This is a highly interactive performance that involves audience participation.

Audience members will be invited to revisit their past trauma or current struggles,

and transmute them through their active participation in artistic activities.

This is a highly interactive performance that involves audience participation.

Audience members will be invited to revisit their past trauma or current struggles

and transmute them through their active participation in artistic activities.

There will be also an active involvement of the performer’s body to represent the

embodiment of people’s life struggles. This is a new exploration of relational

aesthetics for the purpose of healing and it combines the elements of workshop -

style audience-interaction and traditional body art. It is my belief that relational

aesthetics should be informed by the intention of bringing positive transformation

among the audience members, and this is my experimentation on how such a

healing intent can be merged with a more conventional style of body-centered performance art.

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Geo Koryu is an interpretive dancer/performance artist who is a native of

Japan. He studied Butoh (Japanese avant-garde dance) with Moe

Yamamoto, Toru Iwashita, Kunisuke Kamiryo, Yoshito Ohno (son of Kazuo

Ohno), Yukio Waguri, Seisaku & Yuri, Ko Muroboshi, and Kayo Mikami; a

Butoh-inspired interpretive dance with Akira Kasai; Japanese sword dance

with Kensei Namiki; traditional style swordsmanship with Ken Morita;

Ballet at various dance schools including Morgantown Dance Studio,

Modern Dance with Bill Evans, Kista Tucker, Don Halquis, Angela Dennis,

Kristina Isabella, and Pilobolous Dance Company; Jazz Dance with Liz

Rossi; Contact Improvisation with Jordan Fuchs and Contact

Improvisation groups in Philladelphia; Break Dance at Harajuku Dance

Academy; Central Asian Dance, Persian Dance, and Middle Eastern Dance

with Narah Bint Durr; and West African Dance with Jonathan Burbank and

Michael Vercelli. He was also trained in Mime, Laban Movements Analysis

(Bill Evans and Kista Tucker), Bartenieff Fundamental (Bill Evans and Don

Halquis), Alexander Technique (Suzanne Oliiver), Qigong, Tai Chi, and

various other forms of martial arts. He has integrated the essences of all the

movement-arts he has learned and performs originally choreographed

interpretive dance repertories as well as dance-based performance art.

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Bonfire Lighting 9:00 pm

Performances at the forest/lake 9:30 - 10:30 pm

+ pre-performance wood-fired pizza 7:00-9:00 pm

Transmigration is a live multidisciplinary interactive performance art experience, including live music and a site-specific installation, an abstract representation of the vulva as a portal for human souls. It is inspired by the feminine energy of both artists Levin Delgado and Skrip. The performance takes place following Ronit’s birthday. It is an invitation to engage in a BIRTHday celebration, join the symbolic cleansing ritual, and collectively reflect on life and the past year. Honoring birth and life, celebrating the joy of nature as we connect through essential resources; mother earth’s gifts such as fruits, flowers, and water.

Multidisciplinary performance artist Ronit Levin Delgado, In collaboration with sculptor Alyona

Skripka and musician Sonic Elixirs.

The transmigration of souls believes that the soul is reborn in one or more successive mortal bodies, a form of reincarnation. The installation, placed on a hill in front of the lake in Rosekill, is made of three arches connected at the top and staked to the ground. Silk-like fabric is draped over each section, creating a flowing curtain opening, symbolizing feminine power. It is a portal for the souls, connecting the sky and the earth, a metaphoric gate of the transcendental experience of celebrating the birth.

The interactive performance is a ritualistic movement base that interacts with the installation and the viewers.

Inspired by her Paraguayan heritage, Levin Delgado brings the traditional Paraguayan “Terere Thermo”(water vessel), covered with the artist’s pyrography of flower drawings made by her family in Paraguay and embossed on leather, including of her late sister, carries and contains water and reminds us that life is fluid and pure.

