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NEW YORK LIVE ARTS’S 58TH YEAR OF SIGNATURE FRESH TRACKS PROGRAM PRESENTS NEW WORKS

NEW YORK LIVE ARTS’S 58TH YEAR OF SIGNATURE FRESH TRACKS PROGRAM PRESENTS NEW WORKS

Company:

NEW YORK LIVE ARTS

Location:

New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011

Dates:

Friday, June 16, 2023 - 7:30pm daily through June 17, 2023

Tickets:

https://newyorklivearts.org/event/fresh-tracks22-new-works/

Company:
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS

NEW YORK LIVE ARTS’S 58TH YEAR OF SIGNATURE FRESH TRACKS PROGRAM PRESENTS NEW WORKS 

2023-’23 Cohort features Kristel Baldoz, Malcolm X Betts, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Jade Charon, Orlando Hernández

JUNE 16TH AND 17TH, 2023 AT 7:30PM

 

New York, NY (May 11, 2023) - New York Live Arts’s historic signature residency program Fresh Tracks returns for its 58th year to present new work from five reflective emerging artists. Kristel Baldoz, Malcolm X Betts, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Jade Charon, Orlando Hernández will each premiere new work developed during the residency in a group show on the Live Arts main stage (219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011) on Friday, June 16th and Saturday, June 17th, 2023 at 7:30pm. Tickets start at $20 and can be purchased at NewYorkLiveArts.org or 212-691-6500, on sale now.

The Fresh Tracks Residency & Performance program is a season-long residency for emerging movement-based artists in support of new work creation and professional development with nia love as Artistic Advisor. The program originated at Dance Theater Workshop in 1965 to bring new choreographic artistry to the forefront and has included great minds such as Bill T. Jones, Yanira Castro, Martita Abril, Jibz Cameron, Ashley RT Yergens, and many more.

Drawing from Anne Anlin Cheng's concept of ornamentalism, multidisciplinary Filipina-American artist Kristel Baldoz engages the relationship and slippage between objecthood and personhood, and orientalism and objectification that is tied to the female Asian identity. Cheng’s concept addresses how the Asiatic woman, the “yellow” woman, is seen as an aesthetic ornament - she is viewed as an object rather than a person. Through dance, ceramics, and indictment, Baldoz’s new piece investigates the choreography and movement between body and objects.

Malcolm X Betts is a Black American visual and dance artist based in New York City. Making work for Black people through his Blackness, Betts’ new piece Niggas at Sundown is created in collaboration with Nile Harris (performer) and Admanda Kobilka (performer/sound designer). Via past and present, the performance explores notions of displacement, identity, and belonging, and investigates sundown towns in the United States and the violence of being visibly Black. Using body-based abstraction rooted in care, communion, and joy in opposition, Betts and company create alternative modes of being outside of white supremacy. The piece also has a clothing design element: costumes double as frames for performance scores. Jumpsuits made by Betts are constructed within improvisational practice, showcasing them in various states of motion and distilling the dynamic movement potential of the garment.

Venezuelan interdisciplinary choreographer, director, installation artist, educator and performer Miguel Alejandro Castillo states “all folklore is an expression of resilience.” Loud and Clear imagines a fictional folkloric festivity to celebrate the ongoing construction of the Venezuelan diaspora, featuring musician Daniella Barbarito and visual artist Lexy Ho-Tai.

Interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, and filmmaker Jade Charon presents Gold Pylon, an inquiry into the possibilities if a grandmother’s prayer becomes an intercessory superpower and gateway to a higher self. Charon’s ongoing multi-media research project series Gold was created to emPOWER Black and Brown people by connecting them to the element gold's spiritual, metaphysical, and ancestral powers through dance, film, sound, and writing. This latest event in the series is a live multimedia performance solo that journeys through the refining and purification process of gold, reaching for the gateway of the higher self. This piece features collaborations from Ker Chen (visual designer and technician) and Farai Malianga( musician & composer).

Tap dancer and choreographer Orlando Hernández explores legacies of colonialism and diaspora in the Caribbean and Americas. In Too soon to discover planets, too late to discover islands, he uses technologies of sacred rhythms and mask-work to tell the story of two people who arrive in a new land, only to be killed in a terrible storm…

This season continues the revamped version of Fresh Tracks with Live Arts producing a shared evening of new work in the theater developed during the residency. The professional development workshops and meetings throughout the residency focus on applying learned knowledge and skills towards the shared production. After an invigorating audition period in fall 2022, the artists selected receive a 50-hour studio residency, $3000 fee, and while working with nia love, take part in professional development workshops led by renowned professionals from the field. Residents also  obtain exclusive access to Live Arts’ Communications, Development, Production and Programming staff, and a Live Core Artist Membership. Fresh Tracks is supported in part by Partners for New Performance. 

