4:15 # 10

A MONTHLY MOVEMENT SERIES

Wednesday, July 15th @ 7:30 PM

jelani taylor

Kinetic Studies on Pain (excerpt)

performer: Taylor Bonadies

Jelani Taylor is a dancer, choreographer, and arts administrator from Virginia Beach, Virginia, currently working out of New York City. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of ERA Dance Company and the Artists of Color Council Coordinator for Movement Research. Jelani's choreography has been presented nationally at Inside/Out at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Danspace Project's Draftwork program, the National Dance Society Conference (NDS), and various festivals in Virginia and New York City. He has performed in work by Merce Cunningham, Nathan Trice, Sinclair O'Gaga, and Mariah Lopez. Jelani and ERA Dance Company were artist/company in residence at Norfolk State University, a part of the Digging in Group, Artist Residency program at Green Space Studio and a 2024/25 Performance Project Fellow at University Settlement. Jelani graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) with a BFA in Dance and Choreography in 2019. While at VCU, Jelani was the recipient of the African American Studies Department's “Black History in the Making” Award.

Bella Donatelli

masked echoes

performers: Bella Donatelli, Kenzie Ginter, Plume Leautier, Meenah Nehme, and Sky Poole

Bella Donatelli is a New York City–based freelance artist originally from Colorado. She graduated summa cum laude from Connecticut College with a BA in Dance and Classics, where she cultivated an interest in movement as a facilitator of interdisciplinary study, storytelling, and community building. Throughout her training at Connecticut College and in professional programs, Bella performed repertory by Sharon Eyal, Ronald K. Brown, Bebe Miller, and Lisa Race. Since graduating, she has performed with David Dorfman Dance, Chelsea Thedinga, and Kizuna Dance Company, and currently performs with WHITE WAVE Dance Company, Arch Dance Ensemble, and KTCO.

megan siepka

some things are the same

performer: megan siepka

“some things are the same” is part of a piece titled “girls being,” which will premiere at Green Lung Studio in October 2026.

Megan Siepka is a Brooklyn based dancer and choreographer from Richmond, Virginia. She completed her BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2020 and in the same year debuted as a performer with VALLETO. Siepka has sought additional training through Springboard Danse Montreal, and studied under the guidance of Andrea Miller, Ohad Naharin, Sidra Bell, Shannon Gillen, and several master educators within The Ailey School and Gibney Dance. Siepka currently works as a collaborator and performer with Baye & Asa, TAQ Dance Theater, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. She is also a teacher of the Tracy Anderson method. 

Siepka teaches dance by encouraging hybridized modalities of contemporary and classical techniques. Siepka has presented their own choreographic works in venues across New York City such as PAGEANT, Arts on Site, and The Living Gallery. She also holds experience directing movement and choreography for fashion, film, and music. 

fishfranklin

Then There Were Two

performers: Aviana Goodman-Fish and Clara Franklin

Out beyond ideas of 

wrongdoing and right doing 

there is a field. 

I'll meet you there. 

When the soul lies down 

in that grass, 

the world is too full

to talk about. 

Ideas, language, 

even the phrase 'each other' 

doesn't make any sense. 

-Rumi

Aviana Goodman-Fish and Clara Franklin are movement artists based in Brooklyn, NY. They have been collaborating for over a year and are excited to be furthering their artistic partnership in the creation of FishFranklin Dance Project. They have presented work at Andrew Logan Projects, Slow Share, and collaborated on two conceptual Dance Films. In July 2025, they self-produced their first show, Birds Eye Bash - an immersive, site-specific evening of dance (Vol. II presented this July). Together, FishFranklin Dance Project has curated a style of gesture and articulation unique to this partnership. Moving as queer bodies and breaking the classic binaries of partnership, they move with boyishness and mischief—an unbridled fraternity that taps into the holistic, unjudgmental joy of a genderless body before it is chopped up and rearranged into classical roles.  Bringing intimate and universal dilemmas to their audiences, they believe in the power of storytelling to shift people’s inner worlds towards connection, community, and transformative social change.

THE TEAM @ green lung studio

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.

Green Lung Studio has year round dance, music, cinema and more. Stay up to date at greenlungstudio.com or @greenlungstudio on Instagram.

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