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Jenna Balfe

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Jenna Balfe

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Jenna Balfe

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Miami, FL

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Miami, FL

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Organesis

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2022

An exploration of what it is to be happy.

Organesis is an ongoing performative narrative that explores human value and fulfillment in this time of overstimulation, overpopulation and perceived emotional scarcity. Performers will explore these concepts through a narrative series of rehearsed movement scores and sets of gestures that leaves room for in the moment processing via improv. The live music will support the development of the narrative while at the same time being a-tuned to the live exploration of the performers.

Biography

Jenna Balfe is an artist/musician (Donzii) and activist from Miami. Jenna graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Sustainability Studies and Dance in 2011. In 2017, she received a Master of Science from Pratt University in Dance Movement Therapy. She currently is holding her “Bodymovement” classes, which have been ongoing since 2012. Currently, classes are part of Repatriating to the Earth a chapter of her work Transnaturism that explores human belonging and the existential value of nature through the development of a community garden/outdoor performance space at The Historic Virginia Key Beach Park. Repatriating to the Earth won a grant in 2020 through Oolite Arts that will culminate in several performances in 2022.

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A native of Miami, Kristina Villaverde became Miami Light Project’s Technical Director in 2014. Kristina is also the director of Miami Light Project’s Technical Fellowship, a program designed to train emerging theater technicians and prepares them for professional work. A long time staple in the South Florida theater community, Kristina has worked as the Head Electrician at Byron Carlyle Theater, The Colony Theater and the Olympia Theater. Additionally, she has built her theater skills as Light Designer and Stage Manager for numerous productions, and worked for local arts organizations as Young Arts and Miami Lyric Opera. Kristina has been a member of I.A.T.S.E. Local 500 and had the opportunity to work as a stagehand for a variety of productions from Broadway, Comedy Central, CBS, Telemundo to Live Nation at a great number of venues in South Florida.
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Beth Boone has been the Artistic & Executive Director of Miami Light Project since 1998, developing critically acclaimed artistic programs that have asserted the organization as one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida. These programs include: the establishment of Here & Now, South Florida’s most respected commission and presenting program for community-based artists; premiere presentations of internationally acclaimed; pioneering historic international cultural exchange with Cuba; and the creation of The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse, a multi-use performance and visual art space in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. She previously served as Associate Director of Development for Florida Grand Opera, Deputy Director for the Department of Cultural Affairs at Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, co-founded an Off Broadway theater company (New York Rep), and served for six years as a Program Associate in the Arts & Culture Program of the AT&T Foundation. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and a MFA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University in Boston, MA.