 

ABOUT

Kristel Baldoz is a Filipina-American artist from Delano, California, home to the Table Grape Strike. As a choreographer who works with ceramics, sculpture, film, and story- telling, she develops an aesthetic grounded in the textuality of objects, experimenting with how bodily movements translate into objects and how they become a conduit that materializes colonial relations. She was an EmergeNYC fellow at the Hemispheric Institute, artist-in-residence at Tisch/Danspace Residency and the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation | Chez Bushwick, and a Brooklyn Art Exchange Space Grant Recipient. Recently, she was an artist-in-residence at Chautauqua Institution School of Visual Art and Art Cake. As a performer, she has worked with Reggie Wilson, Wilmer Wilson IV, and Alex Da Corte. www.kristelbaldoz.com IG: reallygoodatmath 

Malcolm-x Betts is a New York based visual and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His artistic work is rooted in investigating embodiment for liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. He has a community engagement practice allowing artistic freedom and making art accessible to everyone. Betts developed and presented work at La MaMa Umbria International in Spoleto, Italy. La Mama NYC, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Bronx Museum and Dixon Place. Betts showed excerpts of Midnight Glow: Kinfolk at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Movement Research at Judson Church and Draftworks at Danspace Project. Kinfolk Vol 2: Butch Queen was persented by Judson Arts in November 2021. Betts worked on Bronx Speaks with the Bronx Musuem with undocumented immgrants. Performed in works by luciana achuga, Jonathan Gonzalez, Snoogybox, Nile Harris and Alex Romania. Betts was a 2018 Artist and Resident with Movement Research.

Miguel Alejandro Castillo is an interdisciplinary artist from Caracas, Venezuela. A choreographer, director, installation artist, educator and performer, he is drawn to the permeability of art forms and the new inquiries that arise from cross-disciplinary and multicultural collaborations. Castillo is currently the movement director for Prisoner of The State, a new opera by David Lang commissioned by the New York Philharmonic. As a dancer, Miguel has performed in the U.S and internationally in the works of Jeanine Durning, Tzveta Kassabova, Alex Springer & Xan Burley, Peter Schmitz, Laurel Jenkins, Delfos Danza Contemporánea, among others. In 2021 Castillo was a danceWEB scholar at the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. He is also a company member of Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre Castillo is a proud United World College alumnus and holds a bachelor’s in dance and theatre from Middlebury College and an M.F.A in Choreography and Performance from Smith College. Website: www.miguelalejandro.art Instagram: @love.entirely 

Jade Charon is an award-winning, groundbreaking intercessory artist whose work uses dance, film, writing, theater, and digital media. Charon is the 2022-2023 New York Live Arts Fresh Track Artist in  Residence, 2020 Hicks Choreography Fellow for the School of Jacob's Pillow, and 2018 Chuck Davis Emerging Choreographer Fellow at BAM. Her films received critical acclaim since premiering online in 2016 . As a filmmaker, her films have been accepted in festivals and conferences such as Montreal Independent Film Festival, Mke Film Festival, The Manhattan Film Festival, The Charlotte Black Film Festival, Toronto International Women’s Film Festival, American Dance Festival Movie By Movers, and The Outland Dance Project Dance Film Festival. She was awarded the jury select Cream City Award from Mke film festival and the semi-finalist for Best Experimental Film for Montreal Independent Film Festival.She received an MFA in Dance  from UCLA, and BA in Interdisciplinary Arts with a concentration in Dance and Theater from Columbia College Chicago. Charon believes her gift is to bring awareness to the community and connect them to a higher power: their higher self, consciousness, and spirit. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Dance and Digital Media at Medgar Evers College.She recently released a children’s book titled, “Gold: Made Just for You.” www.jadecharon.com ig @jade_charon

Orlando Hernández is a tap dancer and choreographer who has presented his work at On the Boards, Joe’s Pub, Brown University, the SPACE Gallery, Movement Research at the Judson Church, the Provincetown Dance Festival, and La Casa de Cultura Ruth Hernández Torres. He is a member of the companies Music From the Sole and Subject:Matter and has danced with Michela Marino Lerman’s Love Movement, the Tap Family Reunion, Arc Iris’ iTMRW, and Danny Fisher-Lochhead’s Tap Quartet. Orlando holds a B.A. in English from Yale University. He has received fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the New England Foundation for the Arts, and he is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Performance Research. You can find him at www.orlyhernandez.com or on IG @pineappleju_icefrog.

 

NEW YORK LIVE ARTS

New York Live Arts is an internationally recognized destination for innovative performance and humanities programming, offering audiences access to art and ideas by creatives notable for their conceptual rigor, formal experimentation and active engagement with the sociopolitical and cultural currents of our times. Led by world-renowned artist Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts supports artists at all stages of their careers through our residencies, commissions, and artist services. It also serves as home base for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, which has been creating groundbreaking work for over forty years. We at New York Live Arts acknowledge and offer deep gratitude to Lenapehoking, where our theater sits-the land, and waters of the Lenape homeland.

 

FUNDING

Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, The Brant Foundation, Inc., Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/NYC, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Muriel Pollia Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, The Poss Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jerome Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Tides Foundation.

Public support for New York Live Arts is from Humanities New York, National Endowment for the Arts,, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

Corporate support for New York Live Arts includes Con Edison, Google, Otter AI, Tito’s Handmade Vodka.

We thank our Partners for New Performance for supporting the Live Feed, Fresh Tracks and engagement programs: Alexes Hazen, Linda Hirschson, Julie Orlando, Andrea Rosen, Nina Stricker.

 

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