club monaco ‘What moves you’ campaign
improvisations
Unstable STructures
Jonah Bokaer’s 41 Museum Creation, Arter Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2022.
REVERSE perspective, russia
ReformersFest 2021: Pushkin Museum, Moscow & Jaani Kirik, St. Petersburg.
behind blue sky
For the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, an entirely BIPOC-identified ensemble of drama therapists and theatre artists examine its legacy. Filmed throughout NYC, Behind Blue Sky weaves personal and fictionalized narratives based on the stories of the ensemble as well as those gathered from people living and working in NYC at the time.
Ensemble: Chantal Georges, Sara Kliger, Jonathan Howie, Carlos Rodriguez-Perez, Hala Shah, Allyn Sitjar, Jennifer Tam.
Production Team: Armand Volkas, Jesse Bonnell, Lynn Hodeib, Ellen Smittle, Gabrielle Fidis, Samantha Artese
vesica piscis
threeasfour
threeASFOUR Adi Gil, Angela Donhauser, Gabi Asfour
Directed by Jessica Mitrani and Alex Czetwertynski
Choreography: Jonah Bokaer
XR Virtual Production Content: Alex Czetwertynski
Director of Photography: Charles Billot
Producer: John Morgan
Creative Consultant: Victoria Bartlett
Music: Georgia
Calling: a dance with faith
Premiere: La Mama Moves! Dance Festival
Documentary dance theater piece exploring the lives of two Muslim women as they wrestle with their call to dance and their call to faith. Expanding upon Ping Chong + Company’s traditional interview-based theater process of talking with local individuals, who are not performers, about questions of culture, identity and belonging.
I know I would
Multidisciplinary collaboration between Malay-Muslim writer Zizi Majid and Thai-American director Nana Dakin. Weaving together poetry, the surrealist art of Dorothea Tanning, music and movement, it tells a story of propulsion, and the cost of pushing forward. Presented by Strong & Wrong Theater.
REVERSE PERSPECTIVE
The hudson eye
Live musical and dance performance work featuring VitaDuo: Maria Nemtsova and Vitaly Vatulya - an internationally acclaimed piano and saxophone ensemble, with original score by Polina Nazaykinskaya. Premiered as part of The Hudson Eye Festival, in collaboration with Momentum Artists and supported by the Trust For Mutual Understanding.
NOHING:
A DOCU-DANCE ON SEXUAL ASSAULT
A People Of Interest production at Performance Project at University Settlement, conceived and Directed by Jesca Prudencio Choreographed by Prudencio & Hala Shah.
Indecent spaces
Collaborative performance work exploring connections between identity, gender, race, and space by Jonah Bokaer Choreography in partnership with architect Charles Renfro / DS+R, collaborating principally with UNC distinguished sociologist Charlie Kurtzman. Rare music by Isang Yun is allowed by world-renowned violinists Jennifer and Angela Chun.
jehan sadat:
in three dimensions
Durational work created as a response to portrayals of orientalism in art world, featuring costumes designed by Austin Scarlett. Premiered at Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with She Who Tells A Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World.