IN THE SONIC CREATIVE LIVE
PERFORMANCE + ART SHOW
Sat. Dec. 14th 7:30pm – $10 – All proceeds go to Immigration Equality
Darby Canessa is a dancer and yoga teacher based in New York City. She graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts. Since then, she has completed the 200 and 300 hour vinyasa yoga teacher trainings at Sonic Yoga. She is also certified in Prenatal Yoga and Yoga Trance Dance. Darby has performed works by Robert Battle, Catherine Cabeen, Alice Gosti, Todd Henry, and Doug Varone.
BORN: California
LIVING NOW: Inwood, Manhattan
LISTENING TO: David Bowie
READING: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
WATCHING: Grey’s Anatomy – yup, I got sucked up into that rabbit hole, and I’m on season 4 now
DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN 3 WORDS: Happy, Friendly, Grateful
NAME 5 CREATIVES/ARTISTS WHO MOST INSPIRE YOU: Pina Bausch, Alice Sheppard, Crystal Pite, Shen Wei, Bill T Jones
PERFORMING: Dance/movement piece
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Ian Cherry lives and creates music in the East Village, Manhattan, and has worked with Todd Henry Movement as a dancer and musician.
Meek Man, from Burkina Faso, has been singing since 1995 as a village player, and moved to New York City in 2015.
Cherry and Meek met at PJ Clarke’s on the Hudson, where Cherry was waiting tables, and Meek was a dishwasher. After a few conversations, they realized their mutual passion for songwriting and music and basic goodness, and began collaboration in earnest Spring 2019. They are working together now to raise awareness for refugees in Burkina Faso due to repeated terrorism attacks in the region, resulting in life threatening peril for the people of Burkina Faso.
BORN: Ian Cherry was born in Voorhees, New Jersey, and Meek Man was born in Burkina Faso.
LIVING NOW: Ian Cherry lives in the East Village, Meek lives in the Bronx.
LISTENING TO: Meek listens to Cherry, Cherry listens to Meek.
READING: Cherry is reading Keith Richards’ autobiography, called “Life,” and Meek is reading Peter Fuel’s “From Zero to One,” Biet Simkin’s “Don’t Just Sit There,” and the Bible.
WATCHING: Meek doesn’t watch TV at the moment, and Cherry is watching HBO.
DESCRIBE EACH OTHER IN 3 WORDS: According to Cherry, Meek is: passionate, kind, and talented. According to Meek, Cherry is: caring, committed, and calculated.
5 CREATIVES/ARTISTS WHO MOST INSPIRE YOU: Cherry: Meek Man, Leonard Cohen, The Rolling Stones, Todd Henry, and my best friend Woog. Meek: Cherry, Myself, Bob Marley, Alain Kounkou, and Kanda Bongo Man.
PERFORMING: Cherry and Meek will take turns sharing each of their music and supporting each other, while helping to raise awareness for Sonic Creative Live’s mission, and their own agenda to promote awareness of the dire need of the people of Burkina Faso.
Sarah Kelleher is a Brooklyn-based social worker passionate about dogs, yoga, nature, and the human experience. She watches the same shows over and over again and is currently trying to find the strength to stop. She hopes to one day be reading, writing, yoga-ing, and social working around the world with 10 wiener dogs in her carry-ons.
Hannah Jean Lillevoy has been living and dancing in NYC for over 15 years, and has had the pleasure of performing in a wide variety of places, from Greenwood Cemetery to House of Yes. She is always excited to perform for the fabulous Todd Henry, especially for a great cause.5 CREATIVES/ARTISTS WHO MOST INSPIRE YOU: Ani DiFranco, Pina Bausch, Maggie Nelson, Kurt Vonnegut, Ita Segev
Todd Henry is a choreographer, writer, creative, and producer from Norwood, NY. B.A. in Dance and Anthropology from SUNY Potsdam. The Todd Henry Movement was born in 2011. He has created many pieces in many places in NYC. He is so grateful to each beautiful artist he has worked with.BORN: Ogdensburg, NY
LIVING NOW: Hell’s Kitchen
LISTENING TO: 90’s dance music, 80’s pop, 70’s disco, and 60’s R&B.
