TRISK ANNOUNCES THE FALL 2025 PERFORMANCE SEASON

For Immediate Release
AUGUST 28, 2025
BROOKLYN, NY - Triskelion Arts is honored to announce the 2025 Fall Performance Season.

Trisk is proud to continue its meaningful five-year partnership with Beyond the Black Box (BBB), an organization dedicated to uplifting the beauty and cultural influence of the Black dance community. The Black Black Black Week, is their annual celebration that amplifies the BBB mission through curated performances, offerings, and direct support for creative work.

The fall season will feature additional collaborations with artists in the Trisk family. SHA Creative Out (founded by Shannon Yu) will premiere the solo ...all knowing 瞭然. Trisk has been supporting Shannon Yu’s work in various capacities since 2018, including the Split Bill series, evening-length premieres, and more. Hannah Garner’s 2nd Best Dance Company returns to Trisk with Slumber, first premiered in December 2021. Trisk has supported the company since 2019, when Hannah was named an Artist-in-Resident. These continued collaborations reflect the Trisk commitment to deepening artistic relationships and championing the growth of choreographers over time.

The season will showcase siz early-career NYC-based dance and movement artists, through the Trisk SPLIT BIILL program. This season’s SPLIT BILL artists are Luna Beller-Tadiar, tidbit collective, Akane Little, Lambkin, Ariana Speight, and Cristina Moya-Palacios. This platform provides a professional performance opportunity in an artist-focused environment with equitable access to resources.

The Fall 2025 Performance Season reaffirms Trisk’s role as both a creative haven for artists and a cultural home for the community. Trisk continues to champion experimentation, equity, and sustainability—fueling dance that resonates, reflects, and transforms.

SEPTMEBER 17-19, 7:30PM
THE BLACK BLACK BLACK WEEK
BY BEYOND THE BLACK BOX

THE LINE UP

(9.17) WEDNESDAY

Ishmael Houston-Jones
Victoria Lynn Awkward
Black Lazarus

(9.18) THURSDAY

Kar’mel Antonyo Wade Small
JOYBOY
Black Lazarus

(9.19) FRIDAY

Taylor Stanley
Jasmine Hearn
Christian A. Warner

The BBB Team will perform every night.

A Note from the Curators:

Hey Family!

We’re BACK, we’re BLACK, and we’re more excited than ever to celebrate Year three of The BLACK BLACK BLACK Week, a three-day gathering of dancers, choreographers, and multidisciplinary artists presented at our home-away-from-home, Triskelion Arts.

Doors open at 6:30pm for you to experience: our signature community mural, active photo booth, curated cocktails, soulfood, breathwork, and meditation will all be a part of your experience on September 17- 19th, 2025. 

With a handpicked curation by the BBB team you are guaranteed to have a Black A** night!!

At 7:30 we commence our performances with guided breathwork facilitated by Karine Plantadit and drumming by Kala Brame.

This year’s theme is FAMILY REUNION, and we mean that in every way! This event invites everyone to experience the warmth and unity of a family gathering, whether you’re coming with your favorite cousin, an elder, or by yourself. These gatherings are about more than cookouts or matching T-shirts. They are about healing, reclaiming legacy, and imagining a future where we continue to uplift one another. We will honor the trailblazers who have paved the way, reflect on their legacy, and celebrate the joy of simply being together. 

As a huge part of this year’s theme, BBB emphasizes the importance of healing and rest. The event will include moments of reflection and activities designed to rejuvenate the spirit. With dance, music, food, and conversation, BBB reminds us that we are a family bound by love, respect, and a shared commitment to growth and well-being. This reunion is a chance to come together, celebrate our heritage, and carry forward the strength of community into the future.

We can’t wait to share what’s in store!

Beyond the Black Box (BBB) is an arts and cultural organization dedicated to amplifying Black voices, fostering connections, and educating through immersive experiences. Our mission is to celebrate, honor, and uplift the Black dance community by creating supportive spaces for artists to thrive. Motivated by a desire to address the lack of representation and support we encountered in our own journeys, we are committed to promoting inclusiveness, fairness, and visibility in the dance world.

BBB achieves its mission by producing dynamic multidisciplinary works, including live dance productions, community engagement initiatives, mentorship programs, and educational opportunities. Our approach seamlessly weaves together elements of popular culture with boundless enthusiasm, showcasing the remarkable accomplishments of our community.

With your support, BBB will continue to empower Black dancers and artists who champion social and political principles of inclusivity, fairness, and visibility, ultimately enriching the cultural tapestry of our community. Together, we will create a brighter future where Black voices are celebrated and heard through the transformative power of the arts.

