PRODUCING
Experimental Bitch Presents
BITCHIN’ COLLABS
Curated by Miranda Haymon
Bitchin’ Collabs was a residency that supported Synead Cidney Nichols, Santiago Iacinti, Non Kuramoto, Aizzah Fatima, Julie Piñero, and Amara Brady in developing new interdisciplinary performance from July-November, 2020. ExB provided a platform for these emerging femme artists of color to share, develop and receive feedback on their dynamic works-in-progress over the course of ExB’s 2020 Season.
The program featured two performance exhibitions over the course of the 2020 season.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, ExB adjusted both exhibitions to take place virtually. Artists collaborated with Virtual Technical Producer, Alisha Bhowmik, to aid in the presentation and documentation of their work.
Experimental Bitch Presents
BITCHIN’ HEALS 2022
Curated by x senn-yuen
Bitchin' Heals 2022 was a weekend for artists to engage in pleasure-filled activities. From August 12th through August 14th 2022, Bitchin' Heals offered three virtual workshops led by Sonya Rio-Glick, Nia O. Witherspoon, and jas lin, and a panel titled "Collective Care, Self-Care, After-Care: Myths and Realities'' moderated by x with bahar baharloo, Emily Ahn Levy, and Bianca I. Laureano.
Experimental Bitch and JACK Present
BITCHIN’ HEALS 2023
Curated by x senn-yuen
Bitchin' Heals 2023 was a weekend of workshops, performances, artist markets and mutual aid hosted at JACK Arts in Brooklyn that amplified disabled joy by centering disabled artists. Created by and for disabled people, alphabet comrades, Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color, Bitchin' Heals served as a vessel to increase community access to resources, bridge gaps across care and wellness disparities, and ultimately reduce avoidable mortality rates through giving the most marginalized communities the tools of self-determination.
The participating artists included: Carrie Hawks (they/them), Philip Santos Schaffer (they/them), tae min suh (they/them), Ariel Reich (she/her), Artemis Montague (they/them), E.T. Russian (they/them), corina "coco" perez (she/her), Jace Gulbronson (he/him).
The production team included Emily Zemba (Producer), Kerrigan Quenemoen (Associate Producer), and Victoria Whooper (Stage Manager).
Bitchin' Heals was supported, in part, by generous grants from The Puffin Foundation, NYSCA, and A.R.T./NY's Small Theatres Fund in association with the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Experimental Bitch Presents
IN THE KITCHEN
Audio Play & Recipe Box
Supported by the 2020 Brooklyn Arts Council Community Grant
Produced by Tatiana Baccari and Wednesday Derrico of Experimental Bitch Presents
Directed and Devised by Coral Cohen
Written, Created + Performed by Hannah Aliza Goldman
Culinary Partner + Art Director: Annabel Rabiyah of Awafi Kitchen
Original Compositions & Sound Design by Carsen Joenk
Vocals, Original Compositions + Traditional Musical Curation by
Anat Halevy Hochberg
Original Compositions & Audio Engineering by Enat Ventura
Production Stage Manager: Rachel Denise April
In the Kitchen premiered September - December 2020 as an audio play, paired with a mail order recipe box, curated by Annabel Rabiyah of Awafi Kitchen, in a one of a kind culinary-art experience.
In the Kitchen written and performed by Hannah Aliza Goldman and directed and devised by Coral Cohen, was originally created as a multi-disciplinary theatrical event that uses live cooking, original music and recorded interviews to explore cross-generational Arab-Jewish womanhood.
Listeners are led by Ms. Goldman through a tapestry of stories examining the intersections of Judaism and Arab culture, feminism, and culinary heritage.
Sound designer Carsen Joenk and composer Anat Halevy Hochberg, work with audio engineer Enat Ventura as the incredible audio team bringing together the pieces of the story Goldman and Cohen have painted.
Annabel Rabiyah of Awafi Kitchen curated a recipe that crosses between Judaism and Arab culture. The Audio Play compliments the listeners' experience, while they prepare Ba'aba Beh Tamur, a delicious Iraqi cookie, in the comfort of their homes.
Listeners received an originally designed box with ingredients to make the cookies while following the story of the Audio Play.
In the Kitchen was supported in part by The Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Grant.
Special thanks to our community partners, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Sephardi Mizrahi Q Network, and International Human Rights Art Festival, Muslim Jewish Solidarity Committee.
