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UNFIX NYC 2022 (In-Person)
-Creating An Awareness Of Ecology Through Arts- Saturday, May 21st, 5:30-10:30pm
*you can come and go with one ticket! At Grace & St. Paul's Church, NYC
This is the 6th Season of UNFIX NYC!!! We are so delighted to be able to gather together to do this festival again IN - PERSON!
About: UNFIX NYC is a festival collaboration between Ren Gyo Soh (NY based Butoh Theatre Group) and UNFIX festival (Scotland) which is a festival of life performance, Dance, film, Installation, Workshop and debate that wants to unravel the knots in how we're living.
UNFIX NYC aims to raise ecological awareness through arts. What is 'ecology'? Ecology is the relations between all living beings on this planet, and its study. How we can live without destroying, harming, and hurting each other. The world is not a 'fix'ed place. The world is continuously changing; evolving; we are changing. Ren Gyo Soh has been holding the NYC version of the UNFIX festival in a local space since 2016. (MORE ABOUT)
This year, we have 16 pieces / a group of artists from 7 different countries (USA, Japan, Ukraine, Italy, Mexico, France, UK).
Unfix NYC 2022 features works from Margherita Tisato, Jacquelyn Marie Shannon, Vanessa Skantze, Ren Gyo Soh, Erik Bergrin, Brandon Perdomo, Black Forest Rose, Octavia Cup Dance Theatre, Orizaba Dance Company, Moving Productions Company, Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Efrén Olson-Sánchez, Saki Kawamura, Irena Romendik, Yuri Ogasawara, Richard Harlen Webb, and Roxane Revon. |
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May 21, 2022 5:30-10:30pm VENUE Grace & St. Paul's Church 123 west 71st st., New York |
UNFIX NYC 2022 PROGRAM
OPENING CEREMONY
5:30-5:40pm
5:30-5:40pm
Arts Gallery
ACT I 5:40-6:20pm
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1. "Mi Amore And The Queen Bee"
By Black Forest Rose An interdisciplinary piece that awakens us to Romance and gives tribute to the Queen Bee |
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2."Let’s Get Stoned"
By Octavia Cup Dance Theatre An experimental dance trio that explores connecting with the Earth, as a living entity, by passing rocks. |
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3. "MicroPLASTIC"
By Orizaba Dance Company /Vương Nguyen A concemptual dance work exploring human arrogance towards climate change and all living creatures in the world. |
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4. "Air"
Irena Romendik, Richard Harlen Webb, Yuri Ogasawara |
BREAK 6:20-6:30pm
Panel Discussion 6:30-7:25pm
"ART AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS"
Moderated By Megan Cattau
(Assistant Professor of Human-Environment Systems at Boise State University,
Co-founder & Co-director at Flight Collaborative Aerial Dance)
PANELISTS:
Pastor Martin Hauser
(Pastor at Grace & St. Paul's Church)
Mary Ting
(CUNY John Jay College, Studio Art Department; Environmental Justice Program;
Artist, researcher, writer)
Vanessa Skantze
(Butoh Artist, Writer, Co-Founder of Teatro De La Psychomachia)
Mark Benedetti
(Writer and Greenhouse and Garden Manager
at Horticultural Society of New York's Education Center at Riverbank State Park)
Moderated By Megan Cattau
(Assistant Professor of Human-Environment Systems at Boise State University,
Co-founder & Co-director at Flight Collaborative Aerial Dance)
PANELISTS:
Pastor Martin Hauser
(Pastor at Grace & St. Paul's Church)
Mary Ting
(CUNY John Jay College, Studio Art Department; Environmental Justice Program;
Artist, researcher, writer)
Vanessa Skantze
(Butoh Artist, Writer, Co-Founder of Teatro De La Psychomachia)
Mark Benedetti
(Writer and Greenhouse and Garden Manager
at Horticultural Society of New York's Education Center at Riverbank State Park)
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Break
7:25-7:45pm |
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"Roon’s Roots"
By Roxane Revon (Video Projection Work At Gallery) Seeking to change our perspective on nature, mostly perceived as a surrounding environment. |
Film Showing 7:45-8:30pm
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossoms”
by Lucy Walker (40 min)
by Lucy Walker (40 min)
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Survivors in the areas hardest hit by Japan's recent tsunami find the courage to revive and rebuild as cherry blossom season begins.
