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wild project presents
Pas de Deux: A Performance Summer Salon
Curated by Oxana Chi & Layla Zami
Saturday, July 6, 2019 at 7:30PM

Wild Project
195 E 3rd St
New York, NY 10009
East 3rd Street Between Avenues A & B
Closest Train: F (2nd Avenue Stop) and J/M/Z (Essex/Delancey Stop)

A Festival of duos in dance, live-music, theater, exhibition

The Wild Project presents

Pas de Deux: A Performance Summer Salon

Curated by Oxana Chi & Layla Zami

Tickets:$20/evening

A summer festival celebrating the power of love, friendship and collaboration on- and off-stage. Three nights of duos by gifted artists who are couples, siblings, housemate, or friends. Each evening features three performances, live-music, and access to the exhibition in the gallery, where you can also get a fresh drink!

JULY 6 Program:

7.30pm: EXHIBITION OPENING:
Kerry Downey + Kaveri Raina (Visual Arts)
Co-Curated by Anne Patsch

8pm: PERFORMANCES
Run time: 90min.

Kaina Quenga & Anthony Haumanava Mataheiari'i Aiu: Te Ao Mana (Dance-Music)
Te Ao Mana, or The Realm of Mana, suggests living in place of constant creation and discovery of oneself and their connection to the natural world. A beautiful program of Polynesian dance.

Aimée Niemann & Charlotte Munn-Wood: du.O (Live-Music)
A two-violin ensemble playing old, new, and improvised music. We enjoy surprising and invigorating our audiences. We are passionate about premiering works of living composers, particularly women.

Oxana Chi & Layla Zami: feelingJAZZ (Dance-Live-Music)
A duo for a body and a saxophone, with a hint of live-looping technology. An ode to freedom and resilience in NYC, blending the pulse of West African rhythms, the tragedy and romance of Russian ballet, and the spirit of Jazz.

Ganessa James & Tiffany James : Onliest (Singers-Songwriters)
Onliest is a project co-created by the twins Ganessa & Tiffany James. Their performances feature harmony driven duets laced with the impish, spontaneous quality born of a lifelong connection and obsession with music.

About the artists:

OXANA CHI & LAYLA ZAMI are a German-French duo collaborating since 2010 in the fields of performing arts, visual arts, higher education and event curation. They are much appreciated in Berlin, German and New York City for their inspiring creativity and uplifting energy.

OXANA CHI is a German-Nigerian choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, curator, organizer, mentor and author. Listed in the A to Z of "People Who Power the Dance World" (The Dance Enthusiast, NYC, 2018), she draws inspiration from her travels to and study in 40+ countries in Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas. Chi developed her own Fusion performing language, which blends such diverse styles as German expressionist dance, African Total theater, ballet and raks sharki. Performance and residency history includes Abrons Arts Center AIRspace Grant for Performing Artists, NYU Jack Crystal Theater, University of Toronto, Dixon Place, MR@Judson Church. She is currently Co-Curator of Dance at the International Human Rights Art Festival.
Web: Oxana Chi Dance Art

LAYLA ZAMI is an innovative artist and academic working at the intersection between memory, diaspora, gender and performance. As a Resident Artist with Oxana Chi Dance Art, she creates and performs live-music, spoken words, physical theater in dialogue with the choreography. Together with Oxana Chi, Layla Zami performed across NYC and across the globe. She was born in Paris, France, of Jewish-German-Russian and Afro-Indian-Caribbean descent. Based in Brooklyn, Dr. Zami is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Performance and Performance Studies MFA at Pratt Institute.
Web: Layla Zami

KAINA QUENGA, a native of Hilo, Hawaiʻi has been dancing hula professionally for over 20 years in Hawaiʻi, Florida, New York and throughout the east coast. Under the direction of Kumu Hula, Johnny Lum Ho of Hālau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua, Kaina received formal Polynesian dance training. Kaina went on to perform professionally with Tihati Productions on her native Big Island, and has studied at the Conservatoire with Mamie Louise Kimitete and Vanina Ehu. Kaina is the Director of Nā ʻŌiwi NYC, a New York City-based education and advocacy group. Kaina shares her culture and experience through education. She serves as a cultural and Hula instructor at Concourse House Day Care, 92Y Harkness Dance Center and Spoke The Hub.

