Proteo Media + Performance

03/20/2022

Excited to share that you can check out our work in Re–Fest by CultureHub this month, running through Friday, March 25!!

The theme for Re–Fest 2022 is Re-Unification, which asks: how should we come back together to imagine the world we want to create after periods of social isolation, political unrest, and devastating loss?

Learn more and visit the virtual venue: https://www.culturehub.org/re-fest-2022
Click "Enter" under "Virtual Venue" to explore the virtual gallery, collaborative drawing room, and performance space–recommended viewing on desktop.
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Image 1: A yellow background with white lines of an industrial building. Grey and black text reads "CultureHub presents Re–Fest March 14–25, 2022

Image 2: A screen capture of the Re–Fest platform featuring work by Proteo Media + Performance. Bree Breeden and Kathleen Kelley are shown from the shoulders up, facing each other, with a Facebook Dashboard view superimposed behind them.

03/14/2022

Proteo took some time away from the Internet ether for a bit to focus on all that we have been creating irl. Over the next week, we'll be sharing news of the various projects and undertakings we have embarked on in the past few months!

First up:
TERRITORY: The Island Remembers.
Led by Director, Co-Creator and Performer zavé martohardjono, Proteo has been proud to support this project as the Video Production Team.

TERRITORY is a multidisciplinary, audience-interactive performance project that critically examines colonial history through a parable of an island that grapples with division and reconciliation. The co-creators of the work perform as deities who guide the audience through an installation. The deities relay the complex story of a divided island and ask visitors to join in rituals and collective actions.

The creative team is seeking funds to compensate the collaborative team, cover production costs, and fully realize their creative vision. To learn more about the project and support: https://app.thefield.org/home/donation/crowd/preview/43/Help-premiere-TERRITORY--The-Island-Remembers?utm_source=social&utm_medium=graphic&utm_campaign=winter

Finally, save the date for the premiere of the work on April 7, 8, and 9 at 8:00 p.m. at Gibney 280!

Image Description: Promotional image with all Ensemble members for Territory: The Island Remembers on Lime green background

08/03/2021

View "blue gomorrah" by Hollis Bartlett + Nattie Trogdon at https://www.proteomedia.com/hollis-nattie-blue-gomorrah! We are excited to be presenting this new work of theirs under Post/Futures in P/FPF.
All work is available for viewing until August 15!
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Hollis Bartlett + Nattie Trogdon are Brooklyn-based choreographers, performers, practitioners, and partners. They create dance works and research based practices around rigor and repetition, ghosts and vessels, weight (and wait), objectivity and subjectivity, their shared lineage and embodied relationship.
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Their works have been presented at Gibney (Work Up Artists 5.0), Duo Multicultural Arts Center, Jack Crystal Theater, FIRST LOOK at Brooklyn Ballet, No Theme Festival, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Exponential Festival, Stuffed at Judson Church, MAD Festival, Earthdance, ACA, Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place, Freeskewl, and The Dance Complex. They have been artists in residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Dance Complex, Peaceable Barn, The Floor on Atlantic, and NYU Tisch Dance.
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Their performing and teaching practices are deeply tied into their dance making. Together they've most notably performed for Doug Varone, David Dorfman, Keith Johnson, Brian Brooks, Angie Hauser and Chris Aiken and Kimberly Bartosik. They are currently teaching artists through Gibney Dance, Roger Williams University, and the virtual platform Freeskewl - where they curate a rotating class series around practice called Pop-Up Practice.

07/29/2021

Visit https://www.proteomedia.com/leah-wilks-jessica-alexander-becoming-indoor/outdoor-cats to watch Becoming indoor/outdoor cats by Leah Wilks and Jessica Alexander!

Becoming indoor/outdoor cats is a collection of movement scores from, and reflections on, a weekly, year-long outdoor movement practice developed in order to sustain ourselves creatively during a time when we couldn't inhabit studio spaces. What began as a desire for sharing in-person-movement and accountability, shifted into a deeper curiosity about the land we were on and our own adaptability.

