APRIL 27 & 28, 2023
Runtime: 70 minutes with intermission
Please note: portions of this evening contain haze.
EFFY GREY
grey.doc
Created and Performed by Effy Grey
Dramaturge
Desirae Vasquez
Sound
Valgeir Sigurðsson, who created a special edit for this work.
Other music by Zoë Keating, Liam Byrne, Demdike Stare, Garth Stevenson, Jóhann Jóhannsson,and from Fleabag.
Edited by Effy Grey
Costumes
Effy Grey
with special mention to Andrea Lauer who was ready to make the most gorgeous transition dress that couldn’t happen. Check her out for the best jumpsuits.
WEBSITE: www.effygrey.com
INSTAGRAM: @greywitch6
VENMO: @effy-grey
EFFY GREY
Effy Grey is a dance artist, photographer and veterinary technician living in Brooklyn, NY. They started dancing by taking elective classes at Ohio State University while obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Zoology. Effy worked with wonderful local choreographers in Columbus for both dance and aerial arts as well as being supported through a Columbus Dances Fellowship. After moving to Brooklyn, though guided towards dance photography, opportunities came to perform with BoyFriday, Baira MVMNT PHLSPHY and Coco Karol while cultivating a process to create their own work. In 2019 Effy was a Fellow for the Leimay OUTSIGHT series, which was performed in NYC as a quartet and Berlin as a solo, focusing on connection, hope and a touch of queerness. Effy is still continuing to advance those themes within their physicality and storytelling to generate more accessibility to less explored queer and social experiences.
SPECIAL THANKS
Barbara, whose name is a prayer. Thomas for coordinating my schedules. Sidei and Barbara for coming on their birthday week. Amanda for covering shifts. Tamra and Dez for their constant support. And my mom for not questioning this choice. Elyse Mertz for photographing and Rebecca Oviatt for filming. Thanks to all the people who believed in me. The trisk team- Anna, Miriam, Hannah, Cameron and Rachel And a special thanks for everyone who came. The light glows.
-INTERMISSION-
BEATRIZ CASTRO
Flat Circles
Choreography by Beatriz Castro
Performers:
Kyra Akia Naomi Ferguson
Kar'mel Antonyo Wade Small
Ragin Smith
Caleb Austin Patterson Yañez
Music credits:
Ran Kan Kan - Tito Puente
Original composition by Johnny Butler
Guajira Sicodelica - Los Destellos
WEBSITE: www.beacastrom.com
INSTAGRAM: @beacastrom
VENMO: @bcastro1
BEATRIZ CASTRO
Beatriz Castro is a movement artist from Costa Rica, currently based in New York City. She received a BFA in Dance and a BA in Business from Marymount Manhattan College where she performed in works by Earl Mosley, Anthony Morigerato, Chase Brock, Tami Stronach, and Sidra Bell. Since graduating, Beatriz has performed with NYC-based groups Spark Movement Collective and Verbal Animal. They have also appeared in HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness and the On Running x MoMA PS1 campaign under the movement direction of Damani Pompey. Internationally, she has performed self-choreographed work at the Graciela Moreno Choreographers Festival, the longest-running contemporary dance event in Costa Rica. They have presented work at Arts On Site, Bridge for Dance, Green Space, The Mark O’Donnell Theater, Triskelion Arts and Dixon Place. Beatriz has been awarded residencies for the exploration and development of new work through the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, MOtiVE Brooklyn, and Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative. Beatriz is also part of the Artist Crew with Luminous Tour and a certified yoga instructor.
KYRA AKIA NAOMI FERGUSON
Kyra Akia Naomi Ferguson is a first generation, Grenadian-American, raised in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and Marymount Manhattan College; with the completion of he BFA in Dance with a minor in Sociology. While she spent majority of her training concentrating in Modern, Ballet, and Contemporary. She is currently taking a step away from concert dance to explore different styles of movement, specifically pole and her modeling career.
