Estro on Film in celebration of the EstroGenius Festival's 20th Anniversary Presented by Frigid New York and Manhattan Theatre

Frigid
New York
and
Manhattan
Theatre Source
presents
Estro
on Film
,
a one-time, special event celebrating the EstroGenius Festival's 20th
Anniversary. As part of #stayhome, the festival brought together four
film works by four extraordinary choreographers. This curated event
is available to stream online through Saturday, April 4, 2020 at
11:59pm. Watch all four at once, or come back to them over a few
nights. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at
https://www.extrofromestro.org/events
.

EstroGenius
has been sharing and celebrating the voices of womxn for twenty
years. Now, on a virtual stage, EstroGenius celebrates its 20th
anniversary with a riotous collection of performances by women,
gender non-conforming, non-binary, and trans dance-makers,
playwrights, experimental performers, teens, musicians, burlesque
performers, noise artists, filmmakers, dj's and anyone else looking
to break molds and crack gender codes. This "extro"
online content from Estro will bring you the art and the artists, the
inspirations and the tools over these quarantined weeks across the
country.

EstroGenius
was founded in 2000 at Manhattan Theatre Source by Fiona Jones
as a short-play fest to support dynamic female characters while
celebrating inclusivity and pushing gender parity in theatre.

Heading
into the 20th year, at the helm of the festival are Melissa Riker
(Kinesis Project dance theatre, Women in Motion) and Maura Nguyen
Donohue. Guest curators include Vincent Marano and John C. Robinson
(On the Boards, Emerald City Music).

"I
am thrilled to offer these four brilliant artists to our audiences. I
am particularly interested in how each of these films is directly
connected to a live performance experience," said Ms. Riker. "In
some cases (NIC Kay's) they were the performance, in others (Same As
Sister, Garnet Henderson) the artists were inspired to bring a
performance work to film as a different medium. My aim is to offer
this window into layered performance as film while we all continue to
stay safe and at home."

Now, with
a home at the Kraine Theatre on E. 4th Street and stepping into 20
years as the longest running festival of its kind, EstroGenius
continues to expand an inclusive view of the diverse and creative
community that is a womxn's festival.

The
four films that are streaming now are:

Address

by
Garnet Henderson and Nick Tyson

Odd
Jewels: Beauty Under Mask

by
Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley + Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Aitor
Mendilibar

Come
Diventare Un Partigiano

by
Alice Gosti

you,
black and bluised: Day Three A Pieace

by
NIC Kay

About
the Films

Address

by
Garnet Henderson and Nick Tyson

(run
time 22:03)
Directed, choreographed, and performed by
Garnet Henderson
Cinematography by Nick Tyson
Editing by Nick
Tyson and Garnet Henderson
Costume by Quinn Czejkowski
Filmed
at The Muse Brooklyn. Special thanks to Women in Motion and the
generous backers who funded our location rental.

Odd
Jewels: Beauty Under Mask
by Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley +
Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Aitor Mendilibar

USA,
2018

(Run
time 8:26)

Same
As Sister's "Odd Jewels: Beauty Under Mask," is a live
performance work and its cinematic re-envisioning. The project
continues to push the collective's use of non-linear storytelling in
a landscape where fragmented bodies, projection, and sound
interchange their roles as subject and object.
A film by Same
As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley + Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Aitor
Mendilibar

Choreographed
and performed by Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley + Hilary
Brown-Istrefi in collaboration with Hannah Caggiano and Kristina
Hay
Cinematography and editing by Aitor Mendilibar
Installation
by Cern
Video projection by Briana Brown-Tipley
Music by Visnja
Krzic
Costumes and props by Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley +
Hilary Brown-Istrefi
Jewelry design by Melissa
Draugsvold/Draugsvold Jewelry
Produced by Same As Sister/Briana
Brown-Tipley + Hilary Brown-Istrefi
"Odd Jewels: Beauty
Under Mask," was originally commissioned by the Fresh Tracks
program of New York Live Arts, is supported, in part, by the National
Endowment for the Arts, and was the recipient of a Foundation for
Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

Come
diventare un partigiano

by
Alice Gosti

(Run
time 10:50)

A
video documentary by Tumulto Video
With Anna Burini, Alyza
DelPan-Monley, Sharon Estacio, Fabiana Mangialardi, Lorraine Lau,
Kaitlin McCarthy, and Cecilia Ventriglia.

