March 13, 2026

Artists

Photo: Maria Baranova

LISA FAGAN AND LENA ENGELSTEIN

Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein are NYC-based experimental choreographer-performers whose work has been dubbed “The High Weird” by critics. Since 2017, they’ve functioned as a cogenerative, circulatory idea machine, whose unconventional performative frameworks reimagine what choreography can be used to accomplish theatrically. Recent work includes: This Could Be You (Sugar! Sugar! Festival, Domino Square Park 2025), Friday Night Rat Catchers (Under the Radar / LiveArtery 2026, New York Live Arts Spring 2025), Deepe Darknesse (New York Live Arts’ Live Artery 2024; full-page review in The New York Times; June 2023 at The Collapsable Hole; Nationally in DC, SF), 1-800-3592-113592 (MITU580 2024, with performance collective CHILD), and many more short works and experimentations. The duo received the 2025 Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) Grants to Artists in Choreography. Their work has been supported by Baryshnikov Arts Center (2023 BAC Open), NYSCA Individual artists grant, The FCA, Coffey Street, Mercury Store, and others.

Photo: Daniel Rampulla

RIVER L. RAMIREZ

River L. Ramirez (they/them) is a Philly based, comedian, musician and writer from Miami, FL. A Peruvian/Puertorican multihyphenate, it’s easy to forget they are just a little furby with a knife. Their work can be found in the mediums of Writing, Visual Art and Music. River’s work explores the intersections of mysticism, collective consciousness, class consciousness, liberation and play. Their work has been written about in the NYT, Forbes, SSense, Art in America, Vulture, GQ and more. You can see their image, feel their writing, and hear their voice on various films and TV shows such as; Problemista, Fantasmas, High Maintenance, BIRDGIRL, Teenage Euthanasia, and more. Currently, they live in a charming Victorian home with a black cat doing spells all day.

For more follow them on substack at River's world, @pileoftears everywhere else.

Photo: Elyse Mertz

EVAN RAY SUZUKI

evan ray suzuki is a dance artist and filmmaker of yonsei Japanese descent who creates butoh-ish performance works that investigate liminal hauntings and postinternet unbodiedness. Presentations include internationally at the Umbria Factory Festival in. Spoleto, Italy, and at venues such as Pageant, Ars Nova, JACK, Abrons Arts Center, Center for Performance Research, Trans-Pecos, Icebox Project Space, WestFest, DCTV, and many parks, galleries, and basements. evan has received grants and residencies from the

New York State Council on the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Ars Nova, New Dance Alliance, Amanda+James, and Centro Umbro di Residenze Artistiche. As a performer, evan’s credits include works with Kim Brandt, maura nguyễn donohue, Ayano Elson, Gordon Hall, David Neumann, Mina Nishimura, and Glenn Potter-Takata, and he has. been a member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company since 2023. evan is currently a 2025-26 Resident Artist at La MaMa Etc. and a 2026 Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellow.