The Visionary

Name: The Visionary
Address: 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, NY, 13810, US
Telephone: +19173753316
Price range: $
Rating: 5

We foster the creation process by providing artist residency, rehearsal and performance space at the 200-year old former Baptist Church in Mount Vision, NY
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Founded in 2008, Upstate Production Services, Inc., supports the movement to decentralize New York State’s cultural landscape. After many years of service in the Entertainment Industry, we strive to dedicate ourselves to the cultivation, production and management of high quality Arts and Events outside major urban areas. We believe that the magical landscape of the Central New York Region can prov

ide tremendous inspiration for the creation and enjoyment of new work in the fine and performing arts. At UPSI, we foster the creation process by providing artist residency, rehearsal and performance space at the 200-year old decommissioned Baptist Church in Mount Vision that we purchased in 2004 and at our 32-acre property in Westford. We facilitate additional performances and events through our theater and event production services, fabricating in our fully-outfitted metal and woodworking shop.

08/11/2024

Last night at The Visionary : Thank you Monica, Michelle, Jamie, Liz, Caleb, Johnny for inviting us to look at the small things in detail, explore more, experience deeper.

08/10/2024

Ticket 🎟️ Alert!!!

Sarah A Stewart has 2 Extra Tickets for tonight- PM her if you’d like them! She would love them to go to a couple of people who wouldn’t ordinarily see a show like this🙏

So amazing 🤩
🎫

08/10/2024

The Visionary Dance Festival TONIGHT
Aug 10 at 7:30 pm
Presents artist in residence 🎭

Beatriz Castro (she/they) is a latinx, q***r movement artist from Costa Rica, currently based in NYC. Beatriz has been a member of Spark Movement Collective, Faustine Lavie Dance Project and Verbal Animal, while also working with Antonin Rioche, Catherine Cabeen, David Dorfman Dance and her friends. They appeared in HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness and the ONxMoMA PS1 campaign under the movement direction of Damani Pompey. Acting credits include Matthew Gasda’s Dimes Square and Invulnerable Nothing’s Barn Lab Residency under the direction of C.C. Kellogg. Internationally, she has performed self-choreographed work at the longest-running contemporary dance event in Costa Rica. They have also presented their choreography at Abrons Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, Arts On Site, The Mark O’Donnell Theater, and Dixon Place. Beatriz has been awarded residencies for the exploration and development of new work through the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, MOtiVE Brooklyn, and Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative.

The Visionary Dance Festival
Saturday, August 10, 2024
7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors

Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 6:30pm on day of show

2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-visionary-dance-festival-tickets-936933432117?aff=oddtdtcreator

For more information about the performance, contact Jamie Leonard at 607.638.5119 or Pamela Rapp [email protected].
http://www.thevisionaryny.com/

08/10/2024

Artist in residence dancing TONIGHT
Aug 10 at 7:30 pm
The Visionary Dance Festival presents Liz Hepp 🔥

Liz Hepp is a Brooklyn-based freelance dance artist and producer. Most recently she danced in works by Ben Wright, PeiJu Chien-Pott, and Heidi Latsky and collectively created and performed in the dance theater show “Fact or Fiction” with Trainor Dance at The PIT. She was a company member with Dusan Tynek Dance Theater and Erick Montes’ Danceable Projects from 2017 – 2020 and in 2018 performed in the Nick Mauss: Transmissions Exhibition at The Whitney Museum. Liz also produces dance performances in nontraditional spaces with CreateArt Performance. She holds a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

The Visionary Dance Festival
Saturday, August 10, 2024
7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors

Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 6:30pm on day of show

2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-visionary-dance-festival-tickets-936933432117?aff=oddtdtcreator

08/09/2024

Artist in residence spotlight 💡🔦🚨
The Visionary Dance Festival on August 10 at 7:30 pm
Featuring

MONICA STEFFEY (SHE/THEY) is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, arts administrator, mentor, and community activist. In the first five years of her career, she danced for companies like Soluq Dance Theater, Amirov Dance Theater, and VIVO Ballet. She has facilitated workshops at Gibney Dance Center, Peridance Center, New York Live Arts, University of Maryland, Mignolo Arts Center, and Skidmore College.
In 2020, Monica founded Wet Hairy Women to bring together a group of artists seeking to explore and redefine raw truths of womanhood through movement and art. Their work draws from narratives of choice, bodily autonomy, and gender fluidity within the wild woman archetype. Her annual art activist project, No Shave Wovember, has engaged over 200 women and allies.
Collectively, Monica has created and produced 15 bodies of work, including their first evening length immersive dance theater production, UNTAMED, which involved 15 visual artists, 3 performance artists, an interactive gallery installation, and an original live music set with ST2YOU.
In 2021, Monica continued to dance for Soluq Dance Theater while leading one of the largest COVID-19 relief programs in the NYC Metropolitan area under the T2 Program of New York Health and Hospitals. Currently, Monica is the Operations Manager for Dance/NYC, while continuing to dance for Annie Rigney and create her own work through Wet Hairy Women.

