j. bouey is a dancer, choreographer and astrologer. They’re finding their way back to joy by imagining the abolition of systemic oppression through their current project, SATURN. As a creator, j. was a 2021-2022 Jerome Fellow and 2022-2023 Movement Research NYSCA Artist-in-Residence. j. was also a Gibney 2021 Spotlight Artist, Artist-in-Residence at CPR – Center for Performance Research, 2021 Bogliasco Fellow, 2018 Movement Research Van Lier Fellow and 2018 Dancing While Black Fellow. j. is a current dancer and collaborator with nia love and The Fabulous Waack Dancers under the direction of Princess Lockerooo. They were also a former dancer with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and danced with Germaul Barnes’ Viewsic Dance, Maria Bauman’s MB Dance, Dante Brown and Christal Brown’s INspirit, Dance and apprenticed with Emerge 125 (formerly Elisa Monte Dance) under the artistic direction of Tiffany Rea-Fisher.

Tyrone Bevans is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from The Bronx. Tyrone is a current collaborator in Princess Lockeroo’s Fabulous Waack Dancers and Joya Powell’s Movement of the People. Tyrone was a former performer in Christal Brown’s INspirit, Chafin Seymor :: Dance Collective, EPIC Motion and FunkanometryNY. As a creator, Tyrone has presented choreographic work at the International Human Rights Art Festival, Festival Quartier Danses and Ars Nova. As a mover, Tyrone investigates space, risk, and play with one’s physical vernacular in order to access personal freedom.

“I’m going back to Saturn where the rings all glow / Rainbow moonbeams and orange snow…” Bessie Awardwinner j. bouey and co-performer/DJ Tyrone Bevans host a cosmic and electrifying meeting, consisting of music, poetry and dance. Not between the two of them, but between Mx. Black Copper and Nyx, their trans-dimensional and -temporal alter egos. Trained in waacking, a dance style developed in L.A.’s gay scene in the 1970s, their movement language is not only beautifully exhilarating but, for the creators, acts as a space of refuge and healing. Accompanied by the music of Stevie Wonder and Kae Tempest, among others, A Message from Nyx and Mx. Black Copper wants to offer a glimpse into a future where “we’ve abolished all systems of oppression”.