ARTISTS
Nancy o’hara
Nancy O’Hara is an abstract painter and printmaker living and working in Hudson, NY. From Nancy: “Living in the Hudson Valley, surrounded by the art of our natural world, I am reminded every day how fragile and temporary everything is. With current climate and political challenges facing all living beings, I am also reminded how interconnected we all are. Making art is an extension of my meditation practice and gives me additional insight into my own true nature. I believe the universal language of art can guide viewers to their inner world and inspire them to new ideas and connections. Perhaps, one brush stroke at a time I can contribute something to our world to influence the changes we all need for our planet to survive and be healthy. A ripple in a pond on this side of the world is felt on the other side.” Nancy’s work is in many private collections and has been exhibited in solo and group shows in the Hudson Valley, California, New York City and along the East Coast. She is also a meditation teacher and the author of eight books.
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Nancy O’Hara: Exhibition Opening @ The Wick Hotel
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The E-block
The E-Block is a four-piece R&B band based in Rotterdam, New York, whose sound effortlessly blends the acoustic warmth of singer-songwriter music with the tight, ice-cold rhythms of modern R&B. Drawing inspiration from both classic and contemporary styles, the band crafts a unique sonic experience that feels timeless yet fresh. With smooth melodies and a touch of jazz-infused creativity, The E-Block captures the attention of listeners from all generations
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Performance by The E- Block @ Park Theater
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Futureperfect Studio
FuturePerfect is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary production studio creating immersive experiences for global audiences. Their work spans virtual reality, live performance, physical installations, and game platforms—integrating emerging technologies with narrative and design. Led by Founder & Executive Producer Wayne Ashley, the studio collaborates with specialists in game engines, 3D scanning, photogrammetry, motion capture, volumetric video, and animation. FuturePerfect both develops its own original works and partners with artists, institutions, and companies as a creative and technical collaborator—offering production support, strategic consulting, and immersive media expertise. Their work has been presented at festivals, galleries, museums, and new media venues worldwide. From concept to completion, they guide each project to ensure it resonates with audiences and redefines the potential of immersive storytelling.
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An Evening With FuturePerfect Studio @ The Hudson Eye
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Lin shu-kai
Lin Shu-Kai is a Taiwanese visual and installation artist whose cryptic installations, paintings, and objects delve into personal history and urban life. He earned his BFA and MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts. Lin’s work draws heavily on the rich history of Tainan—including the Dutch Occupation, the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the Japanese Occupation—blending these influences with his life experiences to uncover deeper symbolic meanings.
Lin’s art has been exhibited internationally in Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea, and Germany and is part of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts’ permanent collection. His notable achievements include a solo exhibition at the Academia Sinica in 2011 and a 2024 show at MoCA Taipei. In 2007, he was nominated for the Zhang Xin-Long Scholarship.
Through his art, Lin reimagines the city as both a lived space and a speculative landscape, inviting viewers to explore the hidden narratives and transformative possibilities within urban environments.
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An Evening With FuturePerfect Studio @ The Hudson Eye
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isaIah joÃo
Isaiah João is an expressionist dancer, b-boy (Bamboozle Crew of Louisville) and student of capoeira (Cordão de Ouro, baptized under CM Xangô). Firmly rooted in their heritage, Isaiah uses their body as a vessel to emote words of spirits, exploring shape/space in a way that gives narrative to lineage.
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Isaiah João B Boy Dance Concert
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Rawdance
RAWdance is an award-winning contemporary dance company co-founded by Wendy Rein and Ryan T. Smith. With roots in both San Francisco and the Hudson Valley, New York, the company is known for creating movement-driven works that explore a wide array of social, personal, and emotional themes. Drawing inspiration from the world around them, RAWdance is particularly celebrated for its site-specific performances, innovative choreography, and groundbreaking conceptual work that pushes the boundaries of dance as an art form.
RAWdance is joined by artist Chris Black and company Ouro and BorosDance for an informal evening of connections and confrontations through contemporary dance. From a duet of two men in love (or lust) inspired by a found historical image, to an abstract physical exploration of polarity, oppositional impulses, directions, and forces, to a glimpse into a personal connection between a dance-maker and a place frozen in memory, Pairings celebrates the idea of dance as a bridge, playing in and expanding the idea of what a duet can be and what it can evoke. Bridges in their own rights, the dance-makers on the program all share a bi-coastal artistic identity as current Hudson Valley residents with history in San Francisco.