♥️🩵

08/09/2024

The Visionary presents artist in residence 🎭
Caleb Patterson
Performing TOMORROW Saturday Aug 10 at 7:30 pm
The Visionary Dance Festival
Featuring

CALEB PATTERSON (HE/THEY) began professional training in 2014 at The Joffrey Ballet School where he performed works for several notable choreographers such as Nathan Trice, Sekou McMiller, Rena Butler, Lane Gifford, and Patrick O’Brien. After school he moved on to new media, appearing in HBO’s Random Acts Of Flyness by Terrance Nance, choreographed by Domani Pompey. He recently performed at Battery Dance Festival with MATHETA dance, performing excerpts from Buya, the company’s full-length piece first performed at Judson Church. Caleb is currently working with Dolly Sfeir&Dancers, MATHETA dance, Alpha Omega, Nathaniel’s Dance Collective, Javi Padilla’s Movement Playground, and Spark Movement Collective.

Ticket link in bio.

08/08/2024

This Saturday August 10, artist in residence returns to our stage
The Visionary Dance Festival Presents

JOHNNY BUTLER (HE/HIM) is a Brooklyn-based, Grammy-award winning musician and arranger for his work on Beyoncé’s “Love on Top.” Butler received a 2022 Lucille Lortell Award and a 2023 Obie Award for his work on the biggest Off-Broadway hit of 2022, Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things. Butler plays the saxophone, flute, clarinet, piano, guitar, composes, engineers audio, dances, and makes films. Butler uses a wireless microphone and handful of electronics to create vast soundscapes while dancing onstage, blending the music, the dancer, and the daydream.

The Visionary Dance Festival

Saturday, August 10, 2024

7:30pm

Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors

Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 6:30pm on day of show

2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-visionary-dance-festival-tickets-936933432117?aff=oddtdtcreator

08/04/2024

Bring an appetite to The Visionary Dance Festival on Saturday August 10. Rick is serving it up. He will be there at 6. You should come early and get some.
Nancy is making homemade baked goods, too. Life is good.

08/02/2024

Artist in residence spotlight 💃

The Visionary Dance Festival on August 10 at 7:30 pm features:

Jamie Kleinschnitz is a freelance artist, performer, choreographer, and dance instructor based in NYC. Originally from Long Island, NY, Jamie received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from Adelphi University with a major in Dance and minor in Psychology, and studied abroad at the London Contemporary Dance School in the UK. As a choreographer, she has set pieces at Adelphi University, for music videos, and on various dance studios. As a performer, she has danced works by Azure Barton, Ohad Naharin, Alexander Ekman, Paul Taylor, Manuel Vignoulle, Alice Klock, Florian Lochner, William Briscoe, and Wesley Ensminger, among others. Jamie has been a movement artist with Mathew James’ Urban / Tribe, Valeria Gonzalez’s VALLETO Dance, John Zullo’s Zullo/Raw Movement, Emily Greenwell’s Cloude.nyc, and currently, Thryn Saxon’s SAXYN Dance Works.

Ticket link in bio 🎫

08/01/2024

On Saturday August 10 at 7:30 PM:
The Visionary Dance Festival features artist in residence:

