presenting “We Have To Do This Before We Do Anything Else”

Raychel has had work featured on the 2020 Kilroys List, and at the Centre National de la Danse (Paris), HERE Arts (NYC), The Brick (NYC), En Garde Arts (NYC), the New School College of Performing Arts (NYC), Poetry Society of New York (NYC), Annenberg Performing Arts Center at the University of Pennsylvania (PHL), 954 Dance Movement Collective (PHL), Ursinus College (PA), the Shoebox Theater Festival (PHL), Vox Populi (PHL), the Ringling Museum of Art (FL), MARA Studio|Gallery (FL), Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (FL), Sarasota Art Museum (FL), the Bay Park Conservancy (FL), and with the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies department at the New College of Florida. Raychel has produced their work with support from the Florida Humanities Council, Sarasota Arts and Cultural Alliance, Florida Public Archaeology Network, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Raychel received their BA with honors from the New College of Florida, where they double majored in Literature and Anthropology, and where they worked as an Visiting Professor in spring 2022.

Logan gabrielle Schulman (Co-Director, Designer)

Logan gabrielle Schulman (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary theatremaker, director, and puppeteer. Select directing credits: The Public/Theatre of the Oppressed NY, The Drama League, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Governors Island, Hangar Theatre, Chautauqua Institution, The Brick, TheaterWorksUSA, Theaterlab, 601Artspace Gallery, Creature Space, and regionally with Sarasota Orchestra, Orlando Rep, Sarasota Art Museum, Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum, Philadelphia FringeArts, Plays and Players, Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery, Melbourne Fringe, and Chicago’s Petrillo Music Shell. Logan is a producer-director with Flying Leap Productions and The Neighborhood, a Playwrights Horizons/NYU Directing Mentor, and resident company puppeteer with the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre. Logan is an alum of the Drama League Directors Project.

Justine Florence (Movement Collaborator)

Justine Florence is a choreographer, writer, and performance artist. She received her B.A. in Dance and Written Arts from Bard College in 2024, and now resides in Queens, New York. As a dance maker, Justine is interested in deconstructing kinesthetic experience, believing in the body’s ingrained knowledge and impulsive nature.

Yining Chi (Movement Collaborator)

Yining Chi (she/they) makes, dances, curates, organizes, and does research. Her medium shifts between exhibition, movement, moving image, and accessibility, caring for how social structures inscribe mobility and memory onto bodies. Originally from Beijing, China, Chi holds an M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. As a performer, Chi has studied with Eiko Otake, and worked with Laura Witsken, Izzy Leung, Mattie McGarey, and Raychel Ceciro. Recently, she has been making a film titled Intimacy Violation.

Zlata Godunova (Costume design and fabrication)

Zlata Godunova (she/her) is a performer, puppeteer, and designer. Classically trained at the National Academic Theatre of Drama and Musical Comedy in Ukraine, she recently starred in the one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. She worked as a puppeteer in Magic of Light with Yara Arts Group and Tom Lee at La MaMa, and was part of the International Puppet Slam in 2024. You can find her in Central Park, where she works as a puppeteer at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater. Zlata recently completed work on three new backdrops for the City Park Foundation’s Puppetmobile show Pippi Longstocking (Swedish Cottage) and a backdrop for Cinna Vesterberg Rosa’s marionette project Tillie the Terrible Swede (LMCC). She is glad to be part of this project! Zlata_god zlatagodunova.com

presenting “Exit”

Yang Sun is a dancer and choreographer, working in the intersection of movement, color, and poetry. In 2023, Yang won 3rd place in ImpulsTanz "Freedom is a Dancer" Dance Battle, Vienna. As a choreographer, she has presented works at Hi-Arts, Arts on Site, Kirby Theater, ACDA Northeast Regional Gala, Queens Outdoor Dance Festival, CraftNYC, Red Pavilion, The Wild Project etc. She is a 2024 resident artist with Hi-Arts where she started the artist collective: Yang Sun & Poets.

Her 2023 dance film “Poet” was an official selection for numerous international festivals including:Dance Camera West; Portland Dance Film Festival; American Dance Festival Movies by Movers; and Cinédanse Sept-Îles Prix Lumière nomination.

choreography by Yang Sun in collaboration with the dancers

dancing: Yang Sun, Natalia Fernandez, Liz Westbrook, Alexis Vinzons, Sasha Marlan-Librett

sound: Toni Mora

special thanks to Kalea Ramsey