BROADCASTING LIVE 12 FEBRUARY 2023 10a-5p

J. BOUEY DANCE PROJECTS × THE VANDERBILT REPUBLIC proudly present THE S A T U R N WORKSHOPS at SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER

What would humanity be responsible for after we’ve abolished all systems of oppression?

This is the guiding question for j. bouey and George Del Barrio while creating S A T U R N: A Revelation, a hologram dance performance from a distant future where all systemic oppression has already been abolished.

Four walk-in live performance camera obscura immersions have transformed the four massive galleries of The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, creating realtime performance images that are unlike anything you’ve ever seen.

Registration is required to attend the 12 February 2023 performances IRL & reservations are limited to 30 minutes max — ADVANCE REGISTRATION HERE.

j. bouey is the founder of The Dance Union Podcast, initiating 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. They were also a former dancer with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and danced with Germaul Barnes’ Viewsic Dance, Maria Bauman’s MB Dance, Dante Brown, Christal Brown’s INspirit Dance, and apprenticed with Emerge 125 (formerly Elisa Monte Dance) under the artistic direction of Tiffany Rea-Fisher. Determined to manifest the dreams dreamt in their youth, J. is assuming this responsibility because these dreams sustained them when the sun didn’t shine or shined too bright to see.

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).

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, BARE Opera, Cardistry-Con & the dawning sunlight of an awakened mind. 

Equipment and production solutions lovingly provided by Eastern Effects.

S A T U R N was developed with the support of a CUNY Dance Initiative residency at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden in 2023

MIDHEAVEN NETWORK is a brave, generative space of healing and for the building — not “rebuilding” — of a fully inclusive society. MIDHEAVEN exists in paradox: FROM many, one.

THROUGH live arts programming from A GLOBAL phalanx OF performance, visual art, social justice, human development and cinema/ digital/ VR voyagers, MIDHEAVEN will ADVANCE COURAGEOUS, loving & possibility-driven VISIONS to the world.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR × EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GEORGE DEL BARRIO

ART DIRECTOR AL-KHABIR RICHMAN

DIRECTOR OF AUDIO ADRIAN MARTINEZ

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY BRIAN GONZALEZ

CAMERA OPERATOR + KEY GRIP IAN CHEN

COMPOSER + ASSOCIATE PRODUCER BANDIT LU

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