Ronit Levin Delgado is an Israeli–born, NYC–based multidisciplinary visual artist and a Fulbright
Scholar. A graduate of the MFA Studio Art program at MSU, and the BFA Fine Art program at Bezalel
Academy of Art and Design, Levin Delgado has won multiple awards and honors, including the Fulbright
Scholarship. Levin Delgado has had solo and two-person exhibitions, and her work has been widely
shown in international group exhibitions in Israel, Europe and the US, including the Queens Museum, Art
Basel Miami, Spring/Break Art show, Magnan Metz Gallery, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Trestle, The Border,
The Cell, Museum of Russian Art, Grace Exhibition Space (NY), The Frame (PA), Guttman Museum,
Hertzelilinblum Museum (TLV), Cardiff, Wales, and Leeds(UK). Her work is featured in both private and
public collections.
Through the creation of sensorial experiences, Levin Delgado’s work explores conditions of instinctual
interactions through the use of the body, ritual, and the intimacy of a kiss. As a multidisciplinary visual
artist, Ronit publicly questions the personal narratives of vulnerability and desire, using a combination of
mediums ranging from site-specific installation, interactive performance art, video, painting, and sculptural
objects. Inviting her viewers to immerse themselves in a shared private moment within a collective
environment. As a Fulbright scholar from Israel, she finds it important to fuse rituals, fragments of cultural
traditions, and beliefs into expressive performative actions and objects.
She explores the transforming of hardships, difficulties, and struggles, into a healing process of rituals
that celebrate "joie de vivre," ( joy of life). By joining the slivers of different stories, experiences, cultures
we can bring about universal healing, mend each other's wounds in order to survive, function and flourish.
www.ronitlevindelgado.com
@ronitlevindelgado

Alyona Skripka, aka Skrip, is a Russian-born multimedia artist, designer and fabricator. She thrives on
creating immersive experiences while up-cycling and using as many found materials as
possible. Her art promotes playfulness and a carefree attitude, inviting audiences' inner children
to come out and play. Skrip's work focuses on self-healing and self-love through reconnecting
with her inner child.
Considering the audience's needs helps her to determine what type of engagement people will
have with her work. In 2017 she founded Happy Mojoom, a full-service design, production, and
fabrication company.
https://www.alyonaskripka.com/

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Bonfire Lighting 9:00 pm

Performances at the forest/lake 9:30 - 10:30 pm

+ pre-performance wood-fired pizza 7:00-9:00 pm

Andrea Maddox is a classically trained singer and pianist, with a BFA in acting from NYU. As an actor/director, singer/songwriter, and variety performer, she has worked in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Germany, created original performances for NYC's Halloween Parade, Bonnaroo, Phish, and other rock concerts and festivals, and has performed with the Bread and Puppet Theater for over twenty years. She has worked as an actor and director at La MaMa e.t.c., HERE, Theater for the New City, and other venues throughout NYC. She has performed locally at many venues and festivals including the Rosendale Theater, O+, BSP, and the Rosendale Street Festival. Space Opera is her second original musical produced at Rosekill Art Farm.

Space Opera’s Synopsis:

The Survivalists are refugees from uninhabitable earth.  They’ve found a time capsule with a message written in an ancient language that can only be decoded in the top security library on planet Clak Clak, where no Survivalists have ever been.  They must leave Earth and hope that they can sneak into the library and decode the message, which they believe holds the key to saving Earth.  They sing songs of hope and community and adventure.

When their spaceship crashes into the wall around planet ClakClak, they learn that ClakClak is an inhospitable planet with a quirky leader, General Diva, who makes her Agents learn dance sequences without any music. The Survivalists soon learn that ClakClaks don't know how to sing - they’ve never even heard music before!  Their adventure takes them into the home of ClakClaks, the high-security library, General Diva’s office, and more as they try to find the answer to how to save the earth and escape from ClakClak - or find a new home altogether!

Andrea Maddox is a classically trained singer and pianist, with a BFA in acting from NYU. As an actor/director, singer/songwriter, and variety performer, she has worked in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Germany, created original performances for NYC's Halloween Parade, Bonnaroo, Phish, and other rock concerts and festivals, and has performed with the Bread and Puppet Theater for over twenty years. She has worked as an actor and director at La MaMa e.t.c., HERE, Theater for the New City, and other venues throughout NYC. She has performed locally at many venues and festivals including the Rosendale Theater, O+, BSP, and the Rosendale Street Festival. Space Opera is her second original musical produced at Rosekill Art Farm.

