CATCH Hudson Valley
Saturday, July 26th
5:00 PM Asado21 & Two Pauls’ Cafe open
6:00 PM House opens
7:00 PM Performance of short works
Performance duration: 2 hours with a 15 minute intermission
CATCH is “everybody’s favorite” Obie award-winning, itinerant, rough-and-ready performance party.
PRESENTING ARTISTS
Ivy Baldwin and Ryan Tracy (Catskill!) are performing a tiny excerpt/experiment from Rumen, Baldwin’s new work set to premiere in April 2026 at NYU Skirball (NYC). Original song by Ryan Tracy. Baldwin is a choreographer, performer, educator, and founder of Ivy Baldwin Dance (est.1999). Tracy is a writer, poet, professor, ceramicist, and musician.
Rebecca Brooks offers no no solo, a new study for an interdependent future. Something about authorship, something about psychic entanglement, something about dance. She has enlisted some of her favorite artists to make and teach her 1 minute dances which together make no no solo: Jesi Cook, Tess Dworman, Eden Grimshaw, Heather Kravas, Jmy James Kidd, Katy Pyle, and Will Rawls. Rebecca is a movement educator, dance artist & parent, working at intersections of creative practice and pedagogy.
Kite performs an untitled piece using custom sensors and machine learning software, generating live electronic sound shaped by movement. Her work draws on Lakota epistemologies, somatic computing, and dreams as data—building Indigenous technologies for performance.
tether breath is a solo performance by Jillian Sweeney that plays with the sound and animation of her own breath and the container of the performance environment in which she performs. Sweeney is a choreographer/performer/writer based in the Hudson Valley. She practices a range of dance and somatic forms and creates rituals for performer and audience to experience together.
As Ben and Nate continue to play with different forms and formats of the music and theater genre, they bring you, The Mystery Medicine Show! A riff on the travelling medicine shows of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which used music, storytelling, and sideshows to hawk various potions, remedies, and healing trinkets to the masses, The Mystery Medicine Show is put on by a group of intrepid weirdos who’ve arrived from unbelievable lands, times, and circumstances with just the right fix to whatever ails you.
Title: Torc
Sound design: James Lo
Headdress: Doris Reyes
I design intricate movement that seeks to examine the exquisite nature and dynamic relationships between human beings. I do this because my desires to express the possibilities and uniqueness of human interactions is done through my connection to dance making and teaching. As a performer, choreographer, teacher, and collaborator, I have been devoted to the field of dance for over three decades. Through these multiple lenses—performer, choreographer, educator, and collaborator—dance remains a dynamic and evolving practice. Each aspect of my engagement with the art form enhances the others, creating a rich, interconnected foundation for my ongoing development as an artist.
I believe that the body is a profound vehicle for communication. My artistic practice starts with the daily physical research in the studio aligning the body with the intellect and the senses. I attempt to create movement that occupies a position somewhere between written and spoken language and am deeply invested in how dance can be akin to a living text. I see the work I do as a continuous act of creating and sharing of these experiences with others in various platforms, highlighting the inherent social nature of dance.
Tara Aisha Willis is currently figuring out how, when, and whether to bring her behind-the-scenes curatorial labor and her after-the-fact writing practice into physical alignment with her dance improvisations. This performance may riff on substructures: the bass of the song, the ground of the artwork, the greenroom of the stage. Tara is also a curator at EMPAC and a performance studies lecturer at University of Chicago.
laialeah is Laia and Leah. Leah and Laia make noise theater. Laia is a director and Leah is a playwright, but Leah and Laia are also laialeah, and laialeah makes noise theater.
Brian McCorkle is a composer, performer, and digital media artist and was co-Director of opera company/performance space Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) for over a decade. The piece performed for CATCH is an excerpt from an as-yet untitled opera loosely based on the life of St. Rita of Cascia, saint of impossible causes, inspired by a trip to the Santa Rita Mountains of South East Arizona with Nina Isabelle. Rita’s life occurred between the Black Plague and the High Renaissance in Central Italy (1381-1457), she lived through the invention of the Printing Press, the “discovery” of perspective, and the sack of Constantinople – she is also the unofficial patron saint of baseball.
Michael Silverstone & Abigail Browde are the directors of 600 HIGHWAYMEN, which they started in 2009. They produce work at the crossroads of theater, dance, and civic or social inquiry. They’ll be sharing a selection from a film they’ve been working on in Albany County for the last five years.
600highwaymen.org
Matthew Antoci is a generative director, performer, producer and Italiana goddess. Their work blends pop spectacle, theatrical chaos, and a meta-theatrical je ne sais quoi. They’re lucky to’ve produced and shown work onstage at La MaMa, MITU 580, CATCH (The Invisible Dog), The Brick, The Exponential Festival, Loading Dock, Baryshnikov Arts Center, IRT Theater, Purgatory, Life World, The Kraine, and The Tank. They continue to be interested in the complexities and contradictions of the contemporary woman, so therefore will be performing alongside one. feat. Gabriella Gonzalez & Isabel Ebeid.
Using a unique combination of organic and electronic sounds ranging from gongs, singing bowls, modular, drone synths, voices and bodies, Melissa and Nicholas curates an experimental soundscape for an inward journey in community. Melissa is a lifelong yogi, movement/media artist and sound/energy healer. Nicholas Young is an artist, choreographer, dancer, musician, and a 2014 Bessie Award recipient. They will be offering their sound journeys at Nicholas’s new studio Rhythmic art center NYC in Spanish Harlem in the coming fall.
All the Time in the World is Instagram as card game, as emergent bingo hall, as performance score, as vanity spectacle complete with hearts and likes. We’re teaching the game to learn it with you. Aaron is the instigator of foolish, hopeful practices – recently with Hallow Ground records, Storefront for Art and Architecture and the National Civic League.
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