“In our residency, we will explore the technical and performative aspects of 3rd Body: A Play about the Other. This is a performance told through dance, navigating the experience of being Arab, as told by Arabs, who were told about their Arabism by non-Arabs and Arabs alike. Part satire, part radical realism, 3rd Body employs abstraction, exposes inquiry, and shares personal anecdotes to construct a series of dance simulations that reveal intimate and absurd truths.”

“My residency will focus on how one holds space in the midst of grief. What are the questions and obstacles that arise with remembering? Do my ancestors know I exist? What are they trying to tell me? Will we ever figure it out?”

“My residency will focus on the burdens that current artivists face in this current triple pandemic, offering us a chance to fuse spoken word and performance to tackle topics such as institutionalized racism in academia, the grief and the joy we often simultaneously hold, and the resiliency and sheer power that exist within our communities. We will speak to social ills that spread throughout the country, bringing west coast & east coast perspectives to the table to ignite the movement of liberation.”

“My residency will focus on our collective/individual experience of a spatial environment, the importance of which lies not in drawing one conclusion but in honoring the multitude of experiences created by a collective. Displayed through the mediums of light, visual arts, and movement, this residency calls to an awareness of self and form.”

“In our residency, we will be developing the visual and sonic landscape of our new work Panic Encyclopedia. Collectively, we will search for antidotes to the ways in which panic is purposely inflicted upon us by the State. We will continue to crystalize our creative process and develop an accessible workshop model for artists of all ages. Our small ensemble is rooted in theatrical intensity, collective humanity, and a love of play.”

“I will spend my residency focused on the development of our new musical, Desaparecidas, an experimental, research based musical about the death and disappearance of hundreds of women and girls affected by femicide in Ciudad Juárez, México. We will be co-writing with the goal to complete the first draft of book and lyrics for two major sequences. We hope to work in collaboration with a few select actors in a devising process to develop content and the beginnings of movement vocabulary.”

“Given the historic and spiritual silences in the archival documentation about poet-actor Eusebia Cosme (1908-1976), our project will creatively engage the archive for diverse publics who are craving creative and ancestral voices whose work guides us collectively, as we live through trying times. Through performance, we resituate Cosme’s creative genius, which spans beyond poetry into musical compositions, full-length theatre performances in Spanish, and fascinating collaborations with artists and scholars such as Katherine Dunham and Langston Hughes.”

“In my residency, I will be developing BĀS (working title), a composition illluminating the history of Asian and Black mutual support and addresses racial tensions. Performed by an Afro-Asian quartet, it aims to bolster Black and Asian solidarity in America.”

“In my residency, I will develop my new work, WALL, a light-focused installation that explores and offers healing for women struggling with emotional abuse. Conceived as a built environment of light and a field of monolithic structures - WALL opens a poetic space for audiences and communities to engage difficult questions on immigration and the abuse of women.”