Artists and organizers from Brooklyn International Performance Art Foundation (BIPAF), PERFORMANCY FORUM, and other mutualistic NYC performance communities debate tradition, change, and the ethics and politics of making work in response and relation to racial capitalism, climate collapse, and systemic eugenics. Is performance part of "immune systems" or resilience strategies? How can both artistic works and modes of production practice response-ability? The panel features Arantxa Araujo, Ayana Evans, Hector Canonge, Lital Dotan, and zavé martohardjono, and is moderated by Esther Neff. PRELUDE Festival 2023 PANEL Performing Response-Ability Esther Neff with others 6:00PM EST Monday, October 16, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Free Entry, Open To All Artists and organizers from mutualistic NY performance art communities, including PERFORMANCY FORUM, debate tradition, change, and the ethics and politics of making work in response and relation to racial capitalism, climate collapse, and systemic eugenics. There will be short performances followed by discussion. Is performance part of "immune systems" or resilience strategies? How can both artistic works and modes of production practice response-ability? Featuring Arantxa Araujo, zavé martohardjono, Hector Canonge, Ayana Evans, and Lital Dotan. Organized by Esther Neff. Content / Trigger Description: Esther Neff (organizer) is the founder of PPL (est. 2006), a thinktank, performance collective, and organizational entity. They are the organizer of PERFORMANCY FORUM (est. 2009), a platform for performance art and social arts practices that has involved hundreds of artists from all over the world in conferences, thinktanks, projects, and exhibitions. PPL's 7-year project as a physical lab site in Brooklyn culminated in the book Institution is a Verb (Operating System 2021, Edited with Elizabeth Lamb, Ayana Evans, and Tsedaye Makonnen). Neff/PPL's project Embarrassed of the (W)Hole, an operating manual for performance philosophy, was recently published by Ugly Duckling Presse and their theoretical and critical writing has been including in the Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (with Yelena Gluzman), The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminist Performance Art, and in PAJ, Performance Paradigm, CONTENT, AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, on cultbytes, culturebot, and elsewhere online and in print. Their solo and collaborative operas, performance art works, and other performance projects have been realized in NYC, across the USA, and various sites around the world. Neff is currently a PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center in Theatre and Performance and teaches at Hunter College. Arantxa Araujo is a Queer Mexican performance artist with a background in neuroscience and arts administrator. Her work is transdisciplinary, feminist, meditative and rooted in bio-behavioral research. Through multisensorial experiences, Araujo aims to catalyze awareness which then might result in a virtuous chain reaction for social justice and personal growth. Her work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, at the Radical Women Latin American Art Exhibit, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Grace Exhibition Space, The Queens Museum (NYC); RAW and Satellite Art Fair (Miami); Illuminus Festival (Boston), and SPACE Gallery (Pittsburgh); ExTeresaArte Actual Museum, and La Explanada del MUAC (Mexico); and Nuit Blanche Festival (Canada). Araujo is a Franklin Furnace Fund awardee, Brooklyn Arts Council and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grantee and has received support through numerous residencies and fellowships including Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship, Creative Capital taller, ITP Camp and EMERGENYC. Araujo was awarded a full scholarship from Mexican Government Institution CONACYT. She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in Theater Studies from Emerson College. zavé martohardjono is a queer, trans, Indonesian-American artist working in performance, dance, installation, video, and poetry. Dwelling in their ancestors’ mythologies, with dreams of a more just future, they make work that contends with the political histories our bodies carry. zavé’s work is concerned with and prompted by inquiry into whether and how embodied healing, anti-colonial storytelling, and political education can de-condition the body, reconjure liberatory memory, and untangle entrenched assimilation. zavé’s dance improvisations, experimental works, multimedia works and writing address and subvert political histories. zavé has been presented at the 92Y, BAAD!, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Center for Performance Research, El Museo del Barrio, HERE Arts, Issue Project Room, The Kennedy Center, Storm King Art Center, the Wild Project, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Boston Center for the Arts, Tufts University, and elsewhere in the U.S. Internationally, they have shown films and performed in Amsterdam, Berlin, Glasgow, Zurich, Skopje, and Jakarta. They were a 2022 MRX/Movement Research Exchange program artist in Skopje, Macedonia, 2021 NYPL Dance Research Fellow, 2020 Gibney Dance in Process artist, 2019 Movement Research AIR, 2017-2018 LMCC Workspace Resident, and a 2011 EMERGENYC artist. Their work has been written about in BOMB Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Culturebot, Hyperallergic, and The New York Times. Hector Canonge is an American artist of Catalan and Bolivian descent. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Canonge spent his childhood in Bolivia and grew up in New York City where he studied and developed his interdisciplinary practice. His projects in Conceptual Art, Social Practice, Media Arts, Performance Art, and Dance treat notions related to constructions of identity, gender roles, migration politics, and ancestral heritage. His interactive projects explore the use of commercial technologies in relation to social archetypes, while his site-specific installations repurpose discarded materials and objects from everyday use. Challenging the white box settings of a gallery or a museum, or intervening directly in public spaces, his performances mediate movement, endurance, and ritualistic processes. Some of his actions and carefully choreographed performances involve collaborating with other artists and interacting with audiences. Through his investigation of somatic expression, he has developed a corporeal theory for the practice of Performance Art presenting it in workshops and conferences around the world. In New York City, Canonge’s dance and performance art projects have been featured at Triskelion Arts, Green Space, Boston Center for the Arts, Movement Research at the Judson Church, La Guardia Performing Arts Center, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and La Mama among others. The artist has exhibited widely in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Canonge is the founding director of the performance art festivals: ITINERANT in NYC (2010-2019t), LATITUDES in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (2017-present), and AUSTRAL in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019-present). He is responsible for the initiatives: ARTerial Performance Lab (South America), TALKaCTIVE & LiVEART.US, NEXUS and IGNITION (United States), Performeando and Encuentro Latinoamericano de Performance Art Berlin (Europe), and the International Network of Performance Art, INPA. In 2020, while reflecting on the effects of the Corona pandemic, Canonge launched the virtuals program, CHRONICLES of CONFINEMENT, featuring artists from Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. In 2022, Canonge launched and curated PAUSA, Performance Art USA, a new seasonal platform for live art and its various modalities of presentation. Canonge’s work has been reviewed by The New York Times, Art Forum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Hispanic Magazine, Turbulence, Art Card Review, and New York Foundation for the Arts’ bulletin NYFA News among others. The artist is currently at work in the development of new projects and programs for the exploration and experimentation of Live Art and its various manifestations. Ayana Evans is a NYC-based performance artist. Her guerilla-style performances have been staged at El Museo del Barrio, The Barnes Foundation, The Bronx Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Newark Museum, Queens Museum and a variety of free public locations. Her performances have been reviewed in The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, ArtNet, Hyperallergic, and New York Magazine's The Cut. She was a 2017-2018 awardee of the Franklin Furnace Fund for performance, 2018 New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellow for Interdisciplinary Arts, 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, 2021-22 Professor of the Practice at Brown University, and 2022 Chamberlain Award winner at Headlands Art Center. Her past residencies include Yaddo, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, and Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Evans' most recent projects included a performance in Simone Leigh’s Loophole of Retreat at the Venice Biennale and the development of a career fair and outdoor projection series that welcomed over 150 formerly incarcerated individuals and transformed the job hunting space into a fun environment. - complete with soul food, a live DJ, and green neon t-shirts for everyone involved. Evans was also featured in or editor of the following publications: "We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World," by Jasmin Hernandez with forward by Swizz Beats, 2020 - features interviews with 50 contemporary artists of color, "Institution as Verb," Edited by Elizabeth Lamb, Ayana Evans, Esther Neff and Tsedaye Makonnen, "Volume 11 Friend of the Arts" Edited by Thomas Flynn II, and "Re-Envisioning The Contemporary Art Cannon: Perspectives in a Global World" Edited by Ruth Iskin, 2017. Evans is currently a professor at Brooklyn College and NYU. Lital Dotan is a visual artist and curator. Her works include live work, video, sculpture and theater. She is the co-founder and artistic director of Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, an art-house currently based in Upstate NY. Co-founded with Eyal Perry in 2007, Glasshouse is an environment dedicated to performance in the domestic sphere, where she organizes and produces festivals, thematic exhibitions, durational performances, collaborations and residencies. In 2015 Dotan founded Que sal mah, a clothing brand that merges performance art, choreography and fashion, where clients book a one-to-one performance session culminating in a dress. Her immersive art works and performances were exhibited in museums and galleries world-wide such as the Israel Museum, National Museum Cracow, Queens Museum, Haifa Museum, Jewish Contemporary SF to name a few and was featured in magazines such as The NY Times, Hyperallergic, DNA Info, NY Mag, Paper Mag, ArtSlant, Haaretz, Huffington Post, VISION China, TAR Magazine and many more. Since early in her artistic career, she has collaborated with photographer Eyal Perry who is responsible for the photography in the majority of her work. An integration of installation, documentation and life her performance narratives examine structures and mechanisms of power across art and society; dissolving and re-imagining through harsh intimacy notions of privacy, audience, ownership, value and success. Dotan published two catalogues- The Glasshouse In Retrospective (2011) and '7 Invitations' (2014). In 2016, her essay about performance ecology in NY was published in TAR magazine, hosting artists, curators and organizers who are actively providing platforms for performance in New York. Photo credits: Building Bridges Not Walls (2018) Photo by Brandon Perdomo. Photo courtesy of Arantxa Araujo. zavé martohardjono. Photo courtesy of the artist. Hector Canonge (2023). Photo courtesy of the artist. Ayana Evans. Photo courtesy of the artist. Lital Dotan, Speaking Ice to Sheep (2023). Screenshot from videography by Eyal Perry. Esther Neff website> https://estherneff.wordpress.com/ | http://www.panoplylab.org/ - IG> @thefenserf | @panoplylab - Arantxa Araujo website> arantxaaraujo.com | IG> @ArantxaAraujo - zavé martohardjono website> https://zavemartohardjono.com/ - Hector Canonge website> www.hectorcanonge.net - Ayana Evans website> https://www.ayanaevans.com/ - Lital Dotan website> https://www.litaldotan.com/ Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