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Leah Wilks (she/they) is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher based out of Brooklyn, NY (Munsee Lenape and Canarsie land) and Durham/Orange County, NC (Eno, Lumbee, Shakori, Sissapahaw, and Occaneechi land). At times, she is also a gardener, an elder-care companion, a musician, and a writer. Her research revolves around embodied memory, monuments, and death and dying practices.

Jessica Alexander (she/her/hers) is a dancer, explorer, and simply curious human being. Currently based in North Carolina, she is dancing, teaching Pilates, and learning about types of clouds, building structures, and the ways the seasons change.
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Becoming indoor/outdoor cats is a part of Post/Futures inside of P/FPF! All donations directly support the artists.

07/28/2021

Space Occupy by Catherine Eng abstracts videos of movers into near-photographs, transforming what the standard hyper-resolved document into something more ephemeral. The transformation of these materials generates a privacy for the performer that allows them the space to decide what gestures persist and which fade into obscurity.
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Watch Space Occupy at https://www.proteomedia.com/catherine-eng-space-occupy!
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Artist bio:
Catherine Eng (She/hers) is an inter-mediary dance artist who’s interested in addressing topics of technology and experiences of being through theoretically backed collaborative performances. Frequently a collaborative performer, she has worked with Sara Rudner, Rou Rou Ye, and ZCO Dance Project. Her performance work has shown around New York including at Arts on Site, Triskelion Arts, Movement Research, Chen Dance Center, and in Chicago at the Logan Center for the Arts. With the change of times she has been focusing on her video projects, including Foil Dress Task premiered at the Sarah Lawrence Dance film Festival in 2020 and I only move in circles now as part of the 2020 Post/Futures festival.
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07/28/2021

jenna beardsley is presenting Digital Landscapes: Collective Psyche in the Post/Future Performance Festival. Check it out at https://www.proteomedia.com/jenna-beardsley!
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Through the use of video art, sound design, live performance, and text, jenna will explore the body as a vehicle to accessing collective consciousness and collective memory. Joy and community, tools in resistance to spiritual, physiological, and psychological warfare, will be built via mutual movement / combined memory archiving and processing.
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Artist bio:
jenna beardsley (they/them) Born and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., jenna (jay) beardsley is a movement and multimedia artist currently based in so called Richmond, VA, located on the lands of the Powhatan people. jenna attended Virginia Commonwealth University’s Dance and Choreography department, graduating in May 2020 with honors and holding both an Outstanding Choreographer award and the Bobby Chandler Award for Theatre. jenna has performed professionally with the likes of Era Dance Co and Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene. Their choreographic work has premiered around the DMV, most notably at Dance Place's Exquisite Frame showcase in the fall of 2020 and Richmond Dance Festival in June of 2021. jenna is currently a creative fellow with TheRedProjectNYC, directed by Johnnie Cruise Mercer, a dance educator, and provides administrative support to community-oriented arts nonprofits and local dance companies.
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All donations to the festival directly support the artists.

07/26/2021

Presenting Nathaniel Phillips (he/him) as part of P/FPF!
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Nathaniel is a born and raised New Yorker who has lived in Brooklyn most of his life. He has studied at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Dancewave in Brooklyn. Nate then continued his training in the Gibney student training program. At Gibney, Nate learned from his mentor Bree Breeden, Urban Bush Women, Miguel Gutierrez and Bobbi Jene Smith. Nate teaches dance and creative movement at Locomotion dance theater. Teaching helped Nate find his love for dance again.
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In "Spiral Star" by Nathaniel Phillips, presented as part of Post/Futures in the Post/Future Performance Festival, Nathaniel uses black fantasy, mythology, and imagination to create a new future. He tells a story about q***r "monsters" inspired by mythology and identities inhabited by black q***r folk.
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https://www.proteomedia.com/nathaniel-phillips-spiral-star

07/23/2021

Post/Futures of the Post/Future Performance Festival is now Live! Check it out! https://www.proteomedia.com/post-futures

All donations made to the festival directly support the artists. Donations of any amount are so greatly appreciated by all of the amazing artists inside of this festival!