Performance
by Anna Burini, Alyza DelPan-Monley, Sharon Estacio, Fabiana
Mangialardi, Lorraine Lau,
Kaitlin McCarthy, and Cecilia
Ventriglia
Directed and choreographed by Alice Gosti
Music
composition and arrangements by Monika Khot
Music by Monika Khot
and Hanna Benn
Lighting design by Amiya Brown
Costumes by
Rachel Ravitch, K.D. Schill, Val Mayse, and Deborah Trout
Dress
installation and design by Erik Holden, Val Mayse, and Deborah
Trout
Technical design by Erik Holden and SANDFORD&GOSTI
Sculpture
aura pendente by SANDFORD&GOSTI 2018
Other music includes
"Toccata from Symphony for Organ No. 5" by Charles-Marie
Widor, "Deux" by Jehan

Alain,
"Testi lirici" by Hanna Benn, Richard Crashaw, Franco
Fortini, Alfonso Gatto, and AliceGosti

Producer
and company manager: Giulia Carotenuto

Choir
members include Canti e-Terni diretto da Lucilla Galeazzi e composto
da Ambra Battistelli, Lucio Conti, Marta D'Atri, Manuela Grilli,
Roberto Leonardi, Alessandro Manciucca, Maria Serena Manciucca,
Cecilia Marino, Erika Ottavi, Monica Petronio, Deborah Rim Moiso,
Alessandro Rossi, Enrico Scarinci, Maria Teresa Torti, Maria Paola
Trippa Ensemble Coristi a Priori, diretto da Carmen Cicconofri, e
compost da Giulia Capacci, Lucia Sagretti, Martina Morbidini,
Francesca Picchiò, Claudia Belia, Sara Millucci, Marta Polenzani,
Massimiliano Carluccio, Francesco Foresti, Enrico Galletti, Nicola
Pisello, David Gionangeli, Cristiano Marinelli, Gino Petrollini

Original
collaborators include Kaitlin McCarthy, Colleen McNeary, Brittany
Karhoff, Noelle Chun, Amy Ross, Lorraine Lau, Alyza DelPan-Monley,
and Leigh Sugar.

"
Come
diventare un partigiano
"
was produced
by Indisciplinarte (Terni, Italy). The project was selected for
the first edition of the Italian Council award by DGAAP of the
Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo (Italy).
Come diventare un partigiano is made possible by Velocity Dance
Center, Cornish School for the Arts, Open Flight Studio and the
Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant's support. Thank you
to Verdecoprente Festival by Associazione Ippocampo (Italy). Special
Thank Yous: Stephanie Noren, Absalom Shantz, Giorgio Gosti, Agave
Barone, Olga Zucchiatti, RL, Tonya Lockyer, John Robinson, Case Van
Rij and Barbara Lewis, Angela Santi, Alvaro Valsenti, Eleanor Owens
and Giovanni S.

[GET
WELL SOON] you black + bluised, an exercise in getting well soon Day
Three | A Pieace

by
NIC Kay
(Run
Time: 44:23 minutes)
"GET
WELL SOON [exercises in getting well soon]" is a
project/meditation based on the loose and often used phrase
indicating a hope of recovery. These "exercises" have been
articulated as movement, installation, games, endurance, ritual,
poetry, and collective action. "[GET WELL SOON] you black +
bluised" is a site-specific work that uses the architecture and
positionally of Abrons Arts Center to wrestle with the blues and the
"they" versus "us" paradigm. NIC attempts to
do this through sound, movement, and tableau. A triptych each day
approaches these themes from different settings and perspectives.
Day One | Prayer ( Amphitheater), Day Two | Protest
(Underground Theater), Day Three | A Pieace (
youblackandbluised.net
)

About
the Artists

Garnet
Henderson
grew
up in the mountains of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. In New York, her work
has been presented at The Flea Theater, HERE Arts Center, the West
End Theater, the 92nd Street Y, Triskelion Arts, and Gibney Dance.
She was a Women in Motion 2017-2018 commissioned artist. Garnet holds
a BA cum laude in Dance and English Literature from Columbia
University and has performed in works by Ori Flomin, Kyle Abraham,
David Parker, Larry Keigwin, Reggie Wilson, Colleen Thomas, Heidi
Henderson, Faye Driscoll, Mark Dendy, and Jordan Morley. She also
appeared in the feature film Shirley, directed by Josephine Decker
and choreographed by Faye Driscoll, which premiered at the 2020
Sundance Film Festival. A regular contributor to
Dance
Magazine,
her
writing has also appeared in
The
Guardian, WIRED, Glamour, VICE,
and
others.
Nick
Tyson
is
a filmmaker, investigative researcher and writer based in New York
City. He has directed and worked on the production of multimedia
projects in a range of mediums, from short films and mobile apps to
museum and television documentaries. His filmmaking practice is
primarily archival based, and he's interested in topics related to
mass incarceration, and the LGBT experience. He is a graduate of
Columbia University where he studied film and anthropology.
Quinn
Czejkowski
is
a costume artist, mover, and floral arranger based in NYC. She is
interested in exploring the intersection of natural and man-made
materials and organic and inorganic styles. Recent design credits
include through the mirror of their eyes with Kimberly Bartosik,
Darling with Helen Simoneau, Stand In with Jen Rosenblit, Chimera
with Burr Johnson, rib bone / backbone with Heather Robles, (T)HERE
TO (T)HERE with Liz Gerring, as well as pieces for Gwen Welliver,
Renay Aumiller, Dylan Crossman, and others. In addition to her own
design work, Quinn is the costume shop manager for Company XIV and
has worked with designers Reid Bartelme & Harriet Jung.
NIC
Kay
is
an art worker who makes performances. They were born and currently
live in the Bronx, New York.

