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VISION RESIDENCY EXCERPTS FROM MY RIBS (THE END IS SWEET) FEBRUARY 5 @ 7PM ET Created, Performed & Directed by stefa marin alarcon Curated by Vision Resident DAVID MENDIZÁBAL EXCERPTS FROM MY RIBS (THE END IS SWEET) FEBRUARY 5 @ 7PM ET THE TEAM Created & Directed by stefa marin alarcon Performed by STEFA* Dramaturgy Support & Performance by ITA SEGEV Director of Photography CRISTOBAL GUERRA Editing by MONIQUE MUSE DODD Co-Creative Produced by LILLETH GLIMCHER Curated by Vision Resident DAVID MENDIZÁBAL Ars Nova operates on the unceded land of the Lenape peoples on the island of Manhahtaan (Mannahatta) in Lenapehoking, the Lenape Homeland. We acknowledge the brutal history of this stolen land and the displacement and dispossession of its Indigenous people. We also acknowledge that after there were stolen lands, there were stolen people. We honor the generations of displaced and enslaved people that built, and continue to build, the country that we occupy today. We gathered together in virtual space to watch this performance. We encourage you to consider the legacies of colonization embedded within the technology and structures we use and to acknowledge its disproportionate impact on communities of color and Indigenous peoples worldwide. We invite you to join us in acknowledging all of this as well as our shared responsibility: to consider our way forward in reconciliation, decolonization, anti-racism and allyship. We commit ourselves to the daily practice of pursuing this work. ABOUT THE ARTISTS stefa marin alarcon (Creator, Director, Performer) is a vocalist, composer and multi-media performance artist born and raised in Queens, NY. Using an amalgamation of punk, experimental pop and classical minimalism with queer ethereal aesthetix and video collages, stefa builds worlds that offer a somatic decolonial respite for the misfits & displaced who are yearning for a sense of home. stefa has shared their work/spirit/song with Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museo Del Barrio, National Sawdust, Rough Trade, Elsewhere, Nublu, BAAD!, The Sultan Room, NUEVOFest, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, Tulsa Artist Residency, Cine Las Americas, The Vienna Festival, Power of the People Combined, Body Hack, Fierce Futures and more. They studied euro- centric classical music for 20 years (Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts ‘07, Central School of Speech and Drama ‘10), were an Artist-in-Residence at TrueQué Residencia Artística, Slippage Residency at Duke University, a Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow (2019) and are currently a Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Artist Fellow (2019-2020). MUSE DODD (Editor) (They/Them) is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and DJ from Severn, MD currently based in New Orleans. Their work centers on the questions, "How do you remember?" and "What do you choose to forget?" Through the act of remembering, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement, ritual and collective dreaming. moniquemusedodd.com LILLETH GLIMCHER (Co-Creative Producer) (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, director, curator and organizer. They create and direct large-scale immersive performance, sound-opera, visual/video art and music. Their work navigates the embodied and ancestral questions of time, power, gender, flesh, sex and 'reality'. Lilleth is the co-creator/director of @YAH.world alongside Rad Pereira, and has presented work at Lincoln Center, the BAM, Berghain Berlin (CTM Festival), American Academy in Rome, DAAD Galerie, Bushwick Starr, National Sawdust, Abrons Art Center, Ars Nova and myriad site-specific locations. lillethglimcher.com CRISTÓBAL GUERRA (Director of Photography) is an interdisciplinary artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. His work combines experimental video, documentary film, visual art and text to explore ideas of “home”, el caribe, queerness, memory and belonging. cristobalguerra.com ITA SEGEV (Dramaturgy Support & Performance) is an anti-Zionist Israeli trans woman based between Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Ita makes performances, writes, acts/performers and does cultural and community building work. Using both a multi- and un-disciplined approach her work nudges towards an anti-colonial, transfeminist futurity in a world that is obsessed with confining our bodies, boarders and capacity for care. Recent credits include recording an album led by Ethan Philbrick & The Gay Divorcees (available throughout February by calling the toll free number 1855-GAY-DIVO), acting in Shakina Nayfack’s Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club (distributed worldwide on Audible in collaboration with Williamstown Theater Festival), creating and performing her full Length multimedia performance Knot In My Name (world premiere at Gibney NYC), and founding ‘(SPACE) For The Girls’ a residency for trans