MX Oops [NONFATAL_ERROR] "UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL" Program

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[NONFATAL_ERROR] UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL

APR 25 AT 7:30PM - APR 26-27 AT 9PM, 2024 Creative Direction by MX Oops Choreography by Jason A. Rodriguez and MX Oops Music by Tr!ggered, stefa marin alarcon, MX Oops Vocal Artistry by stefa marin alarcon Lighting Design by Fabian Gomez Dramaturgy by Vincent Cacalano Research Advising by Thomas F. Defrantz Video & Photography by Sekou Luke Poetry by Renée Alberts and MX Oops Video Design by MX Oops Costume by Jivomir Domoustcheiv and MX Oops Collective Advising by Olubode Shawn Brown Run time: 120 mins Please enjoy Mind Training On The Dance Floor, a guided meditation created by MX Oops. You can use this meditation to prepare for the performance, and use it as a support for your party practice after the show.

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FUNDING UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by New York Live Arts in partnership with the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 651 Arts, Dance Place and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information, visit npnweb.org.

UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL has received support from the PSC CUNY Research Foundation, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Creative Engagement Grant.

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BIOGRAPHIES

Eva Davidova explores behavior, ecological disaster, and the social implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. She questions what we give for granted, and explores possibilities for agency through uncertainty and play.

Davidova often deliberately “misuses” technology in order to disturb its acceptance, and that of the prevalent emotional manipulation that both physical and informational architecture exert.

Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the UVP at Everson Museum, Buffalo AKG Museum, MACBA, CAAC Sevilla, and La Regenta. Her latest solo exhibitions were at ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks, Instituto Cervantes, and Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in New York.

Fabian Fernando Gomez is a native New Yorker / photographer / videographer / editor raised in Queens and based out of Brooklyn. His work has been published in PAPER magazine, the Public Theater,

VOGUE Arabia, and featured in various online platforms for Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Museum of Fine Art Boston, OUT, Remezcla and most recently in the New York Times.

A believer in collaboration in its truest sense, he enjoys working closely with his clients so that each production is never forced, overly produced or contrived.

His commitment to etiquette and trust enables him to find the essence of each moment as a photographer and documentor.

Jason Anthony Rodriguez is a Dominican-American actor/ dancer. He was born and raised in Washington Heights in New York City. Went to SUNY Purchase where he received a BA in Arts Management while also studying dance. He co-stars in Ryan Murphy’s Emmy and Golden Globes nominated show Pose as Lemar Wintour. He is also the Movement Coach and Choreographer for Season 2 of Pose. He guest-stars on the Season Finale of The Deuce on HBO as Enrico. He has been featured in the New York Times 4 times by Siobhan Burke, Gia Kourlas and Illise S. Carter.

MX Oops is a multimedia performance artist and educator whose work centers hybridity, encouraging ecstatic disobedience as a path toward embodied wellness. Their vision is of a world where we can each be held in the fullness of our complexity. The party is the point of departure, a queer site of transnational Afro-diasporic imagining.

Their creative practice links urban arts [breaking, house, vogue femme, rap, dj, vj, fashion], somatic studies [yoga, thai yoga massage, energy healing, sound baths], media studies, and gender studies.

Through this transdisciplinary approach, their work questions whether consciousness itself is the primary medium. These mediums come together to welcome party people into a lush world of queer becoming.

Their work has been supported by the Jerome Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, National Performance Network, Research Foundation CUNY. Residencies include: Dance Theater Workshop Studio Series, CultureHub NYC Resident Artist, Ammerman

Center for Art and Technology, Henan Normal University, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Old Dominion University. Their work has been presented at Abrons Art Center, The Box, American Realness, Witte de Witte Contemporary Art Center, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Gala, Socrates Sculpture Park Benefit, and the GoDown Center in Nairobi Kenya, as a Cultural Envoy of the US State Department.

A certified yoga instructor (500hr RYT) and practitioner of Thai Yoga Massage, trained in various forms of energy healing, they completed a BA in dance and religion at the George Washington University and completed an Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College.

