KE’RON J. WILSON
RUNTIME: About 45 minutes with no intermission.
Portions of this performance contain the use of water based haze and strobing lights.
Photo by Alicia Steeves.
Choreographed by Ke'ron J. Wilson
Performed by
Angel Glasby
Gabby Gubitosi
Rae Su
Sound Design and Composition by Quique Rios-Ellis
Lighting Design by Connor Sale
This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
in essence is a movement-based performance work exploring trans embodiment, spiritual exile, and personal power. It draws on the history and ongoing realities of how trans and queer people have been demonized rather than recognized as healers, visionaries, and stewards of communal care.
Rooted in the understanding of transition as an alchemical process, the work abstracts the journey of self-inquiry, transformation, and becoming. It explores both the triumph and isolation that can emerge when one undergoes profound internal change alone, questioning what it means to reach new states of awareness without reflection, witness, or community.
Through ritual performance, voice, and movement, in essence examines the safety, recognition, and grounding that become possible when these journeys are shared collectively. At the same time, the work confronts the ongoing surveillance and politicization of trans bodies, asking what happens when joy, softness, intimacy, and self-possession are treated as threats. In this landscape, survival demands both vulnerability and resistance, transforming care, embodiment, and togetherness into acts of defiance.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ke’ron J. Wilson (she/they) is a New York City–based movement artist and choreographer whose interdisciplinary practice spans performance, text, and sound. Born in Lakeland, Florida, she began her training at Harrison School for the Arts and Florida Dance Theater before earning a BFA in Dance from Sam Houston State University in 2019. She was a founding member of Social Movement Contemporary Dance Theater and a recurring guest choreographer with Pilot Dance Project in Houston, TX (2018-2021).
Her work explores trans embodiment, alchemical processes, and the spiritual possibilities of using art-making as a tool for reclamation within the trans and queer community. Drawing on ritual performance and informed by occult symbolism, Jungian psychology, and shadow work, Ke’ron creates spaces that center care, compassion, and collective witnessing as pathways toward transformation. In addition to her performance work, she has facilitated wellness and meditation portals independently and in collaboration with Angelito Collective for NYC’s trans and queer community.
Recent support includes Movement Research’s Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship (2024), MNE’s Emerging Choreographer’s Series (2022–24), and WADEintoActivism / NYU Tisch’s PRIDE Residency (2023), and GALLIM’s Moving Artist Residency (2025).
Ke’ron is currently Triskelion Arts’ 2026 Artist-in-Residence and a performing artist with TRIBE (led by Shamel Pitts). @keronjwilson
Angel Glasby is an Afro-Caribbean artist, beaming with southern charm, integrating with the community in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Their work utilizes theater and movement to encapsulate the ephemeral nature of the black queer experience. Embarking on a fantasy-filled journey to return to the mundane, each piece is a conversation with oneself. The pressing question at the center is how to get closer to home. Angel has graced stages worldwide performing work in collaboration with choreographers such as Dorchel Haqq, Rena Butler, and Sidra Bell. Aided in the work by emerging artists such as Julian Pairre and Maxi Star Canon working as a consultant and dramaturge. @delicate.delusion
Gabby Gubitosi (he/him) is a New York City interdisciplinary trans dance artist whose work honors the embodied knowledge of his queer and Filipinx ancestors. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, he trained at Bodiography Center for Movement and Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts 6-12 before earning a B.A. in Contemporary Dance and Politics from The New School. He presents collaborative choreography with Daniela Garcia-Arce and are 2025-26 Resident Artists at the cell theater. Gabby has performed works by Rebecca Stenn, Vanessa Walters, and Ke’ron Wilson, while working as a Teaching Artist with New York City Ballet and National Dance Institute. @goobx2.0
Rae Su (he/they) is a dance artist from Seattle, Washington currently based in New York City and Taipei. Rae has had the joy to work with Barefeet Dance Theater 壞鞋子, Ke’ron J Wilson, Rosa Wolff, InTW 工作室, Max Derderian, and Dual Rivet on performance and choreographic projects. Rae’s choreographic work has been shown at Barnard College, Current Dance Showcase, The Clark Center, That Show, and The Brick’s ?!: New Works festival. @surachael
Quique is a Mexican American interdisciplinary artist from Long Beach, CA. They work with the mediums of videography, photography, poetry, sound design and music production. Their sonic worlds have scored performances and installations at Performance Space New York, The New York Public Library, Mabou Mines, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Chelsea Factory, Judson Memorial Church, telos.haus and Mark Morris Dance Center. Their poetry has been published in the winter 2025 edition of The Poetry Society of New York' s Milk Press Magazine and the May 2025 edition of SUBMISSION Beauty Magazine. More of their photography can be found in Submission Magazines 5 year anniversary edition. @le_quique
Connor Sale is a Brooklyn-based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include: The Closties Variety Hour; Farewell My Fool; til infiniti; The Suite; ENUF (Triskelion Arts), The Missing Fruit, Part 1 (New York City Center/Fall For Dance), Das Ersatz (The Brick), I want to hold onto something beautiful and empty (The Brick), MEOW! (Exponential Festival), With Tears (BEAMS), Femenine (PS21), the body || dust (Gibney), But, Soft (PAGEANT), and Sea Change (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). He’s toured internationally with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (École des Sables/Sadler’s Wells co-production), Akram Khan’s Gigenis, and Faye Driscoll’s Weathering. He’s interested in using the temporary nature of light to make people more active in space. More of his work can be found at connorsale.com and at @connorsalelight.
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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