EventsThe New Social Environment#668
PAGEANT
Featuring Jade Manns, Owen Prum, Sharleen Chidiac, Alexa West, and Gillian Jakab
Thursday, October 13, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
PAGEANT founders Jade Manns, Owen Prum, Sharleen Chidiac, and Alexa West join Rail Dance Editor Gillian Jakab for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Kyle Carrero Lopez.
In this Talk
Jade Manns
Canadian Dance Artist Jade Manns is based in New York. Her work has been shown at Abrons Art Center (NYC) as part of the New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill (MA) as Part of the Provincetown Dance Festival, PAGEANT (NYC), ing.464 (NYC) and Greenspace (NYC). Jade has been a two time recipient of the Individual Project Grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. In April 2022 Jade co-founded PAGEANT, an independent dance and performance space collaboratively run by a group of artists in Brooklyn. Jade is an alumna of the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and holds a BFA in dance and minor in performance studies from NYU Tisch.
Owen Prum
Dancer and choreographer Owen Prum is co-founder of the artist-run performance space PAGEANT in New York. He has danced for Neil Greenberg, Burr Johnson and Jordan Lloyd, among others; and has shown his own work at Triskelion Arts and Eden’s Expressway. He holds a Dance BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Sharleen Chidiac
Choreographer Sharleen Chidiac is based in New York City. Her work has been shown at BAM Fisher, Judson Church, Otion Front Studio, amongst other venues. Sharleen has also worked as a movement director for countless music videos and fashion shows. In April 2022, Sharleen co-founded PAGEANT, a new artist-run space in Brooklyn focused on creating performance opportunities for emerging artists.
Alexa West
New York City-based dance artist Alexa West studied in the professional training program at the Martha Graham School before receiving her BFA from the Cooper Union. Her work has been presented in spaces around New York, New York and Houston, Texas and she has been an artist in residence with Chez Bushwick and New Dance Alliance. West is currently a MFA candidate at Bard College, Milton Avery School of the Arts.
Gillian Jakab
Dance editor of the Brooklyn Rail Gillian Jakab is also associate editor of Gagosian Quarterly. Her writing on dance and other topics has appeared in these publications, among others. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan and a MA from Columbia University. She was raised and lives in Brooklyn.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