Featured Events in Manhattan in October, 2024(January Updated)

The 2024 OSR1 details will be revealed to registered athletes the week of the race. If you register you are committing to being available to meet somewhere in Manhattan, on Race Day, at 1:00am. The distance will be measured to the best of our abilities and the race will feature electronic timing. We will provide a bag check for registered athletes. There will be no venue or production. Event Details: Start: 1:00am End: 1:06am Location: NYC - TBD Distance: 1Mile Prize Money: $500 for 1st place, $200 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place in each field. Timing cut-off will be at the 6 minute mark, this means anyone taking longer than 6 minutes to complete the course will not be officially timed. In 2020, the top three men were Simon Voorhees (4:29.08), Spencer Zidarich (4:29.15), and Boyd Carrington (4:31.58). The top three women were Rebeka Stowe (4:55.65), Christine Eisenberg (4:55.85), and Waverly Neer (4:59.51). There was no Non-Binary field in 2020 and we look forward to crowning the first OSR1 Non-Binary Champion this year. All registered athletes will receive a free 2024 OSR1 T-shirt, exclusive to this event. If weather conditions limit our ability to execute the race the alternate date will be 10/17/2024, following the same schedule. By registering you acknowledge availability for both dates. There will be no refunds or transfers for any reason Image by @benjaminpratt 2020 Information Source: Orchard Street Runners | eventbrite

As an extension of 2024 Artist-in-Residence Ariana Speight’s research for their new work cocoon which will be presented in development as part of OPEN AiR on October 20, DIGITAL ARCHIVE will be a gathering of sharing and processing data, memory, and content that has shaped us. During this generative workshop, participants will build a written archive through dialogue and note-taking, documenting noteworthy movies, television, and music. Together we embrace the rough edges, the crispy bits that make us unique. What brought you here? How did you get here? Where is home for you? Are you home? Storytelling. Processing through dialogue. Loss of history. Nostalgia. Connection. Coming together to share stories. Kiki if you will. Memory. Sentimentality. Focusing on content. Keeping track. Making memories. Reminiscing. Restoration. Participants are encouraged to bring any comforts you may need. Take breaks. Zoom in, zone out. Camera on, camera off. Come as you are. Tangents are welcome with resources and support available. OPEN LAB invites artists and scholars to facilitate theoretical discussions and embodied workshops, providing a platform for practice-based inquiry and creative exchange. ABOUT THE ARTIST Ariana Speight is a contemporary dance artist invested in researching the curiosities of life through various mediums. Originally from Los Angeles and currently based in Brooklyn, she has worked with a number of artists including Kayla Farrish, Joanna Kotze, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Kyle Marshall, Anna Sperber, and Jessie Young. Her freelance journey has led her to perform at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Chelsea Factory, Coffey Street, Dancewave, Lincoln Center Hearst Plaza, New York Live Arts, PAGEANT, Roulette Intermedium, The Shed, The Space at Irondale, The Tank, Webster Hall, among other venues in New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania. She is a BFA graduate from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and is a certified Yoga and Pilates instructor where she continues to nurture her teaching practice. Information Source: CPR – Center for Performance Research | eventbrite

Facilitated by olfactory artist agustine zegers, Sympoietic Breath invites a deeper awareness of how smells reveal our embeddedness in systems of ecological collapse and emergence. With one inhale, our body awakens to an incorporated cosmos. Ancient molecular exchanges, traces of industry, traces of plant breath, and traces of decaying life all transit through the pleura of our lungs. Odorant molecules also join in, entering the continuous lubricated movement of our breaths. These smelly compounds reveal the ever-enfolding complexities of air, allowing us to decode its composition through our olfactory bulbs and opening us up to intelligences at the scale of the invisible. As such, our sense of smell – animated by the breath – can be activated as a collaborative sensemaking tool for an ever-shifting planet. Participants will be introduced to ecological and olfactory terminology and will be guided through an olfactive exercise to help us put collaborative breathing and smelling into practice. OPEN LAB invites artists and scholars to facilitate theoretical discussions and embodied workshops, providing a platform for practice-based inquiry and creative exchange. This program will take place virtually via Zoom. Auto-generated captions will be available. ABOUT THE ARTIST agustine zegers (b. Santiago, Chile) is an olfactory artist and student of atmospheric biopolitics. Their work attends to the nourishing and noxious transcorporealities we share as inhabitants of Earth, offering forms of communion with ecological collapse at the scale of the molecule and breath. Their work has scented and been exhibited across the Global North and South at venues such as Prairie, Chicago (2024); 52 Walker, New York (2024); the Chilean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Venice (2022); Lagos, CDMX (2020); Galería Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo (2018); and Galería Metropolitana, Santiago (2015). Information Source: CPR – Center for Performance Research | eventbrite

