Performances

Masterz at Work Dance Family Presents "Space"

by choreographer Courtney Washington Balenciaga

Works & Process bubble performance of All Inclusive by Masterz at Work Dance Family with Courtney Washington Balenciaga. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, March 2021.

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David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at Pocantico

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Tickets: $15 (+$1.75 ticketing fee)

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Black trans femme choreographer Courtney Washington Balenciaga—a legend in the ballroom community—and Masterz at Work Dance Family present a work-in-process showing of Space, a dance composition that strives toward a more inclusive, fair, representative, and colorful world. The event will begin with a screening of Trans Love Is Beautiful, a video developed by Balenciaga and Masterz at Work, followed by a moderated discussion with the dancers and choreographer. The show will conclude with a live performance of Space.

Space was commissioned by Works & Process and was developed in Works & Process LaunchPAD residencies at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (2021), Bethany Arts Community (2022), and The Pocantico Center (2023).

The event will be followed by a reception with special access to the DR Center gallery, currently showing Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art.

The snow date for this event is Friday, January 13. 

Masterz at Work Dance Family

A dance collective of fierce young performers from different dance backgrounds, Masterz at Work ignites the stage with jazz, hip-hop, street jazz, house, African, vogue, and contemporary dance.

Courtney Washington Balenciaga

Choreographer

Courtney Washington Balenciaga is founder of the Kiki House of Juicy Couture, leader of The House of Balenciaga, and 2022 Latex Ball Avis Penda’vis Angel Award winner. Fusing street dance, jazz, ballroom, vogue, and hip-hop, her dances represent resiliency and foster community in under-resourced areas of Brooklyn. Informed by her own experience as a queer teenager who found refuge in dance, her work conveys how her gender transition spurred transformative emotional, creative, and physical liberation.