TRISK ANNOUNCES THE SPRING 2026 PERFORMANCE SEASON

For Immediate Release
JANUARY 21, 2026
BROOKLYN, NY - Triskelion Arts is thrilled to announce the 2026 Spring Season.

The spring season will feature the culminating performances of two of Trisk’s 2026 Resident Artists. VERBAL ANIMAL, the 2026 Spring Production Resident Artist, will premiere STAR SPANGLED MANOR, following an intensive residency in the theater working creatively alongside the technical and design teams. Ke’ron J. Wilson, the 2026 Artist-in-Residence, will delve into their process during their rehearsal residency in the Trisk studios to develop and premiere her evening length work, in essence. As a part of the season, Trisk is honored to continue their partnership with Miz Jade, in her sixth curation of SYNTHESIS, a variety show spotlighting nightlife performers bringing their visions to the stage. The season will also showcase evening-length premieres by Valentina Baché and Dorchel Haqq. Jamal Jackson Dance Company will bring their latest work, Adultification to the Trisk Stage, and SPLIT BILL #48 will feature new works by emerging artists, Elinor Kleber Diggs and Kimie Parker.

The 2026 Spring Season reflects Triskelion Arts’ ongoing commitment to nurturing bold artistic voices, creative freedom, and self-expression. Spring 2026 highlights Trisk’s role as a home for artists to expand their practice and share fully realized work onstage, while offering audiences visceral performance experiences.

MARCH 12-14, 8PM
(VACA) VALENTINA BACHÉ
Dog God//Germ Angels

A rhythm born from deep within propels towards us, carrying with it the force of a hurricane and conviction of a mountain. Vibrations that awaken those who are asleep to the collective hearts sickness. This song cannot be stopped. While it trains the performers, strengthens them to rise
to bite.
It will beckon you unstoppable
give into me
I'll eat your fears
You'll stay and rebuild
This unwinding spiral leaves no living left behind
& we will meet when the rivers run clean

may this promise seep into every scream.

Valentina Baché was born into a cacophony of color and macaws, in the isolation of the Caribbean jungle in Playa del Carmen, México. They learned the language of movement before they learned to speak, taught by sea, dogs, and blood. At fifteen, they skipped high school to attend Bard College at Simon’s Rock, later transferring to Hunter College, where they graduated in 2020. Since then, they have done everything in their power to love and share their art.In a lifelong battle against the imperialist soul, Valentina has found that love is the reason and that greed must be expelled from within each day. Through a spiritual devotion to dance as prayer, they explore the magic of nature and reveal the surreal ways in which we all contribute to cycles of harm. From this devotion, they have birthed a new technique, practice, and way of resisting. They spin because the divine is always spiraling, and they bark because the dog is a mirror reflecting our own malleability.They believe it is in the suppression of rage that energy becomes dangerous instead of transformative. Valentina is a multidisciplinary artist, a performer, textile artist, sculptor, and designer of beauty, violence, and truth, all at once.
valentinabache.com | @vacavache

MARCH 27 & 28, 8PM
SYNTHESIS
GUEST CURATION BY MIZ JADE

Synthesis is a theatrical variety show presenting nightlife performers in the queer community and celebrating an array of disciplines and identities. This incredible evening of music, drag, and burlesque carves out space for traditionally marginalized performers to nurture and grow their craft. Synthesis aims to allow artists to present their work in an elevated environment with more technical support, enabling a grander vision to come to life.

Synthesis features performances by:

Bertha Vanayshun

Blue

Bob Voyage

Cunning Stunt

Miz Jade

Sherry Poppins

Shia Ho

Miz Jade is a Black-Trans Drag performer, event host, and professional dancer who’s here to steal your heart and your spotlight. Known for her teaching, activism, and a wit so sharp it could cut glass, she’s guaranteed to leave you gagging and ready to party. Miz Jade is a NYC sensation, often described as fierce, sensual, sophisticated, and full of surprises.

