The Craft: Late Night Performances & Brews
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The Craft is a monthly late night series that celebrates and provides a platform for local NYC craft through performance and beer.
We are still in awe over the works showcased at our last show at Governors Island on July 11th. Our artists’ energy was on another planet! Here are a few of our favorite moments.
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The Craft will be taking a break for the remainder of the summer, but be sure to check back in this Fall for more performance opportunities. Cheers!🍻
The Craft @ Governors Island: July 11th has finally arrived!
Join us for a collaborative afternoon of dance and beer today at 2PM at Threes on Governors Island.
Donation based (suggested $5 | venmo ). ALL PROCEEDS GO DIRECTLY TO OUR ARTISTS!
See you there 🎭 🍻
THE CRAFT @ GOVERNORS ISLAND: JULY 11TH IS TOMORROW! Our final artist spotlight goes to none other than Jennifer Muller/The Works who will be presenting their work entitled Attic (Excerpts).
For 46 years, Jennifer Muller/The Works has presented visionary dance theater, illuminating the human spirit and electrifying world audiences in 39 countries, 4 continents, & 30 US States. JMTW has performed in Lincoln & Kennedy Centers, The Joyce, City Center & the United Nations, and has produced 28 NYC Seasons. Muller has created 118+ pieces & worked with 30 international dance, theater & opera companies, as well as iconic collaborators Yoko Ono, Keith Haring, & Keith Jarrett within her rich legacy of work.
See this iconic work TOMORROW @ 2PM ET at Threes on Governors Island! Show donation and ferry ticket links in bio.
📸: Steven Pisano
The Craft @ Governors Island: July 11th is just two days away! Our next artist spotlight goes to Paris Cullen, MJ Markovitz, Arzu Salman, Callie Hale + Lydia Soueidan, who will be showcasing their work entitled Finish Lines.
Paris, MJ, Arzu, Lydia, and Callie are five gender-bending dance artists who have come together to create collaboratively. Their process uses improvisation, tasks, and musicality, channeling embodiment, joy, spontaneity, and the bonds of friendship, working without judgement or standards. The dance piece that you will see dissects q***r identity and relationships, and the toxicity of the mainstream dance industry.
See this incredible work this Sunday, July 11th @ 2PM ET at Threes on Governors Island! Ferry and donation links in bio.
Can you believe The Craft @ Governors Island: July 11th is only a few days away?! Our next artist spotlight goes to Eleanor Lougee Heimer, who will be showcasing her work entitled, toska, performed by Maria Fleischman + Natalia Lee.
Eleanor Lougee Heimer is a performance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Eleanor recently graduated from Sarah Lawrene College where she earned her BA concentrating in theatre, dance, and literature. Eleanor is an alumna of the Moscow Art Theatre School, Prague Film School and served as an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Utilizing the choreographic, Eleanor's work explores rebellious joy through unflinished structure. Their most recent work in progress, "toscka", explores the ghosts we cannot bury, the deaths we cannot mourn, and the comedy within every tragedy."toska" examines loss in the digital age; the multifaceted ways in which we relate to one another's pain.
See this powerful work this Sunday, July 11th @ 2PM ET at Threes on Governors Island! Ferry tickets and donation links in bio.
The Craft @ Governors Island: July 11th is just around the corner, and we absolutely cannot wait to introduce our next artist Lavy, who will be showcasing their work entitled househead, in collaboration with Juniper, Fireball, and Moodring.
This work in progress is rooted within the expressionism of nightlife and identity. As we have begun to reshape our newage post COVID world, we seek to be free and allow more celebration, a celebration of community, expression, q***rness, and love.
See this celebratory work this Sunday, July 11th @ 2PM ET at Threes on Governors Island! Ferry info and donation link in bio.
It is officially show week at Governors Island, and we cannot wait to welcome back The Craft alum Ashley Menestrina, who will be showcasing her solo work entitled The Woman in The Wire Suit (work in progress).
