Utilizing Block Party Dance vernacular as a movement investigation Around the Way Gurl highlights and celebrates the cultural significance and the contributions women in Bed-Stuy have made to Brooklyn and Hip-Hop culture during the 1980s and 90s. Around the Way Gurl includes ensemble and solo work, video projection, and a live DJ.

While in residence at Hi-ARTS, Curtis will continue the development of and addition of choreography to Homenaje a los Rumberos. Homenaje a los Rumberos is an original music composition that pays homage to the rich legacy of traditional Afro-Cuban Rumberos and serves as a heartfelt tribute to Rumbero's living and past.

In addition, Curtis will work with collaborators to create a multimedia performance work that will celebrate the masters who shaped Cuban Rumba’s rich history.

We are kicking off our OPEN HOUSE with a BLOCK PARTY! Featuring a LIVE Acoustic Electric DJ set by CRITICAL BREAKS Alum Zane Rodulfo followed by a Work in Process of BRICKS by Charlene Jean, and will feature local vendors and artists and much more. Check out our full lineup below and register for all with one Day Pass!

We are kicking off our OPEN HOUSE with a BLOCK PARTY! Featuring local vendors, a live DJ, Work in Process performances, art and more! Check out our full lineup below and register for all with one Day Pass! Free and open to all!

CRITICAL BREAKS Artist Zane Rodulfo will share a Work in Process of zwil. Audiences will experience an immersive multimedia electronic media set utilizing electronic instruments, video, and movement. The [WIP] will be followed by a conversation with Zane and his collaborators.

Join us for a live Virtual Artist Discussion with Brian Quijada & Nygel D. Robinson, as they discuss their time as CRITICAL BREAKS residents and the development of MEXODUS.

Join us for a Live Reading of MEXODUS, with CRITICAL BREAKS duo Brian Quijada & Nygel D. Robinson.

Join us for a live Virtual Artist Discussion with Zachariah Ezer & Dominique Rider, as they discuss their time as artists in residence and the development of An Unclear World: Experiments in Afropessimism.

Join us for a Virtual Reading of The Last Gatekeeper, followed by a live Artist Discussion with Germono Toussaint.

The Last Gatekeeper is a three-act, immersive, extended reality-enhanced, Afro-futurist, musical theater experience, inspired by the teachings of West African shaman and scholar Malidoma Patrice Somé.

Join us for an Open Rehearsal of The Last Gatekeeper, by multi-award-winning composer, arranger, playwright, and producer Germono Toussaint, followed by a Q&A session.

&&&ART is a multi-media “historically accurate” re-telling of human artistic experience. Through caricature, it seeks to break down and convey what it’s like to create art in today’s world through caricature. Featuring “expert” practitioner of performing arts, Sapphire Crauwtch, &&&ART embraces comedic farce and documentary theater that laughs at the commercialization of American theater.

&&&ART is a multi-media “historically accurate” re-telling of human artistic experience. Through caricature, it seeks to break down and convey what it’s like to create art in today’s world through caricature. Featuring “expert” practitioner of performing arts, Sapphire Crauwtch, &&&ART embraces comedic farce and documentary theater that laughs at the commercialization of American theater.

&&&ART is a multi-media “historically accurate” re-telling of human artistic experience. Through caricature, it seeks to break down and convey what it’s like to create art in today’s world through caricature. Featuring “expert” practitioner of performing arts, Sapphire Crauwtch, &&&ART embraces comedic farce and documentary theater that laughs at the commercialization of American theater.

&&&ART is a multi-media “historically accurate” re-telling of human artistic experience. Through caricature, it seeks to break down and convey what it’s like to create art in today’s world through caricature. Featuring “expert” practitioner of performing arts, Sapphire Crauwtch, &&&ART embraces comedic farce and documentary theater that laughs at the commercialization of American theater.

Join us for an Artist Discussion on the development of If This Be Sin by CRITICAL BREAKS with CRITICAL BREAKS duo Kirya Traber and Sissi Liu. Set against the sultry backdrops of Harlem Renaissance nightclubs and Old Hollywood of the 1950s, If This Be Sin is a musical work based on the life and legacy of Black queer & gender-bending creative Icon Gladys Bentley.

We invite you to witness the creative process and development of (construct)Clearing with a series of daily live rehearsals, construction, documentation, dance, labor, and performance streams. Tanika and Nehemoyia will share the building of a garden flower bed and winterization of a garden as a meditation on care.

We invite you to witness the creative process and development of (construct)Clearing with a series of daily live rehearsals, construction, documentation, dance, labor, and performance streams. Tanika and Nehemoyia will share the building of a garden flower bed and winterization of a garden as a meditation on care.

Alexander Lambie is also known as Gina Cakestand, a drag persona living in the kitchen on the intersection of anime and the black experience. In Wittiness! Gina’s trial of soul as she struggles (elegantly, stylishly, lithely, and majestically) to discover not who she is, but why she would never give in to the temptation to be anything BUT who she is. Also, why is everybody eating sweet potato pie?