After dabbling in various art forms, Jade zeroed in on her true loves: performance and education. She honed her dance skills at the prestigious Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase and continues to sharpen her craft through endless workshops and intensives. As an interdisciplinary artist, she effortlessly blends her dance background with her nightlife antics, creating a performance style that’s truly one-of-a-kind.

While chasing her BFA in Dance, Miz Jade burst onto the New York nightlife scene, dazzling crowds by night and acing her classes by day. She moved to Brooklyn in 2012, cementing her status as one of NYC’s top entertainers. Competitions like So You Think You Can Drag, Little Miss Mierce, and MRS BK have only added to her trophy shelf and her ever-growing list of gigs.

Miz Jade has rubbed elbows and shared stages with the likes of Thorgy Thor, Sasha Velour, Sasha Colby and Bob The Drag Queen. In 2019, she set sail on Ke$ha’s “Weird and Wonderful Rainbow Ride” and debuted in the drag opera, Chimera, alongside drag royalty Alexis Michelle and Desmond is Amazing. She even got a spotlight in Revry’s documentary series, Queens of Kings, which showcased her seamless dance and drag duality. Miz Jade has also been in multiple movies like ‘Glitterbaited,’ ‘Like Glass’ and ‘Family Affair,’ where she also served as a consultant in the films production.

A passionate advocate, Miz Jade is a proud reader for Drag Artist for Expression and Drag Story Hour, inspiring children with her fabulousness and promoting a message of inclusivity and diversity. She’s also the dazzling face of ‘The Real Ms Information,’ a national campaign with Gay Men’s Health Crisis and FCB Health Network, championing COVID vaccination awareness in the LGBTQ+ community.

With nominations for ‘Best Dance Performer’ at the Glam Awards and ‘Queen Of The Year’ and ‘Best Performer’ at the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards, Miz Jade is not just a performer; she’s a force of nature. Catch her if you can! She’s always a step ahead and ready to turn any event into an unforgettable spectacle.
MizJade.com | @MizJade_Davon

APRIL 9-11, 8PM
VERBAL ANIMAL
STAR SPANGLED MANOR

STAR SPANGLED MANOR is an interdisciplinary dance-theater work structured as a live laboratory for interrogating the colonialist ideology of “The American Dream.” Through dance theater, projection, set design, sound scoring, and bodily prosthetics, the piece navigates aesthetics of surveillance and rave culture to expose how systems of power shape collective consciousness. Framed through a queer lens, the body becomes a charged site of resistance, rupture, and transformation. The work traces the tension between order and chaos, revealing how stabilizing structures often expose their own contradictions. By staging this unraveling, it gestures toward the fragile veneer of national ideals and how quickly they fracture under pressure. Yet the piece does not end in dissolution; as chaos mounts and clarity emerges, it opens portals, moments that invite our participants to reconsider the architectures governing daily life and imagine the possibility of remaking, and collective futures beyond constraint.

VERBAL ANIMAL operates as a rotating ensemble of Queer interdisciplinary collaborators. With an emphasis on sensation-based creation, the ensemble uses scoring practices and active collaboration to generate eccentric, thought-provoking, narrative-driven work. Moving across dance-theater, multimedia installation, and experimental performance, VERBAL ANIMAL explores the complexities of Queer identity while disrupting conventional aesthetics and cultural expectations. The company has been commissioned by the 14th St Y, WAXworks, TADA! Theater, 3 Dollar Bill, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, and Triskelion Arts, and serves as the resident company of PLAY ME TECHNO, a performance-art rave centering experimental performance within nightlife.

