2019 Residencies at Bethany Arts

Featured Residency
Flyaway Productions
Flyaway Productions embarked on a new partnership with Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, NY and was in residence at BAC September 14th – 22nd, 2019. During this residency, the dancers prepared for the East Coast premiere of The Wait Room, an outdoor dance program created by Flyaway Productions of San Francisco to honor the lives of women whose loved ones are incarcerated. They used the facilities at Bethany Arts Community to immerse themselves and create performance art that the community can experience and engage with through their Master Dance Class, open rehearsals, community dialogues and public events.

Molly Anders
Anders will share an array of tactics and writing exercises to help “get the juices flowing” and teach a recurring creative writing workshop utilizing the news as a source of inspiration.

Linda Rey
Linda Rey is an early stage writer. She will be sharing an excerpted reading of the memoir she will be completing
while in Residence at Bethany Arts community.

Suzanne E. Takahashi
Takahashi and Marting are developing “The Story Box”, which uses a traditional Japanese storytelling to compare the lives a Japanese American today to girl living in a 1943 internment camp.

Kristin Marting
Audience members of “The Story Box” will select an image from which they will be invited to share a story about their own American experience with a small group of other audience members.

Anne Finger
Anne will be working on an essay for “Perhaps in Lhasa” which explores the influence of disability on the life and work of the great Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci.

Thu Kim Vu
Drawing from local landscape, architecture and personal stories Vu will collaborate with the public in creating a miniature city made out of paper and light sculpture where viewers walk through.

Julia Forrest
Julia will be using her own compact, self-built darkroom to print photographs on quality fiber-based paper, glass plates, wood slices, and cyanotype paper.

Faye Chiao
Faye Chiao is working on a chamber musical called “Fountain of You”. It’s an irreverent and fantastical satire of the societal values of youth and beauty.

Tasha Gordon-Solmon
Tasha will present selections from the musical “Fountain of You” followed by discussions about the gender dynamics and power differentials in society that their musical explores.

Viktoria Lange
Viktoria invites 3-6 year olds & grown-ups to drama workshop and explore the processing of emotions, creative movements, funny sounds, silly games, helping generate a secret language.

Lavinia Roberts
Multi-talented educator, installation artist and puppet designer Lavinia Roberts will facilitate a mask making workshop for partcipants while at Bethany Arts Community.

Ashtyn Barbaree
This internationally touring Indie-Americana singer/ songwriter from Fayetteville, AK, joins the featured line-up for an evening of music in Bethany’s chapel performance space.

Janine Joseph
Janine Joseph will be working on her new poetry collection Vulnerability Roadshow. The evening will include a readings from her work and an audience Q&A.

Kyle Marshall
ith the support of DanceForce, Kyle Marshall and 5 of his collaborators will be in residence working on a new piece that will be premiering later this Winter at BAM.

Christopher K. Morgan
Morgan will work with his music and movement collaborators continue to develop a new work, Native Intelligence/Innate Intelligence, a two-part dance performance.

Kong Ho
Ho plans to draw rich artistic inspiration from Bethany’s grounds as he explores how detachment from familiar dwelling affect his floral-spiral paintings.

Alyssa Songsiridej
Alyssa shares a behind-the-scenes look at the relationship between life and fiction? This is an eternally perplexing question for fiction writers.

Sari Wilson
Sari shares behind-the-scenes look at making fiction from life. Her talk is an intimate look at one writer’s relationship with the material life gives you.

Thomas Cummins
Cummins will be shooting large-format panoramic nocturnal photographs at Bethany focusing on how the exterior environment necessarily shapes our interior.

Bruna Amaro
Bruna’s installation project entitled Maneater will reinterpretate European paintings showing women staging victorious scenes in the face of male violence.

Christopher Wiliams
Christopher is developing choreography for a featured pas de deux in his work “Narcissus” that re-imagine’s Fokine’s historic ballet through a contemporary queer lens.

Emily Joy Weiner
Emily will immerse herself in her newest project “Shared Sentences” via storytelling, spoken word, movement and dialogue relative to individuals with an incarcerated loved one.

Hope Mohr
Hope will be developing movement material for a work called “Passages” which honors our history: the human body in conversation with the Earth, sound and gravity.





Residencies and programs at Bethany Arts Community are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor’s office and the New York State Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Westchester, Humanities NY and numerous individual donors.