Ashley Menestrina is a freelance artist performing her own work all over the world. Her first self-choreographed solo, Always a Creature has been performed at numerous venues in NYC from 2015-2017. The Human Condition: Absent Presence premiered at The Martha Graham Theater in NYC in April 2018 and has been performed at festivals in Los Angeles, Turkey, Mexico City, Portugal, and Israel. Her most recent solo work, Combative Echoes, was created and performed for Unit Motives: GRM in Thessaloniki, Greece, further accepted into the 24th International Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, and most recently performed at the 39th Annual Battery Dance Festival in NYC in August 2020. She is currently working on a new solo work titled, The Woman in the Wire Suit.
See this innovative work this Sunday, July 11th @ 2PM ET at Threes on Governors Island! Ferry ticket info in bio.
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As we enjoy the holiday weekend, we must also celebrate the fact that The Craft @ Governors Island: July 11th is exactly a week away! Our first artist spotlight goes to Ross Daniel + Sarah Rose, who will be showcasing their duet entitled Plastic Romance.
Sarah Rose and Ross Daniel have been making interdisciplinary performance works together since 2017. They were selected for MANCC (Maggie Allessee National Center for Choreography)’s inaugural Forward Dialogues program for emerging artists in 2017 where they researched a merging of their distinct choreographic practices. The pair investigate place through movement improvisation and responsive sculpture building. They have created and performed original place-based dance works in Tallahassee (FL), NYC (NY), Brooklyn (NY), Jersey City (NJ), Warren (VT), and Milford (PA). They have been selected for residencies at The Iron Factory (Philadelphia, PA) and The Phantom Theater (Warren, VT).
See this immersive work next Sunday, July 11th @ 2PM ET at Threes on Governors Island!
The Craft is celebrating the summer with our second live show back at Governors Island!
Join us for a collaborative afternoon of performance and craft beer at Threes Brewing on Governors Island, Sunday, July 11th @ 2:00 PM.
$5 suggested donation | venmo:
[available day of show - code: 7137]
*all proceeds go directly to the artists*
*tentative rain delay performance scheduled for Sunday, July 18th @ 2:00 PM*
For venue information, directions, and to reserve your ferry tickets to Governors Island in advance, click the link in our bio.
July's series will showcase works from:
Ashley Menestrina
Jennifer Muller/The Works
Paris Cullen
Eleanor Lougee-Heimer
Sarah Rose + Ross Daniel
Alex Cavaliere
Nothing better than great performance 🎭 cold beer 🍻 and sweet summer bliss ☀️
See you there.
It’s been a week since our first show at Governors Island, and we are excited to share some of our favorite captured moments! Thank you to all of our artists and supporters who attended the event. We are so grateful to have you back IRL!
Interested in showing your work at our next show? It’s the last day to apply for The Craft @ Governors Island: July 11th! Application link in bio.
LAST WEEK TO APPLY | THE CRAFT @ GOVERNORS ISLAND: JULY 11TH
Application link in bio.
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TODAY IS THE DAY!
After much anticipation, The Craft is thrilled to be able to safely create a platform for live performance! Join us at 2PM today (6/13) on Governors Island for a collaborative afternoon of dance and beer. Check our link in bio to reserve your ferry ticket and donate to our incredible artists! See you there 🍺🕺🏻
THE CRAFT @ GOVERNORS ISLAND: JUNE 13TH IS TOMORROW! Our final artist spotlight goes to none other than Morgan Amirah Burns, who will be showcasing her solo work entitled, “In her shoes.”
Morgan Amirah Burns is a performer and filmmaker. She received her BFA in dance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dance. Her creative works explore reciprocity as a means of feeding the earth and soul. “In her shoes” is Morgan’s newest work in progress that serves as a testimony to growth and a deep dive into her relation to identity and life sources. With the help of musician David Stern, “in her shoes” is an exploration unlike any other, looking at womanhood, adolescence, and free will.
See this impressive work TOMORROW (6/13) at 2:00 PM @ Threes on Governors Island! Be sure to reserve your ferry tickets and donate to our artists. Link in bio.
📸: Jenecia Williams
The Craft @ Governors Island: June 13th is just two days away! Our next artist spotlight goes to Garet Wierdsma, who will be showcasing her work entitled, “solivagant,” performed by Sydney Shu-Yu Chow and Rachel Ha-Eun Lee.
