ANTOLOGÍA: Una Teta-Novela
Yara Travieso

Chelsea Factory Presents

ANTOLOGÍA: Una Teta-Novela

Thursday, June 20 at 7:30PM

Friday, June 21 at 7:30PM

Saturday, June 22 at 7:30PM

$20-40

You are invited to a limited seating, work-in-process showing of ANTOLOGÍA: Una Teta Novela

ANTOLOGÍA: Una Teta Novela (ANTHOLOGY: A Titty-Novela) is an embodied psycho-ritual-performance & installation of one titty's living process moving from a state of unbearable separation to an interconnected surrender. Rooted in the mad, the absurd, & the sacred, ANTOLOGÍA rips out the internalized weeds that persist in severing us from our sentient bodies, from land, & from one another. Instead of “story-telling,” ANTOLOGÍA fosters a terrain of “story-listening,” prioritizing living embodied truths over imposed colonial narratives. ANTOLOGÍA lives in the legacy of Latin American art and spirituality by women and queer people that is rooted in the resistance of the regulated body/land---When we sense the individual body as a microcosm of all living things, and all living things as the macro of the individual, the concept of regulating the body or land, becomes untenable... 

“May we desire to sense our individual & collective liberation, more than we fear what oppresses us.”

An installation, video art, and performance ritual, labored, and lived by Yara Travieso (Chelsea Factory ‘23 Resident Artist)

Music performed & written by Miriam Elhajli, Yva Las Vegass, & Lizzy de Lise

Companions in Ritual:
Dramaturg (lantern): Catherine Correa
Healing Guide (machete): Cyntia Chávez Bermúdez
Super 8 Cinematographer (tender witness): Brighid Greene
Poster Artist (hermana in the jungle): Mariana Medoza

Additional Fabrication Support:
Dan Castelli & Kelly Potter (fabrication & design of alligator tail)
Lilith Lefae (fabric construction)
Jaleeca Yancy (support for root installation design)
Chelsea Factory’s brilliant team of highly skilled professionals & lovely humans

About Yara Travieso:
Yara Travieso is a Cuban-Venezuelan-American anti-disciplinary artist, writer & community collaborator working in performance, film, installation & ritual. She is a 2023/24 Resident Artist with NYC’s Chelsea Factory, a NYSCA Film & Media grant recipient, a United States Artist Fellow, a Creative Capital recipient, and a winner of NALAC Grant via The Ford Foundation. She is currently on faculty at her alma mater (BFA 09’), The Juilliard School (recipient of the 2023 John Erskine Faculty Prize). Her productions have been featured in NYC’s Park Avenue Armory, Lincoln Center, Performance Space NY, The Public Theater, The Knockdown Center, The High Line, Opéra National de Lorraine France, New World Symphony Center, & EMPAC among others. Her film work has been presented with Film at Lincoln Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, PBS, SXSW, NY Latino Film Festival, El Museo, Museum of The Moving Image among others. In 2022 she created ¡EPA!—a community performance that raised over $10K and 300 coats for NYC Asylum Seekers. In 2019 she collaborated with The Women's March and Chilean Feminist collective, LASTESIS to lead a performance protest of 25K women. Travieso co-founded the Borscht Film Festival in 2005 and co-ran it until 2010 when it was named “the weirdest film festival on the planet” by IndieWire. She has led talks and lectures with: The Ford Foundation, The Park Avenue Armory, MoMa, BAM, NYU, National YoungArts Foundation (‘05 alum), Fordham, The New School, UnionDocs, and Ghetto Film School, among others. She is the recipient of residencies such as: EMPAC, PS122 RAMP, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, BRICLab, STREB, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and The Bessie Schonberg AIR, among others.

About Miriam Elhajli:
Miriam Elhajli, called "a haunting voice" by The New York Times, is a folk singer, composer-improviser, and musicologist. Elhajli lives in New York City where she performs & works as a researcher at The Association for Cultural Equity founded by Alan Lomax. Moving in the intersection of the vibrant avant-garde and the folkloric communities of Brooklyn, she has collaborated with musicians such as Adam O’Farrill, Sélène-Sainte-Aime, Shahzad Isamaily, Jen Shyu, and The Cradle. Elhajli has released four records on her label Numina Records, a label she founded to aid in the documentation of traditional women’s music in the Maghreb and beyond. Numina is set to release Moroccan chaabi ensemble, Bnat El Houariyat’s in August of this year.

About Yva Las Vegass:
Yva Las Vegass (Dec 17 1963) is a Venezuelan born and Seattle native, who finally arrived in New York in 2006 (home). Their first gig was in the 2nd grade and has never stopped. Mixing Venezuelan folkloric music, boleros from the Venezuelan radio stations of their childhood, splattered with punk, folk, electronica, salsa, grunge and the many songs they grew up singing with their parents. With years of experience playing for mixed audiences, they strive to build a channel of communication that eliminates the language barriers, leaving only the pure unadulterated emotion to do the talking. I have come all this way...might as well keep on going.

About Lizzy de Lise:
Lizzy is an interdisciplinary, gender queer artist who plays with otherworldly textures and tones to invite, envelope, and transport. Their work has been featured on NPR, PBS, and at the Smithsonian Hirshorn. Their band Lizdelise released their most recent record in September 2023 and has more coming soon for dancing / crying / rejoicing !!!

About Catherine Correa:
Catherine Correa, a Colombian-born, Brooklyn-based, award-winning dance dramaturg, performing artist and educator. Her work seamlessly merges cinematic arts, dance, and theatre. Throughout her career, Ms. Correa has actively participated in international programs focused on performance development and theater production. She has applied her expertise to the advancement of global theaters, performers, and workshops across South America, Europe, and the United States.

Health and Safety Protocols:
Chelsea Factory will be implementing the following procedures to help ensure the health and safety of our patrons, staff, and artists:

• We practice contactless ticketing and will be checking patrons in by name (no need to show printed or digital tickets).

• Masks are optional.

• While Chelsea Factory strongly recommends vaccination against COVID-19, proof of vaccination is not currently required for audience entrance to performances and public programs.

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