WELCOME TO CAMPFIRE & Baryshnikov Arts center
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Friday, March 31 @ 2pm
The End
Welcome to Campfire’s next work, The End, is a devised immersive production combining dance and theater in a site-specific environment. Past, present, and future overlap in a multi-floor, free-roam experience. Guests at Memredux Laboratories uncover a dystopian love story of two humans played by four interchangeable, non-gendered couples who choose to become test subjects for the new memory-erasing drug.
BAC Open Residency
At BAC Open, we are workshopping the future chapter of the production:
After having their memories of each other erased, our lovers rediscover each other as strangers in a vast landscape far different than the utopia they were promised.
Welcome to Campfire
Welcome to Campfire is the story-making platform of Tony Bordonaro (Mason Gross) and Ingrid Kapteyn (Juilliard). They have collaborated to conceive, direct, produce, and perform four evening-length productions of three original danceplays in Shanghai and New York that have been recommended by TimeOut Shanghai, TimeOut NY, Playbill, and No Proscenium. After coproducing The Pigeon & The Mouse with the Moinian Group in 2020, they adapted the piece for sixteen live audiences throughout quarantine in NYC, made possible by a City Artist Corps grant and a Hebrew Tabernacle residency facilitated by Dance in Sacred Places. Their film adaptation of the piece screened at La MaMa, was a finalist in the Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival and the NewFilmmakers NY Film Festival, placed Top 5 in the Broadway On Demand Short Film Festival, and is now streaming on the Emmys® OTT platform. Their 2021 danceplay Subject at Memredux Laboratories premiered in a 9.2K ft.2 space on West 42nd Street. Recommended by TimeOut as one of the best immersive theater experiences in NYC, the live production was part art installation, part dance performance, and 100% immersive storytelling. The film was a finalist in the NewFilmmakers NY Film Festival and is now available to stream on Broadway On Demand.
Image by Miguel Anaya
Conceived and Directed by Tony Bordonaro & Ingrid Kapteyn
Choreographed by Tony Bordonaro & Ingrid Kapteyn in collaboration with the cast
Subject P Dominica Greene
Subject M Marla Phelan
Sound Design Marc Cardarelli
The Labyrinth Song Lia Menaker after Asaf Avidan
Dominica Greene (she.her) is a Black woman who cherishes and channels her Caribbean heritage and Queerness into an art-based existence. A conceptual movement artist, she values dance as one of the purest forms of expression, utilizing it as an energetic entity capable of affecting real and palpable change.
Marla Phelan (she.they) is an internationally recognized dance artist portraying defiant characters at the intersection of technical rigor and intuitive humanness. Phelan works within film, fashion, and stage having danced for Gibney Company, Hofesh Shechter Company, Akram Khan, Azure Barton, Company XIV, Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof, and Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More and The Drowned Man.
Marc Cardarelli currently lives in Queens, NY. He grew up in Toronto, Canada, training as a dancer, and started producing music in his bedroom as a teenager. After graduating from Ryerson University with a BFA in Performance Dance and maintaining a career as a performer, Marc started collaborating as a sound designer with choreographers throughout North America. His love for dance and film has helped influence his sound design. He curated and created original music for Cinereal Productions and they’re works The Unbrunch and The Acey Deucey Club. He scored the Under Review film series directed by Kelly Todd. Marc collaborated with The Dragon Sisters for their film Quick Flight. He created music for and starred in Elephant in the Room, created by Emmy-award winner Al Blackstone. He has collaborated with Welcome to Campfire on their immersive works The Pigeon & The Mouse and Subject. Marc also DJs and curates music for the dance experiences Momen and Kiss My Face. You can also find Marc's original material on Spotify.
With expressive, soulful vocals soaring over a mix of ambient pop, electronic, and alternative R&B sounds, Lia Menaker’s music moves beyond genre to sit in a world of its own. Dubbed “Noirtronica” by WXPN radio, Menaker’s music calls back to jazz vocalists like Nina Simone and Amy Winehouse, while also experimenting with space and percussive, ominous electronic elements. Menaker's music has been played over radio stations across the east coast, including Philadelphia's iHeartRadio (Alt 104.5) and NPR (WXPN 88.5), who consequently included Menaker in the “2020 Best of Philly: Pandemic Edition.” In 2021, she wrote the score for Welcome to Campfire's danceplay and subsequent film Subject. Menaker has performed in 50+ cities around the country. She balances performing (locally and online) with producing and vocal coaching through her home studio.