cocoon is a new work in development by 2024 Artist-in-Residence Ariana Speight which journeys through metamorphosis defined as a transformative transition, and is a continual introduction to the inner workings of self through the shifting of form. With a multidimensional and interactive framework incorporating storytelling, notes, questions/queries, movement, and stagnation, cocoon uncovers what hinders and what supports during the process of emergence. ABOUT THE ARTIST Ariana Speight is a contemporary dance artist invested in researching the curiosities of life through various mediums. Originally from Los Angeles and currently based in Brooklyn, she has worked with a number of artists including Kayla Farrish, Joanna Kotze, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Kyle Marshall, Anna Sperber, and Jessie Young. Her freelance journey has led her to perform at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Chelsea Factory, Coffey Street, Dancewave, Lincoln Center Hearst Plaza, New York Live Arts (NYLA), Pageant, Roulette Intermedium, The Shed, The Space at Irondale, The Tank, Webster Hall, among other venues in New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania. She is a BFA graduate from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and is a certified Yoga and Pilates instructor where she continues to nurture her teaching practice. Information Source: CPR – Center for Performance Research | eventbrite

This group conversation facilitated by Lena Engelstein will center Juliana F. May’s choreographic process over the last 20 years as she embarks on her current work Optimistic Voices premiering in the fall of 2025. Inspired by May’s ongoing Art Group workshops which generate community around making, all are welcome and are invited to participate by listening, asking questions, and bringing their own issues surrounding creative process, autobiography, and performance and setting material. OPEN LAB invites artists and scholars to facilitate theoretical discussions and embodied workshops, providing a platform for practice-based inquiry and creative exchange. Optimistic Voices is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. ABOUT THE ARTISTS A Guggenheim and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, Juliana F. May has created ten evening length works since 2002 with commissions and encore performances from Dance Theater Workshop, New York Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory Theater, American Realness, and Abrons Arts Center. May has been awarded grants and residencies through The MAP Fund, NYSCA, Jerome Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Gibney Dance In Process, and Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. In 2002, May received her BA in Dance and Art History from Oberlin College, and, in 2012, she received an MFA in Choreography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. May served as the Artistic Advisor for New York Live Arts' Fresh Tracks Residency Program from 2017-2019 and 2024-present and has been on faculty at Sarah Lawrence College since 2017. Lena Engelstein is a dancer, performer, and choreographer. She is part of the interdisciplinary performance collective CHILD, headed by Lisa Fagan. Her work has been dubbed “The High Weird” by critics and lauded as “subtly campy and hilariously queer” by The Brooklyn Rail. Recent Choreography/Direction includes Deepe Darknesse at New York Live Arts’ Live Artery 2024 with collaborator Lisa Fagan and CHILD's 1-800-3592-113592 at Theater Mitu in March 2024. Recent performance credits include Alexa West, Barnett Cohen, Brendan Drake, Falcon Dance (company member, 2018-present), Isa Spector, Jo Warren, Owen Prum + Lili Dekker, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, and Third Rail Company’s Then She Fell (company member, 2019-2020). Engelstein currently choreographs for and performs with the band Lou Tides. She holds a BA in Mathematics from Colorado College and has taught at SUNY Brockport, Colorado Mesa University, Bard College, and The Field Center. Information Source: CPR – Center for Performance Research | eventbrite