PRELUDE Festival 2023 CEREMONY PRELUDE Award Celebration 9:30PM Saturday, October 14, 2023 The Tank, West 36th Street, NYC, NY, USA RSVP The 2023 PRELUDE Award for significant, important and meaningful contributions towards theatre and performance in New York City will be given this year not to an individual but to a group of distinguished leaders in the field. PRELUDE 2023 AWARDEES Alex Roe,  METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE Awoye Timpo, CLASSIX Anita Durst, ChaShaMa Jim Nicola, NEW YORK THEATER WORKSHOP Keith Josef Adkins, THE NEW BLACK FEST Kristin Marting, HERE ARTS CENTER Linda Chapman, NEW YORK THEATER WORKSHOP Lucien Zayan, THE INVISIBLE DOG Manuel Antonio Morán, INTERNATIONAL PUPPET FRINGE FESTIVAL Morgan Jenness, Dramaturge Mark Russell, UNDER THE RADAR Meghan Finn THE TANK Nicole Birmann Bloom, VILLA ALBERTINE/FRENCH CULTURAL SERVICES in the US Robert Lyons, THE OHIO Theresa Buchheister, THE BRICK Jeffrey Shubart, LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION Named and created by Caleb Hammons in honor of Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Executive Director and PRELUDE founder Dr. Frank Hentschker, the FRANKY Award was created to recognize artists who have made a long-term, extraordinary impact on contemporary theatre and performance in New York City. Content / Trigger Description: Alex Roe Next to his work as a director, actor, and playwright in New York City Alex Roe’s artistic leadership of The Metropolitan Playhouse has been a shining example of the liveliness and diversity of the New York theatre and performance landscape. Since 2001, Roe has directed over 60 productions. He created the Alphabet City monologues, solo performances based on interviews with the theatre’s neighbors, East Village Chronicles, new one-act plays by emerging playwrights inspired by the life and history of the theatre’s East Village neighborhood, the Living Literature series, new plays and adaptations produced by guest artists and companies celebrating the writing of American authors who worked primarily outside of the theatrical genre, and the Virtual Playhouse, bringing graphically enhanced video performances to audiences around the world. The Metropolitan Playhouse closed its own theatre in 2023, but will continue to produce work. Awoye Timpo, CLASSIX Awoye Timpo created CLASSIX—together with Brittany Bradford, A.J. Muhammad, Dominique Rider, and Arminda Thomas—to explore the classical canon through an exploration of Black performance history and dramatic works by Black writers--engaging artists, historians, students, professors, producers and audiences to launch these plays into the public imagination and spark productions worldwide. Awoye Timpois a New York-based director. She received her M.A. from the University of London/British Institute of Paris. Anita Durst, ChaShaMa Since 1995 Anita Durst has been working toward securing studio and presentation space in Midtown Manhattan for thousands of struggling artists by partnering with Property Owners that provide unused space to Chashama—while honoring the legacy of theatre visionary Reza Abdoh. Durst believes programs like Chashama are the vital building blocks to ensuring cultural capital in New York City. She was born in New York City. Keith Josef Adkins, THE NEW BLACK FEST Keith Joseph Adkins gathers artists, thinkers, activists and audiences who are fiercely dedicated to stretching, interrogating and uplifting the Black aesthetic experience in theatre. Adkins's commitment to celebrate, advocate and showcase diverse and provocative work in a festival of Black theater artists from throughout the Diaspora is a shining example of the liveliness and diversity of the New York City theatre and performance scene. His leadership, mentorship and close personal work with playwrights over a decade, especially during the Time of Corona, is a shining example of how just one theatre can make a difference and contribute to real change. Adkins's is a playwright, screenwriter and artistic director working in New York City. Kristin Marting, HERE Kristin Marting has been presenting over decades at HERE ARTS CENTER groundbreaking hybrid performance, dance, theater, multi-media, music and puppetry since 1993. HERE has been at the forefront of directing, producing and presenting independent, innovative, multidisciplinary works in New York City that do not fit into conventional programming agendas. Marting handed over the artistic leadership for HERE ARTS CENTER in 2023. Linda Chapman, NEW YORK THEATER WORKSHOP Linda Chapman's work at the New York Theater Workshop over many decades has been an excellent, shining example of the real impact just one theatre can have in a neighborhood, within the landscape of theatre and performance in New York and the nation. Chapman, in close collaboration with Jim Nicola, gave birth to hundreds of important theatre works and your support made a crucial difference to the careers of thousands of writers, directors, actors and artistic directors. Lucien Zayan, THE INVISIBLE DOG Lucien Zayan has made a significant, important and meaningful contribution towards theatre and performance in New York City with his unique art space THE INVISIBLE DOG. With exhibitions, performances, and public events featuring visual artists, performers, and curators from New York City and around the world you are an example of a space dedicated to a successful integration of innovation in the arts with profound respect for the past—while presenting, producing and serving emerging and established artists. Mark Russell, UNDER THE RADAR Since 2006, under the artistic leadership of founder Mark Russell, UNDER THE RADAR, has been a unique and urgently needed theatre festival in New York City presenting new and cutting-edge performance from the U.S. and abroad during APAP, the national service, advocacy and membership organization for the performing arts presenters. UNDER THE RADAR successfully presents international contemporary theater, richly distinct in terms of perspectives, aesthetics, and social practice, and pointing to the future of the art form. Especially the lasting global connections created by Russell and the UNDER THE RADAR represent a most significant contribution to the liveliness and diversity of the New York theatre and performance landscape. Morgan Jenness, DRAMATURGE Morgan Jenness has been a pioneer dramaturge in American theatre and her work with leading US theatres and independent performance groups has been groundbreaking. Her real support for young, experimental and emerging artists—especially, but not limited to playwrights--as well as her fierce loyalty over decades to artistic friends and collaborators has been exceptional role model for generations of NYC theatre makers. Jenness's work serves as a shining example of what impact just one dramaturge can have within the landscape of theatre and performance in New York City and how urgently such work is needed. Manuel Antonio Morán, NYC INTERNATIONAL PUPPET FRINGE FESTIVAL Manuel Antonio Morán is the founder and artistic director of The International Puppet Fringe Festival-- New York’s only global fringe festival dedicated to puppetry with over 40 performances in one week. Founded in 2018, the IPFF festival has had 3 editions since its inception, most recently in August 2023. It is a unique contribution to the diverse landscape of New York puppetry and object theatre. Morán is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, writer, composer, puppeteer, theater and film director and producer. He is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Latino Children’s Theater, Teatro SEA, (Society of the Educational Arts, Inc.) in New York City. Teatro SEA has become a prominent institution in the performing arts landscape for youth audiences, curating diverse theatrical performances, including puppet shows, plays, and musicals. Meghan Finn THE TANK As the Artistic Director at THE TANK for the past six years, Meghan Finn has supported the work of thousands of multidisciplinary artists. The Tank was awarded an OBIE AWARD for institutional excellence, under Finn's leadership as Artistic Director and for presenting, producing and serving emerging New York City artists. The Tank removes economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their art form, while being inclusive and accessible. Nicole Birmann Bloom VILLA ALBERTINE/CULTURAL SERVICES OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE UNITED STATES Nicole Birmann Bloom’s work at the French Cultural Services over the decades within the landscape of theatre and performance in New York City has long been an excellent, shining example of meaningful cultural diplomacy with a deep impact through the years. With great knowledge and emotional intelligence, Birmann Bloom has connected countless French and American theatre artists, companies and institutions, playwrights and directors, dancers and stages. She contributed to the creation of performances, tours and public events across creative disciplines and facilitated exploratory residencies in New York City and across the United States. Her work supporting, les Rencontres, la Recherche et la Création had a real impact in the field and is highly respected and beloved by her American friends and colleagues. Robert Lyons, THE OHIO Since 1988 Robert Lyons developed and presented some of the boldest and most innovative work from NYC’s diverse independent theatre community. His New Ohio Theatre, a pillar of the downtown independent theatre community, actively expanded the boundaries of what theatre is, how it’s made, and why. For 30 years Lyons' ICE FACTORY festival has been serving NYC's diverse indie theatre community—the small, inspired, artist-driven ensembles and the daring producing companies who operate without a permanent theatrical home. Robert is also a playwright with more than twenty NYC premieres. In 2023 New Ohio Theatre closed its doors for good. Theresa Buchheister, THE BRICK As the Artistic Director Theresa Buchheister made a significant, important and meaningful contribution towards theatre and performance in New York City at THE BRICK--developing and presenting with an open-door policy the work of countless pioneering emerging artists and career experimenters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Buchheister (They/Them) is a Kansan New Yorker and founder and also the co-director of Title:Point, founder and Artistic Director of The Exponential Festival, and co-founder of Vital Joint. Theresa directs, produces, performs, curates, facilitates and writes for theatre and theatre-adjacent performance realms. Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

A chat and conversation between Frank Hentscker and Stefanie Batten Bland about proscenium, immersive performance, and all the in-betweens in our new covid making times. PRELUDE Festival 2023 ARTIST TALK Stefanie Batten Bland Discussion English 30 minutes 4:00PM EST Saturday, October 14, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Free Entry, Open To All A chat and conversation between Frank Hentscker and Stefanie Batten Bland about proscenium, immersive performance, and all the in-betweens in our new covid making times. Content / Trigger Description: September 2023 Dance Magazine Cover-girl, and Creative C2023 Creative Capital Winner and 2022 BAM Next Wave Artist, Stefanie Batten Bland Child of a jazz composer/producer father and writer mother, and raised in Soho when it was still led by artists, was clearly destined for a future in the arts. A global artist, Batten Bland exhibits a unique blend of African American flamboyance and European sensibility. Her work is situated at the intersection of dance-theatre, film, and immersive creations, with a focus on the interrogation of symbols in contemporary and historical culture. Undeterred by convention, the emotional content of Batten Bland's choreography is directly accessible; its social and philosophical message is visceral. As artistic director of Company SBB, Batten Bland established the company in France in 2008 while positioned as head choreographer at the Paris Opéra Comique. Upon returning to New York City, she received the support of Mikhail Baryshnikov and his residency program at Baryshnikov Arts Center, where she continues as a resident artist. Before establishing her own company, Batten Bland danced for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Tanztheater Wüppertal Pina Bausch, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Hungarian Pal Frenák and Ivorian Coast creator Georges Momboye. Known for her unique visual and movement aesthetic, Batten Bland served as curator for the 2023 edition of E-Moves at Harlem Stage, movement director for Eve’s Song at the Public Theater (Forbes 2018 Best Theater) and is currently casting and movement director for Life & Trust Emursive Productions spring 2024 creation, as well as their performance and identity consultant for Sleep No More. Her article in Dance Magazine details her advocacy in immersive theater for performers, through costuming, character direction and lighting approaches. She has created for fashion and lifestyle partners Fleur du Mal, Louis Vuitton, VanCleef & Arpels, Hermés, and Guerlain. Her choreography is currently in active repertory at American Ballet Theater, Alvin Ailey II, Transitions Dance Company in the UK, and Frontier Danceland in Singapore. Batten Bland has created 14 dance cinema films that have been shown in international festivals from South Africa to Buenos Aires and Greece to Germany. Her latest dance film, Kolonial, has received thirteen US and international film awards, and was nominated for 3 Bessie Awards. Her work has been presented at the Park Armory, BAM, ADF, Lincoln Center Restart Stages, The Yard at Martha’s Vineyard, La MaMa Experimental Theater and internationally at the Spoleto Festival in Italy, Danse à Lille in France, and Tanztendenzen in Germany. Awards include a New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project Production. A Jerome Robbins Award, six Jerome Robbins support grants, three Bessie nominations, a Bessie Schonberg Fellowship at The Yard, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Center for Ballet Arts Fellow at NYU, and Toulmin Creator at NYU Center for Ballet Arts. She has been featured in The New York Times, New York Times Style Magazine, Dance Magazine, Marie Claire, and Dance Europe. Batten Bland received her MFA in interdisciplinary arts from Goddard College and is currently an Assistant Professor at Montclair State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance and lives in SoHo with her family. URL: companysbb.org IG: sbb_land Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

