garden of voices
Saturday & sunday, September 13 & 14, 2024

This weekend was made possible through generous funding from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Special thanks to our Garden of Voices partner The Brotherhood Sister Sol.


Additional thank you to our sponsors and supporters including Patagonia, Plant Corner NYC, Oma Shop, Brēz, Töst, Sugar Hill Cafe, and Support Women DJs.

Garden of voices stations
2:00 - 7:00 PM

Explore the Frank White Memorial Garden immersing yourself in gardening workshops in the greenhouse, engaging in community composting activities, interacting with the Garden of Voices pod, and more.

intermission
7:00 - 7:30 PM
Garden of voices
7:30 - 8:00 PM

Witness the world premiere of Garden of Voices, our inaugural Embodied Earth production. Our Pod members, academic Allison Su, artist Nicki Koning, and choreographer Maqks Gross produced this Project through an intense interdisciplinary ten day workshop timeline where they informed each other's work developing their ideas across creative, scientific, and theoretical backgrounds. Garden of Voices explores sustainable farming and aims to inspire solutions to composting.


Researcher | Allison Su

Fiber Artist | Nicki Koning

Choreographer | Maqks Gross and Performers

Performers | Ashley Cassetta, Holly Harkins, Kyra Lin

Original Soundscape | Georgia Dahill-Fuchel


Embodied Earth | Nicole Jackson

Project III | Kasey Broekema

AFter Party
8:00 - 10:00 PM
Dance the night away in the garden and groove to the live music alongside the Embodied Earth, Garden of Voices, and Brotherhood Sister Sol communities!

Live music set by Sweet Treat on Saturday and Leah Rose on Sunday, provided through Support Women DJs.


No food, beverage, or smoking permitted in the garden.

Embodied Earth Team
  • Nicole Jackson
    Lead Artist
    Nicole is a New York-based curator, writer, and researcher drawing from local and international influence and experience. They fiercely believe in the transformative power of community action to drive meaningful change. In their work, they hope to harness art's potential to ignite communal, radical imagination toward a more just, sustainable future.

    In 2023, they graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Sustainable Development and Anthropology. They are now the Zero Waste Fellow at Columbia University. Nicole's research centers the profound impact of art, food, and popular culture on our perceptions of the built and natural environment.

    Though Nicole is passionate about working in the art world, they see tons of waste across disciplines. They aspire to create a more accessible, sustainable, art world with a meaningful consideration for the environment. They advocate environmental justice in higher education and are actively involved in developing workshops and curricula to promote equitable access to educational resources. Nicole inspires collective action towards just climate solutions.
  • Kasey Broekema
    Producer
    Kasey is a driven New York-based creative inspired by the motivation to connect with different communities, cultures, and walks of life through a passion for storytelling. She is fascinated by pushing the boundaries on what forms impactful storytelling can embody through producing immersive experiences, journalism, live performances, creating art, editing films, and writing stories.

    Her work is influenced by her dance training from Nashville Ballet, New Dialect, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Violette Verdy at L'Academie Americain de Danse de Paris, Suzanne Farrell, Andra and Ernesta Corvino, and summers at the Pre-Movement Invention Project and Ellison Ballet. She made her NYC debut as a soloist in The Good So Far by Christopher Williams at David Geffen Hall. She performed in Paul Taylor's Company B at Interlochen Center for the Arts, works by Antonia Franceschi and Amy Hall Garner at New York Live Arts, as a dancer on HBO's Plot Against America, Kitri in Don Quixote and Alice in Alice in Wonderland at Columbia University, and as a supernumerary with American Ballet Theatre.