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RAWdance Pairings: An Intimate Showing of Contemporary Dance
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Mark aLLEN
Mark Allen has contributed to The New York Times, NPR's All Things Considered, The Awl, and Vice, hosted his own weekly radio show at WFMU, and performed storytelling and stand-up at Upright Citizen's Brigade NYC, Axis Theater, and 92Y Tribeca. As a journalist, he's lived for a week with a Japanese home-robot, gone bull riding, and been "cured" by an ex-gay church in front of a live audience. Mark is the director of the film Sock Job. Have you experienced his 2003 poem My Ass, that he performed live on The Robin Byrd Show in 2012? Mark once ran an experimental show at Dixon Place called Pitch!, where writers pitched ideas to editors live on stage. Mark has a popular YouTube channel where he creates parodies of ASMR/mukbang videos, as well as videos mocking his current home of Hudson, NY. Despite all this, Mark will probably be forever known as the (first) famous go go boy from the 1990's NYC nightlife scene, and in 2021 he received a GLAM Living Legend Award for his trailblazing g-string. Mark also once helped wrap a giant condom over Jesse Helms' house.
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HUD TV: An Evening With Mark Allen @ Circle 46 Gallery
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CECILIA WHALEN
Originally from North Carolina, Cecilia Whalen is a New York City–based dancer, choreographer, and writer. She trained at the Martha Graham School and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and has performed with the Martha Graham Center, Merce Cunningham Trust, Jonah Bokaer Choreography, and Liz Gerring Dance Company.
Her choreography has been presented at venues including The Tank, Dixon Place, and the Martha Graham Studio Theater. In 2024, she was Movement Migration Dance Company’s first emerging choreographer in residence in Charlotte, presenting new work and leading master classes. That same year, she presented her scholarly choreography piece 5 by e.e. cummings at the Louisville Conference on Literature and the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival.
Inspired by literature, visual art, and music, Cecilia’s writing appears in Dance Magazine, Commonweal, and Fjord Review.
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Cecilia Whalen Dance
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Cansu Peker
Cansu Peker is a writer and curator specializing in digital art, based in Hudson, New York. She is the founder of Digital Arts Blog, an online publication dedicated to supporting artists and promoting diversity in the digital art world.
Cansu has spoken at major events like NFT.NYC 2025 and moderated panels such as The Future of Color (2024). She has contributed to Forbes on AI art trends and served as a judge for The Lumen Prize in Literature & Poetry.
Her curatorial work includes virtual exhibitions like We’ve Been Dreaming About a Magical Jungle (2023) and co-curating Women of the World at NFT.NYC 2022, featuring over 130 women-identifying NFT artists globally.
Through her writing, curating, and advocacy, Cansu advances meaningful conversations around digital art and champions diverse creative voices.
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Spotlight: Digital Art Exhibition curated by Cansu Peker
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Raymond Pinto
Raymond is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer. Their practice focuses on improvisation and visualization through embodied techniques. They're a graduate of the Juilliard School and NYU. Since reconnecting with Jonah Boaker, their collaboration converges on aspects related to one's purpose and discovery of the ways in which dancing presents possibilities of liberation. Where form frees from being bound to meridians flowing through poles; banking between dynamic states of being.
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Raymond Pinto: VALENCE
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Cole blu
Cole Blu (Cole Blouin) is a Manhattan-based sonic artist dealing with experiences of world, memory, duration, and the porousness of selfhood. Their first record of songs, Torso, was named the 28th best album of 2023 by website Obscure Sound. Their 43-minute solo saxophone piece, Mundiglossia, was listed as Best Contemporary Classical On Bandcamp, August 2023, and was described by critic Peter Margasak as “epic” and “important”. They contributed prepared guitars, co-composition, and conceptual direction to 2025’s Melting Planets (a project helmed by composer Sivan Cohen-Elias, also featuring composer/violist Lauren Siess), released on Innova Recordings. They have shared work at venues as diverse as NYC’s Elsewhere Zone One, Trans-Pecos, Constellation (Chicago), and the Darmstadt Summer Course For New Music, and countless DIY spaces across the US and Eastern Canada. Currently, they run Studio Fog Expanse, a project studio in Ridgewood, Queens, and are working on Afterform, a projected 10-year art project, described by composer Steven Takasugi as .
RICH VOLO
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trixie starr
Rich Volo moved to the City Of Hudson in 2006 and shortly thereafter, Trixie Starr was “born”. Dance parties, “Trixie’s Whorehouse” started in Hudson in 2008 with DJ Gio, and Trixie decided it was time for a Pride Parade in Hudson in 2010. Since then, Trixie Starr has organized ten Pride weekends, including Parades, Festivals, and dozens of other events for the community over the years. You can buy cookies, from “Trixie’s Oven” at the Hudson Farmers’ Market on Saturdays 9am-1pm. Trixie's latest project is TrixiesList.com, a community event calendar. Rich "Trixie" Volo will be representing the City of Hudson's 4th Ward as Councilmember in 2024.