Same
As Sister (S.A.S.)
is an award-winning performance
collective founded in 2013 by Canadian-American
choreographers,
Briana Brown-Tipley + Hilary Brown-Istrefi
.
The sisters, who originate from Toronto, graduated from École de
danse contemporaine de Montréal, and have since performed for
international dance and visual artists including Bouchra Ouizguen,
Doug Elkins, Phillipa Kaye, Mike Kelley, Jillian Peña, and Candice
Breitz. Based in Toronto and New York City, S.A.S. was initiated to
make experimental narrative performance accessible to a diverse
audience through collaborative and interdisciplinary practices within
the fields of dance, theater, music, video, and design. Their work
grapples with social constructs of gender, race, and power, drawing
on historical and contemporary representations of "high"
and "low" culture, to retell familiar stories in unfamiliar
ways. The collective's works/commissions have been presented at
venues in the United States, Canada, France, Greece, and Italy
including
POP Performance: Women in Motion
at
Gibney, NYC;
AUNTS @ La MaMa Moves!
at La MaMa
Experimental Theater Club, NYC;
Dancing Platform Praying
Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance
(Platform
2018), curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Reggie Wilson at Danspace
Project, NYC;
Movement Research at the Judson Church
,
NYC;
CRAWL: Chapter 5
, curated by Kate Ladenheim/The
People Movers at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn;

BRIClab
at
BRIC Arts | Media House, Brooklyn;
Fresh Tracks
at
New York Live Arts, NYC;
Test Drive
at Dancemakers
Centre for Creation, Toronto; and.

Open
Studios
at Centre d'Art Marnay Art Centre, Marnay-sur-Seine.
The film adaptation of their live performance, "
Odd Jewels:
Beauty Under Mask
", a collaboration with cinematographer,
Aitor Mendilibar, was exhibited via Video Art Miden at
Non
Stop Project Video Performance & Video Dance
at
Kinitiras, Athens;
Ibrida Festival
at Marmo -
Libreria d'Arte Contemporanea, Forlì;

Videolands
at
MOMus - State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; Erasmus+
Program:
Active Student-Active Citizen
at the 2nd
Junior High School of Kalamáta; and
From Zero to Infinity!
Festival
at the Archaeological Museum of Messenia, Kalamáta.
They are the recipients of a Queens Council on the Arts'
2020
QCA/QAF New Work Grant
in Multi-Disciplinary Performance; a
New York Foundation for the Arts'
2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist
Fellowship
in Choreography; a Foundation for Contemporary
Arts'
2017
Emergency Grant
in
Dance; and were a Finalist for the Jerome Foundation's
2019-20
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship
in
Dance.
sameassister.squarespace.com

Aitor
Mendilibar
is
a New York City based filmmaker, cinematographer, and musician, who
collaborates across artistic genres. Originally from Basque Country,
where he received degrees in computer science, telecommunications,
and audio-visual production, he moved to New York City in 2012 to
study documentary filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. Since
graduating he has worked as a cinematographer and editor for film,
television, and live performance projects including his work with
Oscar-nominated director/producer, Oren Jacoby; award-winning
cinematographers, Buddy Squires, ASC, and Tom Hurwitz, ASC; and most
recently choreographers, Reggie Wilson, Raja Feather Kelly, and Same
As Sister. His first feature film as a director of photography, "
PROM
KING
"
(2010), won the New Vision Award at Cinequest Film Festival. As a
musician Mendilibar co-founded the punk rock band, Disorders, which
recorded two studio albums before disbanding in 2011. In 2014 he
formed The Wilsons, where he is bass player.
aitormendilibar.com

About
the Festival

Manhattan
Theatre Source's EstroGenius Festival, an annual celebration of
female-identifying, gnc, non-binary & trans voices, is one of New
York City's largest womxn's arts festivals.

Founded
by Fiona Jones in 2000, the festival debuted with a program of 10
short plays and music. Since then, it has grown into a multi-week
event including short plays, solo shows, teen performances, visual
art, and dance. In past years, we've also had stand-up comedy, live
music, fundraisers for African girls' education, and full-day
networking events with panels and workshops.

Almost
completely volunteer run, the EstroGenius Festival has provided
thousands of artists the chance to shine; showcased award-winning
playwrights Sheila Callaghan, Quiara Alegria Hudes, T.D. Mitchell and
Melissa Maxwell; presented Bessie Award-winning choreographers Marta
Renzi and Jennifer Nugent; and provided scholarships for girls to
attend school in Niger, ranked the poorest country in the world by
the United Nations.

We
are committed to providing opportunities to marginalized artists - in
a variety of disciplines - ranging from the emerging to the seasoned
professional.

The
New York Times
raves that EstroGenius "lives up to its
billing as a celebration of women's work"

Manhattan
Theatre Source & EstroGenius would like to thank New York State
Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the
New York State Legislature for their support.

For
more information, visit
estrogenius.org
.