Moving Memory: NEXT GENERATION
Saturday, June 7th at 7:30 PM
Broadway Presbyterian Church
601 W 114th Street, New York, NY
Moving Memory: NEXT GENERATION continues to nurture emerging artistic voices, foster meaningful creative connections, and create space for the next generation of artists in our community.
This edition invites you to an evening of dance curated by Stefanie Nelson, featuring original movement-based works that delve into the themes of memory, erasure, and forgetting.
The performance highlights contributions from members of the Dance Italia community, including Nunzia Picciallo, Next Gen choreographer Anna Rice, and a special guest solo by Marjani Forté-Saunders, created in collaboration with Idea Reid, a recent graduate of Barnard College.
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A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be
Choreography: Marjani Forté-Saunders in collaboration with Idea Reid
Performer: Idea Reid
Music: “I Won’t Complain” – Rev. Paul Jones; “Empty Grail” – Vernon Reid
Inspired by the works of: Kara Walker, Frantz Fanon, and Forté-Saunders' On Permanence and I Won’t Complain
This work navigates grief, Black embodiment, and resistance through layered references and deeply personal expression. Anchored by text, song, and movement, it presents a space for reflection on presence, inheritance, and visionary imagination across time.
Idea Reid is a recent graduate from Barnard College, where she studied Dance and Psychology. She received her dance education from the Professional Performing Arts High School (Alvin Ailey Program), Manhattan Youth Ballet, and Staten Island Ballet, and is a recipient of the Homer Avila Merit Award from Alonzo King LINES Ballet. While at Barnard, she has performed works by Christopher Rudd, Yoshito Sakuraba, Norbert de La Cruz III, Chanel DaSilva, Gabrielle Lamb, Lisa Boudreau/Merce Cunningham and Maguette Camara.
Marjani Forté-Saunders is a 3x Bessie award-winning choreographer, performer, teaching artist, and Mother. She is a 2023 United States Artists Fellow, an awardee of the prestigious Dance Magazine Harkness Award (2020) and the (2020) Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship. She is a founding member of the collective 7NMS, alongside composer/sound designer Everett Saunders.
WAMI
Created & Performed by: Nunzia Picciallo
Music: Marcal, Nunzia Picciallo
Supported by: Equilibrio Dinamico, Big Factory, Associazione Culturale Ri.E.S.Co., Fuorimargine Sardegna, Tersicorea T.Off
Produced with support from: MIC Italian Ministry of Culture, GAI, TPP Puglia Public Theater, GA/ER
Awards: Performance Award (Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival), Masdanza Award, SAI Festival Award, and more.
WAMI reclaims the dancing body from binary expectations. Through raw, shifting movement, Nunzia Picciallo offers a vision of identity unbound—fluid, resistant, and fully embodied in its rebellion against structural norms.
Nunzia Picciallo is an award-winning artist born in Italy, working as a creator, performer, and teacher in various parts of the world. Their creations develop through a transdisciplinary approach that weaves together dance, performance, conceptual and visual arts. Nunzia's work is defined by an ever-evolving investigation into the foundational dynamics between the body, understood as a subjectivity in constant transformation, and the system/space it inhabits. Consequently, the performative act becomes a means to open up diverse dialogues, inviting a form of presence that transcends surface and image.
Nunzia has presented their creations in international contexts between Europe, Asia, Middle East, Central and North America. Nunzia’s work has received numerous awards, including the Performance Award at the International Solo Tanz-Theater, the Residanza Award - house of new choreography, Masdanza Award, and the SAI Festival Award. She was also selected for the Stray Birds Dance Platform 2023 and the Vetrina della Giovane Danza d'Autore 2022. Alongside their performative practice, Nunzia facilitates movement workshops and Gaga classes, bringing together dance professionals and people from diverse backgrounds.
smeard
Choreography: Anna Rice in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers: Georgia Dahill-Fuchel, Hanna Golden, Taylor Graham, Anna Rice, Kayla White
Music Composition: Georgia Dahill-Fuchel
Costume Design: Anna Rice
smeard delves into the alternate realities we experience in our subconscious, addressing how dreams serve as a mirror to the things we most avoid in our waking lives - and in our memories. By capturing the disorienting and often playful logic of dreams, the work offers a unique opportunity to witness a narrative unfold within the fluid and ever-shifting boundaries of our subconscious & conscious selves.
Anna Rice is an interdisciplinary movement artist & choreographer based in NYC. She currently works as a freelance performer and choreographer - most recently performing in Must Come Down (a dance theater show) choreographed by Cameron Barnett. She was also recently a selected choreographer in the inaugural class of CENTRIFUGE: A Hub for Choreographers led by Omri Drumlevich. Anna spent the last 4 years in Chicago working as: the rehearsal director, company artist & choreographer for Alluvion Dance Chicago; project-based performer with RAMBLE Dance Theatre; company artist with LA-based Geometry Dance Company directed by Mackenzie Martin. Anna received her BFA in Dance from Indiana University. | @annarice___