BORN: Baltimore, MD
LIVING NOW: Hell’s Kitchen
WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO: Doja Cat, J. Dilla, Kendrick
READING: Books on music theory and production
WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING: Flea Bag, Ozark, Black Mirror
DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN 3 WORDS: Reliable. Affable. Curious.
NAME 5 CREATIVES/ARTISTS WHO MOST INSPIRE YOU: Amy Arbus, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Gregory Crewdson
SHOWING: Photography
Travis Madison is a poets, story teller, singer/song writer, rapper and self-taught chef. He wears as manycreative hast as he can and sees art as the bridge to vulnerability, empathy. Art transcends all form of
communication and its his mission to make sure this power isn’t lost. He provide creative space and
ideas to help bolster and grow his community on long island.
Mark McQueen is a Brooklyn based singer, songwriter, and producer. Though primarily an electronic glam pop musician, McQueen has written songs for the play “The Reigning Princess of Pop” by Craig Donnely and original music for Todd Henry’s performance “There’s Something Wrong With Me.” McQueen’s new album “We’re All Gonna Die!” will be released on December 6, 2019.BORN: Tennessee
LIVING NOW: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
LISTENING MUSIC: 70’s & 80’s punk, classic jazz, Prokofiev
READING: ‘Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Punk’, and a collection of Langston Hughes poetry
WATCHING: Forensic Files, the Ken Burns documentary on the Civil War, and Inuyasha
Pamela is an RYT-500 Yoga Instructor. She is also a Dance Teacher & Choreographer, Thai Massage, and Sound Practitioner. Pamela also holds a Reiki Level II, BFA in Dance, and an MA in Secondary English Education.
BORN: Brooklyn, NY
LIVING NOW: West Harlem, NY
LISTENING TO: everything from Classical to Djent
READING: articles on this fabulous app Medium
WATCHING: nothing, rarely watch anything!
DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN 3 WORDS: happy, grateful, loving
NAME 5 CREATIVES/ARTISTS WHO MOST INSPIRE YOU: Olafur Arnolds, Complexions Contemporary Dance, my friends Kim, Ashley, Ben, & George
PERFORMING + SHOWING: My visual art through dance (choreography and performance) & abstract painting
This is Q’s 5th year with the Todd Henry Movement and excited to be back. Native New Yorker and lifelong resident, dance is one for his first loves and true joys. It’s accessibility and universal language allows even a non-trained dancer like himself with freedom and gratitude. Q thanks THM for always giving him the opportunity to do so and his husband Jeffery for always telling him “I think you should do it.”
BORN: Brooklyn
LIVING NOW: Hell’s Kitchen
LISTENING TO: Nikka Costa
READING: The Boys
WATCHING: A lot of Bravo TV. Like, too much.
DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN 3 WORDS: I am more.
5 CREATIVES/ARTISTS WHO MOST INSPIRE YOU: Lenny Kravitz, Prince, Naomi Campbell, Essex Hemphill, Marlon Riggs
PERFORMING: Dancing with the Todd Henry Henry Movement.
Seven Dayz is from Venezuela, Brooklyn reared, self-taught and raw. Influenced by abstract and contemporary art, he is always searching for the meaning of colors and images.
Forrest Simmons is a photographer, video artist, and stand-up comic from Jonesboro, Georgia. He completed the CE Track and Advanced CE Track programs at the International Center of Photography in 2017. Currently, he is a 2020 MFA Photography candidate at Columbia College Chicago.
Chris Temple has always been a lover of music and the arts. His talents have afforded him the opportunity to travel around the world. His music has always been his comfort, his friend, his joy and his meditation. He is thrilled to have this opportunity to be able to share his gifts with like minded souls towards such a worth cause. He am grateful to God and to all the teachers and supporters that he has had the joy of sharing this discovery.
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