Nicole von Arx

This Fall I will be developing new dance and theatrical material for a work premiering at Triskelion Arts April 2023. What does incubation mean to you? The beginning of something that keeps evolving and growing.

Hollis Bartlett & Nattie Trogdon

Through choreographed films and live performances, we’re working to challenge the status-quo and create unconventional and radically vulnerable work which helps us make sense of our changing world and reimagine how dance exists in our spaces and in our bodies. What does incubation mean to you? “an environment that allows an idea to develop, mature and reach its full potential.”

Ankita Sharma

I will be working on a new piece that situates nationalism and ensuing warfare on brown bodies within myth What does incubation mean to you? Loving on your ideas with inspiration, space, and time.

Mamiko Nakatsugawa

In this program, I am hoping to accomplish two things – one is to keep working on my latest work, While is Motion, and other is to create brand new work. What does incubation mean to you? Process that is full of discovery, learning, challenges, playfulness, joy, and connection with myself and the community.

Ari LaMora

My work is centered around the many varied layers we encounter in our lives, specifically the layers of gender and societal roles, and where I, as a non-binary gender non-conforming human, fit in. Breaking these layers down to get to the origin, I then use that origin to find different pathways that are separate from the “norm.” Incubation to me is the period between exposure (to an idea) and the result from that exposure (creating, working, processing, thinking).

Niki Farahani

I will be doing a deep dive into a past solo with the hopes of a newer emergence. I will be conducting new research within disciplines in conjunction to movement. Additionally, I will be calling on Annie Heath for assistance, consultation, and collaboration. What does incubation mean to you? Presently, incubation means entering into an environment in which the conditions are geared towards my fundamental and intellectual development. Through certain fixed conditions, I believe avenues of experimental play and learning can appear more readily. It feels like sustained support with non linear possibilities.

Shiloh Hodges

Shiloh Hodges is a dancer and zinemaker who has worked with Earl Mosley, Sidra Bell/SBDNY, André M. Zachery/Renegade Performance Group, Monstah Black, and Third Rail Projects, among others. She is in ongoing improvisational practice across forms with Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson. Shiloh’s work has been shown at Green Space, The Space Upstairs, and the 2020 EstroGenius Festival (in collaboration with Kim Savarino). Also a matchbox, a phone, a park, and a window.

Annie Wang

The work that I am exploring is a collaboration with the interdisciplinary visual artist Naomi Andrée Campbell. We are investigating movements, imagery, and histories of protective animals in our respective Chinese and Japanese backgrounds. What does incubation mean to you? A protected place to grow and develop. Where all experimentation (silly, fruitful, dead-end, dada, you name it) is possible.

Sylvain Souklaye

I will explore the friction between the artist as a mediator and the audience as the medium in the context of live documentation. What does incubation mean to you? For me, incubation is the phase/moment of introspection and exploration before an epiphany or catharsis.

Tamara Leigh

Nikki Theroux, Tamara Leigh, Kimie Parker, Hillary Bonhomme. Wldflwr Dance Collective, directed by Tamara Leigh and Nikki Theroux, works towards multidisciplinary and inclusive art-making. Wldflwr has been in residence at Dragon’s Egg in CT, beginning the creative process for “the last to bloom,” the collective’s debut evening-length which premiered at The Tank NYC in 2021. In 2022, they were Artists in Residence at MOtiVE Brooklyn where they began creating “Permanence.”

Nadia Khayrallah

I’m working with my musical collaborator Alia Scheirman to develop performance environments that allow for a live and mechanically visible integration of movement and sound, making use of everyday objects, looping technology, live drawings, and more. What does incubation mean to you? I can be very literal sometimes, so I think about incubating an idea like an egg. Sometimes, you’re not entirely sure what’s gonna hatch from it and when – nor can you really control these things – but you decide to give it your time, care, and energy regardless, dedicating yourself to whatever beautiful or monstrous being might … Continued

Fadl Fakhouri

The work I will be focusing on in my time at the incubation program will consist of a video project in collaboration with Kyle Carrero Lopez. I will be performing movements, dances, and gestures with Kyle writing poetry in response. It will be a conversion of poetry in dance to poetry in word. What does the unknown mean to you? The unknown is both freedom and what we anticipate to be dangerous. I think it stems from the fact that too much freedom can be scary, even deadly.

Justin Cabrillos

I am dancing with emotions and trance states, hovering within the intensities they share. I will be premiering a trio at the Chocolate Factory Theater this April 2022 and am also working on a solo premiering in 2023. What does the unknown mean to you? The unknown is space for alternative constellations of feeling.

Tyrone Bevans

Tyrone is deepening a practice geared towards emotional intelligence through the use of the queer diasporic dance form known as punking. What does incubation mean to you? A time for space, play, deep listening and development.