DanceAction Garden Series 2025 #4

is a performance event that combines artists from diverse disciplines (Dance, Music, Theater, & more!) to showcase short works rooted in improvisation and spontaneous composition practices. This event will showcase short performance pieces on Friday evenings in June, July, August, and September at its new garden performance venue in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Artist Carmen Caceres and her husband open their home for an evening of improvisation, performing arts, and summer celebration!

The evening starts at 8 pm with live performances by Carmen Caceres and guest artists in dance, music, and theater. We will conclude this event with a dance party!

Friday, September 12*, 2025 at 8 pm

Doors open at 7:30 pm

BYOD or ACCESS THE BAR BY MAKING A DONATION!

Tickets: General Admission $20 | Student/Artist $10 | Pay what you wish Donation Option

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ONLY 25 SEATS ARE AVAILABLE!

*Dates are subject to change for inclement weather.

**The address will be disclosed after making a reservation.

Artists Lineup

Carmen Caceres DanceAction

KROEMovement (Dance)

Martinez-Teubal Duo (Music)

Mike Sause & Izzy Wolfson (Musically Inspired Improv)

Rastro J and L (Dance)

SHADOWSWELL (Dance)

The Dance Ranch (Dance)

Carmen Caceres is a dance artist originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her works have been presented in renowned venues in New York and abroad. DanceAction, her company, serves as a creative platform to produce performing arts works in collaboration with musicians, dramaturges, and visual artists. She worked with artists such as Lisa Parra, Sarah Berges, and Elia Mrak as a performer and collaborator. Carmen received a BA in Dance and Education at SUNY Empire, deepened her studies in dance at the former Merce Cunningham Studio, and is currently pursuing an MA in Dance Education at Hunter College. In her native city, she graduated from the National School of Dance and studied Dance Composition at UNA. Carmen also works as a dance educator and consultant in different organizations in New York City. https://www.carmencaceres.com/carmen-caceres

“Our bodies are pathways of energy in time and space. Our architectural design is unique and full of asymmetries, but we build our world in straight, symmetrical shapes. How do we fit in? Pathways & Architecture explores this dichotomy, navigating the energy traveling through the body in movement with designs created in space.”

“DanceAction's artists, Facundo Ferreyra, Madi Dyke, Sofia Ameglio, and Chisato Fujii, will perform an excerpt from DA's new work, Pathways & Architecture."

A New York City-based movement-centric collective of female-identifying artists established in 2024 by Heather Kroe. Kroe began choreographing during her time at Marymount Manhattan College, where she presented multiple works. After receiving her B.F.A in Dance, B.A. in Psychology, and a minor in art therapy, Kroe has presented her choreography at multiple venues, including Triskelion Arts, DanceWave, and Centenary University, among others. As she develops KROEMovement, she intends to combine her interest in multidisciplinary art with intersections of culture and women’s health. KROEMovement engages in dance performance by actively interrogating the constructs of our current societal landscape. Through researching the embodied feminine experience, we begin to uncover how functioning within patriarchal constructs —the participation and rejection of them— influences the performance sphere for participants and audiences alike. https://www.kroemovement.com/

"Aeroplane explores the spontaneous nature of children discovering and playing together. This trio takes place in a dystopian 1930s village, one where children roam free with energy, although there is an underlying hesitancy. This work walks the line between the observer looking into a routine, yet concurrently, the characters are unfamiliar, similar to children, making discoveries is their job, and the awe and surprise of this is the motivation to continue.”

Emilio Teubal is a pianist/composer/arranger from Argentina based in New York. He has recorded over twenty albums as a sideman and composer/bandleader, including the 2018 Latin Grammy Winner album "Vigor Tanguero" by the Pedro Giraudo Group. Emilio identifies his artistry and creative search to the music of Latin America and the permanent elasticity of its stylistic limits. Prior to “Tides,” he released albums “Memorias de Otro Tiempo” (2018), “Música Para Un Dragon Dormido” (2013), "La Balteuband" (2006), and "Un Monton de Notas" (2009). Emilio has performed in some of the most prestigious venues in the United States, such as The Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Blue Note, and Joe's Pub. He has been touring Japan regularly since 2018, performing in Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, and other cities. He has also been an essential member of multiple ensembles, such as the Pedro Giraudo Quartet, Pablo Lanouguere Quintet, Sergio Reyes's Romancero Latinoamericano, Erik Friedlander, and Satoshi Takeishi. Emilio is a recipient of the 2007 Meet The Composer's Van Lier Fellowship and has been commissioned to write music for Saint Peter's Church, Dan Lippel, and the Adam Tully Tango trio. https://www.emilioteubal.com/

Horacio Martínez is an Argentine guitarist, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. His music blends jazz harmony with South American folkloric rhythms and storytelling, performed with guitar, voice, and traditional Andean instruments. He has collaborated with acclaimed artists including Arturo O’Farrill, Leo Genovese, Emilio Teubal, and Residente, bringing a distinctive voice to the Latin and jazz scenes in the city.

“The Martinez-Teubal Duo will be presenting a repertoire of Latin-American original songs and musical improvisations.”