Garet Wierdsma is an artist from a small town in Connecticut, currently based in New York City. She earned her BFA in Dance and a minor in Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology in May of 2021, and now works full time as the Sales Coordinator of Dance Media Publications. Garet’s artistic works have been showcased in EXCHANGE Choreography Festival, WADEinto Activism, Anyplace Anytime Film Festival, Rogue Dancer Film Fest, and as a finalist in the International Online Dance Competition. Her performance experiences include pieces by Shamel Pitts, Chuck Wilt, Patricia Hoffbauer, and Cari Ann Shim Sham. Garet believes that art changes the world and is passionately and actively working to be a generator of light. While working on solivagant, Garet has been thinking about the people who are forever tied to her- for better or for worse- even if they are not in her life everyday.
See this fantastic work this Sunday at 2:00 PM @ Threes on Governors Island! Check our link in bio to reserve your ferry tickets.
With the weekend just around the corner, we cannot wait to introduce our next June 13th Artist, Grace Tong, who will be presenting an excerpt of her work entitled, “Garden Tongues,” performed alongside Sydney Shu-Yu Chow and Rachel Ha-Eun Lee.
Garden Tongues is a performance experience created by and for Asian femmes. Conceived in October 2020 (though in an on-going process), Garden Tongues is a spiteful description of bitter exotification, salty grandmothers' kitchens, and sweet collective strength. Today’s excerpt dances between hyper-simplifications of the “(East) Asian-American experience”, anti-Asian racism, the fetishization of the Asian woman, and reality. In this movement, we disentangle our bodies from identity.
See this groundbreaking work this Sunday, June 13th @ 2:00 PM at Threes on Governors Island!
📸: Owen Burnham
Planning on attending our June 13th show at Governors Island? Be sure to reserve your ferry tickets in advance!
Our artists will be showcasing their work at Threes Brewing’s pop up located in the Liggett Terrace section of the island. For location and ferry info, check the link in our bio.
The Craft @ Governors Island: June 13th is just a few more days away! Our next artist spotlight goes to Nicole Colbert who will be showcasing her work entitled, “Disruptions & Continuities,” performed by Danielle Alvarez, Fumihiro Kikuchi & Efrén Olson-Sanchez.
Disruptions & Continuities explores the idea of how disruptions caused by the elements (water, earth, air and fire), depending on their activity (e.g. earthquakes, forest fires, tornadoes) can disrupt our lives & our quest for continuities.
See this amazing work this Sunday, June 13th @ 2:00 PM ET at Threes on Governors Island!
The Craft is looking forward to this Sunday’s afternoon of performances, and we are especially looking forward to showcasing work from Tamika Daniels, who will be presenting her solo piece entitled “When All Have Gone, Grief Remains.”
(Movement Artist) Tamika Daniels, a Queens, NY, native, received her B.A. in Dance from CUNY Queens College.
Far too many mothers are burying their children at the hands of those who took an oath to “Protect and Serve.” Mothers, whom we otherwise wouldn’t recognize, would trade their household name for their child’s life in a heartbeat. People, strangers, rally to their side in an outcry, to chant for justice. Family and friends gather to console and mourn and grieve. “But when the lights go off, and the cameras are gone and your family is gone, your friends are gone and it’s just you, you’re gonna have to learn how to deal with it. You’re gonna have to learn how to come back, from your deep depression, your sadness, your disappointment…and just not having your child.” - Sybrina Fulton (Mother of Trayvon Martin); Interview: Their Painful Bond: Black Mother Speak Out Together on Their Unimaginable Loss. As a mother, more specifically a black mother, I feel their pain and can only imagine the immensity of their grief.
See this powerful work this Sunday, June 13th @ 2:00 PM at Threes on Governors Island!
Have you heard the news?! Not only are we having our first live show at Threes on Governors Island this week, but we’ve also opened up applications for The Craft @ Governors Island: July 11th!
Know an artist that wants to showcase their work? Tag them below! Application link in bio.
