Blog Masonry

Dayeon Jeong

A Korean American artist and fashion design graduate, centers her practice on auto-ethnographic textile design. Garments become sculptures and are activated as performance through intuitive, embodied processes. As an associate costume fabricator and co-designer, she continues to explore the relationality of postcolonial and deeply cultural and entangled material histories....Continued

1. Aug

Jeremy D. Slater

Is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the areas of sound, video, computer art, performance, and installation. Born in Reading, England and a graduate of both SUNY College at Buffalo and School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Computer Art. Performances include sound and live performed video that is...Continued

1. Aug

David Guzman

Is a cross-disciplinary performer who loves and honors lichens. His durational installation “Treeing” invites passers-by to greet urban ecologies through contemplative walks and paper-making from trash. David is a Headlong Performance Institute fellow and a Circus Amok and Ukrainian Village Voices member. He is currently touring in Faye Driscoll’s...Continued

1. Aug

Juan José Escalante

Juan José Escalante worked with MCB early in his career when the organization was operating at store front on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. For the past twenty years, he has served as Executive Director for Ballet Florida, Orlando Ballet, and the José Limón Dance Foundation. In each of...Continued

20. Jul

Sophie Ortiz

Sophie Ortiz works together with Taylor Jones in WillCheer4Beer. They met through a New York City queer non-profit adult charitable cheerleading organization. As ‘main’ and ‘side’ bases, they’ve performed in queer nightlife, honing skills in tumbling, stunting, dance, parkour, and virtual design. With infectious glee and iconic wit, they’ve...Continued

18. Jul

Sarazina Stein

Sarazina Joy Stein works together with Emily LaRochelle. Both are NYC-based dancers who met at Bates Dance Festival summer of 2017 and have been collaborating ever since. They’ve performed their work at PSNY, Triskelion Arts, Theater for the New City, Wild Project, TADA, New Dance Alliance, HONK! Open Streets,...Continued

18. Jul

Hannah Wagner

Hannah Wagner, a dancer, and Joey Rosin, a musician, began collaborating in 2022. Their first work IN EACH PASSING MOMENT… is a duet between dancer and solo saxophonist that explores how our shared experiences, feelings, and relationships transcend time. They premiered IN EACH PASSING MOMENT… at the Perpetuum Mobile...Continued

18. Jul

Elya Osmanova

Elya Osmanova is an Azerbaijani dancer, actor and a writer based in New York. She is a versatile artist, who has a background in Latin dance, Afro Cuban dance, House, Contemporary and Physical Theatre. Elya’s first narrative film acting debut ‘My Heart Is My Only Country’ directed by Iva...Continued

18. Jul

Ching-I Chang

Made in Taiwan, active in America and quiet places. MFA. She has a deep love for dance and nurturing harmony. She has danced for Susan Marshall, Gesel Mason, Punchdrunk, and many brilliant artists. She was an original cast member of Sleep No More NYC; as well as a rehearsal...Continued

18. Jul