Cuerpxs en Resonancia: Energetic Body — Resonance, Sound + Reset
About this Event
Cuerpxs en Resonancia: Energetic Body — Resonance, Sound, and Reset
Sound, vibration, meditation, and somatic rest practices facilitated by artists Vicios Ocultos & Violeta Picayo that support energetic recalibration and collective renewal, culminating in a shared resonance activation and offering space.
ABOUT
Cuerpxs en Resonancia is a three-part, bilingual movement-and-sound workshop series curated by MexFest Co-Artistic Directors Arantxa Araujo and Xtian Ávila during Hispanic Heritage Month. Each session is led by a pair of artists working across different disciplines, coming together to create a space rooted in collective care and embodied exploration. The series welcomes immigrant communities—essential workers, hospitality, kitchen, and delivery workers, artists, and cultural workers—as well as anyone seeking space for rest, reconnection, and release. Each session focuses on a different dimension of embodied experience — physical, cognitive/affective, and energetic — supporting participants in releasing chronic strain, regulating stress, and restoring vitality shaped by repetitive labor.Workshops are free, bilingual (Spanish/English), and open to all. No prior experience required.
MexFest: more than a festival—a movement. MexFest is a collective of NYC artists and cultural workers providing education, inspiration, and support for our community. MexFest continues to contribute to the cultural landscape of New York City, bridging tradition and contemporary artistry through large-scale community engagement. Recent highlights include MexFest 2024 at The Tank, a groundbreaking four-day multidisciplinary festival that showcased the breadth of Mexican creative expression. The momentum carried forward with a deep focus on ancestral honoring, including the 2025 Dia de Muerto: Rituales de Resiliencia (Rituals of Resilience) celebration at Flushing Town Hall and the upcoming 2026 residency at Socrates Sculpture Park. These landmark events stand as powerful gatherings that serve as pillars of cultural preservation and innovation.
BIOS
is a queer Mexican artist whose central axis is performance art, branching into video, photo, installation, and sculpture. Influenced by neuroscience, their multisensory, movement-based work has been presented at the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Queens Museum, and internationally at Illuminus (Boston) and Nuit Blanche (Canada). Recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund and other grants, Araujo also co-organizes MexFest 2025 and serves as Program Manager at the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Araujo is Co-Artistic Director of MexFest.
, is a Mexican-born curator, theatremaker, teaching artist, arts administrator, and Drama League Fellow. His recent theatrical credits include Last Christmas (The Tank NYC), The Sun Serpent (Hangar Theatre), and productions of Romeo & Juliet and Twelfth Night (New York Live Arts). He is the founder of MexFest and has recently worked at Flushing Town Hall and The Public Theater, and collaborated with The Clemente Center on their Historias initiative, as well as The Tank NYC, where he curated community-focused festivals and wrote and directed Last Christmas for MexFest’s inauguration.
After a foundational career in luxury hospitality management at storied destinations such as The Lowell (NYC) and The Setai (Miami Beach), Xtian now dedicates his professional life to his lifelong passion for the arts.
Deeply committed to service, Xtian is a yoga instructor and a Board Member of the Gay Latino Collective. He has found profound fulfillment working directly with families in Guatemala City through Safe Passage and with indigenous populations through The God’s Child Project. Inspired by the power of the arts to build bridges, he is honored to contribute to the vibrant community at Socrates Sculpture Park. He lives in Harlem with his miniature pinscher, Rico.
is a bilingual Cuban-American actor, director, and choreographer. A born and raised New Yorker, her work is guided by a deep interest in the inherited body. Violeta has made her artistic home with some of New York’s most dynamic theater companies — she is a company member at Bedlam and The SuperGeographics, and an associate artist of SITI Company. She has worked at NYC venues including BAM, The Public, Second Stage, the Gym at Judson, La Mama; regionally throughout the US at the American Repertory Theater, Portland Center Stage, City Theater, the Fisher Center; and internationally in Argentina, England, Greece, India, Scotland. She has taught alongside the SITI Company, and as a guest artist at Pace University, The Juilliard School, and Atlantic Acting School NYU. Violeta is a proud graduate of Vassar College, the National Theater Institute at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and the SITI Conservatory.
Mariana Uribe: A seasoned Mexican multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and music curator based in NYC, Uribe brings over 20 years of experience in the music industry. Her project, Vicios Ocultos, epitomizes her journey of self-exploration and emotional healing, aligning with the themes of the performance.
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