We are stoked for the third edition of the S P A C E Alliance Studio Residency program! This program promotes the cooperation of local spaces and movement-artists, building artistic community, artist development, and provides a platform to share new work. In alignment with DISCO RIOT’s overall mission, we foster interdisciplinary movement-based art with themes of social change and storytelling.
DISCO RIOT’s community partners Art Produce, Balletcenter West, and Cori-ography (The First Dance Place), will provide 40 hours of rehearsal space over a 10-week period to the selected resident artists from August 16 – October 23, 2021. In the spirit of community, collaboration and exchange, the residency program also includes master classes taught by the resident artists for their home studio communities, showings of each artist’s work-in-progress, and culminates in a final presentation of artists’ work:
S P A C E Showcase Ed. 3
October 28 & 29 @ 6:30pm
Art Produce
Meet the Artists
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Trixi Anne Agiao
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Trixi’s project is themed around anxiety and her experiences with that mental illness. This project will be an exploration in mixed media and multiple disciplines. The project aims to portray the inner chaos one may experience living with anxiety and what it feels like to traverse such tumultuous terrain.The project will be performed by Tanya Lewis, Laray Egea-Saez and Trixi Anne Agiao. Miko Aguilar, known as Qolaj, will collaborate as a musical composer.
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Trixi Anne Agiao is a socially conscious dance filmmaker and videographer using the digital guise of The Thoughtful Beast.
She graduated from UCSD in 2012 with a double major in Dance and Psychology. Trixi has danced for various companies in San Diego like Visionary Dance Theatre, where she eventually went on to serve as Assistant Artistic Director. Currently, Trixi is a principal dancer for The Corps Dance Crew, a cosplay dance company based in Southern California.
In her own work, Trixi centers on fighting the stigma against mental illness and mental health. Utilizing her storytelling experience as a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and writer, Trixi sets out to make work that kinesthetically connects with her audience.
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https://thethoughtfulbeast.com/
photos by Edrian Pangilinan
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Sarah Clark
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fundamentally, i’m curious about somatically unknotting the tangles that are forming thus far in the 2020s in my own body-mind-heart. seated centrally within that is a curiosity about what it takes to mother amidst such intense conditions— the pandemic, the social & cultural breaking, all the trauma named ‘climate change’… what does it take to constantly re-up ones capacity to deeply caretake? and what must mama earth be experiencing? so much to explore.
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sarah clark has always danced. somatic awareness & embodied movement inquiries feel like a first language to her. these days, sarah is interested in intersections as an artist: inspiring sounds and images meeting family life meeting spiritual cultivations of a lay person meeting cultural awakening. how are they connected? what does that propel one to do (or not) with this fragile, precious life?
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professionally, sarah teaches, consults and writes in the spheres of yoga, buddhism, & somatic practices while exploring how each of these shapes humanity in micro & macro ways, since 2006. she started dance training in a preschool ballet class at the local ymca and eventually graduated from indiana university with b.a. in both dance performance & english literature; summers were spent at american dance festival & in new york city. sarah then lived in nyc through her 20s where she continued to train & perform for all kinds of rad folks, including laurie de vito & dancers, propel-her dance collective, rachel feinerman, ricardo gomez dance theater & jamie dowd. now in san diego for ten years, sarah has danced in works created by zaquia mahler salinas, anne gehman & jaime nixon. in 2017, she and her beloved husband birthed an incredible human named tenaya june. motherhood is spiritual art if there ever was such a thing. mega thanks to disco riot, the first dance place for residency, and all the people who encouraged her to get back in the choreographer’s seat.
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https://www.sarahclarkyoga.com/
portrait by studiosimpatika. movement shot by Kirk Hensler
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Alyssa Rose
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Alyssa’s project, titled feelings and stuff: IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, is an investigation and recording of the eclectic array of feelings, emotions, and states of being that we experience as humans. With a foundation of awareness practice, the collaborators will create through self-permission to feel and sense whatever is viscerally present. This research and practice will lead way to a culmination of dance, poetry, sculpture, and music. The project seeks to challenge the shame that inhibits some people from really feeling their feelings, and fear of public vulnerability.
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Alyssa Rose (they/she) is a queer, radical, research-based multimedia artist living in San Diego, CA. As a neurodivergent individual, Alyssa seeks refuge in expressing emotion, feeling, and idea through art. Dance, in particular, allows Alyssa to expand and move through all that they are, without holding fast to any one identity.
Alyssa’s art practice is rooted in improvisation, which they believe brings us closer to our intentions, encourages vulnerability, and connects us with our truth. Alyssa also believes that expression is fundamental to moving in partnership with intrinsic, constant changes occurring in our personal worlds and greater communities.
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https://www.alyssarosecreative.com/
Headshot by Jim Carmody. Mic pic by Stephen Louis Marino
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