doubles:
Claude cj johnson + chimaera
Thursday, april 2nd 2026
Friday, april 3rd 2026
chimaera
A CHIMAERA is the debut eponymous choreography by Oscar Suh-Rodriguez and Eilish Henderson’s collaborative duo. The title is representative of a third corporeal spirit that is conjured when we meet in dance–part phantom, part demon, ashen, soot-footed and honey-skinned. The work began as an improvised dance on a sunny hill, then emerged once more on a midnight beneath a strawberry moon–feet on sand, fingers running through fossils, eyes hidden.
The final work is as much transcription as it is composition, evoking images and movements discovered through our improvisations. We assembled the choreography from memories of dances, our mutual love of Butoh, and more. We then set out to craft the soundscape together, molding and refining as we climbed deeper into the dance. As we share many interests and appreciate similar aesthetics, it was easy to find a unifying palette without discussion.
We stand upon the same black moon. We both understand the setting. We are both together receiving this landscape. We hope you’ll join us on April 2 or 3, 2026 at Greenlung Studios (Red Hook) to experience this work in full-form."
CHIMAERA is the collaborative duo of dancer and artists Oscar Suh-Rodriguez and Eilish Henderson. Their mutual passion for Butoh, poetry, music, and sound has brought about their collaborative auteur philosophy: music, choreography, costuming–miniature landscapes created jointly. A shared vision of ferality, fragility, and fatality initially brought them together in summer 2025. Since then, they’ve continued to explore the wilderness of their vision through street dances and location specific explorations, recording and journaling their movement all along the way. Their eponymous debut collaboration "CHIMAERA"–a culmination of their experiences and discoveries– premieres April 2nd and 3rd, 2026 at Green Lung Studio.
Eilish Henderson’s works have been presented as a part of Queer Butoh at The Brick, WADE Dance Festival, Emerging Artists Festival, “The Body as Archive” at Smush Gallery, and Agropoli Dance Festival in Italy. She has been granted artist residencies at Homeport Art House, Peaked Hill Trust, and Arts, Letters, and Numbers. Eilish holds an MA in Dance Education from NYU: Steinhardt, with an emphasis on Teaching Dance in the Professions. Her scholarship has been presented at the 2023 National Dance Education Organization Conference in Denver and the 2024 International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association/NDEO Conference in New York. As a performer, Eilish has danced in the works of many artists including Javier Padilla, Doug Varone, Sean Curran, Adam Barruch, and Ellen Sickenberger. She is an adjunct professor at Iona University and Westchester Community College and teaching artist for the Joyce Theater, Dancewave, and Brooklyn Arts Council.
Oscar Suh-Rodriguez is an NYC-based, Chilean-American Butoh dancer and artist. As both dancer and composer, Oscar thrives in the auteur role, bouncing between the composition of choreography and music/sound to illuminate a complete cohesive vision. While influences like Étienne Decroux, Kazuo Ohno, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the butoh community have greatly informed his movement, his background as a jazz musician has deeply informed his devotion to crafting an organic, impulse-based style. Oscar has presented original works as part of EXCAVATE: Butoh Dance Works in Progress, Chez Bushwick’s RECESS, and Greenlung Studio’s 4:15 series. He has also performed alongside Vangeline Theatre at NYC Dancefest 2025 and will premiere his latest solo work “Butterfly Harvest” at Queer Butoh Festival at The Brick (NYC) June 25 and 26, 2026.
i dressed like him
performers: Kyle Sangil & Jamaal Bowman
“I Dressed Like Him” is a work that reveals a variety of personas across scenarios ranging from joy to heartbreak, all represented by a single outfit.
A Chicago native, Claude "CJ" Johnson is a dancer, choreographer, and movement director based in Brooklyn NY. After completing his studies at The Chicago Academy for the Arts and SUNY Purchase College, where he was awarded the Adopt-A-Dancer Scholarship, Cj has had the opportunity to perform works by Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris, Aszure Barton, Zoe|Juniper, Johannes Weiland, Kevin Wynn, Princess Madoki, and many more. He was also a full-time company dancer with A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham from 2017 to 2022, during which he became a 2021 Princess Grace nominee. Cj is currently a guest dancer for companies and choreographers such as Trisha Brown Dance Company, AIM By Kyle Abraham, NVA & Guess, Rashaun and Silas, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, and many others. He has also participated in his own choreographic residencies through the Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Joyce Theater, Motive Brooklyn, Cuny Dance Initiative, and many more . As a performer, choreographer, and Black queer artist, Cj dances to translate the human experience for audiences, recognizing dance as the most powerful catalyst for self-expression and social change. In any artistic space, he believes his responsibility is to expand the knowledge and perspective of his community's vast experiences.
Kyle Sangil (he/him) is a Filipino-American dance artist currently based in New York City. Born in the Philippines and raised in Beaumont, Texas, he began dancing at age 12, first training in hip hop before transitioning into more at 16. He later earned his BFA in Ballet from Point Park University in 2022. After graduating, Kyle joined Whim W’Him Contemporary Dance in Seattle, where he performed with the company for three seasons. He is now based in New York City working as a freelance dance artist. In 2025, he was recognized as one of Dance Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch.”
Jamaal Bowman began his dance training at the age of 14 in Maryland, where he was born and raised. In 2021, he graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a Director’s Scholar, under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. In his time at The University of the Arts, he has collaborated with Nora Chipaumire, Tommie Waheed-Evans, Jesse Zaritt, Helen Pickett, Fana Fraser, Nacera Belaza, and Sidra Bell. Post graduation, he has worked with VonHowardProject, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, AIM by Kyle Abraham, and GALLIM. In his time with AIM, Jamaal has been featured in magazines such as W magazine, Essence, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar. His personal practices are centered around queer black joy, theater, improvisation, and comedy.
MEET THE TEAM
Maggie Beutner Cheung | Dance Curator & Programming
maggie beutner cheung (she/her) is a Lenapehoking/Brooklyn based performance artist, choreographer, and teacher. She has performed and collaborated widely in New York since 2015, including with Brandon Welch, The Moving Architects (2015-2020), kaycruddenco, David Appel, Britta Joy Peterson, Caitlin Adams Studio, visual artist gwen charles, and as a company artist with HEIDCO (2018–2022). Currently, she makes work with Steven Carmona.
At Green Lung Studio, maggie produces and curates live performance with the ethos “we are here for the makers”—creating space for artists to share work with freedom + community.
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.
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