Space Opera’s Synopsis:

The Survivalists are refugees from uninhabitable earth.  They’ve found a time capsule with a message written in an ancient language that can only be decoded in the top security library on planet Clak Clak, where no Survivalists have ever been.  They must leave Earth and hope that they can sneak into the library and decode the message, which they believe holds the key to saving Earth.  They sing songs of hope and community and adventure.

When their spaceship crashes into the wall around planet ClakClak, they learn that ClakClak is an inhospitable planet with a quirky leader, General Diva, who makes her Agents learn dance sequences without any music. The Survivalists soon learn that ClakClaks don't know how to sing - they’ve never even heard music before!  Their adventure takes them into the home of ClakClaks, the high-security library, General Diva’s office, and more as they try to find the answer to how to save the earth and escape from ClakClak - or find a new home altogether!

Bonfire Lighting 9:00 pm

Performances at the forest/lake 9:30 - 10:30 pm

+ pre-performance wood-fired pizza 7:00-9:00 pm

Historically, the outskirts of society have meant home for many members of the Queer community. Through the process of ritual, language, and tradition, a new world of solace for Queer and deviant identities prevailed the attempts of erasure from patriarchal and colonial aspects of mainstream society.

During the 70s and 80s, the rapid proliferation of Queer culture received recognition through media and mainstream society. Well-known aspects of this cultural boom include ballroom culture and dance, as well as new slang and language that was exercised within the community. Alongside these well-known aspects of Queerness, there are also practices to help members make sense of and honor the line between life and death. As a result, Romero became particularly interested in mourning rituals practiced in Queer culture, as it acts as a tangible gateway toward spirituality.

Inspired by “Ephemera as Evidence” by José Esteban Muñoz, this body of work incorporates aspects of Venezuelan spiritual practice with Queer archival and mourning practices to imagine what a Queer-centered practice can look like. How can we as Queer people honor our ancestors? How can we petition them for guidance? What does Queer as ritual look like?

Gino is a queer and trans-first-generation Venezuelan-American. Their work primarily deals with

the decolonization of archives through community intervention and personal narrative. This body

of work explores the Queer experience through a diasporic lens. Using aspects of rituals that

are native to Venezuela in tandem with community archiving, they create a space for collective

healing and memory. Oftentimes in archives, cultural materials are removed from all context,

with this work, they create a living archive that is built for and by its users and contextualized

within a cultural language of Queerness, spiritual practice, and historical ephemera.

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Bonfire Lighting 9:00 pm

Performances at the forest/lake 9:30 - 10:30 pm

+ pre-performance wood-fired pizza 7:00-9:00 pm

Interdisciplinary artist, choreographer and performance artistCharles Dennis has created a new solo, performance work, "Recycle Me" which investigates the effect that plastic garbage and waste is having on the human psyche and environment. Charles Dennis has collected plastic waste that has been consumed in his household and stored it for use in live performance. In “Recycle Me” Charles physically interacts with the plastic and has choreographed a duet with plastic. Part of this choreography includes the building of a sculpture built of plastic garbage, creating a visual landscape that Charles dancesthrough. Accompanying the performance is an original musical score played live by guitarist/composer Sal Cataldi.

“Midnight Swim” (2022) is a new installation/performance for Rosekill in which Kotak invites the audience to take a midnight swim with her in the lake at Rosekill at midnight, surrounded by an installation she creates for the event. The piece continues her ongoing practice of presenting everyday life as art through “Found Performances”–or works based on her daily activities, experiences or accomplishments, such as giving birth (The Birth of Baby X, 2011), attending her grandfather’s funeral (My Grandfather’s Funeral, 2009), constructing a refuge to convalesce after a fire in her home (Treehouse, 2017), and in this instance, taking a midnight swim with loved ones and audience members who will become fast friends. “Found Performances” are time-based performances found from real daily life in the sense of Duchamp’s readymade found object sculptures.

Interior Scroll — The Cave (1995) Directed by Carolee Schneeman // Synopsis: In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women perform the ritualized actions of Interior Scroll reading the text as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina. The scroll embodies the primacy of an extended visual line shaped as both concept and action. The extracted text merges critical theory with the body as a source of knowledge. Beatty’s camera moves from the naked group actions into close-ups of the unraveling text.