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Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts and The Petronio Residency Center

October 11, 2019

Left to Right: Emilee Harney, Mikaila Ware, Kayla Farrish, and Dorchel Haqq. Photo by Kerime Konur

Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts is an emerging company combining filmmaking, photography, and dance.

Kayla and company are in a production residency this week at Danspace Project as part of our commitment to providing increased time, space, and technical support for our commissioned artists. Through funding from the New York State DanceForce, Danspace partnered with the Petronio Residency Center in Round Top, NY to provide an additional 7-day residency for Kayla Farrish and collaborators this past August 2019.

Kayla generously shares these photos from that time:

On October 17th-19th, 2019, they will premiere The New Frontier (my dear America) Pt. 1 at Danspace Project. In her own words, Kayla is using her residencies, rehearsals, commission, and premiere to…

“…venture into both imagined and reflective worlds and societal environments and landscapes. The evening is a questioning of freedom, acceptance, accountability, and inheritance…”

A composite of three works of live performance and film including “With grit From, Grace,” “Black Bodies Sonata,” and “The New Frontier,” Farrish’s new work, The New Frontier (my dear America) Pt. 1, brings visibility and honesty to how American history, societal constructs, and views impact our current identity, experience, and ability for change.

More info and tickets here.

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Pictured Above: Emilee Harney, Mikaila Ware, Kayla Farrish, Dorchel Haqq, and Nikolas Owens

Photos 1 – 5 by Kerime Konur and the last photo is by Kayla Farrish.

Kayla Farrish/Decent Structure Arts is an emerging company combining filmmaking, photography, and dance. Farrish is a NY based director with a vision for intimate storytelling. A North Carolina native, born into a dance-loving family. In 2013, she graduated from the University of Arizona summa cum laude, and was awarded the Gertrude Shurr Award for excellence in modern dance and passionate dancing. Since moving to New York, she has freelanced with various artists and companies including Punchdrunk Sleep No More NYC, Kyle Abraham/Abraham. In. Motion, Kate Weare Company, Helen Simoneau Danse, Rashaun Mitchell/Silas Reiner, Nicole Von Arx, Danielle Russo Performance Project, and others. She’s received three choreographic commissions: Of Bones Dance (2014) and Houses on the Moon Theater Company (2016), and Danspace (2019). She co-choreographed Gods and Accepting Darkness with Nik Owens for Spark Dance Forum (2015). Studying photography and film with Yara Travesio, Benjamin Heller, and Brooklyn Central, she formed portraiture, writing, and improvisation studiesBeloved Loveless, and premiered With Delicacy and Permanence live solo and film in May 2017 at B.A.A.D! In Summer 2017, she was granted a residency with Chez Bushwick, creating 5 short dance/music video films including Black Bodies Sonata, Anchors of Iridescence Part I & II, and You Were In My Dreams Last Night along with a film inspired photograph gallery. These films were presented at Chez Bushwick A.I.R. performance, Bushwick Open Studios, Triskelion Film Festival, Deconstructed:Dance Films Festival, Mouthfull Presents/ Of Bones Dance, and Detroit Women in Film Festival. In 2018, she developed live works: Wager/With grit From, Grace, live duet version Black Bodies Sonata, and Why I Can’t Hold Strangers performing at Stuffed: Dinner and Dance program at Judson Church, Pepatian APAP showcase, Arts On Site Performance Party, Danspace curated Food For Thought, BAAD!, and other spaces. She produced and created “Spectacle” Film and Live Performance evening length piece apart of the Pepatian Dance Your Future Residency in 2018. In 2019, she will take part of the Keshet Makers Space Experience Residency, Petronio Residency Center, and also premiere new and developing works in her Danspace Fall 2019 Commision.

kaylafarrish.com/

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The Petronio Residency Center is located in Round Top, NY, in the Catskill Mountains of Greene County, and is a new residency center founded by choreographer Stephen Petronio.

The New Frontier (my dear America) Pt. 1 was created, in part, while in residence at Petronio Residency Center in collaboration with Danspace Project’s Commissioning Program and is supported by the New York State DanceForce, a partnership program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Danspace Project’s Production Residency Program receives lead support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.