Proposals are now being accepted for our 2025 Emergence Artist Residency Program.
NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2024
Culture Lab LIC's premiere "New Works Festival" will showcase the year-long, original work of our four 2024 Emergence Artists in Residence! Featuring four separate works by Danie Kohn, Helixx C. Armageddon, Yvonne Huatin Chow, and Gaby FeBland.
People in Public by Danie Kohn
November 7 - 10
A contemporary circus show focused on spontaneous and brief moments of connection, unique to the urban environment. In a series of interconnected vignettes, the cast explores how we interact and find moments of humanity with complete strangers. In daily life, we are often alone together; On a train, in a laundromat, in a crowd... But sometimes, we break out of that solitary mentality, lock eyes with a stranger, and share a brief smile or understanding before the disappear back into the crowd.
Circus is integrated into the set and setting, a natural part of the world. Aerial hoops become washing machines in a laundromat, pigeons perch on a trapeze, the rush hour subway bustle is composed of acrobatic movement. People in Public uses both ground and aerial movement, and is composed of a large ensemble cast, made up of talented artists local to New York City. It stands as a love letter to cities, to spontaneous connection and, especially, to the magic in between. Danie Kohn is a Circus Artist and Creator, with a strong foundation in contemporary dance. A lifelong New Yorker, Danie began her career as a gymnast, but was more interested in the joy of movement than in competition. She spent time as a contemporary dancer, studying at Barnard, Peridance and Dance New Amsterdam before discovering Circus - specifically partner acrobatics - a discipline that combines all her loves into one. Danie is most fascinated by contemporary circus - skills that are integrated into the movement to tell a story. She is deeply influenced by both dance creation in NYC and by the circus work she saw abroad, pushing far beyond the traditional concept of the circus tent and “skills for claps”. Danie’s creative practice is strongly built around storytelling, character, connection and joy. People might not remember exactly what they see, but they remember what they feel. Danie’s work has taken her worldwide - she has studied, performed and taught in England, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Tel Aviv and Indonesia. Within NYC, Danie is currently in the devising cast of “The Tiger’s Bride”, an Immersive Circus Production at Nancy Manocherian’s The Cell Theatre. She also developed a show inside the Van Gogh Immersive, which added an additional layer to the 3D Experience - Humanity. Danie is the acrobatic coordinator for Justin Peck’s ‘Illinoise’, and trains and coaches out of CirqueHaus, in midtown Manhattan.
The Museum of My Heart by Helixx C. Armageddon
November 14 - 17
An intimate transformative avant-garde art dinner, where guests take part in creating a collaborative non-edible art feast, exploring love, heartbreak, and healing.
Helixx C. Armageddon is a storyteller intrigued with the human condition. She is a performance artist that weaves together poetry, music and theater to shift her audiences from observers to participants. Known for impassioned performances, Helixx channels a space for community, connection and dialogue. For her, words are powerful and create more than narrative; words create action and momentum towards a more just world. Helixx has performed in notable venues around New York City including Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Bowery Poetry Club, Joe’s Pub, Hammerstein Ballroom, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Blue Note Jazz Club and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.
The Woman in Red. The Child in Blue.
by Yvonne Huatin Chow, House of Chow
November 21 - 24
A dance theater piece dedicated to daughters that are cycle-breakers. Weaving cultural movement lineages of Hip-Hop Dance, Chinese Kung-Fu Wu-Su, and Asian folk dances, this Shamanic journey tracks a mother and daughter whose healing and freedom are intimately intertwined.
Founded by Artistic Director and Choreographer Yvonne Huatin Chow 周化炜 in 2015, House of Chow {HoC} is where the wisdom of Asian lineage and a deep respect for Hip-Hop Dance meet. House of Chow’s mission is to educate, empower, and unify Asians in the US through Hip-Hop Dance. With Yvonne’s extensive education and experience in the culture and art form, she guides fellow Asians to understand their role and define their contribution as a guest in the culture of Hip-Hop Dance, an art form created by Black and Latino Americans in the US. House of Chow accomplishes its mission through a repertory company that presents work and dialogue about the Asian identity and experience as well as education and advocacy programming.
The Undercity by Gaby FeBland
December 5 - 8
When an otherworldly artifact falls into her paws, Rat Girl uncovers a vast conspiracy that threatens the fate of the entire rat metropolis. Merging puppetry, toy theatre, and an original score, “The Undercity” navigates unchecked greed, climate catastrophe, and the engineered hopelessness of industrial life—a gnarly web of rat tails only our hero can untangle.
Gaby FeBland is a writer, puppeteer, and illustrator born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She's a proud co-founder of Foreshadow, an overhead projector shadow puppetry company that performs macabre, fully-scored plays for adults. Foreshadow is a proud recipient of a 2024 Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant. Gaby has performed puppetry at the La MaMa Puppet Festival, the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, “Nightfall” at Green-Wood Cemetery, Dixon Place, Coney Island U.S.A., Jalopy Theatre, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, as well as on the TV show “Green Screen Adventures” and in commercials. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at Northwestern University, and at the Frontier Theater in Chicago, and her writing has been published in McSweeney’s and Spider Magazine. You can find her illustration work in American Libraries Magazine and South Side Weekly. She is currently working on her first children’s book.
2024 Emergence Artist
Residency Program
Culture Lab LIC is excited to announce our 2024 Emergence Artist in Residence!
These diverse and exceptional performace based artists will be a part of Culture Lab LIC's New Works Festival coming this Fall!
Helixx C Armageddon
Danie Kohn
House of Chow
Gaby Febland
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Culture Lab LIC's Emergence Artist Residency is a developmental performing arts program geared toward the support and creation of new work. It offers artists & companies free rehearsal and performance space to develop and produce new performance based work.
