How Do We Move in Public?
at The Hub, Bronx, NY

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES:

Alethea Pace

Time and location: 5:00PM / Just south of Roberto Clemente Plaza (149th Street and 3rd Avenue)

An act of love: is an improvisational movement performance that invites audiences into a practice of deep listening. It explores interconnection—between people, land, and history—and asks how attention, care, and softness might open new possibilities for belonging.

Directed by Alethea Pace / Performed by Maria Bauman, Alethea Pace and Katrina Reid

Costumes by Mauricio Barrera / Masks by Katherine Miranda

Alethea Pace is a Bronx-based interdisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in social justice and community engagement. She has presented work at institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim, and is an adjunct professor at Lehman College.

 Ana “Rokafella” García

Time and location: 5:30 & 6:30 PM / 149th Street & 3rd Avenue (The Hub)

This performance responds to the current hostile political climate, including the dismantling of DEI initiatives, ICE raids, lack of justice around sexual assault, anti-LGBTQ+ policies, and racial violence. The dancers use hip-hop as a form of resistance and collective expression.

Dancers: Rokafella, Kwikstep, Fresh Frank, ShamGod, Rocka James,
Bgirl Beasty, Monica B White, and Ava Flava Davis

Ana “Rokafella” García is a NYC-based hip-hop pioneer of Puerto Rican descent. She co-founded Full Circle Productions, NYC’s only non-profit breakdance theater company. With over three decades of experience, she has performed, judged, and taught internationally, and is currently an adjunct professor at The New School, and Sarah Lawrence College.

Paloma McGregor/Angela’s Pulse

Time and location: 6:00 PM / The Hub: at the small triangle park between 148th & 149th on 3rd Ave

A’we Monumental: “Monuments are what empires leave behind as evidence of their might. Culture—dances, stories, food, songs—is what communities keep alive as evidence of our love.” A’we Monumental is part of Building a Better Fishtrap, an iterative performance project rooted in the disappearing fishing tradition of McGregor’s father. The work is guided by three central questions: What do we take with us? What do we leave behind? What do we return to reclaim? Using the Fishtrap Method—a community-based collaborative practice—this iteration brings together Bronx-based dancers to transform an intergenerational duet into a collective performance that reflects on legacy, displacement, and possibility.

Creative Direction and Choreography: Paloma McGregor / Performers: Arthur Avilés, Kayla Hamilton, Michele Lee, Roberto Ventura

Paloma McGregor is an award-winning choreographer, writer, and arts leader, and co-founder of Angela’s Pulse. Her work centers communities of color, merging choreography, journalism, and community organizing. She has received numerous awards including the Herb Alpert Award and the Bessie Award, and has presented work internationally.

This performance of A’we Monumental is supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Building a Better Fishtrap – A’we Monumental is supported by the Mellon Foundation and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation). Fiscally sponsored by BAAD!, Angela’s Pulse is also a recipient of funding from Howard Gilman Foundation and The Mosaic Network & Fund (with lead funding from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)).

Argelia Arreola

Time and location: 7:00 PM / The piece will begin at the corner near Candy Lotto, then gradually move along Willis Avenue

until reaching the opposite side on 148th Street, in front of the mural that says “We Are the Bronx.” 

Sembrando Flores: This dance piece draws from traditional Mexican son jarocho and the rhythmic practice of zapateado to explore how the body navigates public space in a city like New York. Blending tradition with contemporary dance, the work reflects on migration, identity, and the experience of inhabiting shared urban environments.

Dancer: Argelia Arreola / Musician: Iván Contreras

Argelia Arreola is a Bronx-based Mexican dancer, choreographer, and musician. Her work bridges African, Afro-Caribbean, and Mexican traditions through contemporary practice. She has performed at major venues including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and is a recipient of the Bronx Dance Fund Fellowship.

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel has curated exhibitions/programs for El Museo del Barrio; Leslie Lohman Museum of Art; Franklin Furnace; Elizabeth Foundation Project Space; Artists Alliance Inc; Korea Art Forum; Longwood Arts Project/BCA; Bronx River Art Center (BRAC); BAAD!; Art in Odd Places; The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York; as well as for Academia Desposeída in Madrid, and for the Filmoteca de Andalucía in Córdoba, Spain. Nicolás is the Teaching Scholar in Residence at SPCUNY. Born in the Dominican Republic, he was baptized as a Bronxite in 2011.

Special thanks to our supporting team for this event: Program assistant: Andrés Senra / Artists support on site: Ivana Larrosa,  Kip Silva,

Jessica Fairfax Hirst, Kathleena Howie / Welcoming person: Elina Jiménez

Supporting organizations: BronxNet, and Rincón Criollo-La Casita de Chema.

Thank you as well to: Argenis Apolinario, Geoffrey Jones, Alex Romania, BronxNet, and

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Jerome Robbins Dance Division for documenting the program.

With deep gratitude to the beloved South Bronx and its Neighbors