New York City’s performance world has always been advanced by independent creators pushing the boundaries of how, where and for whom we generate live-art experiences. This panel begins with a series of brief manifestos delivered by artists and makers fueling the next chapter of this story, followed by a moderated conversation. Curated and moderated by Jess Applebaum and Nic Benacerraf PRELUDE Festival 2023 PANEL Future Visions: Provocations for the Next Performance Ecosystem Edge Effect Discussion English 90 minutes 7:00PM EST Wednesday, October 11, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Free Entry, Open To All New York City’s performance world has always been advanced by independent creators pushing the boundaries of how, where and for whom we generate live-art experiences. This panel begins with a series of brief manifestos delivered by artists and makers fueling the next chapter of this story, followed by a moderated conversation. Curated and moderated by Jess Applebaum and Nic Benacerraf of Edge Effect Content / Trigger Description: Edge Effect is a “think and do tank” that creates participatory experiences for individuals to share knowledge across personal, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. Each project unites a polydisciplinary coalition of humanitarians in the creation of works that address the harmful aspects of our profit-driven culture. EE’s process is deeply rooted in the edge-blurring practices of devised theater, which fosters consensual collaboration, a generous and joyful workspace, critical self-awareness, and healing through antiracist and anti-patriarchal action. The resulting collaborations take shape as live performances, broadly construed: immersive theater, hoax storefronts, dramatic concerts and lectures, and more—all designed to live at the intersection of analysis, enigma, spectacle, and delight. Jess Applebaum (she/her) is a dramaturg, community engagement coordinator, and public scholar whose 20-plus years of practice are rooted at the intersections of contemporary performance and social action. As a dramaturg, Jess works collaboratively with performance makers, academics, and activists to develop and facilitate creative processes. She believes that bodies perform knowledge, that process activates collective power, and that, together, they can inspire new pedagogical and civic practices. Jess is a founding partner of Edge Effect Media Group and an almost founding member of One Year Lease Theatre Company (OYL). Beyond these two companies, her artistic relationships include working with Panoply Performance Lab, composer/performance team Nathan Davis and Sylvia Milo, Kyoung’s Pacific Beat (KPB), directors Ashley Tata, Anna Brenner, and Simón Hanukai and choreographer Jody Oberfelder. Service to the community includes The Off-Off Community Dish, Brooklyn Commune, VP of Advocacy for LMDA, and conference committee member for CARPA8: Dramaturgies of Artistic Research at Uniarts Helsinki, which took place in 2023. Jess holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University, a MA in Performance Studies from NYU and has a PhD in the works from CUNY Graduate Center where she was a PublicsLab Fellow. Her scholarship on dramaturgy has been presented at the Prague Quadrenille’s special convening Devising Dramaturgy in 2014 and the conference Alternative Dramaturgies held in Tangiers, Morocco. Nic Benacerraf (he/they) is a space-maker. As a director, scenographer, and scholar of live performance, he engineers consent-based systems and environments for genuine human encounters in theaters, galleries, concert halls, and streets. Nic is Founding Partner of Edge Effect Media Group, a polydisciplinary research and performance lab. For over a decade he was Founding co-Artistic Director of The Assembly, a Brooklyn-based theater collective dedicated to building slow-cooked works about pressing social issues. Nic’s scholarship uses dramaturgical strategies to unmask the field of Public Relations as the most efficacious genre of performance ever invented, and as the propaganda arm of the “capitalist, imperialist, white-supremacist patriarchy” (bell hooks). Currently, Nic teaches Directing at the Brown University / Trinity Rep MFA program. Nic received an MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts, and he is completing his PhD in Theatre & Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. Images of his design work can be found at http://www.nicbenacerraf.com/. Ianthe Demos is the Artistic Director and a founding member of OYL, established in 2001. Ianthe’s work has received two Drama Desk nominations in NYC and a Stage Award in Edinburgh. Her directing work with OYL includes Kissing the Floor by Ellen McLaughlin, pool (no water) by Mark Ravenhill, PEMDAS by Kevin Armento, and Balls by Bryony Lavery and Kevin Armento among others. Ianthe is a full-time professor in the International Performance Ensemble at PACE University and runs OYL’s acclaimed Summer International Program in Greece, Japan, and India. Ianthe has worked extensively in the arts management field managing dance companies on the international circuit as part of Selby Artists Management. Ianthe is currently working on a new adaptation of Medea by Meropi Papastergiou, a production of Ellen McLaughlin’s Oedipus, and a new work entitled WAKE written by Leon Ingulsrud and Brooke Shilling. Jesse Cameron Alick is a dramaturg, producer, poet, playwright, essayist, artistic researcher, and science fiction expert. Jesse has been working in the nonprofit theater world for over 20 years, starting out as Artistic Director and Producer at a small independent theater company for 10 years and eventually working at the Public Theater for over a decade, in the final years as Company Dramaturg. Jesse is currently the Associate Artistic Director at The Vineyard and an active freelance dramaturg at various off-Broadway theaters in NYC, nationwide and internationally. Jesse studied writing with Adrienne Kennedy and has taught theater courses, lectured at classes, and mentored students at a myriad of programs, currently teaching at NYU. Chie Morita (森田千恵 | she/her) is a consultant, creative producer, and consummate tinkerer dedicated to retraining our inherited habits and engineering empowering new systems in the arts. She is a Co-Founder + Partner of FORGE, a boutique consultancy devoted to helping artists and organizations forge a path toward success. By leveraging the potential of proactive planning, holistic mentorship, and collaborative asking, Chie seeks to free makers (and herself) from historical hindrances, socialized stereotypes, and negative self-stories. In New York, she has worked with Tony-Award-winning Broadway Producer Joey Parnes (on A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, End of the Rainbow), institutions including The Public Theater, Third Rail Projects, The Musical Theater Factory, The New York Neo-Futurists (who, under her care, were awarded three Drama Desk nominations), TriBeCa Venue Town Stages (where she created, curated, and managed the Sokoloff Arts Fellowship Program), brands including The Macallan and Art Beyond The Glass, and such independent makers and ensembles as Heather Christian and the Arbornauts, Dylan Marron, Edge Effect, Empowered Artist Collective, Statera Arts Mentorship: NYC, UglyRhino, and Fresh Ground Pepper. Alongside her work with FORGE, she proudly mentors young makers through We Are Queens, and her alma mater, Northern Arizona University, and serves as a collaborating producer with the Wonderland Historical Society in New Orleans. Ximena Garnica is a New York City-based, Colombian-born immigrant working as a multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, director, curator, designer, and teacher. With her partner, Japanese artist Shige Moriya, Garnica is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the arts entity called LEIMAY, which means “a moment of light in the darkness” or “a moment of transition” in Japanese. Part of their work is created with the LEIMAY Ensemble, and their embodied practice LUDUS transmits the lineage of butoh dance and experimental visual and performing arts. They are invested in the entanglement from which culture and art emerge, and they value relationality, collaboration, and resource-sharing as primary to their praxis. Their multidisciplinary works include dance, theater, sculpture, video, film, mixed media, and light installations, photography, training projects, stage performances, and publications. Their works have been presented at US venues such as BAM Fisher, the Brooklyn Museum, the Japan Society, the Watermill Center, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and internationally in Japan, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Mexico, and Colombia. They have maintained collaborations with renowned artists (Robert Wilson and Ko Murobushi) and they have received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, NPN, NYSCA, and NEFA, among others. They were nominated for Herb Alpert and United States Artists awards. They have been reviewed in The New York Times, TDR/The Theater Drama Review, The New Yorker, and Hyperallergic, among others. They are part of the theater faculty at MIT and was recently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California Riverside. Their writing has been published by Routledge. Garnica is an advocate of affordable live-work spaces. Their activism was instrumental in effecting changes at the New York state level to protect live-work spaces in New York City. More recently, Garnica, through LEIMAY, co-founded the Cultural Solidarity Fund, which has provided over $1 million in $500 relief microgrants to NYC artists and cultural workers affected by COVID-19. With her partner, they continue multiple organizing efforts to sustain what they call the “entanglement,” a loose knot, cluster, or constellation of relationalities—an intention to live a life in poetry. Beto O’Byrne hails from East Texas and is the co-founder of Radical Evolution, a multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary performance collective based in Brooklyn, NY. The author of 20 plays, screenplays, and original TV pilots, his works have been produced in and developed in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, and San Antonio. O’Byrne is an advocate and organizer interested in creating solidarity between labor, arts, and antiracist/anticapitalist movements. In addition to his theatre work, O'Byrne is the creator of the political punk rock outfit, A Revolutionary Chorus, and the World of Kir, a high fantasy creative writing project. Radical Evolution is a multiethnic producing collective committed to creating artistic events that seek to understand the complexities of the mixed-identity existence in the 21st Century. We believe that visibility and representation for the fastest-growing demographic in our nation - those who identify as more than one race or ethnicity - is crucial to live performance. We incorporate people from a variety of backgrounds into our creative process, with a focus on people of color, to seed the field of experimental and collaboratively created theatre with practitioners that celebrate the intersectionality of perspectives and aesthetics of the city around us. Through this approach, we work to assert a vision for cultural and social equity in our field, city, and nation. Marisol Rosa-Shapiro / Marisol Soledad is a cultural worker, theater artist, educator, facilitator, and curator. Her acting and directing work have appeared on stages across the USA, in Philadelphia, NYC, Seattle, Boston, Miami, Maine, Massachusetts, Colorado, and Alaska. Marisol has worked as a teaching artist for many theaters, arts education initiatives, and community-based organizations across the country. She is a tenured teaching artist at the New Victory Theater in NYC where she developed The Seven Ravens Project as part of the LabWorks program for new works, and made her Off-Broadway directorial debut with Spellbound Theater’s Wink in the spring of 2023. As a member of TYA/USA’s BIPOCin TYA Advisory Board, Marisol co-facilitated spaces for members of the global majority working in TYA and supported the creation of TYA/USA’s Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Futures guide for the field. She has also served as Director of Community Engagement for Shakespeare in Clark Park, and as Community Coordinator for Theatre Horizon's production of Town. Marisol is a volunteer performer, educator, and board secretary for Clowns Without Borders USA, who help build resilience through laughter with people experiencing displacement due to natural and human-made disaster across the globe. In recent years, she has been selected as a Colleen Toohey Porter Fellow with TYA/USA, a Jim Rye Fellow with International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY), a National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Leadership Institute Fellow, and a Target Margin Theater Institute Fellow. Her work has received support from the Network of EnsembleTheatres, Cannonball Festival, Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation and Marrazzo Family Foundation, and Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture. Marisol is a graduate of Princeton University and of Helikos International School for Theatre Creation in Florence, Italy. She was born and raised in NYC, where she continues to create and teach. She currently resides in Philadelphia. Photo credits: Jess Applebaum. Photo courtesy of the artist. Nic Benacerraf. Photo courtesy of the artist. Ianthe Demos. Photo courtesy of the artist. Jesse Cameron Alick. Photo courtesy of the artist. Chie Morita: credit Taylor Cooley_Katie LaMark. Ximena Garnica. Photo courtesy of the artist. Beto O’Byrne. Photo courtesy of the artist. Marisol Rosa-Shapiro / Marisol Soledad. Photo courtesy of the artist. www.edgeeffectmedia.org IG: @edge.effect.media Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

No Visa Productions presents: Fire / Escape Written / Directed / Produced by Michal Gamily Co written by Lizi Sagie Composed and sound designed by John Sully Dramaturg: Begum Inal Performers: Marina Celander, Michal Gamily, Onni Johnson, Valois Mickens, John Sully, Jane Catherine Shaw, Marybeth Ward, George Drance Fire / Escape is a play about hummus, impossible love, and a donkey, using elements of a Greek tragedy such as: a chorus, and three goddesses of faith who are embroidering the narrative — literally and figuratively. It is a story about an emergency, a wakeup call, happening during a global emergency. The play tells the story of M, an actress and single mother, during the first few months of Covid as she is trying to adjust to the new reality in her beloved abandoned city. M starts making homemade hummus, and selling it from her fire escape. Simultaneously, she is trying to find a way to help "Him”, who has gotten stuck far away from his home, just as his health is declining. Her ongoing efforts to help reflect the nature of their troubled, unbalanced relationship throughout the years, and take M on a journey down memory lane, and self reckoning. Sirens are present throughout as a character song cycle to address the nostalgic quality of the story. There are stories within stories and repeating melodies, and rhythms, presented in different musical contexts. There are references throughout the story to classical film and plays. Fire / Escape is a play designated to be performed outdoors on a fire escape of a multi-story building. It was written based on the limitations, obstacles, and advantages of the specific structure. Fire / Escape is presented in association with Rod Rodgers Dance Company, and La MaMa ETC, with support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center. Fire / Escape is a part of the Segal Center's Prelude Festival 2023 PRELUDE Festival 2023 PERFORMANCE Fire / Escape (Work In Progress) Michal Gamily/ No Visa Production Theater English, Arabic 60 minutes 5:30PM EST Saturday, October 21, 2023 La MaMa ETC 74a E 4th Street New York, NY 10003 United States Register for Free / Donate (Please note this is a work in progress / performed rehearsal) No Visa Productions presents: Fire / Escape Written / Directed / Produced by Michal Gamily Co written by Lizi Sagie Composed and sound designed by John Sully Dramaturg: Begum Inal Performers: Marina Celander, Michal Gamily, Onni Johnson, Valois Mickens, John Sully, Jane Catherine Shaw, Marybeth Ward, George Drance Fire / Escape is a play about hummus, impossible love, and a donkey, using elements of a Greek tragedy such as: a chorus, and three goddesses of faith who are embroidering the narrative — literally and figuratively. It is a story about an emergency, a wakeup call, happening during a global emergency. The play tells the story of M, an actress and single mother, during the first few months of Covid as she is trying to adjust to the new reality in her beloved abandoned city. M starts making homemade hummus, and selling it from her fire escape. Simultaneously, she is trying to find a way to help "Him”, who has gotten stuck far away from his home, just as his health is declining. Her ongoing efforts to help reflect the nature of their troubled, unbalanced relationship throughout the years, and take M on a journey down memory lane, and self reckoning. Sirens are present throughout as a character song cycle to address the nostalgic quality of the story. There are stories within stories and repeating melodies, and rhythms, presented in different musical contexts. There are references throughout the story to classical film and plays. Fire / Escape is a play designated to be performed outdoors on a fire escape of a multi-story building. It was written based on the limitations, obstacles, and advantages of the specific structure. Fire / Escape is presented in association with Rod Rodgers Dance Company, and La MaMa ETC, with support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center. Fire / Escape is a part of the Segal Center's Prelude Festival 2023 No Visa Production in association with Rod Rodgers Dance Company and La MaMa ETC. LMCC grant Content / Trigger Description: No Visa Productions presents: Fire / Escape Written / Directed / Produced by Michal Gamily Co written by Lizi Sagie Composed and sound designed by John Sully Dramaturg: Begum Inal Performers: Marina Celander, Michal Gamily, Onni Johnson, Valois Mickens, John Sully, Jane Catherine Shaw, Marybeth Ward, George Drance Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