Photo Credit: David McIntyre
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Hudson Tea Dance @ The Half Moon
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Sondra Loring
Sondra Loring is an interdisciplinary queer witch, sharing somatic practices, yoga, meditation, science, poetry, farming and dance, with a strong sense of play, and a nurturing of community. She lives on Feathertail Farm, a small shared garden.
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AfroFuture Dance & inkBoat
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Shinichi Iova-Koga
SHINICHI IOVA-KOGA (he/him) serves as the Artistic Director of the dance theater company inkBoat, founded by Shinichi in 1998. As a performer, Shinichi's long history with Butoh lurks within his presence, while his years of commitment to the art of improvisation unearth actions not beholden to a particular tradition. A lifetime in the martial arts and his deep investigation into the Daoist internal arts deeply inform his concepts of body, energy and motion. As a director, he primarily works with scores that pit meticulous structure with vibrant agency. inkBoat and Shinichi have been honored by numerous awards and grants, including 6 Bay Area “Izzie” awards and grants from NEA, MAP Fund, New England Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, Rainin Foundation, Creative Work Fund, and Gerbode Foundation. He is the editor of the book 95 Rituals, a tribute to Anna Halprin, and a contributing writer to The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance. He is featured in the book Butoh America.
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inkBoat - “Clouds from a Crumbling Giant”
DANA IOVA-KOGA
DANA IOVA-KOGA (she/her) began dancing at the age of 4, and her first role was a cloud.
Over 40 years later, she is still researching how to be a cloud, among many other things. She studied Experimental Theater at NYU, danced and farmed with Min Tanaka in Japan for many years and had the deep privilege of working with dance legend Anna Halprin. As a member of inkBoat since 2005, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with so many stellar performers, musicians, designers and directors. She teaches “Dance on Land” with her life partner, Shinichi, “Wayfinding and Shapeshifting” with teaching partner Frieda Kipar Bay, and offers “Unfolding” as a one-on-one mentoring program to support others in their creative pursuits.
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inkBoat - “Clouds from a Crumbling Giant”
Nkoula Badila
Nkoula Badila is a Multidisciplinary Artist /Creative located in the Hudson Valley. She grew up doing traditional Congolese + West African dance in her family dance troup “DIata DIata International Folkloric Theatre” established in 1985. These deep roots have moved Nkoula to share dances that tell stories and celebrate the culture. She hopes to inspire people to do movement work that helps brings them closer to the earth, the elements, and all that mirrors the connection to our bodies.
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AfroFuture Dance - Kozonga –(Return in Lingala)
Angel Lau
Angel Lau, based in Newburgh, NY, is passionate about percussion, drawing inspiration from his Peruvian heritage, early drumming education with Jeff Haynes, classical studies at Purchase College, and guidance from mentors in NYC. His musical journey spans Afro-Peruvian and Brazilian music, as well as various percussion styles, characterized by a commitment to lifelong learning.
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AfroFuture Dance - Kozonga –(Return in Lingala)
Time & Space Limited / TSL
Linda Mussmann’s latest performance text, “What’s Next?”, draws into question the role of religion, consumerism, and tyranny in the landscape of the 21st century. The piece is performed by long time collaborators Claudia Bruce and Anthony Zanetta, whose captivating dynamic animates the poetic script. In keeping with Mussmann’s non-narrative style, two voices sing shout, echo, and meld together to articulate this nuanced socio-political critique.
“What’s Next?” is reflexive, daring, playful, and obscure; it consistently pushes against the conventions of theatre as form. Just as the relationship between the personal and the political is challenged, so too is that between the audience and the stage. One voice calls out: “All I can think of is Antigone and how she stood up to the King. Who’s going to play that part today?”
About Time & Space Limited:
NOW IN ITS 6TH DECADE – 20 in NYC and 31 in Hudson NY – Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce have managed TSL – an all-inclusive, avant-garde performance space and art house, like no other in the Upstate New York region. TSL encourages artistic expression in everyday life, and supports the evolution of Hudson as a community that celebrates diversity. TSL is a beacon and a leader in the neighborhood, city, county, and state, shaping the lives of community members through innovative and exciting cultural projects of quality and substance. TSL's mission is to educate, enliven, and expand the artistic quality of life in the community it serves.
www.timeandspace.org
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“What’s Next?” @ Time & Space Limited
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