A Minor Relief

Multi-disciplinary artist, ayo ohs, debuts her first album, A Minor Relief, with a site-specific

night of music, dance, and theater. Along with musician Treya Lam, ayo weaves personal

stories and songs together with humor, incisiveness, and grace.

Through this site-specific journey, ayo guides the audience through life experiences in identity and freedom in a rapidly-changing world. Personal and relatable, ayo’s lyrics explore silence and agency, in an effort to find voice. Both playful and contemplative, ayo asks us to reflect and reject where we are today, to find a little relief.

Doors @ 7 PM

Performance 7:30 - 9 PM

After show mingle 9 - 10 PM

Stay late on Friday for the album opening party.

Stay late on Saturday for a conversation with the artist.

ayo ohs (A.O./she/they) is a socially engaged artist, performer, and director working with

movement, music, and healing arts in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY. ayo has presented

choreography and spatialized audio compositions in venues in NY and San Francisco,

where their work was described as “feisty, clever and poignant” by the SF Bay

Guardian. In 2023, ayo released the public art project, The Silent Unseen Audio Tour:

An Embodied Introduction to Asian American History, an audio tour tracing histories of

Asian American immigration through Flushing Meadows Park and the Queens Museum.

In theater and installation, ayo has collaborated extensively with Andrew Schneider,

including: HERE (Jacob’s Pillow 2025), NOWISWHENWEARE (BAM 2023),

NERVOUS/SYSTEM (BAM 2018) and AFTER (EMPAC/The Public Theatre 2018). In

dance, ayo was an original cast member in Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming

series (2013-2018) including performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Jacob’s

Pillow, the Venice Biennale, and additional international and US tours. ayo is a founding

member of Movement Research’s Artist of Color Council and has been an artist in

residence at New York Live Arts (Fresh Tracks), Yaddo, Groundworks Space, and an

Engaging Artist’s Fellow at More Art. They hold a BFA summa cum laude from NYU

Tisch School of the Arts’ Experimental Theatre Wing. Find ayo under “ayo minor” on most major music-streaming platforms. A Minor Relief is their first EP of music.

ayoohs.com

@ayolikemayo

Photography credit: Maria Baranova, @photo_by_baranova

Album cover artwork by Victoria Ravelo, @pre.sent.past

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