PRELUDE Festival 2023 PANEL Devised Theater After COVID With Allen Kuharski and others English 60 minutes 3:00PM EST Monday, October 16, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Free Entry, Open to All American Devised Theater After COVID: Teaching, Archiving and the Practice The past, present, and future of devised physical ensemble theater in the US was the topic of an historic NEH Institute in Philadelphia in June. A diverse group of over 50 professors, artist/teachers, grad students, editors, and archivists from around the country as well as several foreign countries gathered for 12 days to discuss the issues of archiving, criticism, and especially the theoretical and historical teaching of this 60-year-old practice in American and world theater. This exchange was prompted by the recent proliferation of the teaching of the practice of devising in colleges, universities, and drama schools (often without a theoretical, critical, historical framing) and the larger challenges to such innovative live performance following the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and the growing impact of climate change. The Institute was initiated by Quinn Bauriedel of Pig Iron Theatre Company's School for Devised Performance, and co-hosted by Allen Kuharski of Swarthmore College. The panel at CUNY will consist of participants in the Institute and will be a report and critical reflection on the larger issues that emerged from the Institute. With Allen Kuharski, Rye Gentleman (NYU), Tracy Hazas (CUNY-Queens College), Rebecca Adelsheim, Tom Sellar (YSD) and/or others. TBC. Content / Trigger Description: Allen J. Kuharski is Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Theater at Swarthmore College and teaches in Pig Iron Theater Company’s MFA Program in Devised Performance. Kuharski is a widely published critic and scholar on contemporary directing history, theory, and practice and on modern Polish theater and drama. He is co-editor of the 16-volume Witold Gombrowicz: Collected Writings published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in Kraków. He has served as an editor for journals such Theatre Journal, Slavic & East European Performance, Western European Stages, and Periphery: Journal of Polish Affairs. His articles and reviews have been published in Polish, French, Spanish, Norwegian, German, and Bulgarian translations. His own translations from Polish and French have been widely performed in the United States and abroad. As a dramaturg and translator, he has shared two OBIE Awards and a Fringe First Award, and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has awarded him the country’s Order of Merit. Kuharski was a Fulbright Scholar in Theater to the Polish Academy of Arts & Sciences in Warsaw in 2017-18. With Quinn Bauriedel of Pig Iron, he was Co-Director of the 2023 NEH Institute in Philadelphia titled “Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Devised Theatre.” Tom Sellar, a writer, curator, and dramaturg, is Editor of Theater magazine and Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale University. His writing and criticism have appeared in national publications including Artforum, BOMB, the New York Times, the Guardian, 4Columns, and American Theatre. From 2001-2016 he was a frequent contributor to the Village Voice, where he covered theater and performance art nationally, serving as an Obie award judge and for two terms as chief theater critic. He has also contributed to numerous book anthologies including The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy; Joined Forces: Audience Participation in Theater; Curating Live Arts: Global Perspectives, Envisioning Theory and Practice in Performance; and the history BAM: The Next Wave Festival. He has curated programs for American Realness, Queer Zagreb, the Institute for Arts and Civic Dialogue (with Anna Deavere Smith), Prague Quadrennial, Philadelphia Fringe Arts, and other organizations. With Antje Oegel, Tom co-curated Prelude 2015 (What Could We Build, or Is the Future Already Behind Us?) and Prelude 2016 (Welcome Failure). Rebecca Adelsheim is a doctoral candidate in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale where they study queer theater and performance, and lecturer at Tufts University. As a new play dramaturg and producer, Rebecca has worked for companies including Audible Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Baltimore Center Stage, the Goodman Theater, Philadelphia Theater, and Barrington Stage, among others. Recent credits include co-adapator for Affinity based on the novel by Sarah Waters with director Alex Keegan and dramaturg and researcher forsoldiergirls by Em Weinstein. Their writing has been published in Theater magazine, where they also serve as the associate editor. They have received research grants from the Beinecke Library and theFund for Gay and Lesbian Studies (FLAGS) at Yale University and is the recipient of the John W. Gassner Memorial prize and the G. Charles Niemeyer Scholarship. Rebecca is originally from Pittsburgh, PA and received their B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and their M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. Rye Gentleman is the Librarian for Performing Arts in the Division of Libraries. He holds a PhD from University of Minnesota's Theatre Arts & Dance Department and an MLIS from San Jose State University. Gentleman conducts research at the intersection of performance studies, transgender studies, and new media studies. His dissertation-based book project explores the ways transgender embodiment is conceptualized in and shaped by digital media and shows how actual and imagined transgender bodies are enmeshed in digital systems that exert a normative pressure, while also offering the capacity to materialize more expansive actualizations of gendered embodiment. He is also currently working as contributor and co-editor on an anthology focused on transfeminist theatre and performance. His writing has been published in TDR: The Drama Review, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Fifty Key Figures in Queer US Theatre (Routledge). TRACY HAZAS is an actor and movement director. She has performed at NYC theaters including New York City Center, Dixon Place, Abrons Art Center, and Theater for the New City; most recently, she was seen in Preparedness, co-produced by the Bushwick Starr and HERE Arts Center. Hazas is an affiliated artist with Counter-Balance Theater. She is the voice of the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, and has appeared in commercials for Xbox, Tide and others. She made her feature debut in White Rabbit at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Currently she’s designing movement for The Wolves at Queens College; and developing an original work, Los Kentubanos, which reconstructs moments from her family’s history in Cuba, utilizing archival documents and her father’s digital collection of roughly 30,000 family photos dating from the early 1900s. Hazas teaches performance, movement, collaboration and voice at Queens College (CUNY). Previous academic positions include Lecturer of Acting and Movement at Stanford University, and work at Emerson College Los Angeles, Montclair State University and others. Photo credits: Allen J. Kuharski. Credit by Ted Kostans. Tom Sellar. Photo credit by the artist. Rebecca Adelsheim. Photo credit by the artist. Rye Gentleman. Photo credit by the artist. TRACY HAZAS. Photo credit by the artist. Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

Two friends in the after hours entertain ghosts in the kitchen and the bedroom. One friend takes a long walk to the grocery store. One young woman waits for her. This is a short play about locating and accessing one’s will when the will has begun to drift away. PRELUDE Festival 2023 PERFORMANCE ANALOG INTIMACY Jess Barbagallo / Half Straddle Theater English 30 Minutes 6:00PM EST Tuesday, October 10, 2023 Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave, New York, NY, USA Free Entry, Open To All Two friends in the after hours entertain ghosts in the kitchen and the bedroom. One friend takes a long walk to the grocery store. One young woman waits for her. This is a short play about locating and accessing one’s will when the will has begun to drift away. Content / Trigger Description: Jess Barbagallo is an American writer, director, and performer based in New York City. He has toured internationally and domestically with Big Dance Theater, the Builders Association, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf (and its Dyke Division) and Half Straddle. Barbagallo has originated roles in plays by Joshua Conkel, Casey Llewellyn, Normandy Sherwood, Trish Harnetiaux and many others. He appeared as Yann Fredericks in the original cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Lyric Theatre on Broadway. His playwrighting credits include Grey-Eyed Dogs (Dixon Place), Saturn Nights (Incubator Arts Center), Good Year for Hunters (New Ohio Theatre), Karen Davis Does … (Brooklyn Arts Exchange), Joe Ranono’s Yuletide Log and Other Fruitcakes (Dixon Place), Sentence Fetish (Brick Theater), Melissa, So Far(Andy’s Playhouse) and My Old Man (and Other Stories) (Dixon Place). His writing has been published by Artforum, Howlround, Bomb Blog, New York Live Arts Blog: Context Notes, Brooklyn Rail and 53rd State Press. He is a 2009 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab alum, a 2012 Queer Arts Mentorship mentee, and a 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow. Barbagallo has taught theater and writing as a guest artist and adjunct lecturer at Duke University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Brooklyn College, the Vermont Young Playwright’s Festival and The O’Neill Center. Kristina "Tina" Satter is an American filmmaker, playwright, and director based in New York City. She is the founder and artistic director of the theater company Half Straddle, which formed in 2008 and received an Obie Award grant in 2013. Satter won a Guggenheim in 2020. Satter was described by Ben Brantley of the New York Times as "a genre-and-gender-bending, visually exacting stage artist who has developed an ardent following among downtown aesthetes with a taste for acidic eye candy and erotic enigmas." Her work often deals with subjects of gender, sexual identity, adolescence, and sports. She won a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2016), and a Doris Doris Duke Artist Impact Award in 2014. In 2019, she received a Pew Fellowship. Satter has created 10 shows with Half Straddle, and the company's shows and videos have toured to over 20 countries in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and Asia. She made her Off Broadway debut as a conceiver and director in fall 2019 with Is This a Room at the Vineyard Theatre. A collection of three of her plays, Seagull (Thinking of You), with Away Uniform and Family was published in 2014. The text for her show Ghost Rings was published in 2017 by 53rd State Press along with a vinyl album of the show's songs. Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

Instagram (A Performance) is 40-minute text about collective self-regard, written and directed by Aaron Landsman, performed by a different actor each showing. This Prelude showing will be performed by April Matthis. The piece is an extended riff on how caught up we are in each others’ image diaries, and in our own self-reflections; on how even the most cynical or circumspect of us get wrapped up in how we show our feeds to our followers. Performers receive an orientation shortly before they perform - the script includes both words to say and simple scores for movement and gesture. The piece is rendered as a litany of single photos, one per page. The joy in this piece is watching accomplished performers respond to and embody text in the moment, in the complicated way we often respond to our friends’ feeds. It is also an invitation for audience members to create for themselves the images they are hearing aloud - an imaginative act akin to reading - and to think about the moments in their lives that escape our lenses, that may be embodied and rendered more strongly as memory alone. PRELUDE Festival 2023 PERFORMANCE Instagram: A Performance Aaron Landsman Theater, Performance Art English 35-40 MInutes 3:30PM EST Wednesday, October 11, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Free Entry, Open To All Instagram (A Performance) is 40-minute text about collective self-regard, written and directed by Aaron Landsman, performed by a different actor each showing. This Prelude showing will be performed by April Matthis. The piece is an extended riff on how caught up we are in each others’ image diaries, and in our own self-reflections; on how even the most cynical or circumspect of us get wrapped up in how we show our feeds to our followers. Performers receive an orientation shortly before they perform - the script includes both words to say and simple scores for movement and gesture. The piece is rendered as a litany of single photos, one per page. The joy in this piece is watching accomplished performers respond to and embody text in the moment, in the complicated way we often respond to our friends’ feeds. It is also an invitation for audience members to create for themselves the images they are hearing aloud - an imaginative act akin to reading - and to think about the moments in their lives that escape our lenses, that may be embodied and rendered more strongly as memory alone. Will be presented by Abrons Arts Center in June 2024 Content / Trigger Description: Aaron Landsman is a theater artist, researcher and teacher. His performance works have been presented by many venues in New York, including The Chocolate Factory, Abrons Arts Center, The Foundry Theatre, HERE and PS 122. His work has also been staged in Phoenix, Houston, Keene, San Francisco and other US cities, as well as in The Netherlands, Norway, Morocco, the UK and Serbia. He started the working group Perfect City, based at Abrons, which creates pathways through art for communities to envision more equitable cities, designed for the people who live here. His book The City We Make Together, co-authored with Mallory Catlett, came out with the University of Iowa Press in 2022. He has performed with Elevator Repair Service Theater, Tim Etchells, Tory Vazquez and Andrea Kleine, among other folks. He is a recent Creative Capital grantee, Guggenheim Fellow and ASU Gammage Residency Artist, and Perfect City's work is supported by The Artist Employment Program of Creatives Rebuild NY. He teaches part-time at Princeton. @thinaar (IG and Twitter); http://www.thinaar.com Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

Inga Galintyé and Chloé Bellemère Kayla Farrish (a Nina von Maltzahn Fellow) Fana Fraser PRELUDE Festival 2023 PERFORMANCE In Process Open Studios at The Watermill Center Multimedia 6:00PM EST Friday, October 13, 2023 39 Water Mill Towd Road, Water Mill, NY 11976, USA Free Entry, Open To All In Process Inga Galintyé and Chloé Bellemère Kayla Farrish (a Nina von Maltzahn Fellow) Fana Fraser Content / Trigger Description: The Watermill Center is a laboratory for the arts and humanities providing a global community the time, space and freedom to create and inspire. Founded in 1992 by avant-garde visionary Robert Wilson, The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities situated on ten acres of Shinnecock ancestral territory on Long Island’s East End. With an emphasis on creativity and collaboration, The Center offers year-round artist residencies and education programs, providing a global community with the time, space, and freedom to create and inspire. The Watermill Center’s rural campus combines multifunctional studios with ten acres of manicured grounds and gardens, housing a carefully curated art collection, expansive research library, and archives illustrating the life and work of Artistic Director, Robert Wilson. The Center’s facilities enable Artists-in-Residence to integrate resources from the humanities and research from the sciences into contemporary artistic practice. Through year-round public programs, The Watermill Center demystifies the artistic process by facilitating unique insight into the creative process of a rotating roster of national and international artists. https://www.watermillcenter.org/ Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

