DANSPACE PROJECT PRESENTS
Shared Evening: Dominica Greene + Malcolm-x Betts
Thursday, December 11 | 7:30PM
Friday, December 12 | 7:30PM
Saturday, December 13 | 7:30PM
fly baby fly
Concept & Performance: Malcolm-x Betts
Performers: Malcolm-x Betts, GENG PTP, and Molly Lieber
Lighting Design: Kristen Paige
THANK YOU
Big thanks to GENG PTP and Molly for diving deep during this process.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Malcolm-x Betts is a New York-based visual artist and dancer who believes art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His work investigates embodiment, liberation, Black imagination, and engages with the challenges imposed on the body. He is the resident curator at Judson Memorial Church and the founder of the curatorial platform Black Aesthetics, which is dedicated to enabling artistic freedom and making art accessible to all. As a dancer, he has performed in works by snoggybox (Andy Kobilka), Nile Harris, Moriah Evans, and Alex Romania. His choreographic work has been presented and supported by venues including New York Live Arts; Movement Research; La MaMa Umbria; and Judson Commons; amongst others.
GENG PTP is a New York based sound practitioner, DJ, poet, educator, archivist, visual designer, and physical trainer. With over three decades of participatory roots in NYC’s DIY communities, he works through a wide range of solo and collaborative processes. Performing under the name KING VISION ULTRA since 2017, GENG also makes up half of CENTENNIAL GARDENS, a duo with Dreamcrusher. In 2009, he founded PTP (Protect The Peace)—formerly Purple Tape Pedigree—a collective and label described as “counter-industrial purveyors of weaponised media and information.”
Molly Lieber received a 2016 “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Performer and has performed in works by luciana achugar (since 2013), Oren Barnoy, Wally Cardona, Keely Garfield, Maria Hassabi, Heidi Henderson, Juliette Mapp, Antonio Ramos, Melinda Ring, Donna Uchizono, and others. Molly teaches at Queens College (CUNY). Her collaborative work with Eleanor Smith was documented by the New York Public Library (Body Comes Apart (2019)), and featured in the “Best of NY Dance” in The New York Times (Basketball (2017)). Molly and Eleanor received a 2023/2024 Lifeline Award (LMCC) and are the subjects of an upcoming chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Memory.
SUPPORT FOR THIS WORK
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2024-25, supported by Jerome Foundation and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive.
endlessend
Concept & Performance: Dominica Greene
Performance & Creative Collaboration: Garrett Allen
Costume Design: James Gibbel
Sound Design: Sam Fairey
Lighting Design: Kristen Paige
endlessend traverses two overlapping realms, where denial and inspiration contend amorphously. Coping with the dwindlings and kindlings of life, it discovers hope in nature’s most fundamental elements. Can you comprehend the end?
THANK YOU
Special thanks to Performance Space New York for your in-kind support of this creation.
Endless thank you’s to my incredible support system of friends and family, and specifically to Ariel Blake, Laura Carella, Muyassar Kurdi, Ashley Pierre-Louis, Shamel Pitts, and Masio Sangster for your loving contributions to this process.
DEDICATION
This piece is dedicated to my grandfather – Victor A. Greene <3 June 6, 1936 – November 24, 2025
A Georgetown legend, my best friend forever, and the coolest guy in the world
I love you, endlessly.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Dominica Greene – Concept & Performance
Dominica Greene is a movement-based conceptual artist, dancer, and facilitator residing on the unceded lands of the Munsee Lenape people. She creates body and time-based multidisciplinary environments which interrogate cycles of life, death, and love. Harnessing the elements, spirit, and womanness into an existence rooted in love, community, and regeneration, her work seeks to reflect nature –human and otherwise– as a way of highlighting humanity, the stark similarities in our differences, and our inheritances as legacies.
Greene’s large-scale installation and group works have been commissioned by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, SALT Contemporary Dance, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Her solo and interactive work has been presented by Arts on Site, BADDANCE, Black Aesthetics at the Judson Church, the Center for Performance Research (CPR,) The Carnegie Museum of Art, Gloria Strelsin Community Garden, The Guggenheim Museum, ISSUE Project Room, Movement Research, Pioneers Go East Collective at Socrates Sculpture Park, PROCESSA on Governors Island, STILL/MOVING at Ki Smith Gallery, and Triskelion Arts. She is thrilled and honored to be presented by the historic Danspace Project! dominicagreene.com / @draminica
Garrett Allen – Performance & creative collaboration
Garrett Allen is a New York based artist and director. Their interdisciplinary work and practice—spanning performance, theater, video, sound, text, movement, and image—employ liveness, embodied interrogation, and conceptual experimentation toward impermanent, visceral, and communal experiences. Allen has shown, shared, and directed work with institutions including HERE Arts Center, LaMama ETC, Brown/Trinity Rep, the School of Drama at Yale, Ars Nova, Prelude Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Knockdown Center, Public Assistants, The Invisible Dog, Harvard University, Laguardia Performing Arts Center, Jupiter Disco, School for Visual Arts NY, and the University for the Arts Philadelphia. From 2020-2024, they were a co-founding leader of LEGACY, a production collective created for and by Black, queer and trans artists and was an inaugural New York Stage and Film Nexus Initiative recipient in 2021. Allen received an MFA in Directing from David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.
James Gibbel – Costume design
James Gibbel is an artist and fabricator in Brooklyn. Their costumes have been performed in across the US. They seek an opportunity to costume a performance premiering in Queens so as to have costume work shown in all five boroughs. If that’s you, drop a line –
jamesgibbel@gmail.comSam Fairey – Sound design
Fairey is a Brooklyn-born singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer focusing on a wide variety of genres, from electronic music to experimental, instrument and vocal forward pieces. endlessend marks their third collaboration with dance choreographers including other works with Claude “CJ” Johnson and Verbal Animal. Their full body of work is available on Spotify, Soundcloud and Instagram by searching “Fairey.”
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.
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