SPLIT BILL #44
VALENTINE BACHÉ | KANON SUGINO
RUNTIME: About 60 minutes with an intermission.
Portions of this performance contain the use of the strobing lights and water based haze.
Left Photo by Maria J Hackett, Right Photo by Isabella Pagano
APRIL 24-26, 2025
8PM
MOTHERLESS TOUNGE
KANON SUGINO
-INTERMISSION-
ANGEL MID-SWING*
VALENTINA BACHÉ
*This piece contains the use of strobing lights
Motherless Tongue
This work will share the stories of three Asian-American artists, raised by immigrant parents from different countries. The incessant question being asked is:
Am I ____ enough?
From a seeming necessity to appear as American as possible to a desire to connect with their parents’ heritage, they share a growing feeling of ambivalence. Due to factors such as internalized racism and the privilege that comes with having closer proximity to whiteness, they, as many children of immigrants do, have gone through a period of rejecting all aspects of their ethnicities, including language. A system of communication used by a particular country or community, language can be an essential tool used to connect them to their culture which, when lost, can put that connection in jeopardy. This work is a journey exploring the intertwined nature of language and culture, calling for a repair and embracing of one’s appreciation for their heritage.
Photo by Alicia Steeves
Choreography by Kanon Sugino in collaboration with performers
Performed by Allison Fan, Ciana Jao, and Kimie Parker
Music by Mic Check by Cornelius, Dungaw by Adie, bouquet by Ichiko Aoba, 成千上万的风 by Zuho, Drop by Cornelius, Elégie from Morceaux de fantaisie, Op.3 composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff and performed by Kyung-Jun Lee and Junhee Kim.
Music Edited by Ary Kumar
Costumes by Kanon Sugino
Lighting Design by Anna Wotring
Photo by Alicia Steeves
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
KANON SUGINO (she/her) is a Japanese American dancer/choreographer born and raised in New York. After attending Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and graduating Summa Cum Laude from Purchase College, SUNY with a BFA in Dance and a BA in Arts Management, she joined Nimbus Dance as a company dancer. She is now working with Doug Varone and Dancers and MICHIYAYA Dance. She has performed works by Bill T. Jones, Peter Chu, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, and more. As a choreographer, she has presented work at the We Belong Here: AAPI Festival, a split bill performance at Arts On Site, and self-curated shows at the Puffin Room Art Gallery and the Triskelion Theater. In 2024, Kanon was awarded Asian American Arts Alliance's Jadin Wong Fellowship in Dance. Her works mainly focus on the uplifting of marginalized voices and the celebration of minority groups and their cultures.Instagram: @kanonsugino
ALLISON FAN (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based first-generation Asian-American dancer and multidisciplinary artist. A SUNY Purchase graduate and Thayer Fellowship recipient, she has trained internationally and presented work in New York and abroad, using dance to explore identity, uplift underrepresented voices, and challenge cultural structures.
KIMIE PARKER is a dance artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY, originally from San Diego, CA. Since earning her BFA from Point Park University in 2019, she has been a company member, teaching artist, and Rehearsal Director with Sidra Bell Dance New York.
kimieparker.com | @kimieparker
CIANA JAO is a first generation Filipino-American born and raised from Commerce, Michigan. At the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, she concentrated in choreography and worked with renowned choreographers such as Joseph Hernandez, Loni Landon, and Doug Varone. Currently, she is with KAŌS Dance Collective and is in residency with Green Space and CPR Dance:Inhale Movement. @cianajao
ANNA WOTRING is a community-minded dance artist, designer, and production stage manager, dedicated to the practice of collaborative leadership. As the Director of Production at Triskelion Arts, Wotring shapes programming that makes production design accessible to movement artists, whether they're starting to explore an idea or deep in research. Trisk serves as a home, allowing artists to materialize their production vision and find imaginative pathways around and through tangible possibility. Wotring holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a wide range of dance artists and organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Annie Heath, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Jennifer Nugent, Lauren Horn, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, slowdanger, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is deeply grateful and honored to be working, imagining, and making magic with the Trisk team and community.
ANGEL MID-SWING
“Una caída; piedra con piedra// llegando aplanar montañas”
in the destruction change leaves behind
an addiction to chaos
à cup that’s always leaking
à rage that’s never quenched
under blankets of smog
Spins stilling time
Hurricane of my past,
What can you teach us about what’s to come?
