TRISK ARTIST-IN RESIDENCE KE’RON J. WILSON
For Immediate Release
MAY 11, 2026
BROOKLYN, NY -- Trisk is honored to present Ke’ron J. Wilson’s in essence, premiering at Triskelion Arts June 11-13 at 8pm. Wilson is the 2026 Trisk Artist-in-Residence, having been in residency in the studios developing the work over the last six months.
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 and visionaries.
Choreographed by Ke’ron J. Wilson, with an original score by Quique, the work centers four BIPOC trans artists and unfolds as an abstracted ascension process. It positions the voice as an architect of reality, using storytelling and incantation as tools through which community can co-steward a shared future. Its visual language draws from occult symbolism, including tarot imagery and astrological planetary significations.
The work features original lighting design by Connor Sale, projection design by Lucca Del Carlo, and set design by Piper Nickels.
"I look forward to an evolving window into Ke’ron’s process of becoming—as she displays the vulnerable details of her self-revelation, she allows others to do the same." Theo Armstrong, CultureBot 2025
Tickets for in essence are available online, and at the box office 30 minutes before curtain.
TICKETS
EARLY BIRD:
$50 🌟 SUPPORTER/ $30 SUPERFAN / $22 EARLY BIRD / $17 HEARTS
AT-THE-DOOR:
$50 🌟 SUPPORTER /$30 SUPERFAN / $26 AT-THE-DOOR / $17 HEARTS
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. We recognize that systemic inequities create barriers to the arts. The $17 HEARTS tier is offered in the spirit of community care and is open to those who need it. 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 is made possible with generous support from our funders: The Howard Gilman Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Thompson Family Foundation, NYS Assembly Member Emily Gallagher, NYC Council Member Lincoln Restler, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation For Dance and Emma Sheafer Charitable Trust.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
KE’RON J. WILSON
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.
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.
Ke’ron 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 has been supported by 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).
She has performed her poetry in across NYC, appeared on the Tamron Hall Show with Sonya Renee Taylor, and modeled for Bad Binch Tong Tong at New York Fashion Week (SS24 & SS25). 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.
Ke’ron is currently Triskelion Arts’ 2026 Artist-in-Residence and a performing artist with TRIBE (led by Shamel Pitts). @keronjwilson
GABBY GUBITOSI
Gabby Gubitosi (he/him) is an interdisciplinary trans dance artist and educator based in New York City. His work honors the embodied knowledge gifted by his queer and Filipinx ancestors.
Originally from Pittsburgh, PA he began his training at Bodiography Center for Movement and Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts 6-12. After graduating The New School with a B.A. in Contemporary Dance and Politics he began creating work with collaborator, Daniela Garcia-Arce. The two have shared choreography including presentations at WAXworks, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, and That Show. Most recently they participated in the cell theater’s 2025-26 Artists-in-Residence program.
He has had the honor of working with many fantastic choreographers including Rebecca Stenn, Nia Love, Vanessa Walters, Peter Alfred Elizalde, and is featured in Marcel Dzama’s film “To Live on the Moon (For Lorca)”. In addition, he also shares his artistry in his current roles as Teaching Artist at New York City Ballet and National Dance Institute. He has performed in multiple works by Ke’ron Wilson since 2023, and is thrilled to perform in the most recent iteration of her work, “in essence.” @goobx2.0
ANGEL GLASBY
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. Aside from upholding a creative practice, like many artists, they are multidimensional and have put their money where their mouth is politically. She advises you to do the same. @delicate.delusion
RAE SU
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.
Their work and values aim for an exteriority to binary, abstracting conventions, refusing narrative or linearity, and taking joy in softness, silliness, and communal dancing. Rae’s artistic practice is grounded in a belief that movement and dance are essential tools to articulate experiences that cannot and perhaps should not be explicitly defined. @surachael
QUIQUE
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
Connor Sale is a Brooklyn-based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include: til infiniti, Farewell My Fool, The Closties Variety Hour; The Suite; to begin with no end; ENUF (Triskelion Arts), The Missing Fruit, Part 1 (New York City Center/Fall For Dance), Das Ersatz (The Brick), Das Rauschgift (Box of Moonlight), 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