Based in Brooklyn and Hanoi,
Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working in the expanded field of performance. Their practice mobilizes the naked body in its variations to make explicit the entanglement of power and ghostly forces that cut across flesh. Their work emerges from the convergences between Downtown New York experimental performance, Hanoi performance art, and Vietnamese folk rituals. Vo is indebted to Miguel Gutierrez’s unapologetic queerness and amorphous excess, Moriah Evan’s speculative commitment to the depth of interiority, Julie Tolentino’s durational poetics of intimacy, Juliana May’s improvisational wizardry, Tehching Hsieh’s existential sense of time, and Ngoc Dai’s guttural sonic landscape of postwar Vietnam. Their formal training is in Performance Studies, studying with esteemed theorists and practitioners at Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). Vo is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Cooper Union.
Kristel Baldoz is a multidisciplinary artist from Delano, California, working across performance, dance, and ceramics. Her work explores how memory lives in bodies and objects as shifting, elusive forms, creating choreographic landscapes that archive collective folklore and inherited memory. Her work has been supported by New York Live Arts, Pageant, the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Danspace Draftwork, Cannonball Festival (Philadelphia), and Brooklyn Arts Exchange with fellowships and residencies at New York University’s Production Lab, Ucross, and Stove Works, among others. Kristel’s works have been featured in Brooklyn Rail and Fjord Review. As a performer, she has worked with Anh Vo, Wilmer Wilson IV, Kate Watson-Wallace, Tau Lewis, and Alex Da Corte.
Founded in 2014, the A Dao Phu Thi Ensemble (Vu Thuy Linh and Pham Dinh Hoang) is dedicated to preserving and presenting the most original and refined qualities of Ca Tru, a Vietnamese chamber music tradition involving poetry, voice, and percussive rhythm. The group’s members studied directly with the late master artists Nguyen Phú Ðe and Nguyen Thi Chuc, from whom the ensemble takes its name (Phu and Thi). Beginning their training in 2006, the musicians were taught through oral transmission and honed their skills through years of performing alongside their teachers. The ensemble has earned multiple gold and silver medals at regional and national Ca Trù festivals and continues to expand its repertoire through archival research and restoration. In 2017, they collaborated with scholar Bui Trong Hien to reconstruct the ceremonial hat cua dinh repertoire, reaffirming Ca Tru as a living, evolving heritage.
gabby fluke-mogul is an improviser, composer, facilitator, organizer, and doula based in New York. Weaving within threads of the avant garde, experimental, and free jazz continuums, their praxis is devotional, somatic, and uncompromisingly queer. fluke-mogul’s playing has been described as “embodied, visceral, and virtuosic” and “the most striking sound in improvised music in years.” gabby is humbled to have collaborated with Nava Dunkelman, Joanna Mattrey, Ava Mendoza, Charles Burnham, Fred Frith, Luke Stewart, Zeena Parkins, Tcheser Holmes, Mariá Portugal, Lotte Anker, Paula Sanchez, Susana Santos Silva, Dave Rempis, Lily Finnegan, Nate Wooley, Lester St. Louis, William Parker, Anh Vo, Dimos Vryzas and Pauline Oliveros among many other musicians, poets, dancers and visual artists.
Serbian born, New York City based violinist Marija Kovačević works in classical, experimental and improvised music. Her project “Music for Broken Violins” is an exploration of sonic textures with broken violins, bows and their fragments. In addition to four albums of solo work, broken violins also appear on “Rainy Afternoon near Paris” album with Thierry Müller, “Push Broken Duet” album with Romain Perrot (available on Chocolate Monk), “Bez Vremena” album with Paul Collins and Quentin Rollet (available on Astres d’Or), “Playable Litter” album with Theo Gowans (available on Scatter Archive) and most recently “Unstringed” album with Leandro Barzabal (available on Liquid Library). Marija’s fifth solo album is set for release this year on Relative Pitch Records. The project has traveled internationally to the UK, Europe and USA.
Queens, NY–based violist and composer Jessica Pavone explores the tactile and sensory dimensions of music as a vibration-based medium. Guided by intuition and instinct, her work foregrounds how music feels in performance and perception, integrating her experience as an instrumentalist into compositions that transcend conventional notions of time. Pavone has dedicated her practice to expanding expressive range of the viola, “making a career of redefining the possibilities for her instrument” (Steve Smith, National Sawdust Log). Her music has been presented at various NYC venues and international festivals. Pavone has released albums of her music with Tzadik, Taiga Records, Thirsty Ear, Out of Your Head Records, Astral Spirits, and Relative Pitch Records. Additionally, she has released four collaborative duo recordings with guitarist Mary Halvorson (2019 MacArthur Fellow). From ’05 to ’12, she toured regularly with Anthony Braxton’s Sextet and 12+1tet and appears on his discography from that time. In 2011, NPR featured her in “The Mix: 100 Composers Under 40.” The New York Times wrote that her music is distinct and beguiling; its core is steely, and its execution clear,” and in Wire Magazine, Julian Cowley noted that Pavone “[is] not like other composers; she is uniquely herself, and from that stems the improbable strength of her music.“