Post / Futures examines how we can imagine the future in the wake of instability and global change where do we go from here?how do we honor our past?how do we build a new future?how do we allow for endings?Thank you everyone for engaging with the festival this month! This last theme leaves us with m...

07/22/2021

Brendan Drake (flexible pronouns) is a Brooklyn based performance artist who uses theatricality and disparate dance forms to create hybrid performance spectacles. He is presenting "Retro Spectral" in P/FPF under Digital Identities–view it at https://www.proteomedia.com/brendan-drake-retro-spectral
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He was a 2017-2018 Fresh Tracks Artist at New York Live Arts, a 2015 CDI resident artist through Baruch College and the recipient of a 2020 Brooklyn Arts Council Grant. His recent work has been presented at Danspace Project, The Brick, La MaMa, BKSD, HERE, Joe’s Pub, The Dance Complex and online through “19 Acts of COVID-19 Bravery,” a virtual exhibition which he co-curated with Dance and Media artist Kate Ladenhiem. He has also choreographed promotional spots for Adidas, Vogue and Elle Magazine. This fall, Brendan will begin his MFA studies in Choreographic Inquiry at UCLA.
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"Retro Spectral" is a hybrid solo performance for two. The work uses both impersonation and magical realism in a chaotic study of art criticism, horror genre and the ruptured lineage of q***r mentorship brought on by the AIDS crisis.
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All donations to the festival directly support the artists.

07/21/2021

Wishing the happiest birthday to our amazing Social Media Intern Elena Sundick! 💜💜

07/21/2021

We're so excited to be presenting Laurel Snyder's "Project/Project" in the Post/Future Performance Festival!
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"Project/Project" is an archival collection of song fragments, wandering voice memos, virtuosic movement and experimental expressions that don't yet have a classification. It is a self-portrait, a process in progress, a harvest of habit and a love letter to the Woods studio in Ridgewood, Queens.
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About Laurel:
Laurel Snyder (she/her) is a dance artist, embodiment facilitator, musician and Pilates practitioner based in NYC. She creates complex, visceral and vulnerable performances that slip between artistic sensibilities and seek authenticity through layered expression. Passionate about teaching movement, vocal and alignment practices, Laurel has been on the dance faculty at Rutgers University since 2017. She has created sound designs for Trina Mannino, acted as a vocal consultant for Ivy Baldwin and Nadia Tykulsker and is pumped about her ongoing collaboration with musicians Chris Williams and Joanna Mattrey. Laurel has also performed with artists Faye Driscoll, Tere O’Connor, Tatyana Tenenbaum and Kendra Portier.
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Watch "Project/Project" at https://www.proteomedia.com/laurel-snyder-project-project!

07/20/2021

Maya Kristianna (she/her), from Kentucky, is an emerging, movement-based performer, choreographer, collaborator, and video artist with a BFA and TEFL Certification from Ohio University. Interdisciplinary collaboration and improvisation are key components of her creative processes. Her movement and creative practices are generated by her time with artists such as David Dorfman, Jasmine Hearn, Kendra Portier, Ani Javian, Gladys Bailin, David Colagiovanni, Natasha Maidoff, Nita Little, and Mohammadreza Akrami. She's created dances-for-camera since 2017, finding freedom from reality and materiality in the digital world of performance. She enjoys exploring the body’s relationship to and the definition of the “site” and “audience” in her works by engaging with multidisciplinary mediums, nontraditional performance settings, and experimental techniques.
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Maya Kristianna is presenting Second Person in the Post/Future Performance Festival.
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In this series of short experimental films, a digital camera dances with its partner, Maya, as they move through various environments. It captures and translates the experience through its lens and portrays to you a virtual version of this duet performance, spliced and glued back together by Maya.
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View Second Person as part of Digital Identities in P/FPF at https://www.proteomedia.com/maya-kristianna