In Residence October 18 – 25, 2026
Through j. bouey’s Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence, the Bessie Award Winning choreographer, dancer, and educator supported the development of an In-Process Presentation: The Living Ancestors. The work culminated as a multimedia disco-funk space opera blending dance, music, text, and live projection.
The Living Ancestors premieres at the 2027 Under the Radar Festival.
ABOUT j. bouey
j. bouey is a 2023 Bessie Award Outstanding Performer recipient and is the founder of The Dance Union Podcast. They have served on the DanceNYC Taskforce and the Board of DanceUSA and initiated the NYC Dancers COVID-19 Relief Fund and The Dance Union Town Hall for Collective Action to support the dance community. j. is a 2026 BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!) and CUNY Dance Initiative Artist in Residency. j. was a 2024 ImPulsTanz | 8:tension Artist-in-Residence, a 2022/2023 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a 2021/2022 Jerome Fellow, a 2023 STooPS Artist, a Gibney 2021 Spotlight Artist, an Artist-In-Residence at Center for Performance Research, a 2021 Bogliasco Fellow, a 2019 Queer Art Mentorship Fellow, 2018 Movement Research Van Lier Fellow, 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the Dance and Performance Institute of Trinidad and Tobago, a 2018 Dancing While Black Fellow and a 2017 Chez Bushwick Artist-in-Residence. j. has presented their original work at JACK, Odeon Theater, Madura Studios, New York Live Arts, Judson Church and many other theaters and locations around the world. They are currently the Assistant Director, Lighting Director and Research Assistant for Flow State, under the direction of Professor LaTasha Barnes. They perform with nia love’s UNDERcurrents and have formerly performed with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, The Fabulous Waack Dancers, Germaul Barnes’ Viewsic Dance, Maria Bauman’s MB Dance, Dante Brown, Antonio Brown Dance, Christal Brown’s INspirit Dance, Scorpius Dance Theater, EPIK Dance Company, and apprenticed with Elisa Monte Dance, under the artistic direction of Tiffany Rea-Fisher.
ABOUT GEORGE DEL BARRIO
George Del Barrio Founder of The Vanderbilt Republic & MIDHEAVEN.Network, George is a first-generation American artist deeply versed in photographic physics, with a focus on archetype expansion. His practice demands that technology serve the body/ spirit/ community, not constrain it. An expert curator, designer, director + producer of immersive live arts and film/ video, he pioneered the Live Performance Camera Obscura projection mapping system, our “hardware”. George brings in decades of production experience in spaces of (literally) all kinds, and will ensure that our designs are ready for the rigors of touring.
ABOUT TYRONE BEVANS
Tyrone Bevans is a dancer, and sound/visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He weaves together Contemporary, Jazz, House, and Waacking to create his unique approach. Tyrone is a recent Angela’s Pulse Dancing While Black Fellow (2025). And recently collaborated with J. Bouey Dance Projects in the 2024 ImPulsTanz | 8:tension Artist-in-Residence. Tyrone has worked with brands such as Refinery29, Buzzfeed, and Bad Binch TongTong. As an educator Tyrone has taught at Wesleyan University, York University, Hunter College, Pratt Insititute, and Vienna Public Moves. As a Performer Tyrone has grace the stages of Lincoln Center, The Guggenheim, Places des Arts (Montreal), Central Park SummerStage, BRIC, Bronx Museum of Art and Impulstanz (Vienna). He was a founding member and assistant choreographer of Princess Lockeroo’s Fabulous Waack Dancers. He was also a former performer and collaborator with Christal Brown’s Inspirit, Chafin Seymor :: Dance Collective, EPIC Motion, and FunkanometryNY. As a mover Tyrone investigates space, risk, and play with one’s physical vernacular in order to access personal freedom. He is currently a principal dancer in Joya Powell’s Movement of the people.