mignolo dance
Performing “Self Help”
Choreography by Charly & Eriel Santagado

mignolo dance is a 501-c3 nonprofit contemporary dance company founded by sisters, Charly and Eriel Santagado, in 2017. They have been dancing and creating together for more than ten years and use this experience to continue to collaborate with each other and other dancers and artists to create new work that explores elements of various artistic mediums through movement. Their work has been produced by HERE Arts Center’s Co-op Sublet Series, Inclined Dance Project’s inQuad Split Bill Series at Dixon Place, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning’s Friday Nights Series, Guardianship Art, and The Berrie Center at Ramapo College.

Website: mignolo.dance
Facebook:mignolodance
Instagram:@mignolodance

Photo Credit: Haven & Hazard

Susie McHugh + Dancers
Performing “Below the Bottom”  
Choreography by Susanne McHugh

Susanne McHugh studied at SUNY Purchase before continuing her studies at University of the Arts where she was awarded the Nadia Chilkousky Nahumck Award for Creativity and Dance-Making. Susanne was chosen for the Ann and Weston Hicks Choreography Fellows Program at Jacob’s Pillow in August 2018 and has had artist residencies at New Dance Alliance and CHEN Dance Center. She is a recipient of the NYFA City Corps Grant and the NYFA Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant for Artists with Disabilities. Susie McHugh + Dancer’s mission is to bring awareness to mental illness through dance performances that empathize, educate, and dismantle stigmas.

Website: susiemchughdance.com
Facebook: littlesuze
Instagram: @littlesuze

Photo Credit: Emily Berger

PLAYBILL

Fast Forward is made possible, in part, with private funds from the Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the NY State Legislature.