Forms of Restraint will manifest both as a static installation—composed of paintings, photographs and sculptures—and as an immersive work of live performance, in which the sculptures double as restraining devices. Aesthetically, the work will synthesize two tendencies: the sense of cool ambivalence exacerbated by the technology of classical lines and minimalist forms in minimalist space; and the heat of the sex-danger phantasm that haunts the live performance scenes and images. More philosophically, it will engage topics such as time, the relationship between dance and visual art, gender and sexuality, partnering, representation and self-identification and the mechanics of the gaze. The ensemble performance focuses on Rope bondage and elements of the slow-moving dance technique known as Butoh. These forms will be intertwined and further merged with visual art, music, and dramaturgy. As a whole, the performance will function as a research laboratory for exploring these practices’ possibilities of cross-pollination and the opening of questions around entangled identities. Furthermore, it will establish a field in which to raise questions, challenge established binaries (such as dominance and submission), subvert normative expectations, and explore issues of agency, consent, and the fluidity of identity. The creators are interested in two modes of presentation for this work: 1) within an event structure that includes performance dates and times; 2) as emergent from within the unmediated temporality of an exhibition PRELUDE Festival 2023 PERFORMANCE Forms Of Restraint David Michalek and Ensemble Performance Art, Theater, Other English 60 minutes 11AM EST Sunday, October 22, 2023 The Club at LaMaMa; 74A East 4th Street, 2nd floor Free Entry, Open to All Forms of Restraint will manifest both as a static installation—composed of paintings, photographs and sculptures—and as an immersive work of live performance, in which the sculptures double as restraining devices. Aesthetically, the work will synthesize two tendencies: the sense of cool ambivalence exacerbated by the technology of classical lines and minimalist forms in minimalist space; and the heat of the sex-danger phantasm that haunts the live performance scenes and images. More philosophically, it will engage topics such as time, the relationship between dance and visual art, gender and sexuality, partnering, representation and self-identification and the mechanics of the gaze. The ensemble performance focuses on Rope bondage and elements of the slow-moving dance technique known as Butoh. These forms will be intertwined and further merged with visual art, music, and dramaturgy. As a whole, the performance will function as a research laboratory for exploring these practices’ possibilities of cross-pollination and the opening of questions around entangled identities. Furthermore, it will establish a field in which to raise questions, challenge established binaries (such as dominance and submission), subvert normative expectations, and explore issues of agency, consent, and the fluidity of identity. The creators are interested in two modes of presentation for this work: 1) within an event structure that includes performance dates and times; 2) as emergent from within the unmediated temporality of an exhibition Content / Trigger Description: David Michalek was born and raised in California. He lives and works in New York City. Michalek's body of work ranges from photography, drawing, video/sound installations and live performance to site-specific works of public art. His focus over the past ten years has been closely tied to his interest in the contemporary person, which he explores through the use of performance techniques, storytelling, movement and gesture. His work in video has been focused on capturing marginal moments —carefully staged — that with minimal action develop density through the interplay of image, sound and most especially time. Exploring notions of durational and rhythmic time (as opposed to the referential time used in cinema) in both form and content, his works engage in intimate yet open narratives. His recent work considers the potentiality of various forms of slowness alongside an examination of contemporary modes of public attention. https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/people/david-michalek Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

an in-process performance of Michael McClure's absurdist anti war"gargoyle cartoon." Directed by Dan Safer. With Tony Torn as "Spider Rabbit", and Lee Ann Brown as "A Vision." PRELUDE Festival 2023 PERFORMANCE Spider Rabbit Dan Safer/Tony Torn Theater, Multimedia English 45m 7:30PM EST Saturday, October 14, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Free Entry, Open To All an in-process performance of Michael McClure's absurdist anti war"gargoyle cartoon." Directed by Dan Safer. With Tony Torn as "Spider Rabbit", and Lee Ann Brown as "A Vision." Content / Trigger Description: Grand-guignol style cartoon violence Dan Safer is the Artistic Director of dance/theater company Witness Relocation (www.witnessrelocation.org ) and has directed/ choreographed all of their shows, ranging from fully scripted plays (including world premieres by Chuck Mee, and an English language premiere by Toshiki Okada) to original dance/theater pieces, to many things in between, all over the place, from the back rooms of bars in NYC to Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris to a giant leaky warehouse at a dance festival in Poland where a light fell off the grid halfway thru a show and almost killed him. WR is a resident company at LaMama in NYC. Dan recently choreographed “Jedermann”, at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. His work has been at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace, Les Subsistances (Lyon, France), and many other places. In 2011, he choreographed Stravinsky's RITE OF SPRING for Philadelphia Orchestra with Obie-winners Ridge Theater. Artforum Magazine called him "pure expressionistic danger" and Time Out NY called him "a purveyor of lo-fi mayhem.” He has choreographed plays, fashion shows, operas, music videos, films, flash mobs and more, got kicked out of high school for a year, used to be a go-go dancer, and once choreographed the Queen of Thailand’s Birthday Party. Tony Torn is an actor and director with over a hundred professional credits in film, television and theater since 1985. Recently he was featured on stage in Bedlam's FALL RIVER FISHING, Mabou Mines' MUD/DROWNING and DOM JUAN at Bard's Fisher Center. Tony is known for working extensively with experimental theater makers Reza Abdoh and Richard Foreman, as the founding director for Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, playing Rusty Trawler in Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Broadway opposite Emilia Clark, and creating and starring in Ubu Sings Ubu with Dan Safer. He manages Torn Page, a private event space named in honor of his parents Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. @dansafer, @t0nyt0rn Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

The annual PRELUDE festival is dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre, dance, interdisciplinary and mediatized performance Top of Page Full Schedule Performances Artist Talks Panels Gallery Livestream 1/64 Prelude Festival 2023 October across New York City At the Segal Center: Oct 11-14, 16, 19 Full Schedule Artist Talks Panels Performances Livestream Contact Download Schedule (PDF) PRELUDE 2023 20th Anniversary! The annual PRELUDE festival is dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre, dance, interdisciplinary and mediatized performance. PRELUDE offers an array of short performances, readings, and screenings — a completely free survey of the current New York moment and the work being prepared for the next season and beyond—as well as new commissions and panel discussions with artists, scholars, and performers. PRELUDE is a place to discover what voices are shaping the future of theatre and performance in NYC, to observe, engage, commune, and critique. Since 2003, The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center has presented the PRELUDE Festival. Performances David Michalek and Ensemble Forms Of Restraint Anh Vo Chicken Sister Eagle Project Please Do Not Touch the Indians Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself. Murder Room - Day 4 Aaron Landsman Instagram: A Performance Marissa Ghavami, Montgomery Sutton, Kimi Ramírez The Little Pony Petra Zanki Dance Company AUTUMN Prelude in the Garden: Study for Prophecy for 22nd Century Fritz Donnelly FRITZ: Play Time Erin Landers & Movers other sights/other sites Opalanietet This Play is Native Made Richard Maxwell and New York City Players Richard Maxwell and New York City Players Jess Barbagallo / Half Straddle ANALOG INTIMACY (Second Showing) Carl Hancock Rux, Mabou Mines Etudes Maya Sharpe Mud & Blood PRELUDE Award Celebration Farm Arts Collective (Cancelled) Dream on the Farm: The More Things Change IV Castellanos Leche Hervida Josie Bettman open dance figure Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself. Murder Room - Day 2 Alaina Ferris, Karinne Keithley Syers, Katy Pyle, Meghan Finn The Lydian Gale Parr Ashley Kelly Tata, Jerry Lieblich, Robert M. Johanson Fecund Error Al Límite Collective Brooklyn is Not a Sacrifice Zone (Day 1) Temporary Distortion STANDING ON THE UNSEEN SPIRALS OF THE VORTEX Open Studios at The Watermill Center In Process Elevator Repair Service Ulysses (excerpt) Radiohole Exposure Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey READINGS BY PETER AND JULIA Melissa Moschitto/The Anthropologists axes, herbs and satchels Friend of Friend Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone The SuperGeographics Helen. Kemiyondo Coutinho, Dennis Allen II, Hayley Spivey, and Keith Josef Adkins The New Black Fest Ilana Khanin & Eric Marlin What a World! What a World! Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself. Murder Room - Day 1 James La Bella The Curator Will Eno New Work In Progress Al Límite Collective Brooklyn is Not a Sacrifice Zone (Day 2) Shan Y. Chuang Love Distance Jess Barbagallo / Half Straddle ANALOG INTIMACY Eric Dyer/Radiohole Faust (The Broken Show) Lisa Fagan/Lena Engelstein/Marianne Rendón Untitled Stanley Love Performance Group Excerpt from Meow Love Werk, Hinny from Love to Love You, Stanley Love: A Memorial Celebration Fernando Vieira Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable? William Burke How Do I? Guy Yair Beider Sound Ceremony Taiwo Aloba EYO Sauda Aziza Jackson & April Sweeney I DIGRESS: The Intimate Insights of a Childhood Weirdo Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself. Murder Room - Day 3 Nancy Ma Sweatshop Melody The Goat Exchange Salome, or the Cult of the Clitoris: A Historical Phallusy Michal Gamily/ No Visa Production Fire / Escape (Work In Progress) Anne Gridley Watch Me Walk Immersive Cinematic Art Installation Directed by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger Music and Sound Design by Nana Simopoulos With the participation of Catherine Correa QUALIA – You Matter to Me Ciro Chonik Itsaj, Maria Litvan, and Edy Soto Indio Espinosa: A Multitemporal Charrúa Legend Theresa Buchheister, The Brick, Karuna Shinsho VISA - Mon Amour Dan Safer/Tony Torn Spider Rabbit Alison Clancy So Brutal It Feels Like Home Everyone PRELUDE Party Artist Talks In conversation with Steve Cosson Button In conversation with Annie-B Parson Button In conversation with The Other Downtown: David Levine, Matthew Gasda Button In conversation with Kate Valk and The Wooster Group Button In conversation with Stefanie Batten Bland Button In conversation with Raja Feather Kelly Button In conversation with Nature Theater of Oklahoma Button Panel Discussions Devised Theater After COVID With Allen Kuharski and others Button AI in Performance Kenneth Collins, Annie Dorsen, Andrew Scoville, Marianne Weems, and others Button Space and the City Randi Berry, Aaron L. McKinney, Ana Fiore, Anita Durst, Baba Israel, and Candace Thompson-Zachery Button Academia and NYC Performance Tomi M Tsunoda, Daniel Irizarry, Solana Chehtman, Alexis Jemal, and Sylvaine Guyot Button Exponential Festival David Greenspan, Marissa Joyce Stamps, Ben Holbrook, SB Tennent, Cameron Stuart, Sleth Larson, Tristan Allen, Lena Engelstein Button Re-Inventing Institutions and Re-Generation Anne Washburn, David Levine, Hillary Miller, Jayme Koszyn, and Rob Fields Button Performing Response-Ability Esther Neff with others Button Future Visions: Provocations for the Next Performance Ecosystem Edge Effect Button Gallery All images by Anthony Turner Saturday October 7 PERFORMANCE Exposure Radiohole 7:00PM EST Saturday Oct 7, 2023 The Collapsable Hole, Bank Street, New York, NY, USA Button Monday October 9 ARTIST TALK Steve Cosson Button 12:30PM EST Monday Oct 9, 2023 PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, New York 66, Chatham, NY, USA Tuesday October 10 PERFORMANCE ANALOG INTIMACY Jess Barbagallo / Half Straddle 6:00PM EST Tuesday Oct 10, 2023 Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE ANALOG INTIMACY (Second Showing) Jess Barbagallo / Half Straddle 7:30PM EST Tuesday Oct 10, 2023 Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave, New York, NY, USA Button Wednesday October 11 PERFORMANCE Sound Ceremony Guy Yair Beider 2:00PM EST Wednesday Oct 11, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button Button READING New Work In Progress Will Eno 5:00PM EST Wednesday Oct 11, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button Button PERFORMANCE Please Do Not Touch the Indians Eagle Project 3:00PM EST Wednesday Oct 11, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button Button PERFORMANCE Love Distance Shan Y. Chuang 5:30PM EST Wednesday Oct 11, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button Button INTERVIEWS Murder Room - Day 1 Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself. 3:00PM to 8:30PM EST Wednesday Oct 11, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button Button PANEL Future Visions: Provocations for the Next Performance Ecosystem Edge Effect 7:00PM EST Wednesday Oct 11, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button Button PERFORMANCE Instagram: A Performance Aaron Landsman 3:30PM EST Wednesday Oct 11, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button Button DANCE Untitled Lisa Fagan/Lena Engelstein/Marianne Rendón 7:00PM EST Wednesday Oct 11, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button Button PERFORMANCE Sweatshop Melody Nancy Ma 4:30PM EST Wednesday Oct 11, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button Button Thursday October 12 READING + PANEL The New Black Fest Kemiyondo Coutinho, Dennis Allen II, Hayley Spivey, and Keith Josef Adkins 3:00PM EST Thursday Oct 12, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE Watch Me Walk Anne Gridley 6:00PM EST Thursday Oct 12, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE I DIGRESS: The Intimate Insights of a Childhood Weirdo Sauda Aziza Jackson & April Sweeney 3:00PM EST Thursday Oct 12, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE Richard Maxwell and New York City Players Richard Maxwell and New York City Players 7:00PM EST Thursday Oct 12, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button INTERVIEW Murder Room - Day 2 Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself. 3:00PM to 8:30PM EST Thursday Oct 12, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PANEL Re-Inventing Institutions and Re-Generation Anne Washburn, David Levine, Hillary Miller, Jayme Koszyn, and Rob Fields 7:30PM EST Thursday Oct 12, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE The Curator James La Bella 4:30PM EST Thursday Oct 12, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE How Do I? William Burke 8:00PM EST Thursday Oct 12, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button ARTIST TALK The Other Downtown: David Levine, Matthew Gasda David Levine, Matthew Gasda 5:30PM EST Thursday Oct 12, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button Friday October 13 PERFORMANCE Leche Hervida IV Castellanos 2:30PM EST Friday Oct 13, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PANEL AI in Performance Kenneth Collins, Annie Dorsen, Andrew Scoville, Marianne Weems, and others 6:00PM EST Friday Oct 13, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button DANCE So Brutal It Feels Like Home Alison Clancy 8:00PM EST Friday Oct 13, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button INTERVIEW Murder Room - Day 3 Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself. 3:00PM to 8:30PM EST Friday Oct 13, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE In Process Open Studios at The Watermill Center 6:00PM EST Friday Oct 13, 2023 39 Water Mill Towd Road, Water Mill, NY 11976, USA Button ARTIST TALK Nature Theater of Oklahoma 4:00PM EST Friday Oct 13, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE QUALIA – You Matter to Me Immersive Cinematic Art Installation Directed by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger Music and Sound Design by Nana Simopoulos With the participation of Catherine Correa 6:00PM EST Friday Oct 13, 2023 Jersey City Theater Center, Barrow Street, Jersey City, NJ, USA Button READING The Little Pony Marissa Ghavami, Montgomery Sutton, Kimi Ramírez 4:30PM EST Friday Oct 13, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE Ulysses (excerpt) Elevator Repair Service 6:30PM EST Friday Oct 13, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE STANDING ON THE UNSEEN SPIRALS OF THE VORTEX Temporary Distortion 5:30PM EST Friday Oct 13, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE Etudes Carl Hancock Rux, Mabou Mines 7:30PM EST Friday Oct 13, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button Saturday October 14 PRESENTATION Helen. The SuperGeographics Button 1:00PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA ARTIST TALK Annie-B Parson Button 3:30PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA DANCE Excerpt from Meow Love Werk, Hinny from Love to Love You, Stanley Love: A Memorial Celebration Stanley Love Performance Group Button 7:30PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA ARTIST TALK Kate Valk and The Wooster Group Button 2:00PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA PERFORMANCE The Lydian Gale Parr Alaina Ferris, Karinne Keithley Syers, Katy Pyle, Meghan Finn Button 3:30PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA PERFORMANCE Spider Rabbit Dan Safer/Tony Torn Button 7:30PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA PERFORMANCE Chicken Sister Anh Vo Button 2:00PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA ARTIST TALK Stefanie Batten Bland Button 4:00PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA CELEBRATION PRELUDE Party Everyone Button 9:00PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 The Tank, West 36th Street, NYC, NY, USA ARTIST TALK Raja Feather Kelly Button 3:00PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA PERFORMANCE Salome, or the Cult of the Clitoris: A Historical Phallusy The Goat Exchange Button 5:00PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA CEREMONY PRELUDE Award Celebration Button 9:30PM Saturday Oct 14, 2023 The Tank, West 36th Street, NYC, NY, USA INTERVIEW Murder Room - Day 4 Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself. Button 3:00PM to 8:30PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA PERFORMANCE other sights/other sites Erin Landers & Movers Button 6:00PM EST Saturday Oct 14, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA PERFORMANCE EYO Taiwo Aloba 3:00PM EST Sunday Oct 15, 2023 Culture Lab LIC, 46th Avenue, Queens, NY, USA PERFORMANCE open dance figure Josie Bettman 3:00PM EST Sunday Oct 15, 2023 Plank Road Public Shoreline, 58th Road, Maspeth, Queens, NY, USA Sunday October 15 PERFORMANCE EYO Taiwo Aloba Button 3:00PM EST Sunday Oct 15, 2023 Culture Lab LIC, 46th Avenue, Queens, NY, USA PERFORMANCE open dance figure Josie Bettman Button 3:00PM EST Sunday Oct 15, 2023 Plank Road Public Shoreline, 58th Road, Maspeth, Queens, NY, USA Monday October 16 PANEL Devised Theater After COVID With Allen Kuharski and others 3:00PM EST Monday Oct 16, 2023 Button Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA PANEL Academia and NYC Performance Tomi M Tsunoda, Daniel Irizarry, Solana Chehtman, Alexis Jemal, and Sylvaine Guyot 4:30PM EST Monday Oct 16, 2023 Button Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA PANEL Performing Response-Ability Esther Neff with others 6:00PM EST Monday Oct 16, 2023 Button Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA PANEL Space and the City Randi Berry, Aaron L. McKinney, Ana Fiore, Anita Durst, Baba Israel, and Candace Thompson-Zachery 7:00PM EST Monday Oct 16, 2023 Button Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA PERFORMANCE Mud & Blood Maya Sharpe 8:00PM EST Monday Oct 16, 2023 Button The Brick, 579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA Anchor 1 Tuesday October 17 PERFORMANCE FRITZ: Play Time Fritz Donnelly 5:30PM EST Tuesday Oct 17, 2023 137 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, USA Button PANEL Exponential Festival David Greenspan, Marissa Joyce Stamps, Ben Holbrook, SB Tennent, Cameron Stuart, Sleth Larson, Tristan Allen, Lena Engelstein 7:00PM EST Tuesday Oct 17, 2023 Brick Aux, 628 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE VISA - Mon Amour Theresa Buchheister, The Brick, Karuna Shinsho 7:00PM EST Thursday Oct 19, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE READINGS BY PETER AND JULIA Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey 7:30PM EST Thursday Oct 19, 2023 Mercury Store, 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE axes, herbs and satchels Melissa Moschitto/The Anthropologists 7:30PM EST Thursday Oct 19, 2023 The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA Button Thursday October 19 PERFORMANCE VISA - Mon Amour Theresa Buchheister, The Brick, Karuna Shinsho 7:00PM EST Thursday Oct 19, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE READINGS BY PETER AND JULIA Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey 7:30PM EST Thursday Oct 19, 2023 Mercury Store, 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE axes, herbs and satchels Melissa Moschitto/The Anthropologists 7:30PM EST Thursday Oct 19, 2023 The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA Button Friday October 20 PERFORMANCE This Play is Native Made Opalanietet 6:30PM EST Friday Oct 20, 2023 Torn Page, 435 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011, USA Button PERFORMANCE Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable? Fernando Vieira 7:30PM EST Friday Oct 20, 2023 Torn Page, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone Friend of Friend 8:00PM EST Friday Oct 20, 2023 The Brick, 579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA Button Saturday October 21 PERFORMANCE (Cancelled) Dream on the Farm: The More Things Change Farm Arts Collective 1:00PM EST Saturday Oct 21, 2023 Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE What a World! What a World! Ilana Khanin & Eric Marlin 3:00PM EST Saturday Oct 21, 2023 Theaterlab, West 36th Street, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE Fecund Error Ashley Kelly Tata, Jerry Lieblich, Robert M. Johanson 4:30PM EST Saturday Oct 21, 2023 The Tank, West 36th Street, New York, NY, USA Button PERFORMANCE Fire / Escape (Work In Progress) Michal Gamily/ No Visa Production 5:30PM EST Saturday Oct 21, 2023 La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003, United States Button PERFORMANCE Faust (The Broken Show) Eric Dyer/Radiohole 7:00PM EST Saturday Oct 21, 2023 The Collapsable Hole, Bank Street, New York, NY, USA Button Sunday October 22 PERFORMANCE Forms Of Restraint David Michalek and Ensemble 11AM EST Sunday Oct 22, 2023 La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003, United States Button Friday October 27 PERFORMANCE AUTUMN Prelude in the Garden: Study for Prophecy for 22nd Century Petra Zanki Dance Company 5:00PM EST Friday Oct 27, 2023 721 Decatur Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11233, USA Button RITUAL Indio Espinosa: A Multitemporal Charrúa Legend Ciro Chonik Itsaj, Maria Litvan, and Edy Soto 7:00PM EST Friday Oct 27, 2023 721 Decatur Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11233, USA Button *Check event listings for rain dates Saturday October 28 PERFORMANCE Brooklyn is Not a Sacrifice Zone (Day 1) Al Límite Collective 5:00PM EST Saturday Oct 28, 2023 Newtown Creek Nature Walk, Brooklyn, NY 11222, United States Button Sunday October 29 PERFORMANCE Brooklyn is Not a Sacrifice Zone (Day 2) Al Límite Collective 5:00PM EST Sunday Oct 29, 2023 Newtown Creek Nature Walk, Brooklyn, NY 11222, United States Button Watch Livestream