Mike Sause is an actor from Cincinnati, Ohio. His favorite gigs have taken him off-Broadway in Drunk Shakespeare, performing a play on a barge in Red Hook, and, most recently, a staged reading of The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh. He's also done sketch and improv comedy in dingy bar basements throughout NYC. Outside the stage, he just completed an incredible Shakespeare workshop taught by renowned actor Patrick Page. Love to Sriya and Mishti.

Izzy Wolfson is an actor/improviser/tech bro from Omaha, Nebraska. He's done everything from a year-long musical national tour to performing a biblically themed children's show in front of Darren Aronofsky and his kids. These days, he spends his time being a dad to his nearly 3-year-old monster, Benny, and being generally tolerated by the love of his life, Carly.

Mike Sause and Izzy Wolfson are Two Man Tango - a musically inspired improv duo - they've also done many live/video sketches. They met sitting next to each other in an audition room for an improv team that they were subsequently invited to join. And since then they've been extremely loud and incredibly close...

Julieta Valero founded Rastro in 1998 in NYC. Has received the D’jerassi Artist Residency Program in California, which distinguished her with the Bessie Schönberg Memorial Endowed Fellowship, and an Artward Bound artist in residency at White Oak Plantation, among other residencies. Her choreography has been presented at Joyce SoHo, CPR, Dumbo Dance Festival, dancenow, Theater for the New City, to name a few, and internationally in Mexico, Venezuela, Belize, Colombia, Brazil, England, Canada, and Germany. More recently, Julieta was the choreographer for the Arepa Coalition Project in August of 2023 at El Barrio Art Space PS109. Julieta also took part in “The Miracle,” an immersive theater experience written and directed by Alberto Ferreras in 2024 and 2025. Valero’s work was also presented by Fast Forward dance series at Dixon Place, and at El Consulado, a Chashama space where Venezuelan artists get to perform and show their art in these difficult times. In addition to her creative work, Julieta is currently a Teaching Artist with Dancing Classrooms and teaches at the public school system of NYC.

"In this piece, choreographer Julieta Valero, in collaboration with Leigh Atwell, brings alive time capsules filled with different emotions, feelings, states of mind, and states of being. Agreement/Disagreement, Stressed, Meditation, And Friendship."

Eilish Henderson is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, and educator working with subjects of the body based in Brooklyn, New York. Eilish received her M.A. in Dance Education from NYU: Steinhardt in 2023. She is currently on faculty at Westchester Community College and Iona University. Eilish is the artistic director of project-based dance collective, SHADOWSWELL. In January 2025, she produced “In Void”, a split bill of interdisciplinary works featuring Verbal Animal and the premiere of SHADOWSWELL’s “Pariahs of the Void” at Kestrels in Brooklyn. Her work has been presented as part of the Queer Butoh Festival at The Brick, WADE Dance Festival, Emerging Artists Festival, “The Body as Archive” at Smush Gallery, and the Agropoli Dance Festival in Italy. Eilish has been granted artist residencies at Homeport Art House, Peaked Hill Trust, and Arts, Letters, and Numbers. As a performer, Eilish has danced in the works of many artists, including Javier Padilla, Doug Varone, Sean Curran, Adam Barruch, and Ellen Sickenberger. eilishadonnahenderson.com

"To Unfold and Hold" examines connections to other women as an intricate web, causing both intense synchronicity and complications. Expressing falling in love with women in my life, through friendship, romance, and all that lies in between, this work focuses on that space in between, which cannot be named or fully understood, only felt.

Tai Lum received a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Tai grew up in San Francisco, studying at the San Francisco Ballet School, LINES Ballet Teen Company, and the ODC Dance Jam. Tai went to high school at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts.

The Dance Ranch is a philosophy that centers around artistically “living off of the land.” All ideas are shared, and nothing is original. We get inspired by others, and we inspire others. We take from the land, and we give back to the land. The Dance Ranch philosophy is a cycle that I try to integrate into my art and my life. tailum.net

“A CFO at an evil company is interrupted at a board meeting as his body is slowly and grotesquely corrupted by evil.”

DanceAction is a contemporary dance company based in New York, led by Argentinian dance artist and educator Carmen Caceres. With a culturally diverse team of artists, we create educational opportunities and artistic experiences that foster collaboration, inclusion, and critical thinking. Together, we develop performing arts works that reflect social realities that concern people, relationships, and social justice. Our primary purpose is to interpret these issues and use our work to propel change. DA participated in numerous festivals and performance series in New York and abroad, including Take Root at Green Space, Under Exposed at Dixon Place, Women Center Stage Festival at Teatro SEA, Festival FIDCDMX in Mexico City, and Ticino in Danza in Switzerland. DA has self-produced and presented several full-length works, such as The Price is Right (De-Valued) at the Center for Performance Research, BLINDSPOT at the Mark Morris Dance Center, and Game Night at the Center for Performance Research. DA's awards include the City Artist Corps and LMCC Creative Engagement Grants. Most recently, DA developed and presented their latest work, The Price is Right (De-Valued), at the Center at West Park's Evolution Festival. 

Host or Publisher Carmen Caceres