TRISK ANNOUNCES THE FALL 2026 PERFORMANCE SEASON

For Immediate Release
AUGUST 12, 2026
BROOKLYN, NY - Triskelion Arts is thrilled to announce its 2026 Fall performance season.

The season will kick off in September with Beyond the Black Box’s (BBB) The BLACK BLACK BLACK Week. Trisk is proud to continue its meaningful partnership, now in its sixth year, with BBB, an organization dedicated to uplifting the beauty and cultural influence of the Black dance community. The BLACK BLACK BLACK Week is BBB’s annual curation at Trisk that amplifies their mission through curated performances, offerings, and direct support for creative work.

The season will feature the culminating performances of Trisk’s 2026 Resident Artists. Kimiko Tanabe and Nora Alami, the 2026 Trisk Fellows, will premiere Warm Greetings from one long day in the desert, and Christian A. Warner, a 2026 Production Resident Artist, will premiere their evening length work WE GATHER HERE. The Trisk Residency programs are tailored to each artist’s individual process, providing extensive residency time within the theater, and opportunities for collaborating closely with the technical and design teams to focus on lighting, sound and design aspects of the production and creative vision.

The season will continue with a Work in Process showing of A Beast that Came Apart Mid-Air by Kayla Farrish + Collaborators, and close out with Trisk’s Split Bill Series, a platform for NYC-based dance and movement artists in the early stages of their careers to develop and premiere new work in a shared performance setting. SPLIT BILL #49, will feature two new works by emerging artists, Mizuho Kappa and Dylan Richmond, both of whom applied through an open application and were selected by a peer panel.

Tickets for all performances are available online and at the box office 30 minutes before curtain.

SEPTEMBER 23-25, 8PM
BEYOND THE BLACK BOX
The BLACK BLACK BLACK Week

SEPTEMBER 23

Imani Gaudin 
Catherine Kirk
Curtis Thomas

SEPTEMBER 24

Alexander Diaz
Alexa Grae
Myssi Robinson

SEPTEMBER 25

Maria Bauman
Kayla Farrish
Dava Huesca

A NOTE FROM THE CURATORS

The BLACK BLACK BLACK Week returns to Triskelion Arts September 23 - 25 for its fourth consecutive year!! Bringing together dancers, choreographers, musicians, visual artists, and multidisciplinary creators for a powerful three day celebration of Black artistry, culture, and community.

Produced by the Beyond the Black Box team, Chanel Stone, Cemiyon Barber, and Dominica Greene, this year’s gathering embraces the theme Family Reunion, inviting audiences into a space of joy, remembrance, and collective care. Guests can experience immersive community activations, share soul food plates, and connect through rituals that open up conversation, reflection, and belonging. Each evening begins with community breathwork accompanied by live drumming before moving into performances that honor the richness, resilience, and creativity of the Black experience.

In a field where opportunities and resources often remain concentrated within large institutions, The BLACK BLACK BLACK Week offers an essential platform for underrepresented Black artists to be seen, supported, and celebrated. Through artistic exchange, sacred connection, and communal healing, this gathering uplifts both participants and audiences while strengthening the bonds that sustain our creative community.

Beyond the Black Box (BBB) is an arts and cultural non-profit 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.
@beyondtheblackbox

OCT 15-17, 8PM
KIMIKO TANABE + NORA ALAMI
Warm Greetings from one long day in the desert

Warm Greetings from one long day in the desert is an evening-length multidisciplinary dance and performance duet by Japanese-American artist Kimiko Tanabe and Moroccan American artist Nora Alami. Through installation, projection, and experimental movement, the performance transforms the theater into a surreal desert landscape, shifting from the terrifyingly solitary to the magically hospitable. Warm Greetings from one long day in the desert blends dance and visual design inviting audiences to reconsider the “Orient” within contemporary American imagination.

Kimiko Tanabe is a fourth generation Japanese-American experimental dance artist moving through the social, cultural, and political landscape of post-internment Japanese-America. She is currently the 2025-2026 Trisk Fellow along with Nora Alami at Triskelion Arts and 2026 Chocolate Factory Artist in Residence.
@kimiko_tanabe

Nora Alami is a Moroccan American experimental dance artist. Dance is her tool for conducting research, building community, and organizing politically. Her artistry experiments with desire and disparate realities through embodiment, writing, performance, and materiality. She is the 2025-2026 Trisk Fellow with Kimiko Tanabe at Triskelion Arts and a PhD candidate in Performance Studies.
@noralami

NOV 12-14, 8PM
CHRISTIAN A. WARNER
WE GATHER HERE

Somewhere between the water line and the wall, WE GATHER HERE... Same circle. Still becoming. Carriers of memory. Keepers of the count. The ones who never fully left, and the ones returning with outside eyes. Pulled home to the family reunion. Born at the crossroads of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents, Brother from Another Planet, and The Wiz, WE GATHER HERE is a dance-theater work and sound bath experience imagining the intimate spaces where we retreat to confide and rehabilitate.

Christian A. Warner, a native of Houston, TX, is an interdisciplinary performance artist, choreographer, sound designer, and director working across movement, sound, and film. His choreography has been commissioned by Pepatian / BAAD, Triskelion Arts, JCAL, Performa/Dance, Ballet Co.Laboratory, and the BlackLight Summit. He is a 2023 Heinz Endowment Creative Development Awardee, a 2025 New York Dance Festival Choreographic Fellow, and a 2025 Princess Grace Award winner in Choreography.

