collaborators

Collaboration is an integral component of the Renegade Performance group artistic method. RPG collaborates with practitioners across disciplines within an atmosphere of non-hierarchical creative convergence to produce projects that allow for deeper consideration and meaning-making on contemporary global Black experiences.

AYINDE JEAN-BAPTISTE

photo credit: Shantre Pinkney

3rd culture seed of two Caribbeans --- one born in the 1st surviving republic in the Western Hemisphere to throw off the yoke of slavery, the other in a colony, Ayinde Jean-Baptiste (Ayinsko: he\they\li) does what it takes, using voice to shift culture, engaging with communities of listening, memory-making, and movement.

Disciple of Kamau Brathwaite, Ayinsko is a sanba/ keeper of memory, whose modal practice shifts as needed -- the participatory media project DuSable City, the online creative sousou Someplace Like Home, the experi(m)ent(i)al podcapsule trance-mission DrumLanguage (2013-16), occasional acts of journalism.

Over the past decade this work has been supported by City Lore, Chicago Community Trust, Black Metropolis Research Consortium, THREAD at Yale, City Bureau, CCCADI, Voqal, & the Center for Cultural Power.
Ayinsko has also served as multiformat arts presenter with The Brooklyn Museum, Haiti Cultural Exchange, City Lore, the DuSable Museum, Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, The Bowery Poetry Club, The Franke Center for the Arts & more, as well as in advisory & solidarity roles with Let Us Breathe Collective & Honey Pot Performance.

@Ayinsko, anywhere
@DuSableCity, right here

Sadah Espii Proctor

Sadah Espii Proctor (she/her/Espii) is a VR director and sound/media designer for theatre and immersive experiences. Named by American Theatre Magazine as one of “6 Theatre Artists to Know” for multimedia storytelling, her work encompasses global stories of women, social issues, and the African Diaspora, often with an Afrofuturist/Cyberpunk lens. Her original work is also influenced by gothic horror, anime, and visual kei. She received her M.F.A. in Performance and Interactive Arts from Brooklyn College and is a proud alumna of Virginia Tech. Proctor’s work lies at the intersection of art, technology, and community. Visual collaborations have included Kimbra and Sophia Brous (EXO-TECH), Sasha Velour, Neycha, Soul Science Lab, and Hi-ARTS. Proctor works regularly throughout New York City and across the country as a sound and video designer in places like JACK, Brooklyn Museum, Pioneer Works, Portland Stage, August Wilson African American Cultural Center, and much more.

LAMONT HAMILTON

(b. 1982) is an autodidact interdisciplinary artist working in New York. Hamilton works primarily in photography, moving image, performance and sound. Hamilton has been the recipient of several residencies, fellowships and awards including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell Colony, MFAH Dora Maar program in Menerbes France, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Artadia Award, ArtMatters Grant, Artist in Residence at Duke University’s African and African American Studies, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and the City of Chicago's IAP Award.

https://www.lamonthamilton.com/

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

photo by Texas

... is a multidisciplinary performer, educator, conceptualizer, and laborer, working in Brooklyn, New York and New Orleans, Louisiana, and Toronto, Ontario. His work is a constant re-evaluation and complication of marginalized bodies’ relationships to environments and the various agencies which inhabit them. He frequently collaborates with musicians, designers, videographer, and choreographer, under the name CROWNS. His works have been featured by Arts East New York (with choreographer André M. Zachary), Assembly New York (with videographer Nicole Van Straatum), at Toronto’s HarborFront Festival (with musician Brendan Philip), and on Dazed Digital.

http://www.jeremytoussaintbaptiste.com/

CHARLES VINCENT BURWELL

... a Congressional Scholar in Leadership, holds a B.S. in Vocal Music Education from Florida A&M University with emphasis in theater, dance, voice, and ethnomusicology and an MFA in Musical Theatre writing from the Tisch School of the Arts (NYU). He has worked for dance companies and arts organization such as the Lincoln Center Institute, New York’s City Center Theater, the Katherine Dunham Institute, Trenton Education Dance Institute (TEDI), National Dance Institute, Urban Bush Women, Festival del Caribe (Santiago de Cuba, Cuba), Ile Aiye (Brazil), Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and Bates Dance Festival. He has composed music for the Cairo Opera House Ballet (Cairo, Egypt), National Dance Institute under the Artistic Direction of Jacques d’Amboise (Shanghai, China) as well as the accompanying HBO documentary "Jacques D'Amboise in China – THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD". Mr. Burwell has sung at New York’s Carnegie Hall and maintains a private studio for vocal instruction while continuing his career as a singer, dancer, actor, and composer.