The Charrúa were the dominant tribe of indigenous people in the region known today as Uruguay. In 1831, Uruguay’s first president, Fructuoso Rivera, led the massacre of Salsipuedes (Get-out-if-you-can) in an attempt to exterminate the indigenous population. Most surviving Charrúas were sold as slaves to wealthy families in Montevideo, separating children from their mothers in order to eradicate their language and culture. Uruguay established itself as a country with no “indians.” Only in the 1990s did descendants of the Charrúa slowly start to reclaim their ancestry and associations were established to fight for recognition of Charrúa lineage and contribute to the recovery and preservation of indigenous culture and identity. In 2004, a group of artists led by Ciro Rodriguez created the Grupo Choñik (now Clan Choñik), a Charrúa collective seeking to recuperate the culture of their ancestors and defend their heritage through performance and ritual. "El indio Espinosa" is a performance-ritual born out of the spiritual and artistic need to share the story of Ciro’s great-grandfather, a Charrúa. The knowledge shared in this performance-ritual comes from an oral tradition that spans from Salsipuedes (the time of Ciro’s great-great-grandmother) until today. The expression of this performance-ritual is an attempt to fill with presence the space of indigenous absence created by the hegemonic will. The performance includes a Charrúa full-moon ritual and those in attendance are invited to participate. Optional - Birthday cake for Stanford at 8pm ( that’s our saxophone player/rapper) PRELUDE Festival 2023 RITUAL Indio Espinosa: A Multitemporal Charrúa Legend Ciro Chonik Itsaj, Maria Litvan, and Edy Soto Theater, Music, Performance Art, Other English, Spanish, Charrúa 1 hour 30 minutes 7:00PM EST Friday, October 27, 2023 721 Decatur Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11233, USA Free Entry, Open to All 721 Decatur Community Garden, 11233 Brooklyn, NY RAIN DATE: Sat. Oct 28 at 12:00 noon In case of rain, this event will happen on Saturday 10/28 at 12:00 noon The Charrúa were the dominant tribe of indigenous people in the region known today as Uruguay. In 1831, Uruguay’s first president, Fructuoso Rivera, led the massacre of Salsipuedes (Get-out-if-you-can) in an attempt to exterminate the indigenous population. Most surviving Charrúas were sold as slaves to wealthy families in Montevideo, separating children from their mothers in order to eradicate their language and culture. Uruguay established itself as a country with no “indians.” Only in the 1990s did descendants of the Charrúa slowly start to reclaim their ancestry and associations were established to fight for recognition of Charrúa lineage and contribute to the recovery and preservation of indigenous culture and identity. In 2004, a group of artists led by Ciro Rodriguez created the Grupo Choñik (now Clan Choñik), a Charrúa collective seeking to recuperate the culture of their ancestors and defend their heritage through performance and ritual. "El indio Espinosa" is a performance-ritual born out of the spiritual and artistic need to share the story of Ciro’s great-grandfather, a Charrúa. The knowledge shared in this performance-ritual comes from an oral tradition that spans from Salsipuedes (the time of Ciro’s great-great-grandmother) until today. The expression of this performance-ritual is an attempt to fill with presence the space of indigenous absence created by the hegemonic will. The performance includes a Charrúa full-moon ritual and those in attendance are invited to participate. Optional - Birthday cake for Stanford at 8pm ( that’s our saxophone player/rapper) Content / Trigger Description: The performance includes a Charrúa full-moon ritual and those in attendance are invited to participate. Ciro Chonik Itsaj (performer) is a ceremonial guide, chief of the Choñik Clan, and president of the Council of the Charrúa Nation. He is also a musician, educator, performer, and actor. Maria Litvan (director) is a theatre director, writer, and scholar born in Uruguay and based in New York. Besides developing her own work, Maria has collaborated with international companies such as La Fura dels Baus, Brith Gof, and The New Stage Theatre. She is a doctoral candidate in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation explores the interrelation between absence and presence in performative transmissions in the Americas. Her scholarly work has been published in TDR: The Drama Review, Performance Research, and BOMB Magazine. Edy Soto (actor preparation) is a Uruguayan theatre director, actor, and teacher. He emerges within the independent theatre movement and trains in community theatre. He works in public schools, high schools, and cultural centers for the program Esquinas de la cultura (Cultural Corners) of the Intendancy of Montevideo. https://instagram.com/chonik.ciro?igshid=NzZIODBkYWE4Ng== Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