He has danced with companies and artist such as Sidra Bell Dance New York, Boca Tuya, NVA & Guests, GauDanse, slowdanger, TU Dance, Owen/Cox Dance Group, Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre, Ponybox Dance Theatre, and Kayla Farrish. His sound design has been featured in GRAPH for Sidra Bell Dance New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibit "Flight To Egypt" and Imani Gaudin's production nanibu, premiering at the Marigny Opera House in New Orleans, Louisiana.
@itschristianalexander

NOVEMBER 19, 8PM
KAYLA FARRISH + COLLABORATORS
A Beast that Came Apart Mid-Air (Pt. 1) Work In Process

A Beast that Came Apart Mid-Air is an Afrosurrealist dance-theater performance taking shape as a visual mixtape through movement, voice, narrative, film, folktale, and spiritual during a reckoning. Migrating portals in-and-out of time, 6 BIPOC characters traverse interconnected maps of resistance and uncover those who subverted power to exist. They transform historic resilience into learning how to wield power to reimagine the future. Dismantling the beast of disempowerment, what liberation and imagination lives? In an immersive dance-theater play, the audience moves through their inner worlds, forgotten pasts, and brave pathways of darkness and revolution for lives where we can be whole.

This work has been supported by NY Support for Artist 2026, Danse Mirage Foundation Inc. Choreography Commission 2026, Mercury Store Residency, Ellis Beauregard Foundation Residency, NYFA/NYSCA Choreography Fellowship, CUNY Dance Initiative- Brooklyn College (2025-2026) and Hunter College (2026-2027), Triskelion Arts!!, BAX AIR Residency 2026-2028, and The Pocantico Center Residency.

Kayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score. Her commissions include Limon Dance Company, Whim W’him, Ririe Woodbury, Armstrong Now!, Danspace, Little Island, Harlem Stage, American Dance Festival and beyond. She creates live works, films, site-specific/immersive pieces, and collaborations with musicians such as Esperanza Spalding, Trixie Whitley, Moor Mother, and Melanie Charles. Presenting spaces include Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, Symphony Space, and National Sawdust, Joyce Theater, among receiving support from Works & Process, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, Baryshnikov Arts, La Mama Theater, and others.

She received the Sundance Uprise Grant for Emerging BIPOC Directors, Bessie Awards for December 8th and NYLA’s “Motherboard Suite”, New York Times Top 2021 Dance Performances “Roster” and “Breakout Star.” She is a recipient of the Harkness Promise Award for 2022. She premiered reimagined archival work for Limon at Joyce Theater (2024). She toured “Put Away the Fire, dear” supported by NEFA National Dance Project. She received Watermill Center’s Baroness Nina Von Maltzahn Fellowship and the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Choreographer Award (2023). She is a 2025 CUNY Dance Initiative Artist, NYFA/NYSCA Choreography Fellow, 2026 NY Support for Artists Grantee, and Danse Mirage Foundation Choreography commissioned artist.
@fulloutfarrish

DEC 3-5, 8PM
SPLIT BILL #49
MIZUHO KAPPA | DYLAN RICHMOND

MIZUHO KAPPA
A Dream of Larva

A Dream of Larva is a hybrid dance-theater work integrating movement, text, and visual images to explore psychological survival within domestic violence. Through the work, I investigate resilience in the face of violence, asking how people continue to survive, adapt, and find connection despite repeated cycles of personal and collective trauma. Rather than depicting violence itself, the work explores the body's capacity to endure, transform, and imagine new possibilities for living.

Mizuho Kappa is a choreographer and performing artist originally from Osaka, Japan, with a degree in Entomology.

She has recently performed with Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NY, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks, Ballet Collective, among others.

Her self-choreographed solo works have been presented at The Shed, La MaMa, Gene Frankel Theater, TheaterLab, The Brick, Ars Nova, NOoSPHERE ARTS and more.

She frequently collaborates with cross-disciplinary artists, including a neuroscience researcher, transmedia playwright, hybrid writer and puppet designer. These collaborative works have been showcased at the New Museum, New York Hall of Science, Open Source Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, City University of Hong Kong, House of Yes, the Chocolate Factory and beyond.

Kappa is a commissioned choreographer for Peridance Contemporary Dance Company ‘25 Season, and a recipient of the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency '25, Mark Morris SharedSpace Residency '26.

Her choreographic voice is recognized for conveying narrative through raw expression, unexpected physicality, and striking surrealistic tableaux, described as “evoking and unhinged” by Brooklyn Magazine and “potent” by The New York Times.
@mizup0i_kappa

DYLAN RICHMOND
There’s an eclipse happening all the time

It is no wonder clouds darken before they rain/ they are starting to feel more like us.

Imagine this work as a solo. Imagine a duet. What might be gained to imagine it as both? What must be sacrificed? This piece investigates an embodied reality of W.E.B Du Bois’ writings on “double consciousness.”Through poetry, projections, and highly-physical movement, Richmond researches the maddening pervasiveness of hyper-surveillance, reckoning with America’s perpetual problematization of Blackness.

Dylan Richmond is a choreographer, dancer, researcher, and poet from the Connecticut shoreline. Dylan has presented work at TOTAH, WestFest, NYU, The Tank, Bowdoin College; and lectured at Yale University, UCLA, and Connecticut College. As a poet, Dylan is a Pushcart Prize nominee and is notably published in A Gathering of the Tribes, From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast, Sibling Rivalry Press, Lily Poetry Review, and No, Dear. He also shares with his twin the 2020 “Excellence in Journalism Award” from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalism. Dylan is the Company Manager and Live Gallery Producer for New York Live Arts and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. He graduated cum laude from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in Dance and English where he received the President’s Award.
@choreopoet

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?
Our tiered ticketing is 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 Thompson Family Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC City Council Discretionary Funding, NYS State Assembly Discretionary Funding, the SHS Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and the Harkness Foundation For Dance.

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