Fuller Moon Arts Festival 2022 Artists and Performers
ARTISTS
Murals in Motion, Heidi Lanino
During the Festival, Lanino is choreographing a prompted mural-painting experience, Murals in Motion, inspired by the setting. Join her at 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, and 4:30pm in the Dance Studio to use sound, dance and rhythm to experiment with mark-making while reacting to and influencing the work of those around you. Lanino has also set up an outdoor mural for Festival visitors to collaborate on. Learn more about the artist at: www.heidilanino.com or www.instagram.com/heidilanino
Skin Deep: Voices from Beneath the Surface, Vernon Byron
Artist Vernon Byron has received an Artist Support Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to develop a research-based immersive video projection project that explores the history of land use and inhabitation in Warwick, highlighting diverse communities that have existed here and reaffirming their continued presence. At the Festival he is conducting interviews to inform his research and showing excerpts from the work in progress. Learn more about the artist at: https://linktr.ee/Vernon.M.Byron
Solidarity, Amanda E. Gross
"The earth is what we all have in common." - Wendell Berry
“The land knows you even when you are lost…" - Robin Wall Kimmerer
This installation has three parts that the artist intends to harmonize to engage the mind, body, emotions, and spirit to connect in solidarity with others and the earth. Conveying radical inclusion, "YOU BELONG" is sculpted from straw, clay, and sand, elevating mundane natural materials to art. Wild-growing plants are labeled with their common names, transforming "weeds" from strange objects to be eliminated into familiar, intimate subjects. And a sanctuary structure made from locally foraged bamboo and cotton lashing strengthens the spiritual and sacred feeling of the space, with glittering crystals engaging the senses with sound, light, beauty, play, and magic. Learn more about the artist at: www.amandaegross.com and www.instagram.com/themagicaeg/
The Nest, Nicole Hixon
Artist Nicole Hixon created The Nest from repurposed bicycle inner tubes, recycled steel belted radial tires, and zip ties as a space for people to feel safe, to come together, to relax and to feel nurtured. The Nest has been exhibited at locations including Governors Island Art Fair; conversations about life, love and art often happen while friends new and old are made. Warwick-based artist Hixon is pleased to share The Nest with her local community and reminds us that just as with a bird's nest, time in this nest is fleeting. She invites all to come rest, enjoy, meet yourselves and others and find solace in this space.
Learn more about the artist at: www.nicolehixonart.com
Dandelions, Maxine Leu
Using white acrylic globes, LED lights, wire nets, cable ties, duct caps, and steel rods, Leu has created a mini forest of illuminated dandelions. The Tawainese-born artist notes, “Dandelions are common in many places around the world, meaning they have traveled far and wide. Some people make wishes when they blow on them, so I see dandelions as messengers, sending those wishes to people I miss in faraway places.”
Learn more about the artist at: www.maxineleu.com
Kindred Face, Daniel McQuade
Kindred Face is made from silicone, clay, and cement. Artist Daniel McQuade notes, “The creation process is therapeutic in many ways, bringing something from nothing through clay.” A large part of my personal life and my art project revolves around mental health. The abstract face you see came about during a challenging transitional time. I hope for you to feel soothed and relaxed thinking about the faces just as I did and continue to do.”
Learn more about the artist at: danmcquadeart.com
Synthesizer Petting Zoo II, Torino: Margolis
Jenny Torino and Ben Margolis have created two stations that provide different analog synthesizer experiences. One has multiple synthesizers that Festival-goers can play together, standing around a table. The second is a meditative station facing the lake, where one participant canl kneel or sit on a cushion in front of a low table with a synthesizer connected to a tactile audio strap and headphones. You can manipulate the synthesizer, creating drone-like sounds and sonic vibrations while looking out into the lake and Fuller Mountain.
During the Festival, Lanino is choreographing a prompted mural-painting experience, Murals in Motion, inspired by the setting. Join her at 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, and 4:30pm in the Dance Studio to use sound, dance and rhythm to experiment with mark-making while reacting to and influencing the work of those around you. Lanino has also set up an outdoor mural for Festival visitors to collaborate on. Learn more about the artist at: www.heidilanino.com or www.instagram.com/heidilanino
Skin Deep: Voices from Beneath the Surface, Vernon Byron
Artist Vernon Byron has received an Artist Support Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to develop a research-based immersive video projection project that explores the history of land use and inhabitation in Warwick, highlighting diverse communities that have existed here and reaffirming their continued presence. At the Festival he is conducting interviews to inform his research and showing excerpts from the work in progress. Learn more about the artist at: https://linktr.ee/Vernon.M.Byron
Solidarity, Amanda E. Gross
"The earth is what we all have in common." - Wendell Berry
“The land knows you even when you are lost…" - Robin Wall Kimmerer
This installation has three parts that the artist intends to harmonize to engage the mind, body, emotions, and spirit to connect in solidarity with others and the earth. Conveying radical inclusion, "YOU BELONG" is sculpted from straw, clay, and sand, elevating mundane natural materials to art. Wild-growing plants are labeled with their common names, transforming "weeds" from strange objects to be eliminated into familiar, intimate subjects. And a sanctuary structure made from locally foraged bamboo and cotton lashing strengthens the spiritual and sacred feeling of the space, with glittering crystals engaging the senses with sound, light, beauty, play, and magic. Learn more about the artist at: www.amandaegross.com and www.instagram.com/themagicaeg/
The Nest, Nicole Hixon
Artist Nicole Hixon created The Nest from repurposed bicycle inner tubes, recycled steel belted radial tires, and zip ties as a space for people to feel safe, to come together, to relax and to feel nurtured. The Nest has been exhibited at locations including Governors Island Art Fair; conversations about life, love and art often happen while friends new and old are made. Warwick-based artist Hixon is pleased to share The Nest with her local community and reminds us that just as with a bird's nest, time in this nest is fleeting. She invites all to come rest, enjoy, meet yourselves and others and find solace in this space.
