Maxi Hawkeye Canion/gut PUNCH

Maxi (she/they) is a Performance Artist based in Brooklyn, originally from El Paso, TX. She is a 2025–26 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, former 2024-25 NYLA Fresh Tracks artist and has presented work at Isabella Stewart Garner Museum in Boston, Pageant, Center of Performance Research, Judson Memorial Church, New York Live Arts, Abrons Art Center, Brooklyn Museum, MOtiVE Studio, JACK Theater, La MaMa Experimental Theater, Danspace Project, Triskelion Arts, Grace Exhibition Space, Wild Project, BAAD!, Performance Space NY, Otion Front Studio, Art Omi, Les Urbaines Festival in Switzerland and various DIY shows such as HOLE PICS and Play Me Techno. She is one half of performance/sound collective: gut PUNCH w/ musician/visual artist Hisham Akira Bharoocha.

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lime limbix drain is an interdisciplinary dance-theater work merging improvisational movement, modular sound, and live dialogue. The work follows an absurdist cast where normalcy slowly chips away through theatrical vignettes that illustrate the somatic impacts of capitalist and techno-feudalist systems propelling our current dystopian reality.

Drew Wesely

Drew (they) is a guitarist, composer, and intermedia artist focused on questions of memory, collective consciousness, and embodied sound perception. Working with augmented instruments, immersive amplification systems, and site-specific acoustics, their improvisational performance practices invokes open, evolving structures that dissolve boundaries between perceiver and perceived. Drew has presented work at The Whitney Museum, ISSUE Project Room, Roulette Intermedium, The Stone, Columbia University, and Fire Museum, among many other venues across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

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A Voice Dressed in Darkest Green is a performance ritual of somatic vibration and a meditation on the boundaries of sound, music, culture, and nature. Inspired by the similarities between wave-like structures in plant life and the psychoacoustic phenomenon of the ‘Shepard tone’, electromagnetically activated acoustic guitars form a sculptural and sonic tapestry decentralizing authorship as bodies and the space itself resonate within ecosystems of beating frequencies and shimmering harmonics.

Damayanti Wallace

Damayanti (she/they) is a proud Chicago-born theatrical director and interdisciplinary artist, now based in New York City who creates work that centers the emotional landscapes of intersectional identity. They are committed to building collaborative, emotionally honest work that makes space for underrepresented voices in both theater and film. Directing credits include Gray Mud by Brie Leftwich (Theater for a New City), Bodies and Beds by Nadel Henville (Re/Venue at Mabou Mines), and various staged readings, including two plays by Anike Sounge, Liahona (Clubbed Thumb) and Girls! Girls! Girls! (Plays to Look Out For).

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diamond bones: mining the catastrophe is an exploration of grief, horror, and fear through a Black feminist lens. This multimedia performance piece uses dance, poetry, filmmaking, and music to invoke the tradition of Black oral storytelling, to use the ontological construction of Blackness as a means of creation, to mine our catastrophe.