OCTOBER 23-25, 8PM
SPLIT BILL #45
LUNA BELLER-TADIAR | TIDBIT COLLECTIVE

LUNA BELLER-TADIAR
Mercury / from our oceans they took their cloud

Mercury thinks about the ongoingness of colonialism in the age of AI, about bodies and capacities under conscription and capture, with a nod to the anthropological observations of Southeast Asia among the origins of cybernetics. Inspired by invisibilized Filipino service labor, and by queer and diasporic labors of transformation, Mercury presents a mercurial body that becomes a substrate, a platform for shifting codes of use, uncannily animated by unseen forces. Undeniably live, yet, to a modern/colonial viewer, not quite human, this figure plies the continuities between NPCs, the robot, the animal, and the colonized. Through the body's transformations, sociality erupts into the nowhere, non-space of the virtual, making sensible worlds that are the lifeblood of the machine.

Luna Beller-Tadiar (she/they) is a queer mixed-US-Filipinx multi-media artist and performer who works in movement, words, and images. Her work excavates a body language made up of fragments: remnants of lands, peoples, and machines. Drawing on movement training in aikido, capoeira, tango, and contemporary dance, she takes inspiration from queer collaborative fabulation; from postcolonial Filipino practices of mimicry and re-use; and from contemporary interfacing of the body and technology.

Luna’s choreography-performance work has been shown at Movement Research Judson Church; Ailey Theater; Mark Morris Dance Center; the 92NY; ADF’s Movies by Movers festival; CICA Museum; Duke University; Yale University; in La Union (Philippines); in Buenos Aires (Argentina); and in 2024 earned her recognition as a Jadin Wong Artist of Exceptional Merit from the Asian American Art Alliance. Luna teaches queer tango, regularly in NYC at The Center for LGBT Life, and as invited (Berkeley, Paris, Lyon, Detroit, Buenos Aires). @lunalunabt

TIDBIT COLLECTIVE
v500 (working title)

We are exploring the multiplication that happens with the updating of the self: v1, v2, v50, v500, each with individual trajectories but a shared point of inception. How it feels to be searching for sameness while insisting on your individuality to the point of evolution. Synthesizing the infinite landscape of sociocultural output and the resulting weight of an urgency to comment, to connect our experiences with others via participation in pop culture, content creation, having an opinion. Searching and yearning for an echo, someone else who is saying what we’re saying but with a sharper vocabulary or a hotter take or someone who is saying exactly what we’re saying but in a cooler outfit and from a more stylish apartment.

tidbit collective is a women-led collective that is engaged with methods of worldbuilding as a means to reconstruct the everyday. Our work architects spaces of possibility using the conditions of performance as an indicator of reality. We use the generational consumption and digestion of media paired with our individual and collective subscriptions to pop culture as a main source of material for our work. tidbit has performed at the 14th Street Y, SAA, 28th Street Theatre (TADA), La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, PAGEANT, and Arts On Site. @tidbit_collective

NOVEMBER 6-8, 8PM
SHA CREATIVE OUTLET
...all knowing 瞭然

...all knowing 瞭然 (reads as “dotted line all knowing) is an solo, multidisciplinary performance exploring the transitional state between past and future, focusing on the present moment where temporalities converge; All Knowing emphasizes the power of change that connects us all. I hold a magnifying glass up to myself, inviting audiences to witness the intricacies of my being — the flaws, the brilliance, the humanity. In turn, I extend this lens outward, reflecting on New York, Taiwan, queerness, displacement, and, ultimately, you.

Collaborating with rehearsal assistant Maddie Hopfield, musician Quijiang Levi Lu, video artist Jan Suphitcha, and lighting designer Matt Morris. I’m drawing movement language from Wing Tsun, Contemporary floorwork, Krump, Waving, Breaking, in conjunction with string installation, projections, live animation, and sound design, this performance is a journey of alchemizing chaotic forces within and finding dynamic equilibrium- present in the power of now.

SHA CREATIVE OUTLET
SHA Creative Outlet was founded in 2021 by Shannon Yu in Brooklyn, New York. Shannon streamlines Hip Hop, Contemporary dance, and Wing Tsun Martial Arts with video projection and sound design, portraying connections between identity and geometry. Sha holds an MFA in Performance and Performance Studies from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University. Shannon is 2023 Asian American Arts Alliance’s Jadin Wong Fellow for Dance.

The multimedia dance company has shown work at Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, Abrons Art Center, National Sawdust, The Landmark Loew's Theater, and has been awarded residencies with Dance in Bushwick, Chen Dance Center, New Dance Alliance, The Center at West Park. The company’s credits include Performance Mix Festival, the Evolution Festival, YES! Dance Festival, Your Moves Dance Festival, Queer Mvmnt Festival, Inter-Grant Festival and WOW Festival. @shacreativeoutlet

NOVEMBER 14, 8PM
CLEO REED
CO-PRESENTED WITH ABRONS ARTS CENTER

cuntry: wip

Cleo Reed arrives with a work in process performance in development towards their 2026 premiere at Abrons Arts Center.