Developed in 2021 by Culture Lab LIC Co-Founder and former Director of Performing Arts, Tana Sirois, works created at Culture Lab LIC will be showcased on one of Culture Lab's stages and presented and promoted as a part of the Culture Lab LIC’s Emergence Artist New Works Festival this November. Artists retain creative rights to the work created.
Helixx C. Armageddon is a storyteller intrigued with the human condition. She is a performance artist that weaves together poetry, music and theater to shift her audiences from observers to participants.
Known for impassioned performances, Helixx channels a space for community, connection and dialogue. For her, words are powerful and create more than narrative; words create action and momentum towards a more just world.
Helixx has performed in notable venues around New York City including Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Bowery Poetry Club, Joe’s Pub, Hammerstein Ballroom, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Blue Note Jazz Club and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.
Museum of My Heart
The Museum of My Heart is an intimate transformative avant-garde art dinner, where guests take part in creating a collaborative non-edible art feast, exploring love, heartbreak, and healing.
Museum of My Heart
Step into the Museum of My Heart, a captivating experience exploring the kaleidoscope of love, heartbreak, desire, and healing through interactive visual and audio storytelling.
This unique exhibition is presented as a free, three-day public event.
Join us on these dates:
Friday, June 28, 5-9pm
Saturday, June 29, 5-9pm
Sunday, June 30, 2-9pm
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND supported by Jerome Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive, Queens Arts Fund and Culture Lab LIC.
Danie Kohn
Danie Kohn is a Circus Artist and Creator, with a strong foundation in contemporary dance. A lifelong New Yorker, Danie began her career as a gymnast, but was more interested in the joy of movement than in competition. She spent time as a contemporary dancer, studying at Barnard, Peridance and Dance New Amsterdam before discovering Circus - specifically partner acrobatics - a discipline that combines all her loves into one.
Danie is most fascinated by contemporary circus - skills that are integrated into the movement to tell a story. She is deeply influenced by both dance creation in NYC and by the circus work she saw abroad, pushing far beyond the traditional concept of the circus tent and “skills for claps”.
Danie’s creative practice is strongly built around storytelling, character, connection and joy. People might not remember exactly what they see, but they remember what they feel.
Danie’s work has taken her worldwide - she has studied, performed and taught in England, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Tel Aviv and Indonesia. Within NYC, Danie is currently in the devising cast of “The Tiger’s Bride”, an Immersive Circus Production at Nancy Manocherian’s The Cell Theatre. She also developed a show inside the Van Gogh Immersive, which added an additional layer to the 3D Experience - Humanity. Danie is the acrobatic coordinator for Justin Peck’s ‘Illinoise’, and trains and coaches out of CirqueHaus, in midtown Manhattan.
She is excited for this next chapter as an Emerging Artist at Culture Lab LIC.
Fleeting Connections - A Contemporary Circus Show
Fleeting Moments is a contemporary circus show focused on spontaneous and brief moments of connection, unique to the urban environment. It is structured as a series of interconnected vignettes, told through dance and circus movement. The cast explores how we interact and find moments of humanity with complete strangers.
In daily life, we are often alone together; On a train, in a laundromat, in a crowd... But sometimes, we break out of that solitary mentality, and lock eyes with a stranger, maybe share a smile, or a sympathy.
For example, when a subway train pauses, and another train is lined up alongside, also waiting. You look up, and meet eyes with someone in the other train. You’ll likely never see one another again - but these moments - these small moments - can bring a shift.
Aerial hoops will become washing machines in a laundromat, trapezes double as swings in a playground. Circus will be integrated into the set and setting, a natural part of the world.
This production will be built using both ground and aerial movement, with a large ensemble cast, made up of talented artists local to New York City. It stands as a love letter to cities, to spontaneous connection and, especially, to the magic in between.
House of Chow
Founded by Artistic Director and Choreographer Yvonne Huatin Chow 周化炜 in 2015, House of Chow {HoC} is where the wisdom of Asian lineage and a deep respect for Hip-Hop Dance meet.
House of Chow’s mission is to educate, empower, and unify Asians in the US through Hip-Hop Dance. With Yvonne’s extensive education and experience in the culture and art form, she guides fellow Asians to understand their role and define their contribution as a guest in the culture of Hip-Hop Dance, an art form created by Black and Latino Americans in the US. House of Chow accomplishes its mission through a repertory company that presents work and dialogue about the Asian identity and experience as well as education and advocacy programming.
The Woman in Red. The Child in Blue
Dedicated to the daughters that are cycle-breakers, “The Woman in Red. The Child in Blue” is a Hip-Hop Dance repertory piece that tracks a mother and daughter whose healing and freedom are intimately intertwined.
Gaby FeBland is a writer, puppeteer, and illustrator born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She's a proud co-founder of Foreshadow, an overhead projector shadow puppetry company that performs macabre, fully-scored plays for adults. Foreshadow is a proud recipient of a 2024 Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant.
Gaby has performed puppetry at the La MaMa Puppet Festival, the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, “Nightfall” at Green-Wood Cemetery, Dixon Place, Coney Island U.S.A., Jalopy Theatre, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, as well as on the TV show “Green Screen Adventures” and in commercials. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at Northwestern University, and at the Frontier Theater in Chicago, and her writing has been published in McSweeney’s and Spider Magazine. You can find her
illustration work in American Libraries Magazine and South Side Weekly. She is currently working on her first children’s book.
The Undercity
Merging shadow puppetry, physical theatre, and an original score, The Undercity centers on the metropolis of rats below our feet, navigating the complex web of rat tails that is finding our identity beyond our work and forging our own futures in the darkness.
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