American Theater Magazine: Cook a Pastry, Take In a Play: The Virtual Home of ‘In the Kitchen’
Experimental Bitch Presents
JACK OF CUPS
Written by Gabriel Rodriguez
Directed by Madeline Wall and Gabriel Rodriguez
Produced by Wednesday Derrico and Tatiana Baccari
May 31st - June 8th, 2019 // The Flea Theater
Featuring Gabriel Rodriguez, Kayla Yee and Lukas Papenfusscline
Original Music by Lukas Papenfusscline
Choreography by HannaH Allen and Kayla Yee
Set Design by Jennilee Aromando
Lighting Design by Elizabeth M. Stewart
Costume Design by Madeline Wall
Stage Management by Blue Zephra Santiago
Technical Supervision by Jack Scaletta
Hair and Makeup by Hannah Goldman
Associate Producer: Sophia Heinecke
Production Assistants: Julia Smith and Marilyn Gonzalez
Many years from now — long after The Wave That Eats The World — a stranger, queerer, more loving world has sprouted from the sodden rubble and ruins: a world called Mother Ocean. Once a year, the many communities of this new world become one by making the perilous pilgrimage to a barren island for the Remembrance Festival. Amidst the food and drink and games, the sharing of knowledge and the telling of Big Stories, the people of Mother Ocean are visited by a mysterious and legendary wanderer who comes to tell the biggest Big Story they have: their post-apocalyptic creation myth.
MADE TO DANCE
IN BURNING BUILDINGS
Directed by Jamie M. Rea
Choreography by Emily Bufferd
Production Stage Manager: Bleu Zephra
Spring 2018 // Joe’s Pub
Produced by Urban Haiku
in association with Experimental Bitch Presents.
Special thanks to community partners
Blue Panther Productions and Shades of Truth.
Made to Dance in Burning Buildings by Anya Pearson is a fusion of poetry, theatre, and violent and visceral contemporary dance.
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
It's about Ava, a young black woman, who is raped by her boyfriend's friends while he watches; she develops PTSD as a result. Metaphorically, she fractures into five different women who each represent a different facet of her personality (Romance, Despair, Madness, Perseverance, and Missing You). Poetically, these women narrate her journey through PTSD while she, her first love, and her abusers explore through dance the trauma and the events leading up to it.
Based on a true story, and inspired by the original choreopoem, Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls, this play seeks to revolutionize the theatrical experience by combining poetry and breath-taking and gut wrenching contemporary dance to tell an all too familiar story in a brand new way.
MEDUSA
Written by Sophie Amieva and Suzanne Bagert
Created and Directed by Sophie Amieva
Produced in collaboration with Tatiana Baccari
and Wednesday Derrico of Experimental Bitch Presents
Winter 2018 // HappyLucky No. 1
Assistant Director: Anna Newbury
Stage Manager: Julia Smith
Set and Costume: Katerina Marcelja
Video Art: Magin Schantz
Butoh Choreography: Vangeline
Photos by Matthew Echelman
Graphic design by Jorge Morales
WATCH THE TRAILERS HERE
Inspired by Medusa's story, who was raped by Poseidon, this piece is about women and the stories of their bodies and pleasures. From Salome to Eve, how do we define a woman's ascent to pleasure and orgasm? To be feminist, do we need to redefine sexuality as a whole? Today, can we look Medusa in the eye?
Nia Witherspoon’s
Priestess of Twerk:
Time Warp 332 B.C.
(A Concert Experiment)
performed at HERE Arts Center for a one-night showing on
September 9th following a HARP residency at Bethany Arts.
Singers/Dancers: Synead Cidney Nichols and J. Scott Cameron
Music Producer: Tender Bois Club (Eli + Wazi)
Live DJ / Sound Engineer: DJ Potts
Cello/Bass: Serena Ebony Miller,
Guitar: Spaceman
Drummer: Malik Washington
Production Stage Manager: Caren Celine Morris
Assistant Stage Manager: Lisette Medina
Costume Designer: Suzette Byrd
Video Editor: Hannah Wisenant
Inspired by the “bad bitches” of hip hop, the reproductive justice movement, and the sacred sex workers that graced Egyptian temples, Priestess of Twerk: Time Warp 332BC (A Concert Experiment) is a black feminist temple of pleasure that presents women, queer, and trans-folks of color with opportunities to re-encounter their sexualities through the lens of the sacred, increasing bodily autonomy, and dispelling toxic masculinity. In this first concert experiment, we explore music, movement, and storytelling we are investigating as a part of the larger work, which will premiere in 2023.
This event was a part of HERE RAW/Resident Artist Works 2021 and was presented with Staging Decadence: a twenty-first-century salon featuring live performances by Nia Witherspoon and Normandy Sherwood, talks on decadence and performance by Annette Saddik and Richard Kaye, and hosted by Murray Hill.