Date: Friday, November 4, 2022

Time: 7:00-10:00pm

Location: Sculpture Courtyard | 1714 N Mascher Street

Tickets: $40

Meet the featured Artists

Moustapha Noumbissi

multi-instrumentalist and songwriter

Moustapha Noumbissi is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in Philadelphia. Born in Belgium to Cameroonian parents, Moustapha grew up a participant of many musical traditions, including West African drumming, American pop, and choral music. His latest recordings with producer Lee Clarke favor indie rock and psychedelic soul. They invite listeners to experience ecstatic states of liminality and self-definition with reverence for and refusal of genre.

TSLEEVELESS - Poet

TSLEEVELESS is a spoken word poet who's work is intended to aid the listener into a deep dive of emotional understanding through creative story telling and sensual expression.

Human Landscape Dance

(Artist bios below…)

Grace Stern grew up in Minnesota and Nebraska. She received a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and was also educated at American Ballet Theater, Hubbard Street, and Ballet Magnificat. She has had the privilege of working with Janis Brenner, Doug Elkins, Maurya Kerr, Helen Simoneau, Olive Prince, Myra Brazell, JCWK Dance Lab, Evalina “Wally” Carbonell, Dance Fusion as well as others. She danced with Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers from 2015-2022 and now enjoys freelancing, teaching Pilates, and being a mom to three little ones, including one on the way.

Malcolm Shute, MFA, CMA, founded Human Landscape Dance (hldance.org) in 2006, and has since brought contact choreography around the world. Specializing in artist partnerships, Human Landscape Dance has given performances, held workshops, and shot video footage in Europe, Asia, and South America, as well as cities across the US and Canada. Noted for “…ingenious choreography and staging...” by the Washington Post, Shute’s dances are characterized by intimate portraits of people as they undergo change. Using touch to communicate, bodies mold with their environment to create a collage of images. Shute teaches in the Dance Department at Towson University. 

Katie Sopoci Drake, MFA, GL-CMA, is the Artistic Director of Spacetime Dance (spacetimedance.com), a core collaborator of the Mountain Empire Performance Collective (MEPC), fierce arts administrator, and teacher of Laban-based somatic dance. She has had a national performing career with RebollarDance, Mordine and Company, Wild Space Dance, and Rosy Simas Danse. Spacetime Dance has been generously supported by a 2016 Dance Metro DC Presentation Grant and a 2019 & 2020 Individual Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

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