HB² PROJECTS recently joined Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment (NSE) Program #728 as a lead artist and administrator with Pioneers Go East Collective. In conversation with Rail Editor-at-Large Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper, the PGEC team shared about the founding of their creative arts organization and community-centered programming including the 2023 Out FRONT! Festival, in partnership with The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. The virtual interview concluded with a poetry reading by reed rushes.

For more info visit: brooklynrail.org

HB² PROJECTS is excited to share that Pioneers Go East Collective’s 2023 Out-FRONT! Festival, in partnership with The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center was featured in The New York Times. Dance Critic Siobhan Burke writes about the Festival’s “Friends and Family Vibe” filling “a gap in the dance calendar, showing incandescent works like Jasmine Hearn’s Salt and Spirit.”

For more info visit: nytimes.com

HB² PROJECTS is excited to share that Pioneers Go East Collective’s 2023 Out-FRONT! Festival, in partnership with The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center was featured in Forbes. Lifestyle & Arts Contributor Risa Sarachan writes about PGEC’s continuing mission to support NYC’s underrepresented artists and their communities, in addition to programming highlights of this year’s Festival.

For more info visit: forbes.com

HB² PROJECTS is excited to share that New York City Children’s Theater’s My First Nutcracker was featured on CBS News New York’s Broadway and Beyond segment with Cindy Hsu. Cindy was in conversation with NYCCT’s Artistic Director & Founder Barbara Zinn Krieger and MFN’s Director & Choreographer Melissa Riker about adapting this classic ballet for younger audiences.

For more info visit: youtube.com

HB² PROJECTS will be performing in Kinesis Project’s Capacity, or: The Work of Crackling at Inwood Hill Park, following a geology tour of the grounds with the Urban Park Rangers. Capacity is a new immersive, outdoor work created by Melissa Riker in collaboration with geologist Dr. Martha-Cary Eppes; music composers Opera on Tap, Shahrokh Yadegari, & Anti-Social Music; and dancers bree breeden, Sabrina Canas, Madeline Hoak & Hilary Brown-Istrefi.

Geology Tour Meeting Location (2 pm): Beak Street & Payson Avenue / Audience Meeting Location (Performance ONLY, 3 pm): Shorakapok Rock, Inwood Hill Park

For more info visit: kinesisproject.com

HB² PROJECTS will be performing in Kinesis Project’s REVEALING DANCES — A rehearsal, dialogue, and discussion session moderated by Jeremy Williams about the making of Capacity, or: The Work of Crackling. Capacity is a new immersive, outdoor work created by Melissa Riker in collaboration with geologist Dr. Martha-Cary Eppes; music composers Opera on Tap, Shahrokh Yadegari & Anti-Social Music; and dancers bree breeden, Sabrina Canas, Madeline Hoak & Hilary Brown-Istrefi.

Audience Meeting Location: Locomotive Lawn, Riverside Park South

For more info visit: kinesisproject.com

HB² PROJECTS will be guest curating Pioneers Go East Collective’s next edition of Crossroads at Judson Church, featuring live-performances by gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata), ALEXA GRÆ, and Arien Wilkerson/Tnmot Aztro, with a film screening by Yuan Liu. Crossroads is a performance series designed to empower the intersectional voices and communities of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC artists.

This is a FREE event with all donations going directly to the artists.

For more info visit: eventbrite.com

HB² PROJECTS will be performing in UnRavelled, a new play by Jake Broder about love, art, science and who we are on the most profound level, featuring a group Zoom dance choreographed by Magda Kaczmarska.

Incorporating research and interviews conducted by Jake Broder as a Hellman Visiting Artist at UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center, UnRavelled explores the fascinating connection between the work of Canadian painter Anne Adams (1940–2007) and French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), both of whom lived with the same rare brain disease.

The virtual screening of the play will be followed by a live seminar with the creators.

For more info visit: gbhi.org

HB² PROJECTS will be performing in UnRavelled, a new play by Jake Broder about love, art, science and who we are on the most profound level, featuring a group Zoom dance choreographed by Magda Kaczmarska.

Incorporating research and interviews conducted by Jake Broder as a Hellman Visiting Artist at UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center, UnRavelled explores the fascinating connection between the work of Canadian painter Anne Adams (1940–2007) and French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), both of whom lived with the same rare brain disease.

The virtual screening of the play will be followed by a live seminar with the creators.

For more info visit: gbhi.org

HB² PROJECTS will be performing with Musical Minds Orchestra: Lamy Istrefi Jr. (drums + percussion) + Rie Yamaguchi-Borden (poetry reading) for The Sonnets to Orpheus, an evening of live and improvised poetry, music and dance inspired by the sonnets of Rainer Marie Rilke. The performance will be followed by DJ Pitchfart at 10 pm.

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HB² PROJECTS will be performing to the music of composer/singer, Judi Silvano + her Quartet: Teri Roiger (keyboards), John Menegon (contrabass) + Lamy Istrefi Jr. (drums + percussion), for an afternoon of original compositions, jazz standards and improvisations. At the finale of the program the audience will be invited to join the artists for a jam session to share in the fun!

For more info visit: newburghlibrary.org

HB² PROJECTS will be presenting an "indoor" work-in-progress performance of You Are Someone Else (Too), with dance artists, Kristina Hay, Jesse Salaman + composer/drummer, Lamy Istrefi Jr. for Movement Research at the Judson Church’s Spring Season. The free event will also feature works by barbara mahler’s dances, Janis Brenner + Melanie Greene.

For more info visit: movementresearch.org

HB² PROJECTS will be performing in a work-in-progress excerpt of Wesele, a new collaboration with choreographer, Magda Kaczmarska and dancers, Kristina Hay + Jamie Robinson, as part of Center for Performance Research’s Performance Studio Open House (PSOH). The free event will also feature works by Thomas Tyger Moore + Tatyana Tenenbaum.

For more info visit: cprnyc.org

HB² PROJECTS will be presenting a new work-in-progress, You Are Someone Else (Too), a collaboration with dance artist, Kristina Hay, as part of Norte Maar's 6th Edition of Dance at Socrates. DaS is an outdoor residency and free public dance series, in partnership with Socrates Sculpture Park. The program will also include performances by Kyle Marshall Choreography, Kathryn Alter, Thomas/Ortiz Dance, konverjdans + Julia K. Gleich | Gleich Dances.

For more info visit: nortemaar.org

HB² PROJECTS will be presenting a free public showing of NEW YORK SKETCHES: So The People Came, a collaboration with composer/conductor, Lamy Istrefi Jr. | Musical Minds Orchestra (MMO), as part of the Exploring the Metropolis' 2017-18 Choreographer + Composer Residencies, in partnership with the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning.

For more info visit: exploringthemetropolis.org