SPLIT BILL #35

DECEMBER 2-4, 2021

Maxi Hawkeye Canion
-intermission-
SHA Creative Outlet
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BREAKTIME

Tonight’s performance and the lobby are being recorded for a video news feature for an as yet identified media outlet.

MAXI HAWKEYE CANION

The ribcage as it rusts
(excerpt of tomorrow as it will be...)

Hoarding the breath
Steam of the skin, I am in constant routine witnessing an arrival.
I wanna know who you are, who you used to be, when you will arrive

Process and Performance
Maxi Hawkeye Canion

Sound
Nazareth Hassan

Visual Installation
Myssi Robinson

Lighting Design
Matt Morris

Maxi Hawkeye Canion (they/them) is a Queer Agender Black Mexican-American movement artist. Originally from El Paso, TX, they are currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Their current research is physicalizing and conjuring intimate terrains through durational trances and feedback loops. Their work is a study of impermanence. Sifting through their innerverse, they are meeting dormant beasts with care and curiosity. @maxystarr

Myssi Robinson is a Bessie-nominated performer and maker from Richmond, VA. She has interpreted many dances. Her own practice currently involves creative archiving, mixed-media marking and spatial design. Intuition and empathy play with maximalist instinct to give life to the art that she makes. It whispers may we all heal. Gratitude to Carolyn Johnson and Darrin Robinson for her life and abilities to create freely within it. @myssirobinson

Nazareth Hassan is a writer, director, and musician. He’s feeling as though the cycles of change instigated by the last year of his (our) life may never end, and that brings him much comfort. www.nazarethhassan.com

Sending love to DJ Chappel (DualityJunkie), LIVIDO, Joy-Marie Thompson, Rebecca Margolick, and other collaborators in the development of this project and Triskelion Arts for housing my work

SHA Creative Outlet

Xs

In Xs, Shannon is exploring connections between humans, objects, and space. Every being in space is connected, and each will influence each other. A blink of an eye, a shoulder shudder, a wrinkling of the paper, will shift the connection. All the connections of sticky spider threads are pulling; straight, straight, queer queer queer, break. And reconnect. It is an ever-evolving spider web.

Choreography
Shannon Yu 余香儒

Performers
Shannon Yu 余香儒
Sarah Zucchero

Sound
Arabelle Luke, aka AirLoom Beats

Lighting Design
Matt Morris

SHA Creative Outlet is a company that is rooted in dance but showcases in many mediums including film, photography, design, animation, and live performances. Founded by Shannon Yu, SHA Creative Outlet is dedicated to the collaboration of different disciplines and values playfulness and exploration.

Shannon Yu 余香儒 is a Brooklyn, New York-based artist from Taiwan. She holds an MFA in Performance and Performance Studies from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University. Shannon identifies as a multi-disciplinary artist, dancer-choreographer, queer creator. Space, sound, imagery, movement, and textures call Shannon to allow art flow, Shannon has shown work in La Mama, Movement Research in Judson Memorial Church, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Prospect Park, The Landmark Loew's Theater, and has done residencies with Dance in Bushwick, Spoke the Hub, Chen Dance Center, and The Creators Collective.

Sarah Zucchero (she/her) is a dancer and creator, originally from Portland, Maine. Recently, Sarah has been feeling that her outer world is simply a poem and her internal poet can do whatever she wants. She is learning how to open her heart to death, and she is also laughing at the miraculous absurdity of what we are doing- being life.

Arabelle Luke, aka AirLoom Beats, is a Brooklyn-based beatboxer and educator showcasing the dynamics within her art form while emphasizing community. She facilitates programs in beatboxing, loopstation song production, and hip hop culture with participants of all backgrounds across the tristate area. When AirLoom isn't teaching, she incorporates her melody-driven style into original music. In 2020, Airloom was selected to be a US Hip-Hop Ambassador for Next Level USA, and will complete her first residency in The Ukraine. Emphasizing community, AirLoom moves forward with the desire to build hip hop positivity and consciousness through her business, Beatbox Express.

