URBAN PUNK AMAZONS

FOR FREEDOMS, Times Square, New York

Curated by Michele Pred

October 2020

Description: Legacy Fatale was invited to perform and take part in the VOTE FEMINIST PARADE curated by artist and activist Michele Pred. This took place in the larger public demonstration led by FOR FREEDOMS , an artist coalition run by artist Hank Willis Thomas.

PUNKDEISM DANCES

OREGON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR

Curated by Justin Hoover

December 2019

Description: Inspired by traditional folklore gatherings, PUNKDEISM DANCES is a public immersive choreography where I encourage the museum’s audience, people of all ages, to connect and interconnect. Guided into a series of movements, I lead the public with my troupe of dancers into a communal synergy of the body with a larger ensemble, thus stimulating notions of interconnectivity. A roaming tableau with a locally sourced group of dancers priorly trained as my troupe Legacy Fatale opened the performance happening.

EMPOWER BOOTH

CHASHAMA GALA

One World Trade Center, New York, NY

June 2019

Description: EMPOWER BOOTH by LEGACY FATALE where the audience was invited to take part of the performance, wear props and strike a pose of empowerment with the troupe.

TUG OF WAR

Art In Odd Places Performance Art Festival, New York, NY

Curated by Katya Grokhovsky

October 2018

Description: Site-specific performance on 14th Street to Union Square reminiscent of a public protest march with banners and signs. Set within a tense political climate in the USA after the hearing and the nomination at supreme court of judge Brett Kavanaugh, I choreographed a “Tug of War” game after the march led by my troupe of urban women warriors, Legacy Fatale, as a metaphorical dialectic playing with old fashioned terms used at the Senate, “Yae” and “Nay”, a continuous push and pull in political rooms. Staged at ​The Beauty Bar​, one of the last remaining staples of East Village culture resisting gentrification, I then presented a curated ensemble a punk aesthetics with a signature performance by my troupe Legacy Fatale “Punk Bundle” and a music collaboration by Nico Mazet of experimental noise band Sister Iodine, ending with a musical act by lazy punk band ​What Would Tilda Swinton Do​. Costume collaboration collection by ​Elisa Jimenez of Hunger World, the avant-garde punk designer for Courtney Love.

PANATHENAIA

ROSEKILL ART RESIDENCY, Kingston NY

Curated by Jill McDermid

May 2019

Description: A public participatory performance happening designed with immersive preparatory workshops for adults and children. PANATHENAIA takes direct reference from an ancient popular Greek festival in ancient Athens designed as performance happening with notions of communal worship, animism, intergenerational transfer, ritual processions and movement. Originally, this festival was dedicated to Athena, the goddess of war, fertility, arts and wisdom. It included games, festive gatherings, poetry and music competitions. In the main Panatheic procession, a special robe was made by the women of Athens which was carried to the Parthenon and presented to the olive wood statue of Goddess Athena. The whole festival would bring unity among the people.

THE FERALS

CHURCH OF THE LITTLE GREEN MAN, Glen Wild, Upstate New York, NY

September 2017

Description: An intergenerational tableaux vivant of the Legacy Fatale spirit held at the annual Church event conducted by Mike Osterhout.

FORMATIONS

FRACTURED UNION, Brooklyn Fire Proof, NY

Curated by Etty Yaniv

May 2017

Description: Punk Amazon performance marching in a formation of female warriors activating through the Fractured Union exhibit and culminating in a choreographed performance symbolic of concepts of resistance and unification.

TRANSPOLITICS

CATINCA TABACARU GALLERY, NYC

Curated by Catinca Tabacaru

December 2017

Description: The performance TRANSPolitics tackles notions of collective experiences transcending hypnotic states and physical interconnectivity, addressing the politics of the body as an act of resistance and transformation. For this piece, I choreographed my troupe Legacy Fatale into mechanical formations and dance tableaux while integrating a collective happening of the practice of hypnosis led by one of my troupe members.

THROUGH FIRE AND WATER

ROSEKILL ART RESIDENCY, Kingston, NY

Curated by Jill McDermid

May 2018

Description: Site-specific and participatory performance experience. Within the natural landscape of the Rosekill Farm Estate in Kingston New York, I created a programming inviting the audience to an experiential performance gathering with the members of my troupe, Legacy Fatale. Starting with initiative workshops by hypnotherapist Shauna Cummins and vocal coach Siw Laurent, the public was invited to a experience a transpersonal emotional landscape within the group while exploring issues of inclusiveness, self-awareness and identity. A procession led by the intergenerational troupe of adults and children in Legacy Fatale was taken to the lake to conduct a "fire and water ceremony” involving the 4 elements of water, air, fire and earth, a ritual reminiscent of ancient traditions invoking notions of purification with nature in a triangular relationship of body, mind, spirit. 

UNBOUND TERRITORIALITIES

THE QUEENS MUSEUM, New York

Curated by Hector Canonge

November 2016

Description: Channeling a history of activism on the Museum premises and in the wake of the presidential election in the USA, I choreographed a multi-cultural group of women in a happening inviting the public to a politic of protest while creating a space for a cathartic demonstration driven by concepts of feminism. Holding text based signs, my troupe Legacy Fatale marched in military fashion alternated with dance formations promoting notions of unity and peace, ending with an invitation for the public to participate into our final inclusive tableau.

HERD

CZECH CENTER New York, NY

New Bohemia Exhibition

Curated by Marie Tomanova

July 2016

THE MARCH OF THE WOMEN

GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE, Brooklyn, NY

Curated by Jill McDermid

2016

Description: Performance work celebrating notions of resistance and the resurgence of feminism, taking cues from the original suffragist anthem composed in 1910 with words by Cicely Hamilton. For this 45mn piece, I created a thorough happening choreographed in 5 movement acts, representing an awakening from oppression to liberation, inviting the audience to a final unifying tableau. Comprising of 20 women, the performer’s ensemble represent a variety of backgrounds and races (Hungarian, Native American, German, Irish, African American, Mongolian, Arabic, Sarrazin, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, Tunisian, British, Welsh, Belgian, French, Algerian, Pakistani, Israeli, Russian and American) thus channeling a diversity of human DNA.

GLAMAZONS

The Untitled Space Gallery, Tribeca, NY

“THE “F” WORD: FEMINISM IN ART” Curated by Indira Cesarine

2015

RITUAL ECLIPSE

Park Church Co-op, Brooklyn, NY

2015

Description: Reclaiming female territories in sacred places of worship. The Legacy Fatale troupe was accompanied by the young dancers from Rita’s Dance School. The center figure is Elisa Garcia de la Huerta from the collective Go! Push Pops. Performed at the Lutheran Church on Russel Street in Greenpoint, New York. Performed during the PERVASIVE FEMINISMS event co-curated with Jasmine Wahi.

COCO’S DEMOISELLES

DEITCH PROJECTS ART PARADE, New York, NY

Curated by Jeffrey Deitch

2006

Press: The New York Times by Holland Cutter.

Description: My first performance troupe and official public performance happening, inspired by the famous painting of Pablo Picasso, the demoiselles of Avignon.