This past summer, VERBAL ANIMAL received a Queens New Work grant to create CONCRETE GULP, which premiered and toured with the Queensboro Dance Festival. They also received a NYFA Support for Artists grant for STAR SPANGLED MANOR, premiering in April 2026. As the 2026 Production Resident Artist at Triskelion Arts, the ensemble is excited to deepen its collaborative processes while developing its first full-length evening work, expanding both its interdisciplinary practice and its development of Queer-driven, collaborative performance work.
www.verbalanimal.com | @verbalanimalco | @xlavvvy

APRIL 30-MAY 2, 8PM
DORCHEL HAQQ
the underscore

the underscore is an immersive physical theatre work. the underscore offers a lens into the home space to witness embodied joy and the grief that flows when facing the struggles and frustrations of systemic oppression, all while asking what faith means in community. Dorchel and her collaborators physicalize Black fragility, Afropessimism, and Afrofuturism, and the ways these concepts have been reflected in television and other media throughout history.

Dorchel Haqq is a Harlem raised, Brooklyn based artist who creates physical theatre work as a vessel through which she and her collaborators navigate the complexities of being who they are in this present moment, while reflecting on how their collective history and lineage shape the future. Through improvisation, she shapes memories into movement, a world building practice, creating stories and characters that explore time, space, and form in conversation with sociopolitical responses in the nervous system. With attention to intention, Dorchel’s curiosity about the conversation between form and culture is explored through vocal work, film, installations, poetry, site-specific works, and durational studies.

These following organizations have supported Dorchel in find herself again and again through singular and collaborative investigations: Springboard Danse and the Springboard Danse curated Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Founder's Residency (inaugural resident), Gallim Moving Artist(inaugural resident), Leimay Incubator AIR 2021, Center for Performance Research AIR 2024, Baryshnikov Arts Center AIR 2024, Triskelion Arts 2019+2026, Beyond the Black Box 2021+2023, Black Aesthetics Judson Commons 2024, MADE BY WOMAN Festival 2023, Estrogenius Festival 2025, Arts On Site 2019+2021, ART CAKE 2021, Movement Research Van Lier Arist of Color Fellow 2025, DraftWork- Danspace Project 2025, Battery Dance Festival 2020+2025, FRESH TRACKS NYLA 2025/2026, City Artist Corps Grant 2021, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant 2024.

Dorchel has performed in works by AIM by Kyle Abraham, Kayla Farrish, Loni Landon, Vanessa Goodman, Maya Lee-Parritz, Stefanie Batten Bland, Johannes Wieland, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Shanghai, and Emursive’s Life and Trust. Dorchel is in her first season with David Dorfman Dance. Dorchel studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and received her BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY. She is an adjunct lecturer at Purchase College, where her work has also been commissioned. Through her Movement Research Van Lier Artist of Color Fellowship, she is mentored by Nora Chipaumire.
@dorchelhaqq

MAY 7 & 8, 8PM
MAY 9, 3PM
JAMAL JACKSON DANCE COMPANY
Adultification

Adultification refers to the racial bias in which people perceive Black children as older and less innocent than other children. Black boys can be seen as responsible for their actions at an age when most boys still benefit from the assumption that children are innocent. Adultification explores the joy created by these young Black children and juxtaposes it with the forced adulthood that is set upon them.

Adultification was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

Support for the Project was provided by Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc.

Jamal Jackson Dance Company (JJDC) was founded with the purpose of fusing various traditional African dance styles with Modern techniques and diverse contemporary music styles to create a new, unique technique that is relevant to a multifarious community. JJDC’s study and movement language are initiated by forming the connections between the artistic and communal practices of the Bambara, Malinke, Wasalu, and Khassonke peoples of Mali, West Africa and the traditions and histories of people in the US. The movement and storylines of JJDC’s work focus on redefining ideas of community and blurring divisive lines, while still celebrating the beauty of individual cultures. Our mission is to create space and empower people to actively engage in their narratives while presenting work in different communities
www.jamaljacksondancecompany.org

MAY 28-30, 8PM
SPLIT BILL #48
ELINOR KLEBER DIGGS | KIMIE PARKER

ELINOR KLEBER DIGGS
Crimson

Crimson is the place past a threshold and a look at the tension between sincerity and artifice. Frenzy, grass, and bliss. Where does the body stop and the world begin?

