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Malcolm-x Betts / Kat Sotelo

Malcolm-x Betts / Kat Sotelo

When

Jun 24 & Jun 25

Where

Domino Square

Details

Shared Evening: Malcolm-x Betts + Kat Sotelo

Time

7 pm

Event Details

7 pm Doors / 8 pm Show

Malcolm-x Betts: Falling castles and broken dream

Artists

Malcolm-x Betts is a New York–based visual artist and dancer who believes art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His work investigates embodiment, liberation, Black imagination, and engages with the challenges imposed on the body. He was the resident curator at Judson Memorial Church and the founder of the curatorial platform Black Aesthetics, which is dedicated to enabling artistic freedom and making art accessible to all. As a dancer, he has performed in works by Snoogybox (Andy Kobilka), Nile Harris, Moriah Evans, and Alex Romania. His choreographic work has been presented and supported by venues including New York Live Arts, Movement Research, La MaMa Umbria, Danspace Project, and Judson Common, amongst others.

Kat Sotelo: IS THIS BEAUTIFUL OR AM I TIRED?

Artists

Kat Sotelo is a first-generation Filipinx American performance artist, choreographer, and set designer whose work blends movement, satire, and constructed environments. Drawing from her experience in exotic dance, she explores the body as a site of commerce, examining fantasy, cultural hybridity, and the labor of spectacle. Trained at the Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA, Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Video/Film), Sotelo merges fabrication, set decoration, and live performance, using cinematic language to build layered realities. Through video, personal archives, and Filipino folk traditions, she critiques the consumption of art and identity with kaleidoscopic visions. Sotelo’s work has been supported by residencies at MOtiVE, Movement Research, CPR – Center for Performance Research, GALLIM Dance Company, and Theater Mitu. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Credits

Performed by Kat Sotelo, Gigi del Rosario, and Francesca Fernando

Musical direction and sound design by Daniel Schlett


Malcolm-x Betts: Falling castles and broken dream

Malcolm-x Betts, an artist whose work explores embodiment, liberation, Black imagination, presents an improvisational dance performance.

In a series of unfoldings that attempt to reach for otherwise. What is imagined unfolds into a deconstruction of the proposal. An Unfurling into the abyss of what is seen, unseen, referenced or imagined at the end of the day everything is broken. Perhaps the only thing holding us together are fragments of the beyond. As one navigates the architecture of Domino Square: who does the work serve? – the investigation; this improvisational somatic offering is a portal to honor personal history in a complicated system.

Kat Sotelo: IS THIS BEAUTIFUL OR AM I TIRED?

A chaotic, sequin-drenched birthday spectacular teeters on the edge between glory and failure. Part magic show, part pop concert, Kat Sotelo’s performance strives for transcendence, only to collapse into something softer, stranger, and sadder.

Backup dancers swirl through saccharine doo wop choreography, drifting between syrupy romance and pop trash. Cotton candy spins, cakes wobble, jello quivers in the heat. It is a birthday celebration that is sad but sexy, absurd but sincere. A glittering pageant of futile glory where performers keep trying anyway, chasing the brief electric moment when the crowd believes.

A shared evening of performance curated by Alessandra Gómez.


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