Sayge Carroll

Project

This project weaves together a body of original songs, a ritual “recipe book” developed through Sayge’s practice, and a collection of handmade clay instruments—including flutes, udu drums, and percussion pieces. Drawing on a long-standing engagement with ceramics, installation, and community-based art, the work explores how music, ritual action, and clay can create a performative world.

The clay instruments are central: objects formed from the earth that come alive through breath and touch, embodying a relationship between body and material that the performance seeks to deepen. Structured through a series of ritual actions—gestures, ceremonies, and prompts around memory, loss, and transformation—the piece imagines the stage as a living environment where clay, sound, and human bodies interact. Objects are made, played, broken, and remade, inviting audiences into an evolving process of creation and change.

Bio

Sayge Carroll is a maker of worlds—both in clay and in life. A mother, sister, daughter, and friend, she moves through her communities with warmth, humor, and grounded creativity. Guided by curiosity and care, Sayge builds spaces—physical, emotional, and communal—where people feel welcomed, seen, and invited to show up as their full selves.

A multidisciplinary artist rooted in ceramics and community practice, her work is shaped by rhythm, intuition, and the joy of making. Whether carving clay, composing music, dancing in the kitchen, or dreaming up new ideas, she brings a deep sense of play, purpose, and possibility to everything she touches.

Carol Trindade

Project

A Body in a State of Transition is a somatic performance inspired by The Madman by Khalil Gibran, offering a reinterpretation of the text through movement and embodied practice. The work follows a figure who sheds the identities performed for the world and is labeled “mad” as a result.

Through a Butoh-informed physical language, the piece moves through states of alienation, rupture, and clarity, tracing the fragile boundary between performance and truth. It unfolds as a spiritual and philosophical inquiry into identity, perception, and the existential tension between authenticity and social expectation.

Bio

Carol Trindade is a Brazilian-born performance artist whose work blends Butoh, clowning, and physical theater into an evocative, somatically driven practice. Originally from Curitiba, her artistic journey began at a young age performing as a clown while living in a favela.

She studied technical theater at Colégio Estadual do Paraná and contemporary dance at Casa Hoffmann, later co-founding Arcology Zero—an experimental arts organization in Brazil that integrates housing, studio space, and artist residencies for emerging creatives.

Drawing from Butoh, contemporary dance, and lived experience, Carol creates work that is poetic, spiritual, and deeply embodied. Her performances, often improvisational in nature, explore themes of identity, control, memory, and resilience. Her work has been presented across the United States, Europe, and South America, in both public spaces and digital formats.

J.H. Shuǐ Xiān

Project

closed for the season is a way to come back to oneself. to find familiarity in newness, to find settling in the midst of endless waves, to stay held, to not be taken by each gust, to understand the depths of your wells of care, control, cognition, community. settle down, settle up, set it in action, set it, stay with it, stay in it, stick to it, stick your landing, slow down, keep strong.

Bio

Judith/Judee is a maker, teacher and mover, born and based in Mni Sota Makoce, working primarily in the forms of movement/dance & sound/music, dabbling in others. She is deeply engaged in improvisation as form and the ideas of spontaneity, uncertainty and everchanging-ness in performance, and as of recent, she’s finding re-connection to and interrogation of technique, setness and repeatability.

Outside of this work, Judee is a lover of being in the forest, at the club, on the beach, cuddled up, speedy on a bike, around other self-identified “queer freaks,” encompassed by bodies of water, near cute animals, amongst other joys of life.