    In 2021, Broekema graduated as a Core Scholar and on the Dean's List as an English major from Columbia University.
Garden of Voices Pod
  • Maqks Gross
    Choreographer - they/them
    Maqks Gross is a Brooklyn based choreographer and art maker. They work in a variety of mediums including dance, physical theater, visual art and clothing. Maqks is fascinated by work that expresses the dual nature of excess and pedestrianism as well as the simplicity revealed through queerness. By using references to classical tragedy and incorporating physical narratives to their stories, Maqks’s work creates an experience that invites the audience to show up as their most authentic selves in that moment on that day. Their work has been shown at Dixon Place in July of 2023 and May of 2024. They have also danced with Hard Femmes Dances and created costume and set design for Rosa Allegra Wolff.
  • Nicki Koning
    Artist - they/them
    Nicki Koning is a fiber artist working with themes of climate resilience, grief and hope originally from Missoula, Montana, based in New York. They work at the intersection of printmaking and sculpture through recycling paper, envisioning a future where excess paper and packaging are a remnant of a time of unchecked production. Drawing on the bodily associations of paper pulp, they make compostable art that can degrade, rot, and interact less harmfully with the environment and viewers. They are also interested in spirituality, mental health, and nature.
  • Allison Su
    Researcher - she/her
    Allison Su is a senior at Barnard College studying Environment & Sustainability and Psychology. On campus, she is also involved in the Columbia University Wind Ensemble, Musical Mentors, and Gourmand. Her research interests revolve around climate resilience planning, especially in urban contexts. Climate resilience covers almost anything you can think of, and she is looking forward to diving deeper into urban gardening and composting!
Garden of Voices artists
  • Georgia Dahill-Fuchel
    Garden of Voices Composer - she/her
    Prior to attending university, Georgia graduated from the Dance Studio of the world renowned Fiorello LaGuardia High School for Music, Art and the Performing Arts. She studied at Ballet Hispanico for ten years, and within the pre-professional program for eight years, where she received the first Citizenship Award. In the summer of 2022, Georgia went to Austria and danced in the highly recognized Impulstanz Festival where she continued pushing her artistic boundaries and soaked up inspiration from all Europe had to offer. She returned to the states more ready than ever to create music in collaboration with wonderful choreographers. Georgia is just finished a season with the Pa’lante Scholars program at Ballet Hispanico. She is now dancing in the Flamenco company BlackBird Dance!
  • Ashley Cassetta
    Performer - she/her
    Ashley Cassetta graduated Summa Cum Laude from Florida State University in 2020, receiving her BFA in Dance. She studied the Niokali, Bartenieff, Horton, Dunham, Cunningham, Klein and Alexander techniques, as well Cecchetti, Vaganova and Russian ballet techniques during her undergraduate education. She has completed intensive study programs with Hubbard Street Dance, Gaga dancers, Parsons Dance and San Francisco Conservatory. Ashley has extensive choreographic experience, beginning at the young age of 12 when she co-founded, directed and produced a student choreography show at her hometown studio, continuing through her undergraduate education where she choreographed for her BFA spring concert, and FSU School of Theater’s production How to Keep a Guy for 10 Days (this production was discontinued due to the pandemic). Ashley attended the Arts in NYC program in fall of 2019 where she interned in the Career Center at the Actors Fund. She is currently a Balanced Body Certified Pilates Reformer instructor, teaching at New York Pilates. She is currently a company member with Animus Movement, AP Dance Inc, a Guest Artist with Connecticut Ballet, and a contracted company member with Rogue Wave Dance.
  • Holly Harkins
    Performer - she/her
    Holly Harkins is a Brooklyn-based movement artist. She hails from Rustburg, Virginia, and began her dance training under Keith Lee at Dance Theatre of Lynchburg. Holly graduated high school from the UNC School of the Arts in 2017, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the George Mason University School of Dance with a BFA in 2021. Upon graduation she joined Dance Kaleidoscope as a company dancer and spent three seasons performing in Indianapolis. Holly has had the opportunity to perform works by Micaela Taylor, Kyle Abraham, Rafael Bonachela, Ohad Naharin, Hope Boykin, Martha Graham, and David Hochoy, and has presented three of her own choreographic works in Indianapolis.
  • Kyra Lin
    Performer - she/her
    Kyra is a freelance performer based in New York City. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and has danced with Ballet Arts and Ballet Chicago.
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