MICHELLE THOMPSON is currently a professor at SUNY Purchase. Michelle was the Artistic Director of New York based Spark Movement Collective from April 2020-April 2024. Michelle grew this company for 4 years, and has been awarded grants by The Flushing Town Hall for programming for children and The Queens Council on the Arts for her work Armenian Voices. She received her training from San Francisco Ballet, and danced for 14 years with Ballet Austin. She performed in works by Balanchine, Twyla Tharp, Ulysses Dove, Stephen Mills, Sidra Bell, Greg Dolbashian, Nelly Van Bommel, Amy Seiwert, James Gregg, Gina Patterson, Thang Dao, and more. Also during her time in Texas she earned her undergraduate degree from St. Edward’s University, and began her choreographic career with an emphasis on site specific and immersive dance experiences. She is a freelance choreographer in New York, and has recently shown work at The Mark O’Donnell Theater, Green Space, Dixon Place, and Art On Site. Her recent commissions include NuVu Festival, CreateArt, Ballet Hartford, J Chen Project, and SUNY Purchase. Michelle has worked closely with Grammy award winning musician Johnny Butler and creative partner Caleb Patterson on projects performed at The Visionary, Mercury Lounge, Ace Hotel in Brooklyn, C’mon Everybody, and the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY. Michelle teaches yoga, and she is a mother of two. Michelle most recently premiered a new commission in Dallas for Pegasus Contemporary Ballet in June 2024 in collaboration with Grammy award winning musician Scott Tixier.
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07/27/2024

Artist in residence spotlight! 🤡 💡
Final show TONIGHT!

Erin Woodward is a longtime theater fool, second time Visionary resident. She has gone to a bunch of schools and collected a bunch of initials, BFA, MS, MA at NYU Tisch (PHTS), Pace, and CUNY SPS for Applied Theater, all of it adding up to lots of theater and lots of preparation to willingly spend her days with adolescents. She has taught for 20 years with the NYCDOE in high schools and middle schools as a dual certified teacher and is still amazed by the young people at her schools. She was honored by Epic Theater Ensemble as an Epic Educator and has been a district facilitator with the Connected Arts Network, a national arts initiative that wants everyone to actually understand that more arts make people better, and more people make arts better. She has worked with all the people in this group whose name begin with “J” and “V” since the pandemic came and made stuff sad and weird…because they are a group called Some Clowns that is not so sad, and still pretty weird. They were here at the Visionary in 2021…maybe you’ve seen them! She is very very proud of the Some Clowns journey. She has also directed and helped devise work with young people for over 20 years in NY, NJ, the Edinburgh Fringe, and in Rwanda, and directed and performed new works in various theaters and festivals in the NYC metropolitan area. She is also a co-founder of EmberArts, an Applied Theater group that facilitates community connection, staff development, reminiscence theater for communities, and believes that more arts make people better, and more people make arts better. She is also a sister to two amazing siblings, AuntE to two adorable littles, and a stepmom to a wonderful College of St. Rose graduate.

Click your heels three times Ulysses, July 27, 2024, 7:30pm

Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors

Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 6:30pm on day of show, cash only, 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online under
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417

07/25/2024

It’s almost time! Glimpse into our show this Saturday, Click your heels three times, Ulysses
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors

Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 7pm on day of show, 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417

07/22/2024

This Thursday at 4 PM! Parent Presentation 🔥✴️
(Last year’s program pictured)

Fizgig artists and instructors in residence will offer a “peak behind the curtain” to Hartwick Huskies program youth. The children will have the opportunity to see how actors devise original theater! We will play theater games, learn to work as an ensemble, and create small compositions for the stage. The workshop will culminate in a brief showing for parents at 4 pm so students can experience getting up in front of an audience.

Parents of Hartwick Husky youth are invited to attend the arts education performance at 4 PM. Please arrive at 3:45 to get a great seat!

07/20/2024

Creative Theater Workshop for The Hartwick Huskies
Presented by The Visionary &
NYC artist ensemble in residence: Fizgig
THURSDAY, JULY 25 FROM 12:30 - 5

Creative Theater Workshop for The Hartwick Huskies
Presented by The Visionary NYC artist ensemble in residence: Fizgig
Performance for parents begins at 4 PM
(by invitation only)

Pictured: Hartwick Huskies Arts Ed Program Presented by The Visionary in 2023

07/15/2024

Artist in residency spotlight 🔦💡

Jonah Lione hails from Clinton NJ, the Pennsylvania of New Jersey (where the big football game was milk themed if that gives you some insight). Last year, he graduated from Pace University where he studied acting and devising as part of their International Performance Ensemble. He recently premiered The Golden Project at 54 Below; wherein through a devised process they examined how golden age musicals could be reimagined/reinvigorated for the 21st century. His most special skills include bending his shoulders in ways they shouldn’t, synesthesia (everything has a color!), and clapping very loud.

See Lione in:

Click your heels three times, Ulysses
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors

Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 7pm on day of show, 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417

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2381 State Highway 205
Mount Vision, NY
13810

Telephone

+19173753316

Website

http://www.upsi-ny.com/, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417?aff=oddt

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