What is the role of academia in the new landscape of theater and performance after Black Live Matters, We See You W.A.T., The Time of Corona and the Climate Catastrophe in a radically changing political landscape? Should academia mirror, theorize, reflect and document — or influence, shape and actively participate in the change we want to see? PRELUDE Festival 2023 PANEL Academia and NYC Performance Tomi M Tsunoda, Daniel Irizarry, Solana Chehtman, Alexis Jemal, and Sylvaine Guyot 4:30PM EST Monday, October 16, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Free Entry, Open To All What is the role of academia in the new landscape of theater and performance after Black Live Matters, We See You W.A.T., The Time of Corona and the Climate Catastrophe in a radically changing political landscape? Should academia mirror, theorize, reflect and document — or influence, shape and actively participate in the change we want to see? Featuring Tomi M Tsunoda , Daniel Irizarry , Solana Chehtman, Alexis Jemal, and Sylvaine Guyot. Content / Trigger Description: Tomi Tsunoda has spent most of her career as a director, deviser, designer, and producer of independent performance, developing sustainable systems for performing artists to self-produce work outside of institutional contexts. This included the creation of Breedingground Productions, which shepherded more than 200 projects over the course of ten years. She is one of 17 artists worldwide who are certified in all levels and disciplines to teach Soundpainting, the universal sign language for live composition created by jazz composer Walter Thompson. Her current projects combine both practical and critical work in dramaturgy, progressive arts pedagogy, fiber art, literary non-fiction, eco-philosophy, and facilitation, putting these fields into conversation as a way to address sustainable practice and systemic change. Tomi is currently serving as Chair of Undergraduate Drama at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, having previously served as Director for Playwrights Horizons Theater School, Head of the Theater Program at NYU Abu Dhabi, Education Director for the Powerhouse Training Program at Vassar College, and as faculty and guest artist at several additional schools and conservatories. Daniel Irizarry is a Puerto Rican born International Experimental Theatre director, actor/performer and educator based in NYC. His work embraces highly stylized visceral acting, pataphysics, a celebration of GERMS & consensual audience participation. He is the Artistic Director of One-Eighth Theater and full time Lecturer at MIT Music & Theatre Arts. In his most recent work, he directed and performed the final project for the historic closing of the New Ohio Theatre titled, ‘Ultra Left Violence’ written by Robert Lyons. Other notable credits directed and performed; The Maids by Jose Rivera (New York Times Critics pick); UBU by Adam Szymkowicz (Time Out NY Critics pick), world premiere of Busu by Mishima at Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival, YOVO by Robert Lyons in NYC, Poland, Cuba, South Korea & My Onliness by Robert Lyons at New Ohio Theatre in NYC (One of the best performances Off-Broadway in 2022 by Theatermania and nominated for a 2023 HOLA award for best Outstanding performance by a lead actor. Over his career he has directed, performed and taught in Turkey, India, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, Italy, Romania, UK, Colombia, among others. Most notably at: Folkwang University in Germany, Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey and Seoul Institute of the Arts in South Korea. He holds an MFA in Acting from Columbia University, a BA in Drama at The Universidad de Puerto Rico where he has returned to teach at both. Solana Chehtman is a cultural producer and engagement curator born in Buenos Aires and based in New York City since 2012. She is currently the Director of Artist Programs at Joan Mitchell Foundation, where she supports artists with unrestricted funding and professional development through the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, as well as in their long term career stewardship via the Creating a Living Legacy (CALL) program. In the past decade, Solana has partnered with a wide range of cultural organizations across the performing and visual arts to create new opportunities for artists and avenues for public participation in the arts. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as inaugural Director of Creative Practice and Social Impact at The Shed, and as Vice President of Public Engagement at Friends of the High Line. Solana received a BA in international studies at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and holds an EdM in education policy from Teachers College, Columbia University. She was an adjunct Professor at the MA in Arts Administration at Baruch College, City University of New York between 2018 and 2021. Alexis Jemal, LCSW, LCADC, MA, JD, PhD, associate professor at Silberman School of Social Work-Hunter College, is a critical-radical so(ul)cial worker (practitioner, scholar, researcher, educator), social entrepreneur, and artivist who specializes in racial justice, radical healing, wellness, and liberation. Dr. Jemal grounds her research and scholarship in her Critical Transformative Potential Framework that develops critical consciousness and taps into radical imagination to convert consciousness into action that heals and transforms people, relationships, and environments to support everyone’s humanity to the fullest extent possible. This framework guides the development and implementation of multi-(from the molecular to the macro) level, holistic, socio-cultural, psychosocial, bio-behavioral health interventions that incorporate clinical practice, advocacy, and community and cultural organizing. She teaches courses at the master’s level in clinical practice, critical social work practice, and human behavior, and at the doctoral level in arts-based, participatory action, intervention research and public scholarship. Sylvaine Guyot is Professor of French Literature, Thought & Culture at NYU, New York, since 2021. At Harvard University, Guyot acted as the Chair for TDM Theater, Dance & Media next to her tenure at the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures. As a theatre director, she co-founded La Troupe (Harvard) and Le Théâtre de l’homme qui marche (Paris, France). She is currently developing a lecture-performance on understudied early modern female writing. Her research interests focus on seventeenth-century tragedy and spectacle culture, the history of the body and emotions, the politics of performing arts, and the formation of cultural institutions. Publications include Racine et le corps tragique (PUF, 2014) and Databases, Revenues, and Repertory: The French Stage Online, 1680-1793 (MIT Press, 2021). She is a coleader of the Comédie-Française Registers Project. She has also published articles on contemporary docu-plays that tell the stories of the under- and unrepresented. Photo credits: Tomi Tsunoda. Photo courtesy of the panelist. Daniel Irizarry. Photo courtesy of the panelist. Solana Chehtman. Photo courtesy of the panelist. Alexis Jemal. Photo courtesy of the panelist. Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

A surreal and poetic chamber oratorio with music composed by Alaina Ferris and libretto by Karinne Keithley Syers, The Lydian Gale Parr follows the story of a child emissary sent from a high-walled city to deliver a letter to the General laying siege to her city, but she cannot find him. So, she travels through space and time — through ancient cities, ports, and present-day container ships. Built from cutups of Henry James’ novel The American, it is a story of being lost, of feeling displaced from one’s community, of slipping in and out of disparate webs of belonging, yet holding fast to one’s quest — it is about fortitude and finding strength of purpose and community amidst desperate circumstances. Staged inside an embroidered white tent surrounded by a spatialize instrument made of deconstructed vibraphones and bells, the oratorio will emerge like an ancient war encampment filled with instruments and mechanical detritus. Somewhere between speech and song, it is scored for ten musician/performers: chamber choir, flute, bass clarinet, bassoon, french horn, viola de gamba, piano, Celtic harps, bells, and archival radio transmissions; and features Renaissance anti-masque-style dances performed by subversive, queer ballet company, Ballez, choreographed by Katy Pyle. All the performers share the role of The Lydian Gale Parr. The Lydian Gale Parr will premiere in Winter/Spring 2024 for three limited weekend runs, directed by Meghan Finn, co-produced by Amanda+James and The Tank with support from the NYC Women’s Fund. The Lydian Gale Parr has previously received support from Hermitage Artist Fellowship, The Frederick Loewe Musical Theatre Initiative at New Dramatists, National Sawdust’s Summer Labs, The Bushwick Starr Reading Series. Music by Alaina Ferris Libretto by Karinne Keithley Syers Choreography by Katy Pyle Directed by Meghan Finn PRELUDE Festival 2023 PERFORMANCE The Lydian Gale Parr Alaina Ferris, Karinne Keithley Syers, Katy Pyle, Meghan Finn Theater, Music English 60 Mins 3:30PM EST Saturday, October 14, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Free Entry, Open To All A surreal and poetic chamber oratorio with music composed by Alaina Ferris and libretto by Karinne Keithley Syers, The Lydian Gale Parr follows the story of a child emissary sent from a high-walled city to deliver a letter to the General laying siege to her city, but she cannot find him. So, she travels through space and time — through ancient cities, ports, and present-day container ships. Built from cutups of Henry James’ novel The American, it is a story of being lost, of feeling displaced from one’s community, of slipping in and out of disparate webs of belonging, yet holding fast to one’s quest — it is about fortitude and finding strength of purpose and community amidst desperate circumstances. Staged inside an embroidered white tent surrounded by a spatialize instrument made of deconstructed vibraphones and bells, the oratorio will emerge like an ancient war encampment filled with instruments and mechanical detritus. Somewhere between speech and song, it is scored for ten musician/performers: chamber choir, flute, bass clarinet, bassoon, french horn, viola de gamba, piano, Celtic harps, bells, and archival radio transmissions; and features Renaissance anti-masque-style dances performed by subversive, queer ballet company, Ballez, choreographed by Katy Pyle. All the performers share the role of The Lydian Gale Parr. The Lydian Gale Parr will premiere in Winter/Spring 2024 for three limited weekend runs, directed by Meghan Finn, co-produced by Amanda+James and The Tank with support from the NYC Women’s Fund. The Lydian Gale Parr has previously received support from Hermitage Artist Fellowship, The Frederick Loewe Musical Theatre Initiative at New Dramatists, National Sawdust’s Summer Labs, The Bushwick Starr Reading Series. Music by Alaina Ferris Libretto by Karinne Keithley Syers Choreography by Katy Pyle Directed by Meghan Finn Content / Trigger Description: Meghan Finn (she/her) is the Artistic Director of The Tank. She previously served as the Associate Artistic Director at 3LD Art & Technology Center. Her directorial work has been seen at the Tank, the V&A, Serpentine Galleries, The Wexner Center, SCAD, The Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, Museo Jumex Mexico City, The Power Plant, Canadian Stage, Carnegie Mellon, Brooklyn College, MIT, NYU, the Great Plains Theater Conference and others. She has directed three world premieres by playwright Mac Wellman, including most recently The Invention of Tragedy (2019). Other recent credits include: I Am Nobody a new musical by Greg Kotis (Urinetown) at The Tank; as well as The Nine Dreams: Blake & the Apocalypse by writer Nick Flynn (film). She directed a short film by playwright Peggy Stafford called 16 Words or Less which has been screened at indie film festivals nationally and in Europe. She is a frequent collaborator of conceptual artist and sculptor Pedro Reyes, and directed Doomocracy for Creative Time. Finn collaborated with photographer Mitch Epstein on a live performance with cellist Erik Friedlander as well as celebrated premieres by Erin Courtney, Peggy Stafford, Gary Winter, Ben Gassman, Alexandra Collier, Carl Holder, Eliza Bent and Cori Copp. When We Went Electronic by Caitlyn Saylor Stephens which premiered at The Tank in 2018 toured in 2021 to The Roes Theater in Athens Greece and OnStage! Festival Rome and Milan. She holds a BA in Theater from The University of Southern California and an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College. Alaina Ferris is a composer, poet, and performer who specializes in choral works, opera, and contemporary theater. As an active pianist and Celtic harpist, her music is inspired by a love of Renaissance chorales and her former work as a music therapist. She is one half of the indie-folk duo, Physical Kids, alongside Matt Schlatter. Alaina’s work is committed to exploring ways of ending the cycle of violence and violence against women by modeling creative acts of caretaking, collective inquiry, and communion. She is an awardee of the New Music USA 2022 Creator Development Fund; 2022-2024 Hermitage Fellow; 2022 artist resident at Cité International des Arts in Paris; was a 2019-2021 Composer Fellow at The American Opera Project; a co- winner of the 2019/2020 Brooklyn Youth Chorus Composer Competition; and selected as a 2019 National Sawdust Summerlab Musician. Alaina’s work has been presented at HERE, SoHo Rep, Barnard College/ Columbia University, Abrons Arts Center, The Connelly Theater, and St. Ann’s Warehouse. She has worked with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, artists César Alvarez, Coco Karol, Sxip Shirey, Ellen Winter, Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley, Steve Earle, Anne Waldman, Eliza Bent, Mia Rovegno, William Burke, Joshua William Gelb, Mac Wellman, Tyler Gilmore (Blank For.ms.), and more. Her poetry chapbook, 'While Listening,' was released by The Operating System in 2016. Her manuscript, 'To Be Awake Means to Will' was a 2015 Finalist for the National Poetry Series and a 2018 Finalist for Fence Modern Poets. Alaina was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and later moved to Boulder County, Colorado. She earned her B.A. in Music and Creative Writing from the University of Denver and her M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University. Photo by Arthur Moeller Karinne Keithley Syers is an artist and teacher based in Amherst, Massachusetts who makes works in text, song, dance, sound, bookmaking, essay, video, game design, and points in between. Plays and librettos include Douteflower (McSweeney’s 64: The Audio Issue), Long Bright Day, The Lydian Gale Parr (libretto, National Sawdust), A Tunnel Year (Chocolate Factory Theater, 2016), Another Tree Dance (Chocolate Factory, 2013), Do Not Do this Ever Again (Ohio Theater, 2008), Tenderenda (Danspace Project, 2005), Four Fruits (Surf Reality, 2000), and Montgomery Park, or Opulence (Incubator Arts Project, 2010), for which she won a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Production. She is currently developing Your Ghost Body, a meditative video game with songs, which will be reverse engineered into a concert version of the game for the Chocolate Factory Theater’s 23-24 season. She has been a two-time fellow in theater at The MacDowell Colony, a member of the Soho Rep. Writer/ Director Lab, a two-time member of Puppet Lab at St. Ann’s Warehouse, and is grateful to be a current resident playwright of New Dramatists. She founded 53rd State Press, co-founded Ur, a dance palace (2003-5), instigated the playwright think tanks and posses Joyce Cho and Machiqq, and co-hosted (with Jason Grote) the Acousmatic Theater Hour on WFMU. She collaborated as a performer, librettist, sound and video designer, and choreographer, with artists including Big Dance Theater, Sara Smith, David Neumann, Young Jean Lee, Sibyl Kempson, Theater of a Two Headed Calf, Chris Yon, The Civilians, and Talking Band. MFA in Playwriting, Brooklyn College (2006); PhD in English, CUNY Graduate Center (2014). She teaches independently through the Pelagic School. Photo by KJ Holmes Ballez Creator Katy Pyle is a genderqueer lesbian dancer and choreographer who began Ballez in 2011 to explore their complicated relationship to the cishetero patriarchal form of ballet, and to make space for their own, and their communities’, presence within it. Having studied ballet since age 3, Pyle became a professional apprentice at 13; left home at 14 to study full-time in the conservatory at North Carolina School of the Arts, and, at 16, was told by teachers, “You would have had a great career if you had been born a boy.” Pyle was pushed out of the ballet program. Because of that rupture, Pyle began studying choreography for the first time. After graduating from NCSA’s high school program in ’99, Pyle attended Hollins University, became a Drag King and studied experimental dance forms. In New York City, Pyle danced in the works of Ivy Baldwin, Faye Driscoll, John Jasperse, Xavier Le Roy, Karinne Keithley Syers, Jennifer Monson, Stina Nyberg, Anna Sperber, Katie Workum, and Young Jean Lee, among others. Pyle created collaborative work Eleanor Hullihan, Rebecca Brooks and Jules Skloot, with evening-length works at Galapagos (2005), PS 122 (2007), Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church (2010), and The Bushwick Starr (2012). In 2011, Pyle founded the Ballez to insert the herstory and lineage of lesbian, queer and transgender people into the ballet canon through the creation of large-scale story ballets, open classes, and public engagement. Major works include “The Firebird, a Ballez” (Danspace Project, 2013), “Variations on Virtuosity, a Gala with the Stars of the Ballez” (American Realness, 2015), “Sleeping Beauty & the Beast,” (La Mama, 2016), “Slavic Goddesses,” (Collaboration with Paulina Olowska, The Kitchen, 2017), and "Giselle of Loneliness," (The Joyce, 2021). Ballez Class began at Brooklyn Arts Exchange in 2011, and Pyle has since brought the class to Gibney Dance, Slippery Rock University, Stolt Scenkonst and MDT, SCDT, LGBTQ Center at BSP, Princeton, Yale, Movement Research, Allied Media Conference, CounterPULSE, University Musical Society, Irreverent Dance, Beyond Tolerance Youth Conference, New York University, and Sarah Lawrence College. Pyle currently teaches at Eugene Lang College, Marymount Manhattan College, and Gibney Dance. Ballez has been supported by the Hodder Fund, United Artists, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Jerome Foundation, Mertz Gilmore, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and over 1000 individual donors. 2013-2015 Artist in Residence at BAX; residencies: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mount Tremper Arts, Rockbridge Artist’s Exchange, the Bushwick Starr, the Dragon’s Egg, Abrons Arts Center, and La Mama, ETC. https://thetanknyc.org/ Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