Elinor Kleber Diggs, currently based in Harlem, New York, is an interdisciplinary artist and choreographer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. They grew up training in dance at the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists and at TU Dance Center. Elinor holds a BFA in Dance Performance with a concentration in composition from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College. They have been fortunate to show their work at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Gibney: Agnes Varis Theater, The QUEER NOISE New York City Festival, Pepátian’s APAP showcase in The Bronx, among others. Recently, Elinor was selected for the 2025 Baryshnikov Arts Fellowship at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, the CUNY Dance Initiative AiR Program at CUNY York, and the Jerome Early Career Residency at Anderson Center at Tower View in Minnesota.
www.elinorkd.com | @elinor.kd

KIMIE PARKER
meet me in the lake, my swan

meet me in the lake, my swan contemplates displacement and belonging through the lens of sisterhood. It follows the joining of two bird-like beings seeking direction, guided solely by the presence of their ghostly and emotionally distant counterparts. Inspired by the Japanese folkloric symbol of the ‘komainu,’ these lion-dog statues are found guarding Japanese temples. Though found in pairs, the two are similar, but not identical. Unique expressions distinguish them from one another, mirroring the sisters’ individual experiences as they navigate their dual identities as both Japanese and American. This duet reveals their ancestral responsibilities of daughters, the loneliness of womanhood, consequences of patriarchy in the East and West, and how the culmination of rebellious acts done by women before their time live within their bodies.

Kimie Parker is a dance artist, educator, and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY, originally from San Diego, CA. Since earning her BFA from Point Park University in 2019, she has been a long-standing company member and the rehearsal director of Sidra Bell Dance New York. On behalf of the company, she has assisted Bell at numerous institutions, including the Juilliard School, Harvard University, NYU Tisch, the University of the Arts, and Springboard Danse | Pittsburgh. As a freelancer, Kimie has had the privilege of dancing for Volta Collective, Mark Caserta, Ayoung Kim, Adrienne Swan, Kanon Sugino, and KOSTAS Contemporary, among others. Her work has been presented at ODC Theater’s State of Play, Heat Index, and THATSHOW for its inaugural cohort.
kimieparker.com | @kimieparker

JUNE 11-13, 8PM
KE’RON J. WILSON
in essence

in essence is a ritual performance exploring trans embodiment and spiritual exile, drawing on histories of how trans/queer people have been demonized rather than recognized as healers. It reimagines ascension as both reclamation and conjuring—asking what becomes possible when we return to ourselves as sacred. The work travels through a series of vignettes inspired by occult symbolism, including tarot archetypes and planetary significations in astrology, using these tools as frameworks for care, co-regulation, and spiritual precision. Through movement, spoken word, original score, and live projection art, in essence builds an immersive ceremonial environment where the unseen becomes visible. The performance functions like an offering: a space where trans communities can witness ourselves as divine, resilient, and visionary—and where presence itself becomes the ritual.

Ke’ron J. Wilson is a healing‑centered trans woman movement artist, choreographer, model, actor, musician, and poet based in NYC. She trained at Harrison School for the Arts and Florida Dance Theater, and then graduated with a BFA from Sam Houston State University. Post grad, she was a founding member of Social Movement Contemporary Dance Theater and a recurring guest choreographer for the Pilot Dance Project. And now, her research investigates the spiritual possibilities of art‑making in queer community, centering care and compassion. Recent support includes Movement Research’s Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color (2025) and MNE’s Emerging Choreographers Series (2022–24); credits include TRIBE (led by Shamel Pitts), the Tamron Hall Show (with Sonya Renee Taylor) and modeling Bad Binch Tong Tong’s NYFW SS24 & SS25. She also leads wellness/meditation portals solo and with Angelito Collective for NYC’s trans community.
@keronjwilson

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE.

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, and the Harkness Foundation For Dance.

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