Learn more about the artist at: www.nicolehixonart.com
Dandelions, Maxine Leu
Using white acrylic globes, LED lights, wire nets, cable ties, duct caps, and steel rods, Leu has created a mini forest of illuminated dandelions. The Tawainese-born artist notes, “Dandelions are common in many places around the world, meaning they have traveled far and wide. Some people make wishes when they blow on them, so I see dandelions as messengers, sending those wishes to people I miss in faraway places.”
Learn more about the artist at: www.maxineleu.com
Kindred Face, Daniel McQuade
Kindred Face is made from silicone, clay, and cement. Artist Daniel McQuade notes, “The creation process is therapeutic in many ways, bringing something from nothing through clay.” A large part of my personal life and my art project revolves around mental health. The abstract face you see came about during a challenging transitional time. I hope for you to feel soothed and relaxed thinking about the faces just as I did and continue to do.”
Learn more about the artist at: danmcquadeart.com
Synthesizer Petting Zoo II, Torino: Margolis
Jenny Torino and Ben Margolis have created two stations that provide different analog synthesizer experiences. One has multiple synthesizers that Festival-goers can play together, standing around a table. The second is a meditative station facing the lake, where one participant canl kneel or sit on a cushion in front of a low table with a synthesizer connected to a tactile audio strap and headphones. You can manipulate the synthesizer, creating drone-like sounds and sonic vibrations while looking out into the lake and Fuller Mountain.
12:30 - 1:30PM, Lakeside Gazebo
Rose Stoller and Band
https://www.instagram.com/weirdsoundgirl/
Joseph Mullhaupt, bass & Matt Kopec, drums.
2:00 - 3:00PM, Lakeside Gazebo
The Blues Hounds
David Schiff, guitar, Tony Sky, harmonica, and Piet Koster, upright bass.
7:00 - 9PM, Lakeside Pavilion
Funkrust Brass Band
a post-apocalyptic disco-punk brass band playing all original music with megaphone vocals, heavy tuba bass lines, thundering percussion and searing brass melodies. Their explosive live performances feature full band choreography, signature wasteland/glam uniforms and LED lighting effects. The band mixes post-punk, disco, EDM, metal, and funk with Balkan brass and New Orleans second line sounds, and filters that through the medium of a massive street brass band with a punk rock sensibility. https://www.instagram.com/funkrustbrassband/
Rose Stoller and Band
https://www.instagram.com/weirdsoundgirl/
Joseph Mullhaupt, bass & Matt Kopec, drums.
2:00 - 3:00PM, Lakeside Gazebo
The Blues Hounds
David Schiff, guitar, Tony Sky, harmonica, and Piet Koster, upright bass.
7:00 - 9PM, Lakeside Pavilion
Funkrust Brass Band
a post-apocalyptic disco-punk brass band playing all original music with megaphone vocals, heavy tuba bass lines, thundering percussion and searing brass melodies. Their explosive live performances feature full band choreography, signature wasteland/glam uniforms and LED lighting effects. The band mixes post-punk, disco, EDM, metal, and funk with Balkan brass and New Orleans second line sounds, and filters that through the medium of a massive street brass band with a punk rock sensibility. https://www.instagram.com/funkrustbrassband/
DANCE PERFORMANCES
2:30 - 3:15PM & 4:00 - 4:45PM DANCES BY THE LAKE:
"Picnic," choreographed by Shawn Rawls with Emotions Physical Theatre. E.P.T. combines theater and dance to tell thought-provoking stories that expand imagination and empathy, and empower future generations of creators in Hudson Valley and beyond.
Dappled Shadows, a piece co-choreographed and performed by Julia Keys and Ian Wen and presented by De Novo Dance. De Novo is a performance collective that uses dance, theater, live music, and technology to create transformative works that engage the body, mind, and spirit. We create original pieces inspired by traditional cultural dance forms such as belly dance, experimentations in music and sound, and butoh dance theater.
