Performance and a Party

January 4, 2020 / 8pm

February 1, 2020 / 8pm

February 29, 2020 / 8pm

CANCELLED April 11, 2020 / 8pm

$25

An evening-length event with three chapters

7PM DJ SET BY NOTHING MATTERS & HAPPY HOUR

8PM PERFORMANCE BY THE WARRIOR POETS w/ CLUB ZOTHIQUE

9PM till late DANCE PARTY!

About Performance and a Party

Established in 2016, this event puts a dance performance in the context of going out with friends, meeting some new people in a cool space, and having a dance party. This night is about building community, having a good time, and finding ways to meet and gather people that isn’t at a bar or sporting event. We hope to bring people together to show them the power and beauty of dance to inspire, educate, and connect people.

The show is created, produced, and performed by The Warrior Poets - an artistic collaboration founded by Hannah Wendel, Yiannis Logothetis, and Elia Mrak. It’s a blend contemporary, folk, and street dance into dramatic, humorous, and engaging physical performance. Performance and a Party has been toured all across the United States, in New York, [at the end studio, No.4 Studio, Arts On Site, Triskelion Arts] in Seattle [at Base Art Space, The Collective and MadArt], Chicago, [at Fulton Street Collective] Los Angeles [at Navel], Atlantic City [a Community Outreach performance at Atlantic City Townhouses] and internationally in Brescia, Italy [at Palazzo Caprioli]. The Warrior Poets are looking forward to being back in New York City, where it all began!

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About The Warrior Poets

Elia Mrak

I am on a mission to prove that everyone can dance. Everyone deserves joy. And everyone can heal. So I use the power of dance to inspire, educate, and connect people - transforming movement into healing for communities worldwide.

I believe deeply that the body is the most powerful medium for personal and social transformationI have been lucky to learn from some legendary mentors, including by not limited to: David Zambrano (Contemporary Dance/BELGIUM), Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen (Body-Mind Centering/USA), Peter Shmock (Fitness/USA), Members of the Massive Monkees and Circle of Fire (House Dance/Breaking/USA), Kathy Kain (Touch Therapy/Trauma), Daria Fain (Qigong/FRANCE), and Irene Lyon (Feldenkrais and Somatic Experiencing/CANADA).

I have taught and choreographed for many international festivals, including Springboard, and have recently co-founded the Warrior Poets as a performance group to share our vision of dance as gathering, celebration, and storytelling.

Yiannis Logothetis is a dancer, performer, actor, choreographer, teacher and mentor. He grew up in Thessaloniki, Greece and moved to New York in 2013. He is currently taking part in the creation of Destination, a dance-theatre performance directed by Yang Zhen and sponsored by Menno Plukker premiering in Münster in September of 2019. His love for improvisation and instant composition led him to co-create Performance and a Party alongside Elia Mrak and Hannah Wendel. Yiannis got his BFA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College while receiving the “Gold Key” award for choreographic recognition. His professional performance experience began when he became a part of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NYC where he played the roles of Macbeth and Banquo. Later collaborations include Crystal Pite and Jonathan Young’s Betroffenheit tour with Kidd Pivot, Bobbi Jene Smith’s Caldera with CORPUS, Bobbi Jene’s Lost Mountain, Boaz Yakin’s feature film AVIVA, and Cindy Salgado’s dance/oral history film Melting Walls.

Hannah Wendel hailing from Seattle, Washington graduated summa cum laude from Boston Conservatory where she was awarded the Julie Ince Thompson Award for Choreography. She has spent the last six years living in Brooklyn dancing and creating. She has performed and collaborated for numerous people. She has toured internationally with Jody Oberfelder Projects, and has danced for Maya Orchin, Margot Gelber, Elia Mrak, Lir Katz, The People Movers and as a guest artist with Karole Armitage. Her work has been performed at Gowanus Arts and Productions, Center for Performance Research, Abrons Art  Center, Triskelion Arts and as part of Create Art, The Craft, and Dance in Bushwick. She is a co-creator of The Warrior Poets alongside Elia Mrak, and Yiannis Logothetis and began Performance and a Party in 2016 where they have toured all across the US. In addition to creating and performing, Hannah hosts an donation-based improvisation workshop and jams called spacejam,  is a certified yoga teacher, free-lance event coordinator, graphic designer and is Marketing Director at Triskelion Arts.

Vasilis Zlatanos first got into music around 10 years old by learning the electric bass. Around 15, he joined the band VIPERVIKINGS, releasing 3 EPs and 1 LP. He has worked as a sound design artist, sound mixer and composer for film and theater, winning a best original score award (Drama Film Festival) for the film VOURVOUROU. His latest project is called Club Zothique, mostly focusing on electronic music