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We are so excited to be showcasing live work again and are especially looking forward to introducing Rachel Calabrese and Sawyer Newsome of Newbrese Dance this week, who will be showcasing their duet entitled “WaveLength.”
Newbrese Dance is an emerging physical contemporary performance project created by dancers Rachel Calabrese and Sawyer Newsome. Rachel and Sawyer both graduated from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in May 2020, receiving a BFA in Dance. They both have a love for the physicality of movement and how its momentum can be the driving force behind each impulse. This piece dives into the intimacy of relationships and how it often turns monotonous. How can one keep that raw feeling of excitement alive whilst still having the comfort of routine and ritual?
See this powerful work this Sunday, June 13th @ 2:00 PM at Threes @ Governors Island!
It is officially show week at Governors Island, and we absolutely cannot wait to introduce our June 13th artists! First up is Paige Cowen, who will be showcasing her solo work entitled “piece of a whole.”
"piece of a whole" is part of a larger work in progress that grapples with the implications of capitalist ideologies, specifically in reference to how they impact the body. This portion of the work holds up a mirror to the wreckage left behind the wake of the past 15 months–– give or take. Previous research performances for the larger work have cracked open other themes such as the definition of "productivity" and the meaning of "success."
See this thought-provoking work this Sunday, June 13th @ 2:00 PM at Threes @ Governors Island!
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The Craft is celebrating the summer with our first live show in over a year on Governors Island!
Join us for a collaborative evening of performance and craft beer at Threes Brewing on Governors Island, Sunday, June 13th @ 2:00 PM.
$5 suggested donation | venmo:
[code: 7137 - this venmo will be available the day of show]
*all proceeds go directly to the artists*
*tentative rain delay performance scheduled for Sunday, June 20th @ 2:00 PM*
For venue information and directions, check our link in bio.
This month's series will showcase works from:
Nicole Colbert
Tamika Daniels
Garet Wierdsma
Rachel Calabrese + Sawyer Newsome (NewBrese Dance)
Paige Cowen
Morgan Burns
Nothing better than great performance 🎭 , cold beer 🍻 , and sweet summer bliss ☀️
See you there.
It’s our last day to apply for The Craft: June 13th @ Governors Island and we cannot wait to see what’s in store for our first live performance.
Know a NYC based artist who you think should showcase their work with us this summer? Tag them below! Application link in bio.
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Without further ado, The Craft is pleased to announce our first live performance after over a year! The Craft @ Governors Island: June 13th applications are now open! Application link and show info in bio.
We are thrilled to be teamed back up with again. Be sure to check us out this summer. Let’s dance and have a beer together IRL! 🕺🏻🍻
TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT. Join us for our final virtual performance. We’ve got some exciting news to announce so be sure to tune in!
All proceeds donated at tonight’s show will be given directly to our artists. For every $5 donated, The Craft will personally donate $1 to organizations of our artists’ choice.
Show and donation link in bio. See you soon!
The Craft: May 6th is TOMORROW NIGHT! Our final artist spotlight goes to Roni Uzan, who will be showcasing her video work entitled THE MAZE, in collaboration with videographer Yoram Aharony.
“We are caged in our own thoughts, running through loopholes only to find ourselves exactly where we started. The Covid 19 Pandemic had caused most of us artists in a complete shot down but we also had the opportunity long gone, to reflect on what we are doing and what is on the horizon. We lived our lives as independent artists constantly spurred to get the next role, chase money, recognition and fulfillment in an unstable reality. we are like lab rats running towards an unknown destination. The fear of being irrelevant had been augmented when the performance art world was completely obliterated with no nearing signs of return.”
See this engaging performance TOMORROW, May 6th @ 9PM ET via Zoom! Show and donation link in bio.
📸: Or Danon
The Craft: May 6th is just two days away! Our next artist spotlight goes to Aika Takeshima + Sara Pizzi, who will be showcasing their live work entitled BLOCKS.
"BLOCKS is a new kind of online live performance named - Joining Style Performance -. It premiered on February 26th, 2021. We wanted to break the ordinary idea of performance transforming it in an interactive place to share and discuss concepts together. The performance was created for and with the audience. We improvised movement and words rotating around the concept of the children blocks game. We reacted to everything happening around us and the audience. We let the audience, thoughts, dance, events guide us. This time we are going to present a short version of the original concept.”