CLEO REED

Ella Josephine Julia Moore is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practices uses participatory art, music composition, instrument-making, bandleading, installation and fabric arts. Under the alias Cleo Reed, they complete musical projects that are rooted in their ancestral & cultural lineage. Recently, they developed software instruments for Jon Batiste’s “American Symphony” at Carnegie Hall. Their debut album project, “Root Cause" was released in 2023 and alongside the work they premiered a self-directed performance art piece titled “Black American Circus” at AFROPUNK Festival, Banlieues Bleues in Paris, and Brooklyn Museum. In July 2025, Reed released their sophomore album "Cuntry," receiving widespread critical acclaim from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Brooklyn Magazine, and more. Reed works toward a future that enables them to realize intentional creative endeavors and encourage joy within collaborative spaces such as museums, theaters, and unseen spaces. In their practice, they are currently drawn to notions of tradition, dissolving the binary, making noise, and breaking the barrier between artist and audience. @cleoforshort

Abrons Arts Center 

Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. A core program of the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons believes that access to the arts is essential for a thriving city. Through performance presentations, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the transformative power of art. 

NOVEMVER 20-22, 8PM
SPLIT BILL #46
AKANE LITTLE | LAMBKIN

Akane Little
formaldehyde

formaldehyde begins with a mortal body hypnotized by fantasies of material preservation. In a soundscape of sparkling commercials, the body is seduced by promises of anti-decay - glitter, Botox, embalming, competition dance. As the body processes each material, it is pulled towards a fantasy state of eternally preserved death. This state, inherently untenable, cracks at its edges as the body is consumed and alchemized by rot and fungi - offering a re-entry into a different eternity.

Akane Little is a Brooklyn-based dance artist approaching the body and performance as an altar-portal for transmuting energy and channeling worlds. They started off in competition dance in a small-town studio in Mississippi, and continued on to study contemporary dance under Alysia Ramos at Oberlin College. They have freelanced in both Cleveland, OH (Catherine Meredith, Megan Young, Madi Jackson, Rebecca Burcher, and more) and New York City (Kinesis Project, Boy Friday, Hivewild, Hard/Femme Dances, God Complex x Aeon Andreas, Nick Brooke, Michael Chinworth, Chaesong Kim, and more). Commercial credits include Bridget Kearney (Lake Street Dive), Carolina Oliveros (Combo Chimbita), Tom Petty, and Sam Smith. Since 2023, they have been a core member of the LEIMAY Ensemble under the direction of Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya. @akane.little

Lambkin
They won't love you quite like i do

In They won't love you quite like i do, D tries to shake loose of the possessive spirit of her home.

Lambkin is a musician and choreographer whose distinct mélange of electronic music, modern dance, and experimental theatre takes up Blackness as the break that might rupture our attachments to Worlds, territories, and Man. @biglillamb

DECEMBER 4-6, 8PM
SPLIT BILL #47
ARIANA SPEIGHT | CRISTINA MOYA-PALACIOS

ARIANA SPEIGHT
PSA

pubic: of, related to, or situated near the pubes or pubis

PSA, Pubic Service Announcement, is a call and response. 

Dance, humor, and other liberatory practices initiate a dialogue between the bodies currently and formerly inhabiting the space, revealing an accumulation of selves. Rooted in blackness and steeped in spontaneity, this work invites tangible histories and amorphous memories to surface. These radical acts of resistance are compositional activations that aim to disrupt the crippling systems of capitalism, patriarchy, and war. As our government and global powers continue to fund genocide, militarization, and surveillance, the targeting and brutalizing of QTBIPOC communities has increased exponentially, ultimately limiting our freedoms and censoring our voices. PSA centers storytelling and oral composites, amplifying connection, introduction, interruption, lineage, and relationship.

Ariana Speight is a contemporary dance artist invested in researching the curiosities of life through various mediums. She has worked with a number of artists: Kayla Farrish, Joanna Kotze, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Kyle Marshall, Anna Sperber, and Jessie Young. She has performed at BAAD, BAX, Chelsea Factory, Coffey Street, CPR, Dancewave, Danspace, Lincoln Center Hearst Plaza, NYLA, Pageant, Roulette, The Shed, Irondale, The Tank, Webster Hall, among others. As a maker, she has shared many solos including: endearing indifference, loading... <all systems functioning>, an introduction, morph, the call, Vent & Drain and VENTing. As a 2024 CPR AiR, she presented an OPEN LAB: DIGITAL ARCHIVE and OPEN AiR: cocoon. Venturing into standup comedy, she was most notably featured in the Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. She most recently shared work in the Performance Mix Festival #39 and AUNTS Festival. She graduated from Rutgers University - NB with a BFA in Dance. @arianamariespeight

CRISTINA MOYA-PALACIOS
All Immerican Dream Girl!

