CHELSEA FACTORY x The Playground NYC
Company:
The Playground NYC
CHELSEA FACTORY x The Playground NYC
Lead by: Kayla Farrish
Wednesday, 01/17 || 10:00AM-12:00PM, **FREE**
Chelsea Factory: 547 W 26th Street, New York, NY
The entrance to Chelsea Factory is on the north side of West 26th Street, in the middle of the block.
More info: https://www.chelseafactory.org/plan-your-visit
The Playground NYC allows dancers to experience various choreographic styles and ideas, engage with a new community of dancers, and gather resourceful information and inspiration from the array of choreographers involved. In turn, established choreographers are paid for their creative investigations, are given free space to explore new movement with professional dancers, and are provided with the opportunity to establish relationships with new dancers and fellow choreographers.
Bio:
Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts is an emerging company combining filmmaking, storytelling, dance theater performance, and sound score. The company has been commissioned by Gibney Dance Inc (2020-2022), Louis Armstrong House Museum (2020), Danspace Project Inc (2019), Pepatian and BAAD! (2018), and beyond. Her residencies include Gallim Women + Residency (2021), Gibney Spotlight: New Voices, Barysnikov Arts Center, Arts On Site (2020), Keshet Makers Space Experience, BAX Space Grant (2019), Pepatian Dance Your Future (2018), and Chez Bushwick (2017). Her live performance and films show at Judson Church, Danspace, Jacob's Pillow, New York Live Arts, Joe’s Pub, BAAD!, film festivals, and beyond. In 2021 she created “Broken Record” with Brandon Coleman for Little Island Festival, “Rinsing” film, co-directed Melanie Charles “Y’ll D’nt Care Abt Black Women” Film, Saul Williams’ “People Above the Moon” Solo for The Motherboard Suites at NYLA, “Roster” outdoor Performance- Four/Four Open Air Series with Melanie Charles, and Martyr’s Fiction Feature Film. In 2022, she releases feature film “Martyr’s Fiction”, and will collaborate with Belinda McGuire, The Clarice Presents “BlackLight Summit”, Kenyon Adams, Louis Armstrong House, Lincoln Center/Kyle Abraham, Triskelion, and others. She is currently a rehearsal director at Sleep No More NYC and adjunct faculty at NYU Tisch.