Photo by Maclaine Lowery
Created by
Valentina Baché
Performed by
Valentina Baché, Demetris Charalambous, SarahIsoke Days, Cristina Moya-Palacios, Channce Williams, Aarron Ricks
Music by
Slic
Costume Design and Creation by
Raspaditos by Valentina Baché
Lighting design by
Anna Wotring
Photo by Maclaine Lowery
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
VALENTINA BACHÉ RODRIGUEZ
Valentina Baché Rodriguez (they/them) was born and raised in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. At 15, they skipped high school to attend Bard College at Simon’s Rock, earning an associate degree in Biology and Dance. Yearning for more, they moved to NYC to pursue a BA in Dance at Hunter College, graduating in 2020. Their works have been featured throughout NYC, including MR at Judson Church, Kaye Playhouse, BKArtHaus, Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center, Chelsea Factory, Dixon Place, Recess, The Tank, and their pedagogy at Performance Space NY. A 2024 Gallim Moving Artist Residency Recipient, Valentina will also perform at Triskelion Arts Split Bill in April 2025 and in the Estrogenius Solo Show at Judson Church in May 2025. They've performed with "The Young Boy Dancing Group," "Company Redacted," Monica Mirabile, and others. Valentina continually revisits their ancestral bodily archives, focusing on change within the body through confronting energies like rage, discomfort, and sorrow. They celebrate pleasure and joy with resilient, unbound honesty.
@vacavache | @_raspaditos | valentinabache.com
SARAHISOKE DAYS
Sarah Isoke is a proud Brooklyn native with a deep passion for performance art. She majored in Dance at the Brooklyn High School of The Arts, Hunter College, and graduated from The Ailey School. Isoke holds dual degrees in Dance and Africana, Puerto Rican & Latino Studies. Her choreography has graced The Kaye Theatre, where she creates captivating, comically absurd works. Dedicated to uplifting marginalized people through art, she leads both the Youth and Adult Dance Ministries at her church. Isoke has performed at prestigious venues like City Center and Lincoln Center and starred in "Bottom of the Ocean" in 2022. She works as School Administrator at Brooklyn Ballet and is involved with Hate The Dot, a menstrual health collective.
@sarahisoke
DEMETRIS CHARALAMBOUS
Demetris Charalambous is an experimental NYC-based artist born and raised on the island of Cyprus. Working in mediums spanning performance, movement, and visual art, Demetris’ work reckons with the surreal, mythical and absurd. Demetris’ work and collaborations have been presented at Performance Space New York, Center for Performance Research, Judson Memorial Church, Cooper Triangle, CreateART, Mark Morris Dance Center, along with online platforms such as NOWNESS and Berlin Commercial. Performance credits include InDance/Hari Krishnan at Jacob’s Pillow and Wesleyan University, Luis Lara Malvacias, Jeremy Nelson, Toogie Teresa Barcelo, Company [REDACTED], pop artists Sam Smith, Anitta, as well as fashion brands Official Rebrand and Raspaditos for NYFW. Demetris holds a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of Of the Arts. They recently premiered their debut evening length work titled Late Matter at telos.haus in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
@detherealc | demetrischaralambous.com
CRISTINA MOYA-PALACIOS
Cristina 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 at L’SPACE Gallery for New York Textile Month and in Xenoduo’s installation performances at Sunset Park and Union Square. In 2024, she became a New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist. Beyond performing, Cristina enjoys crafting sonic scores and choreographing work focusing on the immigrant experience, Latine identity, and surrealism through extreme physicality and theater.
CHANNCE WILLIAMS
Channce is a freelance artist living in New York, born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He is interested in exploring ways of presenting narratives regarding memory, longing, and the accumulation of self via experience. His practice encompasses various elements of performance, poetry, and visual media. He began his training at the Center of Creative Arts and continued his studies at Point Park University, where he received his BFA in Dance in 2020. Throughout his endeavors he has performed both new and restaged works by Kyle Abraham, Sidra Bell, Martha Nichols, Aszure Barton, and Maxine Doyle, among others. Since graduating he has worked with GroundWorks DanceTheater, Sidra Bell Dance New York, and GALLIM Dance Company, along with a cohort of independent choreographers including Slowdanger, Jaka Pearl Porter, and Hannah Garner.
@senti______mental
AARRON RICKS
Aeirrinn: Weaving tapestries through numerous modalities of artistic expression.
A multi disciplinary artist focusing on practices in performance art, clothing upcycling, installation, and music. Aeirrinn’s work is experiential and culminates through the act of world building.
@matteblacksoul
SLIC (CAMI DOMINGUEZ)
Cami Dominguez (they/them/ellx) is a Venezuelan performer, electronic music composer, visual artist, and cultural organizer based in Brooklyn since 2018. Most recently, they released their debut LP “Unbearable Heat” under the project name Slic. They launched the project with a curated live performance on September 7th featuring dancers from Company [Redacted] and the artists OCTOGON, Griff Spex, iD-Sus, and Silas. "Unbearable Heat" marks Dominguez's first official full-length release and comprises all original songs. Their collaborators range far outside the music world, extending to visual arts, fashion, and experimental theatre spaces as well. In 2023, Slic completed the score for the full-length dance piece “My Apocalypse” and performed at Judson Church and The Tank as a member of “Company [REDACTED].
https://www.tiktok.com/@slicdotmp3 | https://www.instagram.com/slicslicslic | https://www.youtube.com/@slicdotmp3
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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