SPLIT BILL #45
LUNA BELLER-TADIAR | TIDBIT COLLECTIVE

RUNTIME: About 60 minutes with an intermission.

Top photo by Julia Discenza. Bottom photo by Kyle Livsey.

OCTOBER 23-25, 2025
8PM

v500
tidbit collective

-INTERMISSION-

Mercury / from our oceans they took their cloud
Luna Beller-Tadiar

Photo by Kyle Livsey

v500

v500 explores the multiplication that happens with the updating of the self, each version 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.

Photo by Kyle Livsey

Created and performed by tidbit collective

Performers:

Sabrina Canas
Olivia Rousey
Taylor Woodie

Music by Chaka Khan, Beach House, and M.I.A.

Lighting design by Anna Wotring

Huge thanks to Kyle Livsey for the promotion photos of our dreams + to Materials For The Arts for the set fabrics.

Photo by Jeff Wang.

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.

Photo by Karina Macchioli

Choreography, concept, projection, sound: Luna Beller-Tadiar

Performed by Luna Beller-Tadiar

Selected Music: elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ

Additional music and sound: Interstellar by Gigi Masin and Jonny Nash. Sound mixed by Luna Beller-Tadiar with music by Loscil (“Khanamoot”); and Ambience Mastery (“Realistic Sci-Fi Robots”); and samples of Ezequiel Viñao and Shane Shanahan (“Color de Tiento”); J-Squad (“Super Buck Krump Music”); El Camarón de la Isla (“Tu Cariño es Mi Castigo”); and Carlos Di Sarli and Alberto Podestá (“Tú… El Cielo Y Tú”).

Lights: Anna Wotring

Dance forms referenced (incomplete list): krump (especially via Nach, Rize, and hallowdreamz); macho dancing (via Eisa Jocson); tango; flamenco; balinese dance (especially videos from Sanggar Tari Bali Pradnya Swari); pangalay; waacking; burlesque.

Thanks: To all building, preserving, sustaining, creating, nurturing alternatives. To those who resist.
And to my parents and friends <3 Thank you.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

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.

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

elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ [Nitcha Tothong & Kengchakaj ] is a Bangkok-born, Brooklyn-based collaborative artist practice focusing on research that examines and decodes past histories by creating, using code, algorithms, multimedia, and technology to experiment, explore, and define decolonized possibilities. elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ is a Thai word that means dispersedly, chaos, entropy, and non-direction to break free our practices from being labeled through a Western lens.

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.

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.