DANCING FUTURES RESIDENCY 2023

Queerly Femmestastic

Mai Lê Hô

CoCo Motion/NuTribe

Mai Lê Hô

Walking in Layers by Mai Lê Hô

March 22 & March 23 2024

Dance artist Mai Lê Hô and collaborators debut Walking In Layers , a multidisciplinary 2-day festival addressing layers of identity while merging Vietnamese, French, and American influences and artists through dance, live improv music, documentary video, eco-fashion, and more.

Queerly Femmetastic

WE BEEN HERE: BLACK BURLESQUE LEGACY

Nov 3 & Nov 4 2023

Starring: Queerly Femmetastic, Nita B. Yellowcakes, Miss Aurora BoobRealis, Perle Noire, Susie Dahl & Dominant Jeane.

CocoMotion Presents NuTribe Dance Company

INTERLUDES

Nov 17 & 18 2023

The piece choreographed by CocoMotion and performed by NuTribe Dance Company. The piece about love, friendship, self love, the space between those pivotal movements and the seasonal changes that accompany these shifts in life. Interludes features live musicians included a bassist, beatboxer, keyboardist and emcee. In addition to dancers who both partake in choreography and freestyle.

Dancing Futures Residency Artists 2023 -24

  • CocoMotion Presents NuTribe Dance Company

    photo: @qlickphotography

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  • Mai Lê Hô

    photo: Lauriane Ogay

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  • Queerly Femmetastic

    photo: Maxine Wallace Photography

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Mentors

  • Tatiana Desardouin

    mentor, CocoMotion Presents NuTribe Company

    photo: Lauriane Ogay

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  • maura nguyễn donohue

    mentor, Mai Lê Hô

    photo: courtesy of the artist

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  • Perle Noir

    mentor, Queerly Femmetastic

    photo: Ellen Stagg

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Writers & Editor

  • Jazelynn Goudy

    writer, CocoMotion Presents NuTribe Company

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  • Anh Vo

    writer, Mai Lê Hô

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  • Dominant Jeane

    writer, Queerly Femmetastic

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  • Ashayla Byrd

    Project Editor 2023

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Ancillary Project 2023

Three additional artists were selected to receive support, including an artist honorarium, free rehearsal space, peer-to-peer meetings and workshops.

  • ARGELIA ARREOLA

  • MAWU AMA MA’AT GORA

  • SHIZU HOMMA

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Residency Facilitators 2023

Rebecca Gual

photo: S*an D. Henry-Smith

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Alicia Raquel Morales

https://www.crowninginoctober.com/

BC in The BX residency, March 22-26 2024  

Dance West Network’s Re-centering/Margins Residency alumni Jennifer Aoki, Sophie Dow, Isaac Gasangwa, Robyn Grant-Moran, Aryo Khakpour, Nick Miami Benz, Mohammed Rashead participated in a four-day residency in The Bronx, NYC, March 22-26, 2024. The artists met with Dancing Futures alumnae: Rebecca Gual, Alicia Raquel Morales, Queerly Femmetastic,  Mai Lê Hô, CoCoMotion.

With artists sharings and exchanges at BAAD!, attending performances with impromptu community dancing, seeing other performances, meeting artists, taking class, touring the new Bronx Music Hall, the artists left The Bronx with new creative ideas and connections. Until the next !  

Produced by Dance West Network in collaboration with Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance with funding from Canadian Heritage and the Jerome Foundation.  

ANNOUNCING

Dancing Futures Residency 2023

CocoMotion Presents NuTribe Dance Company

Mai Lê Hô

Queerly Femmetastic