Troupe Courage
Troupe Courage is an international acting collective that produces performances and conducts workshops worldwide. They create a very virtuoso theater, using archetypal masks to play characters from all walks of life, such as the old woman, the dictator, the playing child and the refugee. In a completely empty space with live music, the actors manage to enchant the audience with their transformations and bring collected stories to life in the imagination of the viewer. Stories about how everyone tries to survive in today's world, which can be both tragic and primal. Troupe Courage creates high-level popular theater in which the actor's drive and ingenuity flourish and where the energy and enjoyment of acting shine through.
Caborca Theatre
Caborca is a bilingual theatre ensemble under the auteurship of Javier Antonio González.
For over a decade, we have occupied a unique space in New York at the intersection of the Latinx and experimental arts communities, building an expansive body of politically and aesthetically charged work that confronts entrenched colonial power dynamics.
A laboratory for dramatic and performative forms, we create original and adapted works by engaging an ever-expanding range of tools such as multimedia, physical and dance theatre, nonlinearity, fluidity of character and language, and choral storytelling.
We take our name from Roberto Bolaño’s novel The Savage Detectives, where Caborca is not only a town in the desert but an ephemeral poetry magazine turned cryptic manifesto.
Danielle Russo Performance Project
DRPP is a co-operative of diverse artists who design interdisciplinary performances for non-traditional “stages”. At home in Brooklyn, DRPP primarily occupies public spaces—architectural, historical, and politically-charged environs—using performance and experiential technology as mechanisms for mutual storytelling and social activism, alike.
Our mission is to provoke critical, socially conscious dialogue between artists and the general public by providing open performances, creative workshops, and interactive programming. With an emphasis on the intersection of local arts and public access, our work aims to bridge existing gaps between the arts and the larger, multi-cultural milieu that is New York City.
Ursula Rucker
Ursula Rucker is a Philadelphia born interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history, family, and place.
She has released five albums and traveled and toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa.
She has collaborated with a wide range of artists outside of the field of poetry, including The Roots, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, King Britt, and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Clarence Williams III. She describes her live performance memoir, My Father’s Daughter, as “90 minutes of self-truth and discovery.”
the american vicarious
the american vicarious is a not-for-profit generator of creative content across disciplinary boundaries that aspires to reflect on America’s ideals and realities, and that which unites and divides its people.
The artistic work of the american vicarious does not directly portray American society at any one time, in any one way. It is specifically ambiguous, encourages a sense of timelessness and universal applicability. In this way, the american vicarious attempts to portray what it sees as the universal conflicts and currents that drive American society, and the way those conflicts and currents have produced an American society that is both messy but also founded on common ideals of justice, freedom, and citizens’ responsibility.
Tate Strategy
Tate Strategy is a Brooklyn-based consulting firm that specializes in strategic marketing, public programming, community engagement, partnership development, and critical analysis.
The agency excels at creating powerful solutions to extraordinary problems. Economic growth and narrative change around issues of equality are at the core of its practice.
Tate Strategy’s public programs imagine the future while lifting up the revolutionary history of people of color and people of conscience.