Special thanks to Material For The Arts for providing the materials needed for this piece. Love goes to my parents who trust and support me. Thank YOU for being here to enjoy the show.

BREAKTIME

nearly no props!

BREAKTIME has a habit of, after making long performances that involve little to no dancing, “decompressing” with shorter, bombastic, dance-heavy ditties to the music of Frank Zappa. Having recently created a long performance that involved little (but some) dancing, we thought it apt, at the close of this confusing year, on the cusp of a hiatus of our own, to both create another one of these sorts of dances, as well as to string it together with our previous two dances into one, three-part Zappa moving marathon.

Creation and Performance
Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán and Holly Sass / BREAKTIME

Music
*All music composed and performed by Frank Zappa
"Peaches en Regalia"
"Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus"
"Night School"
"Inca Roads"

Lighting Design
Matt Morris

BREAKTIME is a site-fluid reservoir for bad ideas, generated and performed by Holly Sass and Jonathan Matthews. Classmates at NYU, they were often cast together in a diverse array of work until joining forces in 2017 to participate in Tisch Dance’s Alumni Choreographic Mentorship with Gus Solomons, Jr. Since then, they have performed in and around the city and self-produced two evenings through the Tisch Dance Summer Residency Festival. The pair has been greatly nourished by residencies through the Jonah Boaker Arts Foundation, Create:ART, and The Croft, and, most recently, took part in Almanac Dance Circus Theatre’s Cannonball Festival in the 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Interested in independent initiatives, BREAKTIME participated in the first annual Land Falls residency, founded by Jemila MacEwan, and helped convert Bridget Struthers’ Brattleboro barn into a shared performance space. BREAKTIME has enjoyed multimedia liaisons with director Julia Barrett-Mitchell, choreographer-costumer Maddie Schimmel, installation artist Dave Hannon, cinematographer Derrick Belcham, screenwriter Jonah Greenstein, and brass quartet, The Westerlies.

​​Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán is a nonbinary, Memphis-born / New York-based performance doer-maker-teacher of Irish and Puerto Rican descent. Holding a BFA from NYU Tisch Dance, they now accompany classes and direct the Tisch Dance Alumni Choreographic Mentorship. Jonathan dances with Darrah Carr Dance, mishiDance, and Valerie Green / Dance Entropy, and, with Holly Sass, co-founded BREAKTIME. Jonathan was a 2021 Curatorial Fellow in Dance through SMUSH Gallery. They have written for Eye on Dance, The Dance Enthusiast, Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Time Out NY, Dancegeist, and The Journal of Dance Education. They sing with the Cecilia Chorus of New York and teach full-time at The Calhoun School.

Holly Sass is a genderqueer, Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist and bodyworker. They studied dance at NYU Tisch, and have performed with 2nd Best Dance Company, Gallim Dance, Indah Walsh Dance Company, Brendan Duggan & Mallory Rosenthal, 10 Hairy Legs, Ashley Robicheaux, Lone King Projects, and the Merce Cunningham Trust. They have directed movement in music videos for Norah Jones' Puss N Boots, Iris Lune, beccs and Charlotte Jacobs. For Isaac & Robi, they directed, performed, and edited the music video “Indigo Sky." As a film editor, their work has been presented at Dance On Camera, Create: ART, and SMUSH Gallery. Holly was a 2021 artist in residence at Triskelion Arts.

Lighting Design

Matt Morris is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer with a wide array of lighting design experience including theater, dance and movement, music events, comedy, broadcast, and even theme park lighting. He has designed in various parts of the US from New York to California, as well as internationally in England, Scotland and Dubai. He has had the privilege of designing at Triskelion Arts since 2019 and his Trisk credits include Jamal Jackson Dance Company's "846", 2nd Best Dance Company "Red", and Nicole Wolcott's "Luggage Lost".

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