See this interactive work this Thursday @ 9PM ET via Zoom! Link in bio.
It’s officially show week and we cannot wait to introduce our next artist, Olga Rabetskaya, who will be showcasing her video work entitled , created in collaboration with Anna Gichan + Carlos Cardona.
is a cinematic short dance film created in direct response to the falsified 2020 elections of Belarus. My hope is that through this film I can show that Belarus's spirit is strong. The colors are Belarus's colors, the posters allude to the protesters standing up for our rights and women as the lead attest to the special women led protests on Saturdays. This film stands in solidarity with those who are fighting for their rights, everywhere.
See this powerful work this Thursday, May 6th @ 9PM ET via Zoom! Link in bio.
📸: Matt Bastos
We cannot wait for The Craft: May 6th next week, and we are especially looking forward to welcoming back Kathleen Clark who will be showcasing her work entitled FIND LIGHT.
"FIND LIGHT was born from a long, dark winter spent isolating in a new apartment in Portland, Maine. The work is a celebration of spring--embodying its natural undercurrents of newness, fertility and growth. The intentional, pose-based, movement allows both the dancer and viewer to linger on the simple presence of light in a room, on a wall and on a body.
This piece was first conceived and shared as a series of clips on Instagram. The video in full, with all its subtle shifts and adjustments, encourages the viewer to stay mindful and to value the work as much as the pose."
See this thought-provoking work this Thursday, May 6th @ 9PM via Zoom! Link in bio.
📸: Jenna Westra
The Craft: May 6th is next week and we are looking forward to welcoming back Sean Thomas Boyt of stb x at who will be showcasing their live work in collaboration with Dr. Andy Thierauf entitled, Keeping on.
Sean Thomas Boyt and Dr. Andy Thierauf have been cross-disciplinary collaborators for the past eight years, creating work that spans a variety of genres by using dance and percussion as mediums for engaging performance art. Incorporating electronics, improvisation, text, and physical theater, the “dance/perc” duo is constantly experimenting and producing material while refining their practices individually.
"Keeping on" is a Zoom-based work that allows the audience to experience the production of the dance. Processed through the virtual backdrop feature, the multi-cam performance can be experienced in several parts: a portable screen dance, a bedroom improvisation, or an amalgamation of fixed and live performance. Situating itself within the isolation of the past year, "Keeping on" is a meditative, multilayered one-person disco stuck in an interior-focused world.
See this innovative work this Thursday, May 6th @ 9PM ET via Zoom! Link in bio.
📸: Kaitlin Chow
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TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT. The Craft is gearing up for another virtual show! Join us for a collaborative evening of performance and craft beer at November's performance series via Zoom! $5 suggested donation venmo: @thecraftny [code: 7137] *all proceeds go directly to the artists* November's series will showcase works from: Charly Santagado Anna Kazwell Kenya Joy Gibson Roni Uzan Paris Cullen + MJ Markovitz Megan Minturn Alison Cook Beatty Sad that you can't enjoy a delicious Threes Brewing beer during the performance? They've got you covered! Link to order brewskis in bio. *There is no time to be complacent. We must use our platforms to make our voices heard and move to action. Incentivizing our artists has always been our first priority, however, we must do more. For every $5 donated to our artists at our November 12th show, The Craft will personally donate $1 to organizations of our artists' choice. Let’s continue to challenge each other and our arts organizations to rise to action. There is power in this community. We must stand with one another.* Here's a virtual toast 🍻 to our community of artists + supporters! We cannot wait to celebrate performance and change the world with you. 🌎 ♥️ link in bio. 🎥: @vanessammartino #dance #theater #beer #thecraftny #virtualdance #virtualtheater #virtualperformance #virtualcheers #virtual #zoom
For every $5 donated to our artists, The Craft will personally donate $1 to an organization of our artists’ choice. Link in bio.
For every $5 donated to our artists, The Craft will personally donate $1 to an organization of their choice. link in bio.
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