Visions
September 7-28 at Cannonball 2024!
Visions shows glimpses of works-in-process, excerpts, and/or short form performance(s) to help artists see what their work looks like now and what it might become as we look toward the future. Each night is specially curated for one night only! Blink and these visions are gone, until next time.
Through Visions artists are provided a small stipend, tech support, marketing support, and access to one our venues for one night to bring a little life to the “vision” for the work they’re imagining. Visions is a part of Cannonball’s commitment to offering a space for artist’s development, in tandem with opportunities to present artist’s work.
Livin’ Black:
Small Town Girl
by Christina Gainey
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WI-MOTO NYOKA is a horror and sci-fi writer. She is the founder of Dusky Projects, creating and producing horror & sci-fi projects for young adult and adult audiences.
Awards and honors include: Independent Public Media Grant recipient, Ignyte Award Winner for Best Fiction Podcast 2023, Stowe Story Labs selected project, Nightmares Film Festival Best Short Screenplay Award Winner, 13 Horror Screenplay Award Winner, Oregon Short Film Festival Best Horror Teleplay Award Winner and more. She is a published author and a regular contributor to The Last Girls Club. She holds a BFA in Music Theater from the University of the Arts and an MFA for Performance & Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College.
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Told from the perspective of The Gun and The Bullet on their last night on Earth, A Funeral for The Death Machines is an immersive musical experience moving from Gospel to House music, transitioning these objects from symbols of harm to one of transformation.
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Ritual: Reach, Rage, Release, Rest
by Nyla Murray
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Glenn Potter-Takata and evan ray suzuki met while studying at Sarah Lawrence College and have been collaborating since 2018. evan and Glenn create body-centered performance works that critique a globalized Japanese consumer culture in post-Internment America. Their performances often take the shape of live multimedia works, dance performances, or improvisations wearing giant Pikachu costumes. Glenn and evan studied butoh under Kota Yamazaki and Mina Nishimura, and have developed their own practice in the butoh genre. Their work has been shown in the NYC-area at Center for Performance Research, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix, Movement Research at Judson Church, WestFest Dance Festival, Trotter&Sholer, Mizuma & Kips, Not Your Mother’s Pan-Asian Festival, and the Amanda+James Summer Happenings Series, among other places. Glenn is the recipient of the MAP Fund Award and has been an artist-in-residence with Movement Research, Gibney Dance Center, Rogers Art Loft, and CUNY Dance Initiative at Lehman College. He is currently a teacher of sound and video design for live performance at Sarah Lawrence College and the curator of Butoh What. evan’s work has received support from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Ars Nova, New Dance Alliance, JACK, 98 Art Collective, and the Centro Umbro di Residenze Artistiche in Umbria, Italy. evan is a member of La MaMa’s Obie Award-winning Great Jones Repertory Company and sometimes makes movies. @grons__ @evanxray
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Bodhisattva Beer Run is a butoh dance work with integrated video projection that contemplates the performance of gender across a multi-generational Asian-American culture transition through the seemingly contradictory nature of a Buddhist worldview and beer-fueled acts of masculinity.
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A Poetry
Performance
from Kelpius
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Salvador Castillo Placensia V (he/him), also known as Cinco, is a Mexican-American artist based in Philadelphia specializing in immersive performance, new technologies, and puppetry. Currently, Cinco serves as the assistant production manager at Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia, PA. He was recently the Artist-in-Residence at the Heller Center for Arts and Humanities at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, where he continued the development of Blue Silk. Cinco, together with New Paradise Laboratories and Janani Balasubramanian, helped produce How to Get to The River, which was funded by the Pew Foundation through the Academy of Natural Sciences. Cinco is a regular collaborator and assistant producer with Janani and has held several residency positions with The Public Theater on their project, The Gift, which premiered at the Lincoln Center and is continuing to tour. Cinco would like to dedicate this work to Max. He is the inspiration for Blue Silk, a story about the fragility of the body and the particularly cruel damage that unchecked substances can inflict. A person’s pursuit for happiness is complicated, ours included.
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Blue Silk is an enchanting puppet fairy tale that captivates audiences with its otherworldly charm while critically examining the things we consume, rely on, and are addicted to, and encourages us to consider what is truly sustainable for our bodies and by extension, the Earth.
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Dreaming The Upside-Down Tree
by Lyra Butler-Denman & Tyler Leif Catanella
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Taj Rauch is an immersive storyteller with an appetite for learning anything he can get his hands on. With a background in playwriting, cinematography, installation and projection design, he’s convinced himself that world building is best done by exploring every corner of creativity.
Presently, you can find him 3D scanning environments and turning them into Augmented Reality experiences. His work has been featured in Fringe Festival, PAFA Museum, IceBox Project Space, Ministry of Awe, Vox Populi Gallery, and on The Today Show. He is currently a professor of Media Design at the University of the Arts.
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Discover an ever-evolving exhibition showcasing the enigmatic brilliance of Jefferson Huxley, the art world’s best kept secret.
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May I Descend The Staircase
by William Acker
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InnissENT is composed of twin brothers, Christopher and Charles Inniss. They are writers, musical theater composers, filmmakers and storytellers dedicated to crafting narratives on the Black experience.
The duo’s original musical WITS is the recipient of Cannonball’s 2024 BIPOC New Work Presentation Track and will be performed during this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival. WITS also earned a workshop production in 2023 as a part of Polyphone Festival at University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
In addition to their musicals, InnissENT has received commissions and accolades for their short films including semifinalist status at the Dumbo Film festival.
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WITS is a dance driven musical that explores the anxieties of two groups of Black folks at the cusp of adulthood, highlighting the soul and spirit that characterizes so many Black people in vibrant communities of color.
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