, what it can do, and where it starts and ends, are insufficient. As an acclaimed street dancer Storyboard’s lineage is Flex, but as an artist he might be more of an Afrofuturist. Using an otherworldly combination of skill, beauty, poetry, and emotion his dancing collapses space and time into an alternative universe.

When Storyboard talks about dance, he becomes a visionary poet—speech is a vessel for body language, dance a way to speak without speaking, a slang of movement that can carry vibrations like the animation of a stop motion film. “My style is Mutant. As a mutant my power is to project a sequence of images through my body that tells an elaborate story to music. The power to storyboard / ballet / jazz / African / contemporary / bruk up / flex / boogaloo.”


Co-Produced with Arika, the political arts organization from Scotland, UK, who Performance Space collaborated with on I wanna be with you everywhere festival of disability aesthetics in 2019. Film Still courtesy of Cinque Northern (cropped into heart).

Transcendence

 

Featuring: Lexii Foxx, Ameirah Neal, Alethia Rael, Chella Man, and a film produced by Pilar Adara.

The artist, Puppies Puppies, has throughout her career declared unexpected objects, places, and actions as art. Though she used to obscure her identity by famously sleeping through studio visits and showing up in costumes to her own exhibition openings, she recently revealed her identity as an Indigenous/Japanese/2S+ trans woman. No longer willing to hide, she now uses her name, Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo, and asserts art in the everyday of her own life which is centered around the trans community that emerged from a protest group that gathered every week for over a year at Stonewall.

When Performance Space New York asked Kuriki-Olivo to do a commission she extended the invitation to her community of collaborators and trans sisters. Together they proposed to launch the TGNC Resilience Gala and Awards honoring leaders in the trans/GNC/2S+ community. Manifesting the saying, “Give Black trans women their roses while they’re still alive,” the performance-filled award show is set along a glamorous runway beneath cascading roses and extends into this group exhibition that features a film about the group and serves as a platform for lectures, performances, concerts, open mics, and an Octopus event on March 15.

Events

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An evening of performances by artists Beaujangless and Chella Man.

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A collective conversation and action around health and healing.

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Alethia and her worker-owned cooperative will share a series of short films that they’ve written, produced, edited, and directed. Upon completion the actors and audience members will have the opportunity to have an open discussion where they are encouraged to ask and answer each other’s questions. This will lead us into our final act – Musical Therapy! The instruments utilized to initiate sound healing will be played using an Ameri-Indigenous tradition of PanFlute along with the Tibetan tradition of using singing sound bowls which will produce vibrations that one can feel as another creates the sound. Alethia’s intention is to have audience members leave Performance Space with less anxiety, feelings of being overwhelmed, feelings of being over-worked, and instead, filled with intention and being well rested once they arrive home.

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A night of celebration and fellowship! This will be a special evening to bring together the community to reflect on their chosen family—their sisters, brothers, and gender non-conforming siblings.

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Empowerment Runway will feature an empowerment photoshoot; raffle; clothing giveaway; free gender-affirming cosmetics; and HIV, STI, and Hep C testing.

TGNC Resilience Gala and Awards

Host: Dani Davis
Featuring: Lexii Foxx , Kaiya, Kammy-Rae, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), and Alethia Rael.

Manifesting the saying, “Give Black trans women their roses while they’re still alive,” the TGNC Resilience Gala and Awards acknowledges the fragility of the lives of our trans/GNC/2S+ people, the life expectancy disparities they suffer, and the accolades they deserve for existing in their truths despite society’s many attempts to hide and harm them. 

Set along a glamorous runway beneath cascading roses, the performance-filled award show is hosted by a community of collaborators and sisters that emerged from a protest group that gathered every week in 2020 and honors three of their leaders, Tahtianna Candy Fermin (CEO/ Founder of Bridges4Life), Lexii Foxx (Founder of Stop Killing Us), Qween Jean (CEO/Founder of Black Trans Liberation). The event brings elements of protest, ballroom dance, and partying into a bedazzled red carpet award ceremony format—and reframes them all as art in a subsequent group exhibition titled Transcendence.

The evening’s proceeds go to Bridges4Life, Black Trans Liberation, and Stop Killing Us.

Octopus

Performers: quori theodor, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, and Morena Espiritual

The octopus has nine brains, one located in its head and eight in its arms. Every arm senses the surrounding world and thinks with autonomy, and yet, each arm is part of the animal. Using this decentralized nervous system as an inspiration for Performance Space New York’s curatorial practice, the Octopus series invites artists and guest curators to individually organize an evening-length program with several artists working in any number of disciplines. Octopus continues Performance Space’s legacy of artist-centric programming and creating space for the exploration of ideas free from expectations.


Octopus: Taino Needle Science

Standing On The Corner Art Ensemble presents…

Taino Needle Science: Drone Acupuncture, a guerilla-style clinic introducing a new treatment modality for the present. Bringing together forms of minimalist music and the revolutionary detox acupuncture protocol known as “NADA” originated by Puerto Rican and Black community activists combating the heroin plague in the 1970s, Drone Acupuncture continues the search for alternative forms of treatment methods for marginalized and oppressed people; ones that are accessible, non-chemical, paired with political education, and committed to upholding the principle that the ability to choose and control one’s healthcare is a basic human right.

The clinic itself asserts that the chemical warfare waged against Black and Puerto Ricans did not prevail and calls all who are suffering to come receive Acupuncture! Set to the sounds of the Standing On The Corner Art Ensemble performing “Music for Acupuncture”, for Sextet and Prepared Piano.

“Taino Needle Science” is dedicated to the work and power of Dr. Mutulu Shakur, in collaboration with Walter Bosque del Rio (Young Lords, BAAANA) to administer the “People’s Protocol”.

About Octopus
The octopus has nine brains, one located in its head and eight in its arms. Every arm senses the surrounding world and thinks with autonomy, and yet, each arm is part of the animal. Using this decentralized nervous system as an inspiration for Performance Space New York’s curatorial practice, the Octopus series invites artists and guest curators to individually organize an evening-length program with several artists working in any number of disciplines. Octopus continues Performance Space’s legacy of artist-centric programming and creating space for the exploration of ideas free from expectations.

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