Jonah Nigh, whom Instinct Magazine exclaimed is “armed with razor-sharp wit, an infectious stage presence, and a fearless approach to storytelling,” has appeared in roles for NBC (“Baking It,” produced by Amy Poehler and hosted by Maya Rudolph and Andy Samberg), Peacock, CBS, Don’t Tell Comedy, NYC Pride, among other venues. He was awarded second place in the 2025 US Comedy Contest (Los Angeles) and the 2024 Next Best Comic competition (Canada). He was also a finalist in the 2025 NY Queer Comedy Festival. 2025 will include performances at the Traverse City Comedy Festival (opening for Natasha Leggero), Don’t Tell Mama (NYC, opening for Lady Bushra), G&B Comedy (London, headliner), The Copacabana, Akron Comedy Jam (opening for Mario Tory) The Last Word Comedy Festival (Virginia), Asian Comedy Fest, and others.

Photo Credit: David Suh

Alicia Raquel Morales is a genderqueer boricua movement artist and cultural organizer living between Brooklyn and Borinken.

Alicia grew up building altars, listening to and making up stories that straddle “real” and unseen worlds, and watching ritual work. They are a child of street dance whose work has been described as “sexy, nerdy and spiritual”.

Alicia has been a Dancing Futures, JACK, and Hi-ARTS artist in residence, a CulturePush Utopian Practice Fellow and a BAAD! Muse. They are proud to have performed in works by Johnnie Cruise Mercer/The Red Project, PISO Fénix, André Zachary/Renegade Performance Group, Maria Bauman/MBDance, Kayla Hamilton Productions, and Ni’Ja Whitson, NWA Project, and directed movement for Azure Osborne Lee/Roots and River Productions, Kayla Hamilton Productions and Sharon Bridgforth.

Photo Credit: Ezra Richards

ocean.bound is one vignette in a longer work, untitled vibe (or griefsweet or RIVRROAD).It is a modular show— a series of vignettes—using dance (social dance, martial arts, gestural storytelling), projection, audio design, vocalization and text.

untitled vibe is grounded in crowning in october, or how to change shape while remembering your name, a medicine walk through NYC following waterways (2020-2024), and is instigated by the life and death of my best friend and first dance partner, Javier “Common Knowledge” Santos (and the crumbling American empire, lol).

It is an expression of love grief joy and humor. Sometimes confusion and rage. Hope. Faith. (?!?)

“Art Workers Are Artists Too” at Performance Space New York, On Thursday, April 11, 2025.

Emily LaRochelle and Sarazina Stein are NYC-based dancers and performance artists who met at Bates Dance Festival in 2017 and have been collaborating since. They’ve performed their work at PSNY, Triskelion, Theater for the New City, Wild Project, TADA, HONK!, and in community gardens. Recently, they performed and assistant-choreographed a puppet-theater work at LaMaMa by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater. They’ve performed with Žilvinas Jonušas, Kay Turner, Mindy Toro, and Kathleen Clark and produced a show at Spoke the Hub. They’re in the samba reggae-style drumline, Fogo Azul with whom they’ve performed, including for David Byrne, Spike Lee, and Gloria Steinem.

Photo Credit: Rachel Papo

“Art Workers Are Artists Too” at Performance Space New York, On Thursday, April 11, 2025.

This duet explores how dance, drag, and dramedy relate to how we navigate the world as queer women. We use our drag king personas, Ryder Steel and The Smokeshow, to reckon with our experiences of toxic masculinity, societal expectations, and the patriarchal system.
Pop culture references, textile sculptures, glam 80s outfits, and homoeroticism all contribute to the storyline, in which two “toxic” men find their way to each other and learn the errors of their ways. Through the absurd we disrupt expectations and uncover the sincere.

Photo Credit: Rachel Papo