IRL PERFORMANCE + LIVE BROADCAST 10-11, 16-18 & 23-25 MAY 2024 @ 7p (EST)

J. BOUEY DANCE PROJECTS × THE VANDERBILT REPUBLIC proudly present SATURN: A REVELATION — INTRODUCING THE INTER-DIMENSIONAL TIME-TRAVELING DISCO SPACE OPERA DANCE BAND: “THE LIVING ANCESTORS” at JACK

SATURN: A Revelation — introducing the Inter-Dimensional Time-Traveling Disco Space Opera Dance Band: “The Living Ancestors” is a reverse time capsule broadcast introducing The Living Ancestors from the 2200s, when humanity is at the precipice of abolishing all systems of oppression.

Join this space opera dance band — led by j. bouey and featuring Quilan Arnold, Tyrone Bevans, Nubian Néné, Junada Petrus & Jayson P. Smith — as they embody songs of liberation and conjure the wisdom of their ancestors from the 2020s who honored their responsibility to leave behind a healthy global ecology for their descendants.

SATURN: A Revelation is an immersive dance performance installation, direct action for community support, and multi-camera live broadcast exploring the question: what are we responsible for once we abolish all systems of oppression? This hologram-like radio show, with environmental projection mapping and multiple points of view, is magically performed in real-time through the Live Performance Camera Obscura, designed by George Del Barrio.

SATURN will also feature an astrological forecast and a fabulous Full Moon Disco Ball in the Sky Party joyfully celebrating the destruction of every oppressive construct.

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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