CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR
2017
“Yanira Castro is a structural obsessive. She is an art scientist. She sees the rules and patterns lurking just beneath the surface of things. The stuff that’s easier not to see…chaos staring at itself in the mirror, finding order.”
— Brian Rogers, Fusebox’s Written & Spoken
CAST, STAGE and AUTHOR was also made possible with the support of a grant from The Jerome Foundation, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, and by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Baisley Powell Elebash Fund, and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR was also made possible by our generous Kickstarter donors.
Team
Director, Choreographer: Yanira Castro
Collaborators & Performers: Kyle Bukhari, Simon Courchel, Leslie Cuyjet, devynn emory, Iréne Hultman, Luke Miller, Sai Somboon, David Thomson, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Pamela Vail, Tara Aisha Willis, Darrin Wright
Contributing Artists: John Hoobyar, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Heather Olson
Installation/Lighting Designer: Kathy Couch
Costume Designer (Masks for STAGE): Miodrag Guberinic
Dramaturg: Susan Mar Landau
Composer/Programmer/Interaction Designer: Stephan Moore
Musicians for STAGE: Scott Smallwood, Suzanne Thorpe
Video for AUTHOR: Peter Richards
Stage Managers: LD DeArmon (CAST), Reilly Horan (STAGE)
Tech Crew for STAGE: Kris Bergbom, Natalie Davery
Transcribers: Stormy Budwig, Emie Hughes
Marketing Assistant: Tara Sheena
Interns: Noor Qasim, Zachary Grand, Chloe Tausk
Premieres
CAST at The Chocolate Factory Theater, September 13–23, 2017
STAGE at Abrons Arts Center’s Playhouse, September 14–23, 2017
AUTHOR at The Invisible Dog Art Center, September 7–17, 2017
Press
Eva Yaa Asantewaa in InfiniteBody, “New Yanira Castro trilogy spans three spaces and boroughs”
Brian Rogers for Fusebox’s Written & Spoken, “Brian Rogers on Yanira Castro’s Performance Trilogy CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR”
Ivan Talijancic for The Brooklyn Rail, “In Conversation: Yanira Castro”
Martha Sherman preview for Dancelog.nyc, “Awaiting ‘CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR’”
Ivan Talijancic in BOMB Magazine, “Looking Back on 2017: Theater & Performance”
Hilary Tanabe for Culturebot, “Entering the Fifth Dimension”
Martha Sherman for her blog, Dance View Times, “In Dialogue with a canary torsi,” Part 1 and Part 2
Funding
The creation of CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR was made possible, in part, by generous commissions from the three presenting organizations: The Chocolate Factory, Abrons Art Center and The Invisible Dog Art Center.
CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR was also made possible with the support of a grant from The Jerome Foundation and by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Baisley Powell Elebash Fund, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR was also made possible by our generous Kickstarter donors.
The development of CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR was made possible, in part, by Yanira Castro’s participation in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Extended Life Dance Development program, and the work was being developed as part of the Extended Life Dance Development program, made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR was researched, developed, and honed with financial, administrative, and residency support from the Dance in Process program at Gibney Dance, with funds provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. STAGE was created with support from the Abrons Arts Center through the Abrons AIRspace Residency Program.
We thank Amilcar Guzman for a donation to the making of CAST given in the name of the artistic legacy of his husband, choreographer André Gingras (1966 – 2013).