http://www.burwellandsasser.com/

JOY HAVENS

... is a costume designer, dancer, artist and dance educator based in Chinatown, NY. As a costume designer she has worked with Renegade Performance Group, Pappas and Dancers in collaboration with artist Jill Spector, Elke Rindfleisch and Sarah Weber-Gallo, Jordan Fuchs, Spoleto Festival (asst. designer, Porgy and Bess) and reconstructed Foray Forêt (Trisha Brown/Robert Rauschenberg) and Frail Demons (Alwin Nikolais) for Bard College. As a dancer, she has performed with the Metropolitan Opera (dir. Mark Morris), toured 12 cities in India with Thresh Dance Company, appeared in numerous baroque operas across the U.S, and revisits the 1920s with the Dreamland Follies.

Yasmin Santana

Yasmin Santana is a Brazilian multidisciplinary theater and film actress, creative director, and designer based in New York City. She graduated with a BA in Performing Arts from CEFART - Artistic and Technological Training Center (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and a BA in Social Communications from the Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Yasmin has extensive experience in theater and film. Since 2015 she worked as a company artist at 3LD Art and Technology Center developing new ways to incorporate digital technology in theater narratives for more than 200 productions. She is also Co-Founder of MôTif Productions - a non-profit that supports and creates art projects focusing on social justice.
Her latest acting credits in theater and film include W.a.v.e by Isadora Varajão, Calidris by Peter Azen (Munich Film Festival), Inside the Wild Heart by Group.BR, Doomocracy by Creative Time, Pedro Reyes and Meghan Finn (Brazilian Press Awards - Nominated as Best Actress), and Clarice’s Hour 2019 (Brazilian Press Awards - Nominated as Best Actress) among others.
As a designer and creative director, her credits include Esperpento by Victor Morales (Sundance Film Festival, B3 Frankfurt Biennial - Awarded as Best Immersive and Time Based Art) and The Other’s Shadow by Rodrigo Fisher. She has also created and provided design solutions for multiple renowned performing arts organizations in NY like Creative Time, Montclair State University, Renegade Performance Group, The Tank Theater, Group.BR, New Georges, The Builders Association, Origin Theater, Caborca Theatre, Pace University’s Theatre Department, and MAX Media Art Exploration, among others.
https://www.yasminsantana.com/
https://www.yasminsantanawork.com/

IVONNE K. PAREDES

photo by Whitney George

Composer. Percussionist. Paredes was born and raised in Lima, Peru. In search of a better education, she relocated to the United States at the age of 17, and settled in Florida. Paredes is a graduate from Rollins College, and holds a Master of Music degree in Composition from City University of New York - Brooklyn College, where she composed under the supervision of Douglas Cohen and Tania León. She has also been under the tutelage of composers Jason Eckardt and Morton Subótnick.Her music has been performed and premiered across the Americas as well as in Europe and Asia. Ensembles that have performed her compositions include the Rollins College Orchestra, the Brooklyn College Symphony Orchestra, forty/sixty, andPlay, Black House Collective, JACOPERA, Vanguardia Perú Big Band, the YMCA College of Hong Kong's jazz ensemble, and Arturo O'Farrill's Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Paredes specializes in chamber works, and her compositions have received numerous recognitions. Memorias, her master's thesis and percussion ensemble work, was awarded the H. Wiley Hitchcock Award in 2014.
Recent works have been selected for performance in various new music festivals including the Women Composers Festival of Hartford, NSEME, the UNK New Music Festival, The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, PARMA Music Festival, The International Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the Manchester New Music Festival.
In addition to concert music, Ivonne composes music for dance. She has collaborated with choreographer Andre M. Zachery, artistic director of the Renegade Performance Group in Brooklyn, New York. She also works as a concert organizer and promoter of new music. In 2014, she founded the organization GROUP WORK with fellow composers Matthew D. Gantt and Abraham Z. Morrison. The organization curates composers' concerts throughout New York City.

http://ivonneparedes.com/works-for-dance/

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