Solve et Coagula

Saturday, june 20th

Choreographed by Miranda Bishop and Chloe Russell

The dancers become vessels in which patterns are recognized, understood, and eventually liberated, not by force but by insight. 

Within the threshold state , the dancer dwells in a condition that is neither the old identity nor the fully realized form to come. Such states are familiar in meditative practice when the boundary between breath and awareness blurs, when the watcher and the watched lose their distinction, and when the world appears as vibrating field rather than static arrangement.

Solve et Coagula is an exploration of how trance feels—its texture, its pull, its memory.

No buckling

No cracks

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No cracks

No new eyes 

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No new eyes

No alchemy 

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No alchemy

No gold

bios

Miranda Bishop-

Miranda Bishop received her training at the Atlantic City Ballet and The Rock School for Dance Education. While studying in Philadelphia, Miranda apprenticed at Ballet Fleming. Since living in NYC, she has danced with Buglisi Dance Theater, Brooklyn Ballet and American Liberty Ballet. She coproduced and performed in a variety show called "Spellbound" at The Cutting Room in Manhattan. Her film "Isolation" was featured at the Atlantic City Arts Foundation's annual 48 Blocks event in 2020. She choreographed and performed in "Blue Moon" for the Fertile Ground New Works Series at Green Space Studios in Long Island City, NY. Photographs from “Blue Moon” were featured in Vogue Italia. July 2025 she debuted her visual art and dance series “Liminality” at Green Lung Studios in Brooklyn, NY.  Currently, Miranda is a freelance performer and choreography based in Brooklyn, NY. 

Chloe Russel-

Chloe Russell is a Brooklyn based freelance dancer, choreographer, and instructor. She received her early training from Ballet Memphis and Collage Dance Collective’s trainee program and supplemented her training with intensives with the Ailey School the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. She has worked professionally with Chattanooga Ballet, City Ballet of Boston, Ballet for Young Audiences, Chevalier Ballet and is currently dancing with Jersey City Ballet and working on her own projects in her spare time.

Magali-

Magali Johnston-Viens trained at the Kirov Academy of Washington DC and has danced with Ballet Palm Beach, Minnesota Ballet, Dances Patrelle, Greater Lansing Ballet Co, Sekou Walton Dance, Neglia Ballet, Sarah Yasmine Marazzi-Sassoon, and other NYC-based choreographers. Magali has choreographed ballets performed professionally since 2021, was a creator at Point Park University’s Choreographic Collective in 2022, and was a 2023 Arrowhead Regional Arts Council Individual Artist Project Grantee. Magali’s choreography maintains the musical and compositional structure of ballet while exploring intimacy, and rejects ballet’s strict binary gender rolls.  Thier works have been presented in Dances Patrelle’s 2026 spring season at MMAC ,HOT Dance Festival 2024 at Dixon Place,  CounterPointe12 and 13 by Norte Maar, the Emergence Dance Festival NYC, and as part of the Evolution Festival organized by the Center at West Park. Magali is currently a freelance choreographer and dancer based out of Brooklyn, NY

Blake Brown-

Blake Brown is from Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she trained at the Colorado Youth Ballet. She earned scholarships at the American Academy of Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet Academy, and State Street Ballet. Blake's professional career began with Ballet Idaho as a guest artist in "The Nutcracker" before joining State Street Ballet. In 2016 she joined the American Swiss Ballet and the Ravensquid Ballet Compagnie in Paris, France, for the Fall/Winter season of 2022.
Blake has performed both classical ballet and contemporary works across the United States and Europe, taking part in multiple international tours and festivals in the US, France, Italy, and Switzerland. Some of these experiences include performances with Orsolina 28, City Dance NY, Metropolitan Ballet, Jersey City Ballet, CXID Opera Ukraine, Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre and more. 
Her repertoire includes Myrtha in "Giselle,” soloist roles in "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker," and works by choreographers Jiri Kylian and William Forsythe. Blake is currently working as a freelance artist in NYC.

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About Green Lung Studio

Green Lung Studio was built by two artists who wanted a place to try things—loudly, quietly, imperfectly. Not a venue. Not a theater. A playground. A lab. A home. We know what it’s like to scrape by in a city that forgets its artists. So we made the kind of space we always needed—a place to test ideas. Today Green Lung Studio is ran by a group of close friends and volunteers looking to protect independent New York art spirit and culture.

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