CATCH

Join the CATCH Hudson Valley artists for free workshops leading up to the performance:

Thursday, July 24th at 5:30 pm at Hudson-Chatham Winery: Guggenheim Fellow and playwright Aaron Landsman will host All the Time in the World, where social media turns into a card game. For people who want to enjoy the absurdity and sincerity of social media in the same gesture.

Friday, July 25th at 11:00 am at PS21: laialeah are experimenting with adapting a drama therapy technique called Developmental Transformations into a dramaturgical tool. In this open rehearsal, audience members will not undergo therapeutic treatment, but are instead invited to simply witness Laia and Leah’s improvised play as the two transform shared reference points within their body of work into fresh material. How does the work change when an audience is or is not present?

Friday, July 25th at 5:30 pm at PS21: Jillian Sweeney will lead a unique movement workshop that guides participants through the energetic images and exercises she uses to choreograph and improvise her solo practice, tether breath. 

Matthew Antoci !

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 continue to be interested in the complexities and contradictions of the contemporary woman, so therefore will be performing alongside one – Gabriella Gonzalez. matthewantoci.com / @antociantoci.

Tara Aisha Willis ! (Troy)

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. www.taraaishawillis.com | IG: @taraaishist

Rebecca Brooks ! (Clinton Corners)

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 Leary, Katy Pyle, and Will Rawls. Rebecca is a movement educator, dance artist & parent, working at intersections of creative practice and pedagogy. IG @rebeccakbrooks & www.howwemove.space live soon!

laialeah !

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. laialeah previously seen at CATCH 76, Night Coffee, SalON!, Haircut Party, Miz Cank, elsewhere. MOBILE WASH FEMALE LOCKER ROOM at Box Machine Aug 24-30th. // laiaxc.com leahpwrites.com @laiaxc @leah.annia

Kite ! (Catskill) 

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. @kitekitekitekite | kitekitekitekite.com | #IndigenousAI #CATCHseries #bodyinterface

Brian McCorkle ! (Hurley)

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 St. Rita of Cascia, patron saint of impossible causes, inspired by a trip to the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona.

https://brianmccorkle.work  @brianmccorkle

Jillian Sweeney ! (Beacon)

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. For more movement videos: @jilliancs (IG)

Ivy Baldwin Dance ! (Putnam Valley)

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). Baldwin is a choreographer, performer, educator, and founder of Ivy Baldwin Dance (est.1999). Tracy is a writer, poet, professor, ceramicist, and musician. ivybaldwindance.org, @ivybaldwin, ryantracy.com, @littlejeanjacques

Aaron Landsman/ThinAar Studio ! (Athens)

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. @thinaar (IG), https://www.thinaar.com 

Before the performance, enjoy dinner from Colonia Verde presents Asado21 on the PS21 patio starting at 5pm. The a la carte menu will include delicious Latin American favorites cooked on the grill, with tacos, plenty of meat and vegetarian options, dessert, and thoughtfully poured wine.