721 Decatur Community Garden, 11233 Brooklyn, NY PRELUDE Festival 2023 PERFORMANCE AUTUMN Prelude in the Garden: Study for Prophecy for 22nd Century Petra Zanki Dance Company Dance 45-60 minutes 5:00PM EST Friday, October 27, 2023 721 Decatur Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11233, USA Free Entry, Open to All 721 Decatur Community Garden, 11233 Brooklyn, NY RAIN DATE: Sat. Oct 28 at 3:00 PM. In case of rain, this event will happen on Saturday 10/28 at 3:00 pm Concept: Petra Zanki Choreography: Petra Zanki in co-creation with dancers Dance interpretation: Isabelle Goodman , Luyan Li – Lili , Evelyn Tejeda . Original music composed and live performed by: Stanford Reid , SoulCODE , and Nico Tower . A garden, a countryside within a city, a train away from New York concrete, an opportunity to reconnect and gather. With ourselves, and between ourselves. That’s it, it’s ok. I can breathe. Blending different genres and styles, Zanki combines themes of art and healing with music and dance to explore the kinds of communities we want to envision in a post-Pandemic world. Working in co-creation with three New York musicians and three dancers, in the garden, Petra creates three choreographic solos using Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons violin concerti as an inspiration. Each dancer together with one musician enters in dialogue with one part as an inspiration for their own contemporary version of, this time, Fall. How do dance, ambient, Hip hop, rhythm & jazz, and sound healing connect to Fall, and all of them to me and me to you? Expect soul healing, magic, and joy. Content / Trigger Description: Photo Credit: Tanya Nowossjolova @nowossjolka Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

Join us for one of the legendary PRELUDE dance parties. At 9:30 pm the PRELUDE FRANKIE AWARDS will be given to a group of theatre artists and artistic directors who have made a difference and changed the landscape of New York City Theatre and performance. Theresa Buchheister will receive the PRELUDE’23 Award on Thursday, the 19th, at the Segal Center following their work: VISA — Mon Amour. PRELUDE Festival 2023 CELEBRATION PRELUDE Party Everyone Other 9:00PM EST Saturday, October 14, 2023 The Tank, West 36th Street, NYC, NY, USA RSVP Join us for one of the legendary PRELUDE dance parties. At 9:30 pm the PRELUDE FRANKIE AWARDS will be given to a group of theatre artists and artistic directors who have made a difference and changed the landscape of New York City Theatre and performance. Theresa Buchheister will receive the PRELUDE’23 Award on Thursday, the 19th, at the Segal Center following their work: VISA — Mon Amour. Content / Trigger Description: Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

One-person show about queerness, camp, and our obsessive fascination with film divas. PRELUDE Festival 2023 PERFORMANCE Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable? Fernando Vieira Theater, Film, Multimedia English 30 minutes 7:30PM EST Friday, October 20, 2023 Torn Page, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USA Free Entry, Open To All One-person show about queerness, camp, and our obsessive fascination with film divas. Content / Trigger Description: PG/ mention of gender identity Fernando Vieira is an Ecuadorian-born New York-based writer, director, and performer. Vieira debuted as a playwright and stage director with the one-person monologue “Me Voy Porque Puedo” in 2016. Other projects include starring in and directing “The Maids” in 2017 and “Las Mártiras” in 2022. Recent playwriting works include two stage plays that explore queerness, violence, and the quest for freedom: “Goodbye, Little George'', which takes place in Florida between the mid- 1960’s and early 1980’s and “Anormales”, a play about queerness in Ecuador during the early 1990’s. In 2021, Vieira created the ¡Bótate! Latinx Performance Festival. Screen work includes the documentary “Unlabeled” (2021) and experimental film “Snippets.” (2023). Fernando has been part of artistic cohorts at NYFA, Creative Capital, and Leslie-Lohman Museum. Fernando has a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies and is a candidate for a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies-Film Studies concentration. www.fernando-vieira.com Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

This event will take place in the Art History Screening Room in GC CUNY from Wednesday, October 11 to Saturday, October 14, everyday from 3pm to 8:30pm EST. Imagine that the American Theater is dead, or Downtown at any rate is dead, or both, or maybe no one can find the body but it's probably dead, anyway there was definitely a crime, or series of crimes; the place is a mess, and someone has watered down the whisky. You are a detective, or a prime witness, or a culprit, or all of the above, and you have been invited to contribute to one of those great evidence or murder boards/crazy walls they have on cop shows...sometimes in the stationhouse, sometimes in the serial killer lair... bring your questions, your theories, your schemes, your accusations, your confessions, your factoids, your manias; bring your hard won diagnosis, bring your intricately worked out solutions. We will supply: index cards, felt tips, crayons, red string. PRELUDE Festival 2023 INTERVIEW Murder Room - Day 3 Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself. Theater, Other, Discussion, Multimedia English 5 min - 55 min, your choice. 3:00PM to 8:30PM EST Friday, October 13, 2023 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Sign Up to Contribute This event will take place in the Art History Screening Room in GC CUNY from Wednesday, October 11 to Saturday, October 14, everyday from 3pm to 8:30pm EST. Imagine that the American Theater is dead, or Downtown at any rate is dead, or both, or maybe no one can find the body but it's probably dead, anyway there was definitely a crime, or series of crimes; the place is a mess, and someone has watered down the whisky. You are a detective, or a prime witness, or a culprit, or all of the above, and you have been invited to contribute to one of those great evidence or murder boards/crazy walls they have on cop shows...sometimes in the stationhouse, sometimes in the serial killer lair... bring your questions, your theories, your schemes, your accusations, your confessions, your factoids, your manias; bring your hard won diagnosis, bring your intricately worked out solutions. We will supply: index cards, felt tips, crayons, red string. This room has received material support from Playwrights Horizons, and New Georges, with numerous numerous contributors throughout the field. Content / Trigger Description: Anne Washburn is a playwright whose works include 10 out of 12, Antlia Pneumatica, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, A Devil At Noon, I Have Loved Strangers, The Internationalist, The Ladies, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Mr. Burns, Shipwreck, The Small, and transadaptations of Euripides' Orestes & Iphigenia in Aulis. Her work has premiered with 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Almeida, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Two River Theater Company, Vineyard Theater and Woolly Mammoth. Other contributors include: playwrights, box office personnel, artistic directors, literary managers, actors, designers, program directors, development directors, producers, interns, audience members, stage managers, directors. Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

Kate Valk of The Wooster Group talks about the Group’s latest work, including their new production of Richard Foreman’s 1988 play Symphony of Rats. PRELUDE Festival 2023 ARTIST TALK Kate Valk and The Wooster Group Discussion, Theater English 60 minutes 2:00PM EST Saturday, October 14, 2023 Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Free Entry, Open To All Kate Valk of The Wooster Group talks about the Group’s latest work, including their new production of Richard Foreman’s 1988 play Symphony of Rats. Content / Trigger Description: Kate Valk Kate Valk joined The Wooster Group in 1979. Since then, she has performed and/or acted as dramaturg in all of the Group’s theater and media works. As a director, Valk has created three productions with The Wooster Group, all record album interpretations: Early Shaker Spirituals (2014); The B-Side: "Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons" (2017); and Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me (2022-23). She is currently co-directing with LeCompte the Group’s new version of Symphony of Rats, based on Richard Foreman’s 1988 play. Valk founded the Summer Institute, a free three-week workshop for public high school students now in its 27th year. The Wooster Group The Wooster Group is a company of artists who make new work for theater and media. Since its formation in 1975, the Group has been led by director Elizabeth LeCompte. The Performing Garage, located at 33 Wooster Street in lower Manhattan, is the Group’s permanent home. The Group has created over 40 theater productions, and more than 25 works for dance, radio, film and video. Its projects have pioneered new artistic practices, notably through the use of video and sound technology in live performance. The Group has developed methods of composition that incorporate non-dramatic texts, autobiography, and documentary materials along with new readings of classic dramatic works. LeCompte's first compositions were based on Spalding Gray’s personal history (the “Three Places In Rhode Island” trilogy.) In 1980, LeCompte and Gray formally founded The Wooster Group, along with Ron Vawter, Jim Clayburgh, Willem Dafoe, Kate Valk, and Peyton Smith. Since then, the Group has sustained a full-time working company with an evolving core membership, joined by dozens of artistic associates including performers, composers, choreographers, and filmmakers who work on a project-basis. In addition to creating and producing its own work, the company hosts visiting artists at The Performing Garage and conducts a free summer performance intensive, the Summer Institute, for New York City high school students. This fall and winter, The Wooster Group will perform two new works at The Performing Garage: "Symphony of Rats" in November and "Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me" in January. www.thewoostergroup.org https://thewoostergroup.org/ Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on

Time is running out the Human kind before the earth goes into full self sedation. The trees have always been the guardians of the earth, but they now must conserve their strength to save themselves. Who will save the human kind from self destruction and all that is in their path? Is there someone, something that can speak for the trees, who speak for all things that inhabit this planet? PRELUDE Festival 2023 PERFORMANCE Mud & Blood Maya Sharpe Theater, Music English 1 hour 8:00PM EST Monday, October 16, 2023 The Brick, 579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA Free Entry, Open To All Time is running out the Human kind before the earth goes into full self sedation. The trees have always been the guardians of the earth, but they now must conserve their strength to save themselves. Who will save the human kind from self destruction and all that is in their path? Is there someone, something that can speak for the trees, who speak for all things that inhabit this planet? produced by The Brick Content / Trigger Description: Musician. Storyteller. Filmmaker. Maya Sharpe is multi-passionate maker and thinker. Maya's passion lies in exploring simplicity in humanity through composition. Using this tool to demonstrate there is more of a connection and love between everything than the politically derived disconnect and hatred. http://www.mayasharpe.com/ Watch Recording Explore more performances, talks and discussions at PRELUDE 2023 See What's on