Hatched

Kelly Bond is a New Orleans based director, choreographer, performer and teacher.  Her and her creative partner, Ellery Burton, recently premiered their latest dance experiment, Fuzzy Bulldozer, at Catapult as part of our Mondo Bizarro Presents series.  They'll be doing it again in Philadelphia and New Orleans later this year so follow Kelly on social media to get your tickets as soon as they are available.  

For more info about us and to donate to the show visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

Here are some links you may want to check out as you listen to the show:

• Kelly Bond's Website
• Kelly Bond on Instagram
• Faye Driscoll
• Cannonball Festival
• Marigny Opera House
• Mondo Bizarro on Instagram

Steve Bailey is a theater artist, teacher, and arts administrator.  He was the co-founder and producing director of Jump-Start Performance Co. in San Antonio, TX and has worked internationally with production companies from Peru to Slovakia.  We got to talk to him on one of his last days as the Director of Operations for the National Performance Network.  

Here are some additional links you may find interesting while you listen to this episode:

• Divadlo z Pasaze
• Theatre Communications Group
• Guillermo Gomez Peña

For more info about us and to donate to the show visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

ashley sparks is a theater maker, engagement strategist, collaboration coach, and facilitator, as well as a long-time friend and collaborator with Mondo Bizarro.  You can learn more about her from the links below as well as find some info related to subjects brought up on the show.

• spark+dive (facilitation & consulting business)
• mark-n-sparks (collaboration with Mark Valdez)
• Eco Tarot for Sale
• Highlight Video from Kiss Kiss Julie

For more info about us and to donate to the show visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

Hali Dardar is a New Media enthusiast, interaction designer and a member of the United Houma Nation. Her work supports process development, community-based design, language revitalization, indigenous media, and memory documentation.   Some links Hali mentions during the podcast are:   10 Words in Uma Houma Language Project Language Keepers

For more info about us and to donate to the show visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

Madeleine Grace Kelly is a visual artist and educator living in New Orleans.  She is receiving her MFA from UNO this spring and you can witness her master’s thesis exhibition entitled Temple of Familiars at the UNO Gallery (2429 St. Claude St) from March 9th to April 7th.  From the official blurb about her show:

Her paintings, etchings, and installation explore encounters with mystery in the natural world, especially through the flora, fauna, light, and water of the swamps around the Atchafalaya Basin. Her practice explores kinship, reverence, and awe as an antidote to estrangement from the spirit of the land. The work invites viewers to engage with the memory that the water carries of our interconnectedness.   

You can view her work on her website and on Instagram.  

For more info about us and to donate to the show visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

Katya Chizayeva is a New Orleans-based Ukrainian American artist, community activist, and acupuncturist.  She is currently working on a show with Goat in the Road Productions based on her recent experiences in Ukraine called Top 5 Survival Moves, which gives us "a glimpse of Chizayeva’s ongoing work with Ukrainian soldiers coming back from the front lines, and examine(s) the complex identities that Chizhayeva holds; as a Ukrainian, a Jewish person, a New Orleanian, and a fierce opponent of Russian imperialism."  Tickets are available via the Contemporary Art Center's website.

You can find more information about the New Orleans based Ukrainian NGO Katya mentions (Kryla) here.  

For more info about us visit www.mondobizarro.org

Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

Nicole Marquez is a dancer, advocate and a survivor of brain and spinal injuries. Approximately 15 years ago she relocated to New York with the aspiration of pursuing a career in dance on Broadway. Her dreams were momentarily deferred following an accident where she fell six stories from the roof of her apartment building.  She will be performing her latest work about this incident called The Mask of Joy on February 23 and 24 at Catapult as part of our Mondo Bizarro Presents series.  Make your resrervations for the show here.  

In this episode Nicole will mention a few people and organizations you may be interested in including her friend and co-author/choreographer Julie Turner and a very unique New Orleans gym called Split Second Fitness.  

We hope you enjoy the show.  For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

LIzz Freeman Kelly is the Executive Director of ricRACK, a creative reuse shop and community sewing studio.  ricRACK'S main focus is "keeping textiles out of the landfill and teaching all of New Orleans how to sew."    

Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

For more information about Mondo Bizarro and to donate visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Becca Chapmans is a Chalmation, a performer, an educator, a lover of community, and curious human being. She, along with Alex Smith, co-founded a healthcare clowning nonprofit, Prescription Joy, that brings imagination and wonder to pediatric and adult hospitals in the Greater New Orleans area.

Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Simone Immanuel is a New Orleans born actor, writer, singer and dancer.  We recently presented a work-in-progress showing of her one woman show On My Way: My Ancestors Wildest Dreams at our studio, Catapult, as part of our Mondo Bizarro Presents series.  Simone says that the hope of her work is to show that God is with us all.  Her goal is to use her unique experiences to show why represntation is one of the most important goals of art in this generation.

Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit www.mondobizarro.org.