an intimate evening of new solos & duets performed at JACK

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17 | 7PM - 10PM

20 PUTNAM AVE BROOKLYN

CHOREOGRAPHY BY DANIELLE RUSSO

FEATURING

ROYA CARRERAS FERESHTEHNEJAD

INGRID KAPTEYN

KAYLA FARRISH

CONNIE SHIAU

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The program will take shape as an open installation in the round; you are welcome to enter and witness the work at will. The solos—each approximately 15–25 minutes—will unfold sequentially, connected by a series of interstitial duets lasting around 10 minutes each. 

PRELUDE is the first formal showcase of material to be included in a larger installation imagined for Fall 2026, for which we are seeking production support and curation. Some elements of this new process are inspired by creative research supported through the New York State Choreographers Initiative, under the mentorship of Alexandra Wells, as well as residencies at Kaatsbaan and Yaddo.

The dances—at once propulsive and finely detailed—draw on its performers’ genealogies and the idea of ancestral memory to sculpt an archive of iconographies collaging poetics, myths, gestures, and sensations based on the experience of Womxn.

Our research into personal genealogy led us to Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn’s 1930s Eranos Project, a precursor to what is now the ARAS (Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism) housed within the C.G. Jung Institute. An eclipsed contemporary of Jung, Fröbe-Kapteyn worked in theories of the collective unconscious, convening visionaries across cultures, eras, and fields to compile and study a multidisciplinary archive of archetypal imagery. Her work has been a profound influence on this phase of our creative process.

We sincerely hope you will join us.

Photograph by Alex Diaz