DANSPACE PROJECT PRESENTS
DraftWork: Maxi Hawkeye Canion + Kris Lee & Lauren Bakst
Saturday, December 20 | 3PM
MAXI HAWKEYE CANION
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Maxi Hawkeye Canion (she/they) is a Brooklyn based Performance Artist. As a Black Trans/Queer Artist, she distills her life experiences through movement focused installations, experimenting with format, garment, language, sound, and sculpture. With an emphasis on improvisation, she creates low stakes, high integrity containers that prioritize research, play, and spontaneity. Their works illustrate nuances of intimacy, failure, femininity, the grotesque, ephemerality, and domesticity within metaphysical dystopias.
Hisham Akira Bharoocha is a mixed race (Japanese / Indian Myanmar) multi-disciplinary artist who has been based in Brooklyn for 27 years. Bharoocha concentrates on creating visual art, musical performances, and installations. Bharoocha is a member of the band Kill Alters. His solo electronic music is released under the moniker YOKUBARI, and he creates electro-acoustic releases under his own name with drumming as the centerpiece.
SUPPORT FOR THIS WORK
This work is supported by the Movement Research AIR Program and Triskelion Arts’ Space Subsidy program supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
KRIS LEE & LAUREN BAKST
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Kris Lee (she/they) is a New York-based dance artist, performer, and DJ. Most recently they have performed in works by Julie Tolentino, Kevin Beasley, Moriah Evans, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Ralph Lemon, Miguel Gutierrez, Andros Zins-Browne, Jonathan González, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Shamel Pitts (TRIBE). They were a recipient of a 2024 danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz under the mentorship of Isabel Lewis. Kris has shown work at Judson Memorial Church as part of Black Aesthetics and Cathy Weis Projects’ Sundays on Broadway. In 2025, she had the pleasure to be part of OO-GA-LA, the reimagining of Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones’ 1983 Untitled Duet at Danspace Project.
Lauren Bakst is a scholar and artist working across experimental performance and queer studies. She is completing a PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania where her dissertation focuses on lesbian erotic lifeworlds through a constellation of performance, film, and scenes of social life. Her research and writing on the Clit Club is forthcoming in TDR/The Drama Review. Lauren organizes and curates The School for Temporary Liveness, a para-site for collective study and dissonant communion. She currently teaches seminars in contemporary art at Rutgers University.
Danspace Project pays respect to Lenape peoples. We acknowledge that this work is situated on the Lenape island of Manhattan (Mannahatta) in Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland. We pay respect to Lenape land, water, and ancestors past, present and future.
ABOUT DANSPACE PROJECT
Danspace Project presents new work in dance, supports a diverse range of choreographers in developing their work, encourages experimentation, and connects artists to audiences. For 50 years, Danspace Project has supported a vital community of contemporary dance artists in an environment unlike any other in the United States. Located in the historic St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, Danspace shares its facility with the Church, The Poetry Project, and New York Theatre Ballet. Danspace Project’s Commissioning Initiative has commissioned nearly 600 new works since its inception in 1994. More about our staff, our mission, and values For information on our funders, visit danspaceproject.org/support FOLLOW US @danspaceproject danspaceproject.org