Issue Project Room

At 6:30pm and 8:30pm on Wednesday, July 1st, Isabella Thorpe-Woods () presents 𝑬𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑/𝒆, her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Over the course of her fellowship, the artist will share a series of events that explore letters as a curatorial prompt, and the ways they both fail and succeed in transmitting meaning or reaching their desired destination.

𝑬𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑/𝒆 brings together choreographers Jade Manns () and Ella Dawn W-S () for site-specific duets that navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes. Here, dance unfolds at the site of de/construction.

🎟️ This program has limited capacity, and features two time slots for entry at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. No waitlist!

FREE WITH RSVP!

Saturday, June 27, 2026 AIR rocío sánchez presents their second commission, featuring Melissa Almaguer (tap dance and percussion) and Kenneth Jiménez (double bass). Together, the trio explores the elusive monarch’s migratory journey through sound and movement, with each instrument articulating distinct states of motion.

Drawing from close observation and sketching of monarch flight patterns, sánchez developed a score in which the sounds gradually emerge, echoing the increased activity of the butterflies in warmer weather. As rising spring temperatures prompt northward migration from wintering grounds in Mexico, the performance similarly expands in density and proximity: gestures gather, overlap, and eventually, recede.