Enactor Productions Incubator
An incubator and catalyst for independent and underrepresented professional artists in the Nashville contemporary performance scene, aspiring to connect them to new audiences.
Our Showcase + Soirée
FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY NASHVILLE ARTISTS:
The Fire Cycle - Clay Steakley
Tejas - Sangeetha Ekambaram, Visionary Vocal Collaborative
Mauve Taupe - Spencer Grady + Phylicia Roybal
I have always been present with the illusion - Lenin Fernandez + Collaborators
Sacral - Becca Hoback, Enactor Productions
Special Thanks to…
DancEast
Angie Adams
Centennial Performing Arts Studios + Metro Parks Dance Department
TMProductions
Global Education Center
…for their generous in-kind donations of rehearsal space for these projects.
This project is funded in part by Metro Arts Nashville’s THRIVE 2024
Collaborator Projects
The Fire Cycle
Clay Steakley
Interdisciplinary dance/poetry theatre work
Continued development of the full installation performance
I have always been present with the illusion
Lenin Fernandez
Dance theater group work full-length piece development
Mauve Taupe
Spencer Grady + Phylicia Roybal
A new experimental contemporary dance duet
Visionary Vocal Collaborative
Sangeetha Ekamabaram
Ongoing development and thought partner support of the VVC’s growing multidisciplinary innovative opera repertory
Incubator Lead Artists
Project Descriptions
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The Fire Cycle is a multidisciplinary collaboration between Clay Steakley and Becca Hoback. It's a celebration and exploration of interdependence, deep time, community, and nature through the lens of ritual, ceremony, and dance.
Clay is using his EP Incubator time to build out his full vision of the finished work, and create a film for the poem “Epiclesis.”
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With evocative and high velocity movement, choreographer Lenin Fernandez works with standout dancers Kristen Carrara, Becca Hoback, Emma Morrison, and Joi Ware to create a theatrical new work. Together, they build vivid imagery to interrogate the multidimensional archetypes in our personalities, blurring the lines between reality and the imagined world.
This process also includes a once-weekly donation-based community class that will inform and support Lenin’s creative process.
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Mauve Taupe is a dance performance project between Nashville-based artists Spencer Grady and Phylicia Roybal. This dynamic pairing cultivates atmospheres where movement expresses the depths of their individual and shared identities.
“We plan to use a confined space to explore scale and perspective. Using our bodies like building blocks to reveal familiar objects and images. These designs will be the setting for our characters to flourish and their stories to unfold.“
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Enssensual
"The name derives from a combination of the words "sensual" and "essence". I will explore various states of emotion and phenomena in the physical world, resulting in original solo vocal-choreo-compositions. Even in my preliminary explorations of this process, I've already experienced the organic emergence of unique vocal colors and frequencies as well as emergent patterns in embodiment and movement. I'm also curious to observe how full- bodied movements affect emergent vocal properties and vice versa-- all of which I will organize into performable performance pieces.
As I develop this process for this solo performance, I hope to eventually take this piece in a community setting in the form of workshops and creative group explorations. We will start from a basic question-- What does it feel like?"