2023 Artist Residency at BAM with Pioneers Go East Collective, a collective of radical queer performance and visual artists.
During the residency, Pioneers Go East Collective cohort of performance and visual artists will explore My Name'sound, a new dance-theatre and media inspired by Queer icons and literary geniuses James Baldwin and Audrey Lorde.
The Collective includes:
Daniel Diaz, Joey Kipp, Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Agosto Machado, Bryan Baira, Bree Breeden, Vanessa Rappa, Mark Tambella, Philip Treviño, Richard Morales, Azmi Mert Erdem, Jo Wiegandt.
Developed in 2021/22 at BRIC MEDIA ARTS (BRICLab Residency), and Center for Performance Research (AiR residency).
During the residency, Pioneers Go East Collective cohort of performance and visual artists will explore My Name'sound, a new dance-theatre and media inspired by Queer icons and literary geniuses James Baldwin and Audrey Lorde.
The Collective includes:
Daniel Diaz, Joey Kipp, Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Agosto Machado, Bryan Baira, Bree Breeden, Vanessa Rappa, Mark Tambella, Philip Treviño, Richard Morales, Azmi Mert Erdem, Jo Wiegandt.
Developed in 2021/22 at BRIC MEDIA ARTS (BRICLab Residency), and Center for Performance Research (AiR residency).
Rehearsed reading of
The Dream Pillow by Amanda L. Andrei
Directed by Gaven D. Trinidad
Saturday, June 24th at 3pm & 7pm
Provincetown Playhouse
On Palmie’s fourth birthday, her mother makes a special gift with her: an herbal dream pillow to help her connect with her Filipina grandmother. However, Palmie senses that an herb is missing. When she arrives in the dream world, she meets the child version of her grandmother, but also ends up losing her pillow. She and her grandmother search for both the pillow and the missing herb so that they can properly play in the dream world.
Sponsored by NYU Steinhardt as part of the New Plays for Young Audiences Festival
Click for more photos from the workshop rehearsals and performance!
The Dream Pillow by Amanda L. Andrei
Directed by Gaven D. Trinidad
Saturday, June 24th at 3pm & 7pm
Provincetown Playhouse
On Palmie’s fourth birthday, her mother makes a special gift with her: an herbal dream pillow to help her connect with her Filipina grandmother. However, Palmie senses that an herb is missing. When she arrives in the dream world, she meets the child version of her grandmother, but also ends up losing her pillow. She and her grandmother search for both the pillow and the missing herb so that they can properly play in the dream world.
Sponsored by NYU Steinhardt as part of the New Plays for Young Audiences Festival
Click for more photos from the workshop rehearsals and performance!
Above photo: WiP solo presentation at The Tank, Jaime Sunwoo
Written and Directed by Jaime Sunwoo Collaborators include Sound Designer/Lighting Designer Matt Chilton Video Designer Andrew Murdock Video Design Consultant Yudam Hyung-Seok Jeon Performers Ella Dershowitz, Dustin Fontaine, Vanessa Rappa, and Saadiq Vaughan. |
Above photo: Embodied rehearsal
Embodied Feb 4-5 at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014) Tickets livestream and in person at https://newohiotheatre.org/current-season/embodied/ March 4-5 at The Brick 579 Metropolitan Ave. In-person and livestream at www.bricktheater.com/event/embodied/2023-03-04/ In Embodied, four performers convey multiple layers of embodiment as they share the accounts of fifty-five interviewees all responding to a single prompt: “Describe a time you were acutely aware of your race.” Responses range widely– tense, awkward, vulnerable, insightful, defensive, comforting, and absurd– and are expressed through movement, verbatim performance, live sound manipulation, interactive projections, and live feed cameras. Embodied explores how we perceive messages when they’re being delivered by people with different race and gender identities and how individuals experience race in America– a survey of reflections, desires, insecurities, fears, and defenses as people analyze their perception of self and others. |
LEARNING HOW TO READ BY MOONLIGHT, Performance Ensemble.
Top row, L to R: Playwright Gaven Trinidad, Co-Director Mauricio Tafur Salgado, Co-Director and Puppet Designer Maria Camia, and Cast Member Sergio Mauritz Ang. Bottom Row, L to R: Cast Members Vanessa Rappa, Claro De Los Reyes, Kristian Espiritu, and Patrick Elizalde. Under the moonlight, six-year-old Eddie imagines a dragon eating moons and an imaginary friend teaching him English. His mother smokes as she prays to a statue of the Santo Niño. His father waits alone in Manila for their daily phone calls. Songs from a mythical giant turtle travel across oceans, but are drowned by the voices of Duterte and Trump on the television. As fantasy and reality become indistinguishable, the family is forced to learn how to articulate unspoken truths that will either break them or heal them. How will the weight of living undocumented in New York City force them to reevaluate their understanding of “community", “dreams”, and "home"? To assist the actors, a new narrator (a fellow artist, community organizer, or elected official) joins the cast every night. The narrator reads the play aloud to the audience, having neither seen the play nor read the entire script. The cast performs original music and songs to help tell the story. The play is spoken in English and Tagalog with subtitles and translation. |
From BroadwayWorld.com :
Leviathan Lab, a creative studio for Asian American Pacific Islander theatre artists, will present a nine-show, work-in-progress production run of LEARNING HOW TO READ BY MOONLIGHT, a new play by Gaven Trinidad (Rising Leader of Color, Theatre Communications Group), and directed by Mauricio Tafur Salgado (Co-Founder, Arts Ignite; Core Faculty, artEquity) and Maria Camia (THE HEALING SHIPMENT, Jumpstart Festival, La MaMa ETC). The developmental production is the culminating event of Leviathan Lab's designation as a recipient of the Episcopal Actors' Guild's (EAG) Open Stage Grant, which provides an active and emerging NYC theatre company six weeks of space and production support in EAG's historic performance space at Guild Hall in the Church of the Transfiguration at 1 East 29th Street, 2nd floor in Manhattan. EAG's Open Stage Grant is funded with generous support from the New York State Council of the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Teri Black Performance Fund. Tickets for Leviathan Lab's workshop production of LEARNING HOW TO READ BY MOONLIGHT are available on a sliding scale, $10 - $25, with proceeds being split between the charitable programs of EAG and Leviathan Lab. In addition, a portion of the proceeds will go to support Churches United for Fair Housing, a grassroots organization that works towards community empowerment through community organizing, youth engagement and by providing sophisticated social services. Reserve tickets and learn more about the show through Humanitix HERE! |
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Proud Sibling Alert: my brother put out a Demo in December called URBAN COWBOY
Listen to it and fall into the vibes. Check out his Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/wallygeba |
CreateART Works in Progress Showcase - November 2022
Curated by CreateART (@create.art.performance)
Video Footage by Effy Gray (@effygrey_photography)
Photos by Hilal Soreq (@hilalsoreq)
Curated by CreateART (@create.art.performance)
Video Footage by Effy Gray (@effygrey_photography)
Photos by Hilal Soreq (@hilalsoreq)
Bragging Rights: The Ultimate Sketch Comedy Experience. July 2022 Champions Bragging Rights NYC
Specially Processed American Me - World Premiere at Dixon Place, presented by Dixon Place, Free Rein Projects, and Ping Chong and Company. Created by Jaime Sunwoo, co-directed by Sunwoo and Karim Muasher
http://speciallyprocessed.com/
http://speciallyprocessed.com/