Lucy Walker is an Emmy winning, two-time Oscar-nominated director renowned for creating riveting, character-driven nonfiction that delivers emotionally and narratively.
Her latest film Bring Your Own Brigade (2021), about wildfires in California, premiered at Sundance, was released theatrically by Paramount and included in New York Times’ 10 Best Films of 2021 lists by both their film critics. Her previous films include Buena Vista Social Club Adios (2017), triple-Emmy-nominated The Lion's Mouth Opens (2014), Emmy-winning The Crash Reel (2013), Oscar-nominated Waste Land (2010), Oscar-nominated double-Emmy-nominee The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011), Countdown to Zero (2010), Berlin-winning Blindsight (2006), and triple-Emmy-nominated Devil's Playground (2002). Ram Dass, Going Home (2018), which Lucy Executive Produced, and Why Did You Kill Me? (2021) which Lucy produced, are currently on Netflix. For her television directing Lucy has been nominated for three Emmys. Lucy is based in Venice Beach where she curates TEDxVeniceBeach. She grew up in London and graduated with a first class degree from Oxford University before winning a Fulbright Scolarship to earn her MFA in Film at NYU. She also had a successful career as a DJ. |
Break 8:30-8:40
ACT 2 8:40-9:25
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1. "Grown-Ups"
By Bare Bones A physical theatre and modern interpretation of the little prince by Antoine de Saint -Exupery |
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2. "Concrete Ocean"
By Rebecca Lloyd-Jones Exploring on tension between nature and civilization |
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3. "A Message From Those That Have Gone Before..."
By Moving Productions A performative collage embodying the lost creatures if the earth, bringing a message to help us change the future. |
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4. "Caminantes"
By Efrén Olson-Sánchez A solo piece exploring the migration journey of Latin American indigenous through the Arizona desert |
Break 9:25 9:35pm
ACT 3 9:35-10:35pm
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1. “骸/Mukuro(corpse)”
by Ren Gyo Soh "Even a one inch insect has a half inch soul"...even the smallest being has a soul and its own will, so do not make light of it. (Japanese proverb) |
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2. "Steam"
by Jacquelyn Marie Shannon An investigation of ghostly practice as a potentiating dance between and within material and immaterial forces and conditions. |
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3. "Night/Mare"
by Vanessa Skantze A solo Butoh Performance with original score comprised of multiple voices. |
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4. "Keep breathing"
by Margherita Tisato A meditation of the sense of impotence to change human behavior in the face of destruction. |
TEAM in UNFIX NYC 2022
Yoshiko Usami, Producing artistic director
Megan Cattau, Associate Artistic director
Saki Kawamura, Program Director
Chase Knifen, Associate Program Director
Robin Dill, Technical Director
Brandon Perdomo, Visual Arts Coordinator
Donovan Fowler, Assistant Program Director
Paul Michael Henry (Associate Producer, Funder of Unfix festival)
Jonah Piali, Associate producer (host)
Pastor Martin Hauser, Associate producer (host)
Yoshiko Usami, Producing artistic director
Megan Cattau, Associate Artistic director
Saki Kawamura, Program Director
Chase Knifen, Associate Program Director
Robin Dill, Technical Director
Brandon Perdomo, Visual Arts Coordinator
Donovan Fowler, Assistant Program Director
Paul Michael Henry (Associate Producer, Funder of Unfix festival)
Jonah Piali, Associate producer (host)
Pastor Martin Hauser, Associate producer (host)
