Founded in 2023, The B-Side is an intergenerational collective where people from different backgrounds and generations sit down, interview each other, and build performance and creative work out of what surfaces: memory, identity, the stories that don’t usually get told. I think of the group itself as a kind of ecosystem: different lives, histories, and ways of being, coexisting in one shared space and shaping each other in the process. The work that comes out of it isn’t polished or resolved; it holds belonging and struggle, joy and transformation, side by side, and asks audiences to sit inside that with us rather than watch from a distance.
Performances (video footage available upon request)
#43: Same shit, new city Liana Conyers in collaboration with mixed-media artist Valentina Vidali. District Choreographers Dance Festival at Dance Place – 2024
TLDR, Liana Conyers in collaboration with Jamal Abrams, Co-presentation series at Dance Place – 2024
Untitled, Creative Residency at The Chocolate Factory Theater – 2020
#ImFxckingFunny, Live Artery, New York Live Arts – 2020
#MeAndDaveChappelle, New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Residency – 2019
Androids & Pearls, New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Residency – 2018
I Invited Oprah, Dance and Process at The Kitchen – 2017
Jars of Pennies, Movement Research at the Judson Church – 2014
Body Politics: tHiS iS mY bOdY, Movement Research at the Judson Church – 2012
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