Join us for a DOUBLE FEATURE at Gardenship Art!
Friday the 9th - Tickets: $25 - Casual Attire
Schedule:
6PM - Doors Open
7PM - 8PM: Visitor Parking Screening
8:30PM - 9:30PM: Soldier Island Screening
9:30PM - 11PM: Dance Party
*Food truck with popcorn and snacks will be present!
Saturday the 10th - Tickets: $75 (Fundraiser Event) - Semi-Formal Attire
Schedule:
6PM - 7PM - Cocktail Hour
7PM - 8PM: Visitor Parking Screening
8:30PM - 9:30PM: Soldier Island Screening
9:30PM - 10PM: Q&A with the artists
*There will be local wood-fire pizza and alcohol provided by All Points West, a Newark-based distillery.
About the artists:
mignolo dance is a 501-c3 nonprofit contemporary dance company founded by sisters, Charly and Eriel Santagado, in 2017. They have been dancing and creating together for more than ten years and use this experience to continue to collaborate with each other and other dancers and artists to create new work that explores elements of various artistic mediums through movement. The company has presented work at many festivals including KoDaFe, Dumbo Dance Festival, Triskelion’s SummerFest, Waxworks, Peridance's APEX, and Koresh’s Come Together Dance Festival. Their work has been produced by HERE Arts Center's Co-op Sublet Series, Inclined Dance Project's inQuad Split Bill Series at Dixon Place, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning's Friday Nights Series, Gardenship Art, and The Berrie Center at Ramapo College.
About the works:
Visitor Parking is an immersive, site specific multimedia piece rooted in contemporary dance that explores a variety of mental health problems in effort to advocate for the recognition and de-stigmatization of mental health related conditions. Choreographed by Charly & Eriel Santagado in collaboration with the dancers, the piece calls upon mignolo's developing "translation" movement vocabulary accompanied by poetry, original music by Brian Curry and Teddy Hyde, set design by Andrew Lackland, and costume design by Bailey Benoot.
Soldier Island is a feature length screendance directed by Charly Santagado that is loosely based on the best-selling murder mystery novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Ten characters from various, seemingly unrelated walks of life are invited by an unknown host to spend a weekend at a mysterious mansion on Soldier Island. The deaths of the guests follow the trajectory of a rhyme that’s framed and hung in each bedroom of the house. And of course, in Agatha Christie fashion, there’s a twist ending!