women & femmes making live performance in NYC (co-curated with David Sierra at Brooklyn Arts Exchange). DAVID MENDIZÁBAL (Vision Resident, Curator) (he/him) is a director/designer, one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of the Obie Award-winning The Movement Theatre Company and the Associate Artistic Director of The Sol Project. Select directing credits include: Don’t Eat the Mangos (Magic Theatre/Sundance/Sol), On The Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf), the bandaged place (NYSAF), Then They Forgot About The Rest (INTAR), The Maturation of an Inconvenient Negro (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), And She Would Stand Like This (w/ choreo by Kia LaBeija), Look Upon Our Lowliness, Bintou (The Movement) and Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic / Drama League Nomination). He is a member of the Latinx Theatre Commons, alumnus of The Drama League Directors Project, LAByrinth Intensive Ensemble, NALAC, artEquity and Lincoln Center Directors Lab. David was a participant in the TCG Leadership U: One-on-One program from 2017 – 2018, where he was the Artistic Associate at Atlantic Theater Company. BFA – NYU/Tisch @ PHTS. davidmendizabal.com | IG: @its_daveed ABOUT THE VISION RESIDENCY Designed to foreground Ars Nova’s values through the creation of more equitable and power-sharing curatorial practices, the Vision Residency expands Ars Nova’s artistic vision by inviting seven artist-curators to populate our digital platform with their own work as well as work by artists they champion and admire. Each Resident is given broad support from Ars Nova’s full staff, and spends two months planning for one month of activity on Ars Nova Supra. Each Vision Resident is paid for their curation and administrative work, as well as allocated a program budget towards the creation, development and presentation of work during their curated month. Vision Residents are encouraged to invite other artists they feel inspired by, want to collaborate with or simply wish to amplify to make and share work using the budget and resources of the residency during their month of programming. The 2020/21 Vision Residents are: Starr Busby, nicHi douglas, JJJJJerome Ellis, raja feather kelly, Jenny Koons, David Mendizábal & Rona Siddiqui. Ars Nova's Vision Residency program is supported by The Miranda Family Fund. ARS NOVA 2021 BOARD OF DIRECTORS TEAM JENNY STEINGART JASON EAGAN JASON P. BARUCH, MAKERS LAB FOUNDING CHAIR, CO-FOUNDER FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR SENDROFF & BARUCH LLP MANIK CHOKSI & ZI ALIKHAN ALISA LESSING RENEE BLINKWOLT LEGAL CHAIR MANAGING DIRECTOR MAURY DONNELLY & PARR GUADALÍS DEL CARMEN, DANA KIRCHMAN EMILY SHOOLTZ INSURANCE DAVID MENDIZÁBAL, VICE CHAIR ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR RICH & BANDER, LLP JOÉL PÉREZ & EMMA RAMOS JUDY BEDOL CASEY YORK ACCOUNTING LAURA GALINDO SECRETARY GENERAL MANAGER STEVEN DALTON NIGHTDRIVE JASON KEMPER MAC INGRAM IT CONSULTANT MICHELLE J. RODRIGUEZ TREASURER DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR JOHN WYSZNIEWSKI, JILLIAN WALKER RICH BATTISTA TAMARA VALLEJOS EVERYMAN AGENCY PRESS REPRESENTATIVE NANCY BERGMAN DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY-IN-RESIDENCE RENEE BLINKWOLT JES LEVINE RESIDENT ARTISTS ON THE ROCKS THEATRE CO. NICOLE BRODEUR DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION GREG CORRADETTI ERIC SHETHAR VISION RESIDENCY JASON EAGAN MANAGER OF ARTISTIC PROGRAMS STARR BUSBY COMMISSIONED ARTISTS VICTOR EDOZIEN KATE WEBER nicHi douglas MELIS AKER INTERIM BUSINESS MANAGER RICK FELDMAN JJJJJEROME ELLIS VIRGINIA B. TOULMIN LIZZY FLORENCE JUSTIN SAMOY FOUNDATION COMMISSION INDIVIDUAL GIVING & raja feather kelly DEEKSHA GAUR KEVIN ARMENTO & SAMMY MILLER SPECIAL EVENTS MANAGER JENNY KOONS STEPHEN SIDEROW FUND MEI LIN KWAN-GETT SARAH IVINS DAVID MENDIZÁBAL FOR NEW MUSICALS COMMISSION GRETA MANSOUR MARKETING MANAGER RONA SIDDIQUI MICHAEL BRESLIN & PATRICK FOLEY DAVID MINER JAKE HAUNGS SEAVIEW PRODUCTIONS COMMISSION OPERATIONS & FACILITIES MANAGER DOUG RAPPAPORT NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST HEATHER CHRISTIAN STEPHEN SIDEROW SIMON LASS nicHi douglas TECHNICAL DIRECTOR VAN LIER FELLOWS JON STEINGART NEW YORK STATE DIRECTOR EMERITUS, CO-FOUNDER KRIS PRITCHARD LAURA GALINDO COUNCIL ON THE ARTS COMMISSION ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION MANAGER MICHELLE J. RODRIGUEZ DEEPALI GUPTA MIRANDA HANSON KHIYON HURSEY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE ALUMNI ADVISORY JAMES & JEROME BEN KLEIN PLAY GROUP BOARD ANTOINETTE NWANDU AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT ASSOCIATE MELIS AKER CÉSAR ALVAREZ ON THE ROCKS THEATRE CO. TINA SIMPSON PRESTON MAX ALLEN RACHEL CHAVKIN MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT RAY YAMANOUCHI SERENA BERMAN BILLY EICHNER IMMI CHAUDHRY ZACK ZADEK JOHN J. CASWELL JR. BRIDGET EVERETT EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT JILL FURMAN PRODUCTIONS