About This Show

Premiered April 28, 2020, on Zoom.

Featuring: Bekah Fly, Winn Kline, Natacha Voliakovsky, Susana Plotts-Pineda & Alex Chellet

Ashley Brockington hosts a lineup of artists responding to this challenging time of self-isolation and social distancing during COVID-19 lock-down. Both pre-recorded and live performances will be presented in the Dixon Place Zoom Room.  RSVP for the link! Ashley@Dixonplace.org

DP TV programs are free, and participating artists are remunerated. Donations help us bring together visionary artists and adventurous audiences and support the community during this challenging time. If you can make a gift at this time, we’re very grateful for your consideration! Support DP

Bekah Fly is a poet, musician and visual artist. Originally from NYC,  her work is influenced by graffiti and surrealism. She has been battling auto immune illness for the past decade and uses art as a way to process and heal. She has performed music and poetry at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Joes Pub, The Brooklyn Museum and Queer Poetry Influx collective. Because of being a disabled artist and having lived through many year periods with long stretches of quarantine as well as sometimes having to wear a respirator mask her response to the pandemic is from this very specific perspective. She is interested in raising awareness/finding and bringing love poems and spells to marginalized people, those who live on the fringes and within the cracks, and how to bring art/medicine to them.

Alejandro Chellet is a multidisciplinary artist and social practitioner in cultural and permacultural networks. He was born in Mexico City raised in a family of artists and performers, he currently lives between Upstate NY where he practices permaculture and NYC-CDMX where he is also a cultural producer curating and providing exhibition space for other artists. His artwork functions in close relation with the audience primarily making use of waste, public space, architecture and performance: addressing the misplaced core principles of coexistence, the loss of connection with Nature cycles, and the political and environmental context of urban societies

Winn Kline is part of The Russell Industrial Theatre Project,an experimental theatre group based out of Detroit, MI. RITP is currently collaborating with the band ‘sun castle’ to create a full length musical about COIVD.

Natacha Voliakovsky is an activist and Bio Hard-Core performance artist, Argento-Sudaca-Judia.

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  Natacha Voliakovsky

• Susana Plotts-Pineda is a Brookly-based Mexican-American theatre-maker writer and performer who grew up in Puebla, Bogotá and Boston. She received her BFA from the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2018. For her senior thesis, she wrote and directed The Alien Drift, a sci-fi exploration of cultural alienation and homage to Chavela Vargas. Susana has worked with Noche Flamenca and Mapa Teatro. Her writing has been featured in Waif Magazine as well as Egg y Pan Magazine, of which she is the co-founder. Her documentary play La Caravana de los Misterios, premiered at Performance Studies International’s 2019 Conference and was later staged at Emerging Artists Theatre’s New Work Series in October 2019.

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  Susana Plotts-Pineda