"The Water is Wide" presented by Darrah Carr Dance, choreogrpahed by Darrah Carr with Alexandra Williamson and Trent Kowalik. This romantic duet expresses what love looks like in spite of the challenges of immigration. Since 1998, the Bessie Award nominated company Darrah Carr Dance has created a sensational and unique blend of traditional Irish step and contemporary modern dance. The company draws from Irish music, step dance footwork, and spatial patterns to create high-energy, rhythmically based work that is accessible to a broad audience.
The Moving Company Dance presents "The Unfolding," choreographed by Linda Mensch with Lidia Baluk and Sofia Mudryk, two dancers recently arrived from the Ukraine. MCD is a school of contemporary dance in Warwick, NY directed by Linda Mensch for over thirty years offering a variety of dance classes to students of all ages, levels and abilities. Students have the opportunity to learn, create, choreograph, and perform in an environment that allows for students to express themselves freely and creatively.
3.30 - 4:00PM, Lakeside Pavilion, Warwick Broadway Collective and Warwick Dance Collective Student Company perform excerpts from 2022 Rep.
6:00 - 7:00pm, Around Camp, Warwick Dance Collective presents premiere of Arcadia, written and directed by Jennifer Padham, choreographed by Melissa Padham Maass, Pamela Sorensen, Charmy Wells, and Jessica McRoberts.The Warwick Dance Collective was established in 2017, under the direction of Melissa Padham-Maass. As the resident company of the Warwick Center for the Performing Arts, WDC performs throughout the year in the Center’s full length productions, as well as various festivals.
"Picnic," choreographed by Shawn Rawls with Emotions Physical Theatre. E.P.T. combines theater and dance to tell thought-provoking stories that expand imagination and empathy, and empower future generations of creators in Hudson Valley and beyond.
Dappled Shadows, a piece co-choreographed and performed by Julia Keys and Ian Wen and presented by De Novo Dance. De Novo is a performance collective that uses dance, theater, live music, and technology to create transformative works that engage the body, mind, and spirit. We create original pieces inspired by traditional cultural dance forms such as belly dance, experimentations in music and sound, and butoh dance theater.
"The Water is Wide" presented by Darrah Carr Dance, choreogrpahed by Darrah Carr with Alexandra Williamson and Trent Kowalik. This romantic duet expresses what love looks like in spite of the challenges of immigration. Since 1998, the Bessie Award nominated company Darrah Carr Dance has created a sensational and unique blend of traditional Irish step and contemporary modern dance. The company draws from Irish music, step dance footwork, and spatial patterns to create high-energy, rhythmically based work that is accessible to a broad audience.
The Moving Company Dance presents "The Unfolding," choreographed by Linda Mensch with Lidia Baluk and Sofia Mudryk, two dancers recently arrived from the Ukraine. MCD is a school of contemporary dance in Warwick, NY directed by Linda Mensch for over thirty years offering a variety of dance classes to students of all ages, levels and abilities. Students have the opportunity to learn, create, choreograph, and perform in an environment that allows for students to express themselves freely and creatively.
3.30 - 4:00PM, Lakeside Pavilion, Warwick Broadway Collective and Warwick Dance Collective Student Company perform excerpts from 2022 Rep.
6:00 - 7:00pm, Around Camp, Warwick Dance Collective presents premiere of Arcadia, written and directed by Jennifer Padham, choreographed by Melissa Padham Maass, Pamela Sorensen, Charmy Wells, and Jessica McRoberts.The Warwick Dance Collective was established in 2017, under the direction of Melissa Padham-Maass. As the resident company of the Warwick Center for the Performing Arts, WDC performs throughout the year in the Center’s full length productions, as well as various festivals.
PLAYS
Performances at 12.00 - 12.30, 2:00 - 2:30, 4:00 - 4:30, 5:00 - 5:30PM
PEP Productions presents two plays from the O.C. Short Play Festival: "Everything Happens for a Reason," A Black Comedy by William J. Royce, and "Kirby is Missing" by Scott Gibson, performed by Sue Mormile and Raymond Aponte, and directed by Paul Ellis.
PEP Productions presents two plays from the O.C. Short Play Festival: "Everything Happens for a Reason," A Black Comedy by William J. Royce, and "Kirby is Missing" by Scott Gibson, performed by Sue Mormile and Raymond Aponte, and directed by Paul Ellis.
Sue Mormile and Raymond Aponte
The Festival is sponsored by Legoland New York Resort, the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, and funded in part by the 2022 Orange County Community Arts Grant.
We would also like to thank the following sponsors:
The Town of Warwick, Raven Lake Studio, Rooster Tees, Family Orthodontics, Rhythm & Rhyme Childcare, Leo Kaytes Ford, Fetch restaurant, Destination Unknown Beer Company, Nourish Your Mind, Branded 845, Pennings/Market/Cidery/Orchard, Warwick Thai, Track 7 Postal Center.
We would also like to thank the following sponsors:
The Town of Warwick, Raven Lake Studio, Rooster Tees, Family Orthodontics, Rhythm & Rhyme Childcare, Leo Kaytes Ford, Fetch restaurant, Destination Unknown Beer Company, Nourish Your Mind, Branded 845, Pennings/Market/Cidery/Orchard, Warwick Thai, Track 7 Postal Center.