LIVE BROADCAST 21 DECEMBER 2023 @ SUNSET (EST)
THE DANCE UNION × MIDHEAVEN NETWORK proudly present “DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL 2023: THE DANCE UNION VIDEO PODCAST EP. #001” at MADHURA STUDIOS
The Dance Union Podcast captures timely and ephemeral conversations circulating within dance communities that support transparent discourse on a variety of topics including pay inequality, sexual harassment, abuse of power, tokenism, and much more.
Dark Night of the Soul is MIDHEAVEN Network’s annual Solstice Festival of art, music and crucial conversations to explore and understand the shadow, where all possibility (including rebirth) originates.
Join us for a retrospective look at the SATURN projects so far, featuring guest collaborators and a special announcement. Dance Union Video Podcast Episode #001 features dance performances by Tyrone Bevans, j. bouey & Jayson P. Smith with candid, insightful reflections on Punking & Waacking, a freestyle dance practice created during the 70s disco era by Black and Brown Queer youth with an emphasis on showing the music through movement.
Dark Night of the Soul 2023 program
4.30—7p COMPLETE SATURN ARCHIVES PRESHOW
7—9p dance union video podcast ep. #001
Tyrone Bevans is dancer, choreographer, Illustrator and printmaker. He is currently dancing for The Fabulous Waack Dancers and Joya Powell’s Movement of the people. In the past Tyrone has performed and collaborated with artist such as Christal Brown, Chafin Seymour, Maya Orchin, Vessels, FunkanometryNY, Synead and Karla Garcia. As a mover Tyrone investigates space, risk, and play with one’s physical vernacular in order to access a personal freedom.
J. is a 2023 Bessie Award Outstanding Performer recipient, the founder of The Dance Union Podcast, initiator of the NYC Dancers COVID-19 Relief Fund and The Dance Union Town Hall For Collective Action to support the dance community through numerous world-changing events.
As a creator, J. is a recent 2021-2022 Jerome Fellow and is a 2022/2023 Movement Research Artist in Residence. J. Bouey was also recently a Gibney 2021 Spotlight Artist, Artist-In-Residence at CPR – Center for Performance Research, and 2021 Bogliasco Fellow. J. was also a 2018 Movement Research Van Lier Fellow, and 2018 Dancing While Black Fellow.
J. is currently a collaborator with nia love. They were also a former performer with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, danced with Germaul Barnes’ Viewsic Dance, Maria Bauman’s MB Dance, Dante Brown, Antonio Brown Dance, Christal Brown’s INspirit Dance, and apprenticed with Emerge 125 (formerly Elisa Monte Dance) under the artistic direction of Tiffany Rea-Fisher.
Born 1976 in New York City and raised with the global immigrant community of Queens, George Del Barrio is the Founding Creative Director × Executive Producer of The Vanderbilt Republic (est. 2008) & MIDHEAVEN Network + Studio (est. 2020), as well as Creative Director × Executive Producer at Universe City NYC (2021-present), Space for Arts (2023-present) & Madhura Studios (2024-present).
As a 1st-generation American and all-media Creative/ Technical Director deeply versed in photographic physics, immersive curatorial design and all phases of production, Del Barrio's practice is concentrated on archetype expansion. Every site response is architected by a resolute humanism; every invention, design, & transformation is in search of duende — meaning is not a discovery, it is a creation. Clients include The Keith Haring Foundation, Rutgers University, Textile Arts Center, MADERA, On The Revel, PALISSIMO, Cardistry-Con & the dawning sunlight of an awakened mind.
Jayson P. Smith (b. Bronx, NY. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, & curator, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Jayson has received support from New York Foundation for the Arts, The Poetry Project, Poetry Foundation, and The Conversation Literary Festival. Their writing appears in html.review, West Branch, boundary2, The Poetry Project’s Recluse, Gulf Coast, & The Offing, among others.
Jayson’s performance work has been featured in numerous venues throughout the U.S., such as Guggenheim Museum, MOMAPS1, Loft Literary Center, The Home School, & Ace Hotel NYC.
J founded & curates NOMAD Reading Series in Brooklyn, & elsewhere.
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