DANSPACE PROJECT PRESENTS
Jade Manns + Glenn Potter-Takata
a shared evening
Thursday, December 12 | 7:30PM
Friday, December 13 | 7:30PM
Saturday, December 14 | 7:30PM
SUPPORT FOR DANSPACE
Jade Manns
Kingdom
Choreography
Jade Manns
Dancers
Noa Rui-Piin Weiss, Kalliope Piersol, Owen Prum, Isa Spector, Zo Williams
Composer
Derek Baron
Costume Designer
Kate Williams
Lighting Designer
Ben Demarest
Dramaturgy
Isa Spector
Acknowledgements
Thank you to my collaborators, Derek, Noa, Kalliope, Owen, Isa, Zo, and Kate for your friendship, artistry, and dedication to this work. Your trust and collaboration makes me a better artist.
To everyone at Danspace, Judy, Seta, Niko, Rosaly and Allison, thank you for all the work you do. It’s an honor to be included in the incredible history of this space.
Thank you Ben for your creativity, patience and flexibility through the production process.
Thank you Glenn for sharing this evening with me and for your humor and groundedness throughout.
To my friends who watched early (and late versions of the work) Juliana, Beth, Alexa, Amelia, Ayano, Julia and Jordan, thank you for your input and for challenging and supporting this work.
Thank you to Cove Barton for stepping in to understudy Kalliope. And to Michael Miles and Iliana Penichet-Ramirez for your dancing in early iterations of this process.
To Laurie, thank you for generosity in covering my classes so I could be at the church this week.
Finally thank you to my family at Pageant: Sharleen, Lili, Owen and Alexa for creating the space for my work to grow and for covering for me during this busy time. I’ll be back soon!
Funding Credits:
This project was made possible, in part, through support from The NYU Production Lab Artist Development Program for Dance, Kino Saito Art Center, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) Emergency Grant.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jade Manns is a dancer, choreographer and co-founder of the artist-run performance space PAGEANT in New York. Her work has been shown at Draftwork at Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Sundays on Broadway at Weis Acres, New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival and PAGEANT among others. Jade has received support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, NYU Artist Development Program for Dance and Kino Saito Arts Center. She is a 2024/2025 NYLA Fresh Tracks Artist.
Derek Baron is a composer, writer, and teacher from Chicago and New York. They have released music with Penultimate Press, Regional Bears, Recital, and other labels. Collaborative projects include the amateur chamber ensemble Cop Tears and the music/writing duo Permanent Six Flags. They also operate, with Emily Martin, the “Reading Group” record label for new and archival audio.
Noa Rui-Piin Weiss is a dancer, writer, and administrator based in Brooklyn, NY. As a performer, he has worked with Jade Manns, Emily Kessler, Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett, Mia Martelli, Alexa West, and Adrienne Truscott. Noa regularly collaborates with Miranda Brown, and their duets have been presented by The Brick, Pageant, and Pioneers Go East, among others. His performance writing has been published by Gibney Imagining Journal, Curationist, Culturebot, Danspace Journal, Critical Correspondence, and The Brooklyn Rail. In his extremely limited spare time, he performs as his drag alter-ego Bacterial Vaginosis.
Kalliope Piersol is a dancer based in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of SUNY Purchase, earning a BFA in dance with a concentration in composition. She has had the pleasure of working with artists including Alan Good, Cayleen Del Rosario, Jade Manns, Evvie Allison, Jeremy Nelson, and Luis A Lara Malvacias.
Owen Prum is a dancer and choreographer based in New York City. He has performed for Yoshiko Chuma, Neil Greenberg, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Anna Sperber, among others. He has shown his own work across NYC at Judson Church, Eden’s Expressway, Sundays on Broadway, Pageant, and Triskelion Arts. Owen is the co-founder of Pageant, a performance space in Brooklyn, New York.
Isa Spector is a performer, choreographer and theater maker living in New York. Their work has been shown at Abrons Arts Center, Performance Space New York, Sundays on Broadway, Center for Performance Research and Pageant. Isa has performed for artists including Korakrit Arunanondchai, boychild, Anna Maria Häkkinen and Sam Max among others. As a movement director, Isa has worked with ANOHNI, Steve Lacy, Zsela and Jeremy Dutcher.