KAR’MEL ANTONYO WADE SMALL
Kar’mel Antonyo Wade Small is an interdisciplinary artist from the South Bronx who has performed works by the likes of Kyle Abraham, Damani Pompey, Sidra Bell, Kevin Wynn, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Kayla Farrish, and Ohad Naharin. After graduating from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and SUNY Purchase, Kar’mel has been featured in TELFAR TV and HBO’s Random Act of Flyness. On October 2022, Kar’mel joined A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham and has been on tour with the company. The company will be performing at the Joyce Theater from April 4th through the 9th.
RAGIN SMITH
Ragin is a dance artist based in Brooklyn. She has presented her work at The Tank, Fabled Narcissism, ESTIA Day Fest, and as an artist in residence at Chez Bushwick. In 2020, Ragin received a BFA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College. Since then she has performed works by Brendan Fernandes, Evan Ray Suzuki, Morgan Bobrow-Williams, Troy Ogilvie, La Intrusa Company, and others. Alongside her freelance projects, Ragin is a collaborator with Hivewild, Verbal Animal, Wet Hairy Women, MORISATO, and Alison Chase Performance. She works closely with Haley Morgan Miller and Nathan Dies to produce the Fabled Narcissism arts events.
CALEB PATTERSON
Caleb began professional training In 2014 at The Joffrey Ballet School where he performed works for several notable choreographers such as Nathan Trice, Rena Butler, and Patrick O’Brien. After Joffrey, he found work with Maleek Washington, Emily Greenwell, and Kayla Farrish. He can be seen in HBO’s Random Acts Of Flyness, led by Domani Pompey. He recently choreographed and performed his own work, “Mariposa” in collaboration with saxophonist Johnny Butler. Caleb is currently working with Kar’mel Small, MATHETA dance, Kayla Farrish, LaneCoArts, Emily Greenwell, and Spark Movement Collective.
JOHNNY BUTLER
Johnny Butler is a Grammy, Obie, and Lucille Lortell-award winning musician who plays sax, flute, clarinet, piano, composes, engineers audio, dances, choreographs, and makes films. Using a wireless microphone and a batch of devices, Butler creates sonic soundscapes while moving about space, blending the music, the dancer, and the daydream. Butler has released five albums on London’s Hi4Head Records—most recently The Sunbather (2022) and Thirteen Dances (2020)—and has worked alongside many of his idols including Beyoncé, Stevie Wonder, Donald Fagen (Steely Dan), Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers), Wynton Marsalis, Heather Christian, The Levon Helm Band, and Tune-Yards.
Flat Circles was supported by the For the Artists! Residency Program at MOtiVE Brooklyn.
SPECIAL THANKS
Special thanks to Abigail Chenard, Taylor Hollingsworth and Emily Dail for their help in developing key sections of this work, to Michelle Thompson Ulerich for her willingness and flexibility, and Vicki Downey for her support. To the Trisk team, for seeing me and giving me this opportunity. A mis papás, siempre.
In memory of Troy Neckles.
LIGHTING DESIGNER & DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION
Anna Wotring, a Pittsburgh native, is a community minded dance artist, designer and production stage manager committed to the practice of collaborative leadership. She currently works with Annie Heath, Lauren Horn, Jennifer Nugent and slowdanger as a technical design consultant, dancer, and production stage manager. Wotring obtained her BFA in Dance, at the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a multitude of dance organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Monica Bill Barnes and Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is beyond excited to begin working and imagining with the Trisk team. @annaissupercool
STAGE MANAGER
Cameron Barnett is a multi-faceted artist with interests in choreography, direction, dramatic writing, sound design, and performance. He frequently designs sound for his own dance-theater work, and has previously created sound for Boy Friday (You Always Do This to Me, PLUSH), Selene Carter (“Indiana Puts her Trust in Thought,” “Flags in the Middle of Nowhere”), and others. Website: cameronjbarnett.com
We respectfully acknowledge that the work of Triskelion Arts is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We pay our respects to their land, water, and ancestors, past, present, and future. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and to learning to be better stewards of this land.
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