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A MONTHLY MOVEMENT SERIES

Wednesday, June 17th @ 7:30 PM

Elaine Goris

HELP! This is our lobotomy

Sophia DeGaetano, Camryn Douglas, Chelsie Moore, Julian Mast, Kaylee Ortiz

This A.I commentary on how dystopian artificial intelligence has gotten, making us dumber and dumber. Enjoy this unsettling uncanny fever dream style dance piece. 

Taiwo Aloba 

The Roots of Candomblé

TAIWO ALOBA is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York whose work spans dance, text, illustration, costume, and performance. Her practice explores themes of identity, cultural memory, and African history through both personal and collective narratives.

Bruised Pear Dance Project 

Light Echo

Nadia Benes, Emma Hansen, Olivia Kleven

Inspired by the book, South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami, “Light Echo” explores the tension between the past's impressions on the self, desires, and the hazy landscape of memories, capturing the dreamy nature of Murakami's poetic writing. Light echo refers to the physical phenomenon of distortion and delay in light as it travels to the viewer, alluding to distortion of the past as memories exist in the present.  In a four part trio, Prologue, Keepers, The Passing, and Shattering, interactions between individuals compound through conversational movement, warping and evolving as impressions layer with increasing impetuosity.

Bruised Pear Dance Project: Nadia Benes, Emma Hansen, and Olivia Kleven are freelance dancers and choreographers based in New York City.  Olivia, born and raised in Seattle, attended the Cornish Preparatory Dance School and NYU Tisch, graduating in 2022 with a B.F.A. in contemporary dance.  Nadia grew up in Sacramento, training in classical ballet with Deane Dance Center and Sacramento Ballet’s Trainee Program.  Emma hails from Salt Lake City, earning a BFA in Contemporary Dance from BYU.  After moving to New York and all completing the Limón trainee program in 2023, the trio sought to explore their own choreographic voice, thus forming Bruised Pear Dance Project.  BPDP draws movement from narrative, child-like curiosity, memory, and femininity into storied, physical experiences. Based in New York City, they've created multiple works, including “I’ll Give you a Hand”, “From the Nest”, “Swimming in the Sky”, and “Light Echo”, performing through festivals at Greenspace, Triskelion, More Fish - Show & Tell, Dance Astoria, Dixon Place, Brooklyn Art Haus, and Center for Performance Research.

Rylan Joenk

Untitled (variation on a theme)

Rylan Joenk, Mel Harrison, Julian Grubman

Rylan Joenk is a Chicago-born dancer, dancemaker, and multimedia artist now based in New York City. Their work dissects contemporary performance through physical experiments and improvisation, grounded in narrative metaphor with critical research. Most recently, Rylan’s has presented work at WestFest: Top Floor at the Martha Graham Studio Theater, Spark Theater Festival, and SarAika’s curated program for the International Human Rights Arts Festival. They were also a resident artist for WADE’s 2025 Pride Residency and were recognized as an honored artist in the 92NY’s 2026 Future Dance Festival: Made By Women.

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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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