Larissa Velez-Jackson's ZAPATOGRAFIA / SHOEGRAPHY to Play The Bushwick Starr

The Bushwick Starr presents ZAPATOGRAFÍA / SHOEGRAPHY, created, written, and directed by Larissa Velez-Jackson, running September 6 - 10 (Wednesday - Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 4pm).

Performances will play The Bushwick Starr theater, located at 207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY [between Irving and Wyckoff]. Via Subway take the L Train to Jefferson Street, exit at Starr Street, walk against traffic on Starr, and the theater is 3/4 of a block on the right. For detailed driving directions visit: www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS.

Tickets ($20 Wed. - Sat., and pay-what-you-can on Sunday) are available at www.thebushwickstarr.org.

Larissa Velez-Jackson is a choreographer and hybrid artist who uses improvisation as a main tool for research and creation, focusing on personhood and the dancing/sound-making body. She employs a deep humor to grant audiences universal access to contemporary art's critical discourse. Velez-Jackson's works have been performed widely in New York City, including The Chocolate Factory, Roulette, Museum of Art and Design, Danspace Project, New Museum, American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center, and the Martin E Segal Theater. She teaches mind/body wellness and fitness classes specializing in the older adult population, and she is also the Artistic Director of the LVJ Performance Co.

Velez-Jackson's tenth year of making experimental dance fulfilled the famous Martha Graham adage "it takes ten years to make a dancer," or in this case a choreographer. In 2016, LVJ was awarded the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Art's "Grant to Artists" award, a Gibney Dance Center DIP residency, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space residency, a Mount Tremper Arts Watershed residency, and was nominated for a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer. She has most recently been selected as a choreographic AIR at the historic Harkness Dance Center at 92Y 2017-18.

The Bushwick Starr is an Obie Award winning non profit theater that presents an annual Season of new performance work. We are an organization defined by both our artists and our community, and since 2007, we have grown into a thriving theatrical venue, a vital neighborhood arts center, and a destination for exciting and engaging performance. We provide a springboard for emerging professional artists to make career-defining leaps, and we are a sanctuary where established performance companies come to experiment and innovate. Our past Seasons have included new work from groundbreaking artists such as The Mad Ones, Clare Barron, Dave Malloy, The Debate Society, the TEAM, and Half Straddle.