All Immerican Dream Girl! aims to shine a light on the complexity of the immigrant experience in the United States by commenting on “The American Dream” from the perspective of a Latina “Dreamer”, otherwise known as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. Through overwhelming bouts of extreme physicality and segments that never seem to settle, viewers enter a simulation of the taxing cycles, frustrating resets and restarts, unraveling, and inability to move forward that the immigration process entails. This work takes us on a journey to nowhere via completely pathless attempts at assimilation that ultimately lead to a reckoning of the crumbling facade this empire has tried to sell us.

Cristina Moya-Palacios is a Venezuelan-born, Miami-raised artist with a BFA from New World School of the Arts. She’s had the pleasure of working with Adele Myers and Dancers, Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Bobbi Jene Smith, and Michelle Dorrance. Now in Brooklyn, she’s performing with Kashia Kancey, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Skyla Schreter Dance, and Luis A. Lara Malvacías. Most recently, she presented solo work in Performance Mix Festival 39, at L’SPACE Gallery for New York Textile Month, and in Xenoduo’s installation performances at Sunset Park and Union Square. Cristina was a New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist in 2024 and a GALLIM Moving Artist in 2025. She also received the highly coveted title of “Miss Pageant” after performing her work in Pageant’s 3rd Anniversary Gala. Beyond performing, Cristina enjoys crafting sonic scores and choreographing work focusing on the immigrant experience, Latine identity, and surrealism through through rigorous movement and theater. @pmoyacristina

DECEMBER 11-13, 8PM
2ND BEST DANCE COMPANY
SLUMBER

This is a story we know, kind of, with princes and magic and good vs evil and epic battles with ugly dragons. But it’s also something we kind of made up. And are still making up. A story we are telling right now. Even if it scares us. A story about waiting. Even if we don't know what comes next. Or if it will be worth it. Even if waiting becomes "the thing" instead of the thing we are waiting for. Suppose we tell it anyway. Suppose we tell it together.

Slumber (2021) is an evening-length work by Hannah Garner's 2nd Best Dance Company that walks the fuzzy line between dance and play to share a well-known story about waiting: Sleeping Beauty. Slumber counters the perception that waiting is a passive state, wonders how we make meaning, and questions what is valued in live performance and, subsequently, what is valued in life itself.

2ND BEST DANCE COMPANY

Led by Artistic Director Hannah Garner, 2nd Best Dance Company creates, performs, and teaches physically rigorous, sometimes virtuosic, almost always slapstick dance-plays. Based in New York City, the company believes in art-making that is exploratory, empathetic, and goofy; values feeling over reality and seeks our truest sensations over absolute truth; blends humor and tragedy while tackling “topics like death and queer identity through rigorous, inventive movement and wit” (Dance Magazine); and grapples with big ideas in very human (aka messy) ways.

Since its founding in 2016, 2nd Best has used its practice and platform to play out absurdist scenes: moving, performing text, singing, utilizing props, unconventionally handling proscenium spaces, and asking the audience to play active roles or even perform in the work. 2nd Best tackles big topics, plays very seriously, and leans into hunches that take us to uncertain and often ridiculous places all to ask: what does it mean to be alive? @2ndbestdance

TICKETS

EARLY BIRDS
$22 / $30 SUPERFAN / $50 🌟 SUPPORTER
$17 HEARTS
AT-THE-DOOR
$26 / $30 SUPERFAN / $50 🌟 SUPPORTER
$17 HEARTS

All seating is general admission.

What's Behind Our Ticketing Tiers?
We are thrilled to launch our new tiered ticketing, crafted to prioritize maximum compensation for our incredible artists, fair wages for our production team, and inclusive ticket prices for all our performances. This structure also addresses the financial challenges of producing live performances in NYC by aligning ticket costs more closely with the actual, unsubsidized value of each seat. Our ticket options now range from $17 to $50. Regardless of the ticket price, every attendee will enjoy the same magical experience.

Triskelion Arts, lovingly referred to as Trisk, is a nonprofit organization, live performance venue, and rehearsal space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, offering NYC-based dance and movement artists high-quality, sustainable opportunities to create and present work. Trisk partners with artists creating trailblazing work that broadens the cultural dialogue and elevates its community’s many voices and perspectives. Trisk is a home for artists and audiences to connect, to make art happen, to make magic. Trisk presents artists practicing, crafting, mining, experimenting, speaking up, and speaking out.

Trisk Presents is made possible with generous support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Harkness Foundation For Dance, Emma Sheafer Charitable Trust, NYC City Council Discretionary Funding, and NYS State Assembly Discretionary Funding.

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