VISION RESIDENCY LA HORA SANTA JANUARY 28 @ 7PM ET Created by MAYTE NATALIO Curated by Vision Resident DAVID MENDIZÁBAL LA HORA SANTA JANUARY 28 @ 7PM ET THE TEAM Created by MAYTE NATALIO Written, Choreographed & Directed by MAYTE THE GAY AGENDA In collaboration with YEMAN BROWN CELISSE HENDERSON TILLY EVANS-KRUEGER DANIEL LOESER CEDRIC LEIBA ARTURO LUIS SORIA KRISTIN YANCY Magic Consultant GEOFF KANICK Graphic Design & Lighting Consultant MASHA TSIMRING Design Consultant MEREDITH RIES Cinematography STEVEN LUNA Sound Design BRYAN NATALIO 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 MAYTE NATALIO (Creator) trained at LaGuardia HS and SUNY Purchase (BFA). She has performed and toured with Parsons Dance, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Kyle Abraham, Camille A. Brown and Dancers, Chase Brock, Rich and Tone Talauega among others. She has toured with French pop singer Mylene Farmer, as well as Kanye West. Regional theater credits include the Ogunquit Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center and Pregones Theater. New York theater credits include NYCC Encores, original cast of the immersive production Queen of the Night and Third Rail Productions’ The Grand Paradise. Mayte had been a part of Camille A. Brown’s choreography team on several productions including NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live, This Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic Theater Company) and Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera). Choreography credits: The Winter’s Tale (Public Works/ Dallas Theater Center), Red Speedo (Juilliard), Runaways (NYU/ New Studio), Into the Woods (Barrington Stage), Love in Hate Nation (Two River Theater) and Measure for Measure (Public Theater/ Mobile Unit). Mayte is also the co-founder of the immersive events company MinuteZero. YEMAN BROWN (Collaborator) (he/they) was born and raised in Tallahassee, Fl. Since 2013, Yeman has been working as a movement artist in Brooklyn, NY. His concert dance credits include works by Reggie Wilson, Stefanie Batten Bland, Kristin Sudeikis and Ralph Lemon. Theater credits include Jagged Little Pill (Broadway) and movement direction for As Much as I Can at The Public Theater. Yeman has also been featured in music videos by Mumford & Sons, The Jonas Brothers and Amanda Palmer. In addition to performance work, Yeman has led movement workshops around the world that encourage dancers and non-dancers alike to find joy in movement as a way of understanding our human experience. TILLY EVANS-KRUEGER (Collaborator) is a New York-based freelance artist. Prior to COVID-19 she was a swing with Moulin Rouge! Broadway. Tilly graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in dance from Wright State University. Her theater credits include The Wrong Man, directed by Thomas Kail; New York City Center’s production of Working: A Musical; Ars Nova’s Off Broadway production of The Lucky Ones, directed by Anne Kaufman; and Company XIV’s Nutcracker Rouge. Tilly’s Film/TV Credits include SNL’s 45th season performance with Coldplay, Fox’s RENT LIVE and Warner Bros. In The Heights. Professional Dance companies include Sonya Tayeh Inc., Camille A. Brown and Dancers, CHUTHIS., BODYTRAFFIC, Spectrum Dance Theater + Donald Byrd and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. CEDRIC LEIBA JR. (Collaborator) Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Cedric toured nationally with RENT and MISS SAIGON. Some TV credits include HBO's HIGH MAINTENANCE and Fashion One Television's THE SWITCH. Some film credits include GETS GOOD LIGHT and MILLIE AND THE LORDS. In 2020, Cedric released music under "Ceddy" and co-founded DominiRican Productions. @ceddynyc ARTURO LUÍS SORIA (Collaborator) is a multilingual actor and playwright. He recently made his Broadway debut in The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez and directed by Stephen Daldry. Hilton Als of The New Yorker likened him to “a young Al Pacino” for his portrayal of Tano in the World Premiere of Hit the Wall by Ike Holter. Arturo’s solo show NI MI MADRE won the Outstanding Performance Award at the inaugural Rave Theatre Festival in NYC and the Luso-American Scholarship at DisQuiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal. He has performed at The Kennedy Center, Yale Rep, The Guthrie Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Victory Gardens Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and many others and can be seen on Netflix’s Insatiable and NBC’s The Blacklist. He holds a BFA in acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University and an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama. KRISTIN YANCY (Collaborator) is an actor, dancer, singer and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Broadway: The Cher Show; Summer, The Donna Summer Musical. National Tour: West Side Story. Off Broadway: Queen of the Night; Jazz at Lincoln Center. Regional: The Who's Tommy (Kennedy Center); West Side Story (Guthrie Theater); Evita (Asolo Rep); Joseph... Dreamcoat (Flat Rock Playhouse). Film/TV: Katy Keene; Samantha Bee Full Frontal; Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Big gratitude to the ancestors, to the dreamiest Totems-in-crime and to Mamita Linda for her brilliance. 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