IN EXCHANGE FOR ANONYMITY
Glistening bodies into communion, I say to you. In sweat. In sonic hypnosis. IN EXCHANGE FOR ANONYMITY surrenders itself into a hamster wheel of surveillance, allure, and indespicable display. As three performers traverse through scenes of unconscious and conscious observation, what choices become our own versus the choices of those surveying us? Experiment. In tandem. With self. With others. Indulging into the ethos of our own pleasure, IN EXCHANGE FOR ANONYMITY is an undoing into the obscure, absurd, and monstrous complex of social surveillance.
DIRECTION/CHOREOGRAPHY (in collaboration with performers)
Lavy
DANCERS/COLLABORATORS
Kenley Hardwick
Ragin Smith
Lavy
LIGHTING DESIGN
Connor Sales
COSTUME DESIGN
Lavy
Ragin Smith
Kenley Hardwick
PRODUCTION
Anna Wotring
SOUND DESIGN
Lavy
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
Hannah Mayfield
TRACKS USED
Georges Bizet, Louis Armstrong, zwilling.
this work was commissioned by Triskelion Arts for their 2024 season closing Split Bill #43
CONTACT (IN DEVELOPMENT)
Unearthing an infinite amounts of layers we hold within, this work in progress looks to amplify and question our interactive states: silly contact, angry contact, durational contact, intimate contact, etc.
Discovering our internal scapes through the use of drag, duration, and physicality, this sustained work sets itself up as a playground for the dark, the quirk, and the extreme nature of our human interaction.
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER
Lavy
DANCERS/COLLABORATORS
Kenley Hardwick
Ciana Jao
Ragin Smith
Joey Anderson
Jessy Dae Christ
A Else
Ava Desiderio
Tessa Russ
Ellen Alt
Alyssa Bulin
Marcus Sarjeant
LIGHTING DESIGN
Haley Morgan Miller
COSTUME DESIGN
Isaboko
SOUND DESIGN
Lavy
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
Michael Marlons
TRACKS USED
Gianni Schicchi, ABSL, Ori Lichtik, Super Simple Songs, Conntex
SUPPORT BY
Made for the 2024 Jamaica Making Moves Festival
INSULATED
ON RUPTURE
In a rapidly QUEER attempt to survive inside of an ever consuming society of short attention spans, surveillance, and splattered information five performers embark on their personal experiences of perception.
INSULATED ON RUPTURE is an evening length work unraveling embodiments of digitalization~surveillance and QUEERness through physical dance theater, original sound scapes, and interdisciplinary play.
~visibility~technology~surveillance~softness~intensity~fear~connection~oneness~play~5~
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER
Lavy
DANCERS/COLLABORATORS
Ragin Smith
Sloan Caldwell
Truth Colon
Lily Sheppard
Chelen Middlebrook
LIGHTING DESIGN
Philip Trevino
COSTUME DESIGN
Lavy & Sloan Caldwell
SOUND DESIGN
Lavy
TRACKS USED
Kangding Ray, Atrium Carceri, Jacques Offenbach, BFRND, Chelsea Russell, and Oliver Coates
SUPPORT BY
Mare Nostrum Elements, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Queens Council of the Arts
CHWYT
CHWYT, an act of catching.
Following an intergenerational line of collection, CHWYT envelopes a relationship between person and object nostalgia.
Feelings of need, compulsion, and ownership - how far, in the pursuit of objects and their memory, can we release into our grip and surrender to the necessity of one another?
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER
Lavy
DANCERS/COLLABORATORS
Ragin Smith
Lavy
Kenley Hardwick
COSTUME DESIGN
Lavy
Ragin Smith
Kenley Hardwick
SOUND DESIGN
Sarilou Venning
SUPPORT BY
Mare Nostrum Elements, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Queens Council of the Arts
REWORKED RUNWAY
Reworked Runway is a multidisciplinary Runway experience showcasing the work of New York-based independent sustainable designers through a series of dance and original sound scores.
PRODUCTION
Lavy, Bella Danzi, By Liv Handmade, Lily Sheppard, Devon
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER
Lavy, Lily Sheppard
DANCERS/COLLABORATORS
Ragin Smith
Truth Colon
Bryan Testa
Octi Lee
Marcus Sarjeant
Savannah Gaillard
Lauryn Hayes
Shaquelle Charles
Ciana Jao
Elliana Lynch-Daniels
Max Derderian
Dennie Thorpe
Jordan Stephens
Alyssa Bulin
Chelen Middlebrook
Andrea Villarreal
LIGHTING DESIGN
Philip Trevino
FEATURED DESIGNERS
By Liv Handmade
Grace Gui
Madeline Malenfant
Isaboko
Mary McGrath
Art to Ware
Parron Allen
Snow Milk
Yunk
Alayna Roe
Smith Bowen
ORIGINAL SOUND COMPOSITION
Sabrina Song
SUPPORT BY
Big Reuse Center, Materials for the Arts, Sun Moon Rising Wine
WITH(IN) LIMIT
Unfolding into the curiosity of an unfixed self, with(in) limit portals a duet of bodies into a compartmentalization of self.
Having to isolate parts of ourselves in a blended world of surface washed expression, how do we experience all of ourselves? This twenty-five minute work features a live DJ set, two prolific collaborators, a handful of electrical tape, tons and tons of re-usable balls, $112 worth of vintage picture frames, and one of a kind knit-wear.
Frames as microscopes: we uncover our bodies, piece by piece with(in) the limit of ourselves.
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER
Lavy
DANCERS/COLLABORATORS
Ragin Smith
Lily Sheppard
LIGHTING DESIGN
Philip Trevino
COSTUME DESIGN
Emi Hana
DJ SET
Lavy
SUPPORT BY
Pioneers Go East Collective, The 14th St Y
ANIMAL LANGUAGE
A blurb of ferocity, ANIMAL LANGUAGE, is a study on the primal intuition of our innermost desire to express.
Sweat, saliva, and FACE - feast your senses into a taste of our desire. This small film excerpt is in process to be expanded.
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER
Lavy
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Trecy Wendy
DANCERS/COLLABORATORS
Ragin Smith
Kenley Hardwick
Lavy
COSTUME DESIGN
Lavy
Ragin Smith
Kenley Hardwick
EDIT
Lavy
