Xenia Rubinos is a NY-based vocalist, composer, and performing artist from Hartford, CT. The New Yorker describes her work as “vocally generous, rhythmically fierce music that slips through the net of any known genre”. Rubinos’ critically acclaimed albums brought her to tour internationally, performing at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, MoMa, and Pitchfork Music Festival. She is a current Research Fellow at the Centro for Puerto Rican Studies and Associate Professor at BerkleeNYC.

Circulo de Voces is a public performance piece of new music and a public activation with the audience reimagining the choir as a public service. In Circulo the choir gives voice to memory, new futures and a living archive. While in residence at PS21 Chatham, Xenia and her collaborators will be working on the staging of a new immersive live performance. In this work Rubinos questions what a fully embodied performance and music making process looks like, engages the audience in collective voicing and seeks her body-voice.

Photo credit: Amber Knecht