Announcing Artist-In-Residence Hana van der Kolk

announcing artist-in-residence
Hana van der Kolk
January – February 2025

And We Keep
residency premiere performance
Wednesday, February 19, 2024

7:00p
And We Keep is a song, a dance, and a ceremony devised specifically for the historic Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. Featuring six performers, And we keep calls audience participants into intimacy with the spirit of place and moment through a care-fully crafted tapestry of sound, words, movement, and visual elements. The roughly hour-long performance acts as a prayer for the resuscitation of our imaginations and a humble recognition of our interconnectivity.
Tickets available day of show only $8-$30 sliding scaleno one turned away for lack of funds

About Hana
Hana van der Kolk is a queer dancer, artist, and facilitator of ritual, embodied learning, and celebration living on unceded Mohican, Mohawk, and Haudenosauneelands, colonially known as the Hudson Valley, New York. Hana is provoked by their interest in care, contradiction, complexity/simplicity, joy/grief, reckoning, eros, and humans’ porous, interconnected, and messy natures. Hana spends time looking for and creating bridges through dance, performance, pedagogy, language, celebration, and personal and collective restoration and transformation.

Some ways to keep with Hana
Movement-based dance workshops for all

Workshop 1: Sunday, February 2, 2025

2:30p-4:00p

Workshop 2: Wednesday, February 12, 2025

7:00p-8:30p
In these public workshops we will do an accessible, physical warm up, learn and practice some modes for creating altars/arrangements with found objects on our own and together, explore simple songs and ways of improvising with sound as a group, and engage in movement-based practices that bring all of the elements of the workshop together. Through our collaborative work, we will awaken enchantment and become more intimate with ourselves, one another, and the energy of the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. These workshops are open to anyone and will be adaptable to all bodies. No previous dance or performance experience is necessary. You can take one of the workshops or both; they will be related to one another and different from one another. Wear layers of clothing that you are comfortable moving in and bring a notebook if you like (paper and pens also provided).
Fee $5-$30 sliding scaletickets at the door day of workshops[no online sales]

Student Matinee Performance

FREE TICKETS THROUGH DECEMBER

Thursday, March 27, 2025

11:00a

Frida Kahlo and the bravest niña in el mundo is an interactive children’s opera composed by Joe Illick with libretto written by Mark Campbell. The story is about Mariana, a young girl living in Mexico City in the late 1940s. Mariana’s family encourages her to have her portrait painted by the renowned artist, Frida Kahlo. Mariana is initially frightened, but is emboldened and charmed by Kahlo, the animals in her household including a monkey, a parrot and a dog, and a visit by the exuberant artist Diego Rivera. As Mariana sits for her portrait, she learns all about Frida’s life, and begins to understand the meaning of bravery.

The 45-minute opera explores the art of Frida Kahlo as well as themes of courage and family.

Appropriate for ages 5-11.
RESERVE YOUR FREE TICKETS

Questions?

Reach out to

Jessica Bowen

Director of Education & Outreach

518.629.4016

jessica@troymusichall.org