ANTHONY HAUMANAVA MATAHEIARI'I AIU received his MFA at the Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. While there he co-authored A Choreographic Workbook with Professor Kazuko Hirabayashi. In 2009, he founded `Avei`a to showcase his culturally rooted movement style, creating over 25 works, including Vari, Ura, Pape, Mata'i (2010), for Brooklyn Ballet’s First Lookseries, and Moana Nui (2009), for the Intercultural Arts Dialogue. His dedication is developing a dance form and approach to technical training that draws on his rich ancestry and to give voice to the underrepresented Polynesian people. Aiu's work has been presented by the LABA Theater NYC, Green Space, Dixon Place, 92Y, SUNY Purchase, Dance Parade NYC, Steppin’ Out Studios, Brooklyn Ballet, and Webster Hall, among other festivals. In 2014 residency he collaborated with Manahau on The Legend of Maui, for Heiva i Tahiti.

As Co-Founders of TE AO MANA (since 2016), Kaina Quenga and Anthony Aiu presented at NYC Dance Parade, MR@Judson Church, Hawaiian Airlines Liberty Challenge, Hōkūle’a Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage, Battery Dance Festival, Hawaiian Chef Sheldon Simeon, Children’s Hospitals, 92Y Dance Street Fair, Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration, and 92Y New York/Pacific Time Dance Festival.
FB: TEAOMANAORI

AIMÉE NIEMANN is a performer, improviser, and educator. A fervent advocate of contemporary music, she is a founding member of Du.0, a "gesamtkünstwerk-chamber-noise" violin duo with Charlotte Munn-Wood. Niemann has collaborated with distinguished artists such as, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Jennifer Koh, and Jeffrey Zeigler (Kronos Quartet). She has toured internationally and has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, (Le) Poisson Rouge, and Roulette. She is a collaborator with The How theatre company and a member of the dance collective Artists By Any Other Name. Niemann received a B.M. in Violin Performance from the University of Northern Colorado and a M.M. in Violin Performance from New York University.
Web: du.O | Aimée Niemann

CHARLOTTE MUNN-WOOD An outspoken proponent of experimental sounds and expression, violinist Charlotte Munn-Wood is an active chamber musician, commissioner, curator, and teacher in New York City and beyond. Munn-Wood has collaborated as a soloist and chamber musician with composers Sampo Haapamäki, Georg Friedrich Haas, Sam Pluta, Zae Munn, Emily Praetorius, Sid Richardson, Halldór Smárason, Dan Trueman, and Icli Zitella. Munn-Wood is a founding member of Du.0, and of the Unbridled Ensemble, a New York City-based chamber ensemble making its debut this October. Munn-Wood is a graduate of the Contemporary Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Dr. Curtis Macomber. She now has her own violin/viola studio of curious learners at the Larchmont Music Academy.
Web: du.O | Charlotte Munn-Wood

GANESSA JAMES Singer, songwriter, guitar and electric bassist Ganessa James makes irresistible music. She has 20 years experience playing bass in soul, funk, and rock music bands. Ganessa got her start on the independent music scene in Brooklyn, where, while playing bass for funk/rock band blaKbushe, she was tapped to join Saul Williams on a North American tour: playing stages from the Wiltern in Los Angeles to Coachella. She briefly served as the NYC bassist for the rock-funk diva artist JOI. She has toured internationally as a bassist, guitarist and vocalist with Tamar-Kali and the Black Rock Coalition Songwriters Tribute. She has been working with Toshi Reagon since 2009. Ganessa's solo acoustic EP 'Believer' (available on iTunes) is inspired by the likes of James Taylor, Donny Hathaway, Ella Fitzgerald, and Take 6, and is a suite of stunningly earnest acoustic love songs.
Web: Ganessa James

KERRY DOWNEY is an interdisciplinary artist and educator at MoMA in New York City. Downey’s work explores relationality through the multitude of ways we inhabit our bodies and access forms of power. Downey works primarily in video with a practice that includes printmaking, drawing, writing, and performance. They have exhibited at the Queens Museum, the Hessel Museum at Bard College, The Drawing Center, Cooper Cole, Toronto, and Taylor Macklin, Zurich. They recently had a solo and duo shows at Cave, Knockdown Center, and 20|20 Gallery. Downey is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. Their work has been in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, The Washington Post, and Lookie-Lookie. Downey holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Hunter College.
Web: Kerry Downey

KAVERI RAINA is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She was born and raised in New Delhi, India and moved to the States at the age of eleven. She received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011. Raina has received awards and fellowships including the James Nelson Raymond fellowship, Fred and Joanna Lazarus Scholarship, amongst others. She was recently nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors grant. Raina’s work has been exhibited in the US, India and Germany. Raina attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture summer of 2017.
Web: Kaveri Raina