RECESS
RECESS is a monthly public performance series where both works-in-progress and established pieces can be shared in an intimate setting. Innovation. Experimentation. Deep dives. Creative reviews. It’s all welcome here! RECESS is a safe space for exploration and forging new artistic connections. We offer a public program, performance series, network, platform, and ongoing opportunity to engage performers, patrons, artists, and audience members in a night of performance and creative dialogue. RECESS continues to promote and celebrate the work of diverse artists, in solidarity, throughout 2026 and onward.
Monday, May 18th 2026
7:30PM - 9:00PM
PROGRAM
Trains of Thought – an evening of new work by Cecilia Whalen Dance
Choreography by Cecilia Whalen, with the dancers
Performance by Diego Gómez, Priscilla Vasquez, Ghislaine van den Heuvel, Rebecca Pelleri, Natasha Schmid, Kai McCoy, and Cecilia Whalen
I. Solo
Music: "Mascaram Setaba," "Dèwèl," and "Girl from Addis Ababa," by Mulatu Astatke Danced by Cecilia Whalen
Interlude – Next to of course god, america i love you
Poem by e.e. cummings, recited by the poet
Danced by Diego Gómez and Priscilla Vasquez
II. New Group Work
Music: "String Poetic" by Jennifer Higdon
Danced by Diego Gómez, Priscilla Vasquez, Ghislaine van den Heuvel, Rebecca Pelleri, Natasha Schmid, and Kai McCoy
Trains of Thought is an abstract, site-specific work-in-progress, in part exploring ideas of thought/imagination and thoughtlessness/lack of imagination in our present social and political climate. It positions thinking as a creative act, one that leads to clarity and compassion, and thoughtlessness as a destructive act, one that ultimately leads to chaos.
Chez Bushwick branch of JBAF
304 Boerum Street #23
Brooklyn, NY 11206
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