loud and clear
an immersive performance by bolefuego
Featuring Artists Miguel Alejandro Castillo and Daniella Barbarito
Food & Art Friday at Sable : June 30, 2023
5:30pm
Work-in-progress by Sable Summer Artists in Residence
Performance by Sable Guest Artists - The Pandora Consort
Pizza by Fat Dragon Farm
7pm
loud and clear - an immersive performance throughout Sable
About loud and clear
loud and clear is a performance piece exploring diasporic imagination and future folklore. What happens when folklore migrates? How do we celebrate resilience within the exhausting process of migrating? The work imagines a hybrid fictional and post-nationalist folkloric festivity inspired by immigrants and the vibrancy of Latin-American traditions such as tambores, calypso, the dancing devil of Yare, Naiguatá, and the Andean ekeko.
Choreography and performance by Miguel Alejandro Castillo and Daniella Barbarito
Music by Daniella Barbarito
Costume design by Lexy Ho-Tai
Scenic design by Xinan Ran
About the Artists
Miguel Alejandro Castillo (Choreography and Performance) is a queer interdisciplinary artist from Caracas, Venezuela. choreographer, director, installation artist, educator, and performer, he is drawn to the permeability of art forms and the new inquiries that arise from cross-disciplinary and multicultural collaborations. His current research investigates diasporic imagination and future folklore. Through this work, he wields imagination both to discover what is true and to expand the realm of what is possible.
Castillo is a Fresh Tracks artist in residency at New York Live Arts and the choreographer for Prisoner of The State, a new opera by David Lang commissioned by the New York Philharmonic. As a dancer, Miguel has performed in the U.S and internationally in the works of Faye Driscoll, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Jeanine Durning, Maria Hassabi, Tzveta Kassabova, Alex Springer & Xan Burley, Peter Schmitz, Laurel Jenkins, Delfos Danza Contemporánea, among others. In 2021 Castillo was a danceWEB scholar at the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. He is also a company member of Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre.
Castillo is a proud United World College alumnus, holds a bachelor’s in dance and theatre from Middlebury College and an M.F.A in Choreography and Performance from Smith College.
Daniella Barbarito (Choreography and Performance, Music) is multi-disciplinary artist who was born and raised in Caracas and currently lives in Madrid. Her music reimagines Venezuelan tradition with a modern approach and deals with memory and identity with a humor, pathos and nostalgia that borrows from the bolero cannon. She accompanies herself on the Venezuelan cuatro, adding a touch of folklore to her post-modern sensibility.
Lexy Ho-Tai (Costume design) is a Chinese-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work explores world-building through craft and play. Working in a range of mediums, her collaborative and participatory work often employs humor, imagination, and absurdity to invite viewers to contemplate pressing social and environmental issues. Monsters, celebration of otherness, and tending to the inner child are recurring themes in her work. She believes that joy is an act of resistance, and that play forges a powerful space to envision and work towards alternative futures.
Lexy has had solo shows at the Museum of Arts and Design and Flux Factory, and has also shown work at the Abrons Art Center, The Highline, and Little Berlin. She is a core member of eco-theater groups Superhero Clubhouse and Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre. Past residencies include Watermill Center, Flux Factory, ARoS Museum, Everglades National Park, Art Farm, Elsewhere Museum, Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center and the Museum of Arts and Design, where she was a Van Lier Fellow.
Xinan (Helen) Ran (Scenic design) (b.1994. Inner Mongolia, China) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from Hunter College (2022), and BFA from Pratt Institute (2017). She specializes in fabric, language, and found objects to construct emotional landscapes. She searches for the point where trauma, nihilism, and humor converge. Xinan is a mentee in New York Foundation for the Arts’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (2023), was a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center resident (2022), and an Ox-Bow Summer Fellow (2016). Apart from her studio practice, Xinan is an art educator, and an aspirational set designer for new theaters.