Zo Williams is a dancer and artist living and working in Brooklyn. Zo began their dance training at the Locomotion Dance Theater under the direction of Lisa Pilato then went on to study briefly at the Alvin Ailey School before graduating Bennington College with a BFA in dance and visual. Zo, since has performed at Movement Research @ Judson Church, in Evan Ray Suzuki’s Work, in Erin Ellen Kelly’s work at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC, and in Jennifer Miller’s work Sundays on Broadway. This past June Zo completed their second five borough tour of New York City as a stilt dancer, acrobat and general company member with the long-running, free, political, circus, Circus Amok! Zo is currently in process with Anna Sperber, and Chloe Engle
Kate Williams is a multi-media artist. Her work centers around movement improvisation and choreography as well as designing clothing. She started her process of “dance” in college, where she began her focus into narrative dialogues based on personal experiences. Through movement she has been making it a part of her practice to learn how to further express and delve into these experiences, because it is a never-ending process. She is a self-taught sewer, making her own clothing since high school. This is a craft she continues to grow and learn more about. Kate’s work is to merge her two practices at the center of expression—using clothing and wardrobe she creates as a sculptural element of her movement work. She has performed in various places around New York City, and a couple shows abroad. Currently, she is part of the management team, as well as a member, of Otion Front Studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn. In addition to this she is also a freelance seamstress-working on private commissions with individuals, collaborating with other artists on costume pieces for their work, as well as designing her own garments and selling them. She attended Bard College (May 2020) where she was a joint major of Dance and Human Rights with a concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Glenn Potter-Takata
Immaterial Supreme
Choreography
Glenn Potter-Takata with Kimiko Tanabe
Sound
Chris Ryan Williams
Lighting & Production Management
Ben Demarest
Fabric Dyeing
Cara Marie Piazza of Calyx Studios
Performers
Glenn Potter-Takata, Kimiko Tanabe, and Chris Ryan Williams
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Kimiko and Chris for collaborating on this piece with me and for being some of my favorite artists around.
Thank you to Jade for sharing this evening with your work and for your generosity throughout the production process.
Thank you to the Sarah Lawrence College Dance and Theatre Departments, without the resources of which this project would not have been possible. A very special shout out to our Technical Supervisor, Rob Gould, who helped figure out how to inflate a 5’ balloon as fast as possible.
Also thank you to Catherine, Evan, and to Danspace Project for the invitation!!
Funding Credits:
This project was made possible and funded, in part, through a Bronx Recognizes Its Own Award, administered by the Bronx Council on the Arts.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Glenn Potter-Takata is a Japanese-American artist based in the Bronx. He utilizes butoh, improvisation, media equipment, and consumer materials to create performances around the body as a historical site in post-internment America. His performance works have been shown in New York City at Mabou Mines, PAGEANT, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at Judson Church, Grace Exhibition Space, Gibney Dance Center, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix, WestFest, and with Pioneers Go Easts, among other places. Nationally, his work has been presented by Cannonball in Philadelphia, and his first solo gallery exhibition opened in January of 2023 at Rogers Studio Gallery in Las Vegas. He has been awarded residencies with Movement Research, Gibney Dance Center (Work Up), CUNY Dance Initiative at Lehman College, and is the recipient of a MAP Fund Award, Bronx Cultural Visions Award, Bronx Dance Fund Award, and a Mabou Mines SUITE/Space Fellowship. Glenn is currently a teacher of sound and projection design for live performance at Sarah Lawrence College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College.
Kimiko Tanabe (she/her) is a fourth generation Japanese-American dance artist exploring the mediums of performance art, installation, and writing. Her work has been presented by the Center for Performance Research, Abrons Arts Center, Triskelion Arts Center, Colorado College, and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Kimiko is a MANCC Forward Dialogue Artist in Residence (2024), New Dance Alliance Artist in Residence (2024), Colorado College Crown Family Professorship for Innovation in the Arts Artist in Residence (2023), Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grant Recipient (2022), and Gallim Moving Artist Resident (2022). She currently is a performing collaborator with Glenn Potter-Takata and has performed with marion spencer, Catherine Galasso Projects, Shannon Yu, and Kizuna Dance.
Chris Ryan Williams is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His work takes the form of electroacoustic composition and performance installation and deals with decoding family history, ambience, and time-space compression. His debut EP ‘Live’ received praise from Jazz Right Now and The Quietus for “dazzling collaged pieces that ricochet between improvised passages and written material” (Peter Margasak, The Quietus). He has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, has been commissioned by WasteLAnd and International Contemporary Ensemble. He has been in residence with BANFF Centre for the Arts, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Musik Installationen Nürnberg and is 2023 American Composers Forum Fellow and 2024 Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow. He has collaborated with creators including Eyvind Kang, Patrick Shiroishi, Bennie Maupin, Nicole Mitchell, Imani Dennison, Wendy Eisenberg, Luke Stewart, Pink Siifu, and Marjani Forte-Saunders. Williams also has an ongoing collaboration with cellist Lester St. Louis under the moniker HxH, a duo which has “embraced the challenge of bringing laptop instrumentalism into a wide personal world by making sounds that are at once art-minded and accessible, and true to the tenets of spontaneous composition and “social music,” (Piotr Orlov, Pioneer Works).
Ben Demarest (he/him) is a New York based Lighting Designer, Production Manager, and theater maker and currently serves as Production Manager for Treehouse Shakers, a children’s dance theater company. Recent lighting design projects include: Julie Mayo’s “Bluefire Sleepwalker”, Concetta Abbate & Wendy Osserman’s “LAMINARA” and David Appel & John Morton’s “Backchannel”. Ben is overwhelmingly excited to get to work with all these incredible artists.
Calyx Studios is a multidisciplinary creative agency designing in collaboration with the natural world. Led by Cara Marie Piazza, a natural dyer and artisan with 10 plus years of experience. We offer natural dye applications for fashion, interior design and the arts. We create our conscious colors by only using natural dyestuffs such as botanicals, plant matter, minerals, non-toxic metals and food waste, transforming each project. By sharing this knowledge our studio believes we can help empower and heal with creative play.
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