They are currently an Assistant Professor of Dance, Multimedia Performance, and Somatic Studies in the Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre, and Dance at Lehman College, City University of New York, USA. [mxoops.com] Olubode Shawn Brown is a lawyer, author and the founder

of BLOOM - a global collective of creatives. Olubode works with creative leaders who are thinking collectively, working cooperatively and acting globally. He is the author of BLOOM The Essential JourneyA New Guide to Balance Growth & Well-Being and FINDING YOUR B.I.G. - Finding New Purpose In Changing Times.

Rooted in the five elements of nature, Olubode’s work offers a new life-balancing paradigm to people who are seeking to live more authentic lives as they deliver urgent gifts to the planet.

IG: @olubode | bloomeducation.institute

her jewelry, home décor, and art company, and founder of Realize Breathwork, her healing practice. She lives on the island of Hawai’i. moonwisedesigns.com

Sekou Luke is a Harlem-based filmmaker and producer whose creative mediums include over 10 years of directing, filmmaking, photography, acting, and other forms of media & content creation. Sekou Luke is the CEO and founder of Sekou Luke Studio and REBEL Media, whose established creative collaborators include Amazon Prime Video, The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage, The Billie Holiday Renée Alberts crafts language, Theatre, ROC-United, V-Day, sound, image, metal, crystal, The Schott Foundation, Ford and breath to explore our innate Foundation, Family Values @ bodily wisdom as the root of our Work, Step Afrika, The Creative sovereignty and the antidote to Jenius Report and PopMatters cultural disempowerment. Her Magazine. Focusing on working poems and performances are collaboratively during the recognized for their cathartic, pandemic, Sekou has launched raw, and empowering nature, and REBEL MEDIA, with an emphasis she has curated and performed on creating visually rich story in numerous multidisciplinary content that is transformative, works. Creations have appeared community-building, and in print, galleries, dance generative. performances, radio shows, and at least one tattoo. She is the stefa marin alarcon aka STEFA* creator of Moonwise Designs, is a genderless, genreless

vocalist, composer and multimedia performance artist born and raised in Queens, NY. Using an amalgamation of punk, experimental rage pop, and classical minimalism with queer maximalist aesthetics, stefa builds worlds that offer a somatic decolonial respite for the misfits, the displaced, and future generations of Brown and Indigenous radical artists of the diaspora. Their ritual film Born With An Extra Rib won the 2022 Queer|Art Recent Work Prize and a 2023 TRANSlations Seattle FIlm Festival Jury Award. Their debut album will be released Summer 2024 on Figure & Ground Records. @stefalives Thomas F. DeFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance| Culture|Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. DeFrantz received the 2017 Outstanding Research in Dance award from the Dance Studies Association. DeFrantz acted as a consultant for the Smithsonian Museum of African American Life and Culture, contributing concept and a voice-over for a permanent

installation on Black Social Dance that opened with the museum in 2016. DeFrantz believes in our shared capacity to do better, and to engage our creative spirit for a collective good that is anti-racist, antihomophobic, proto-feminist, and queer affirming.

Tr!ggered was born in Brooklyn New York where he studied art and design with his parents at a young age, but slowly became engrossed in the world of music. His work combines a technical analog forms such as concert piano and cello, with a conceptual approach informed by performance art.

Tr!ggered has coproduced award winning projects such as This is Detroit, performed at the historical Stonewall Inn, toured internationally performing with artist like MX Oops, and showed in artist Collectives like the YAMs. Vincent Cacialano, an interdisciplinary artist recently working at Tulane University and Arizona State, holds Bachelor and Masters of Fine Arts degrees. Vincent was a George Washington University Fellow,

studying movement research and the Stanislavski method.

Vincent was a permanent staff member at the School for New Dance Development and has performed improvisatory work alongside renowned artists Monstah Black, Steve Paxton, Benoit Lachambre, and Miguel Gutierrez a.o. Vincent has received support from the Heinz Endowment, Arts Council England, Amsterdam Funds, and the Institute for Performance Research.

Vincent’s compositions often consider the “bodily expressions of affect” and how these and other “in between spaces” inform meaning.

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