honey WIP
a cumulative piece for Artist Residency with Brooklyn Arts Exchange EMERGENYC at Abrons Art Center
Photos by Salomé Egas
Accompanied by Samira Mendoza
after party is an improvisational score that is inspired by audience participation. We work with embodying displacement and pleasure amongst the ambiguities of our ethnically mixed identities. after party reckons with the beauty and the complexities of family traditions placed into a party within a performance.
after party, Fidget Space, Philadelphia, PA 2022. With Mikah Baumrin-Daniels, Aya Razzaz, Vanessa Rosensweet and DJ LIIIAM.
This piece was developed at Headlong Performance Institute Artist-in- Residence 2022 and sponsored by Philadelphia Distillery.
Collaborators include Aubrey Donisch, George MacLeod, Reed McCoy, and Kara Lieff.
photography by Irina Varina and Maiyo Saji
how can i do this with my eyes open worked with dance and music scores — born from conversations, memories, and writings about home. Home became a symbolic word that held us in a bittersweet, dream-like space.
how can i do this with my eyes open, Lester Martin Theatre, Bennington, VT, 2019.
With Mikah Baumrin-Daniels, Julia Granillo-Tostado, and Lulu Wiley. Wardrobe by Isabel Greenberg. Set design by Phoebe Grace.
watch how can i do this with my eyes open
photos by Chiara Meadow
The Sometimes Together Group dance together sometimes. They first met in college and ever since have met up all over the world to dance together.
Mikah is a founder of the Sometimes Together Group with performances at SoLow Fest, Philadelphia, PA 2018; Built on Stilts, Oak Bluffs, MA, 2018, 2019 & 2021; Movement Research Open Performance, New York, NY, 2020; and Lino Kino TV, Philadelphia, PA, 2021.
Performers include Olivia Barnum, Mikah Baumrin-Daniels, Nava Benham, Leah Carrell, Shana Crawford, Julia Crowley, Maria Fernandez Pello, Odessa Jacobs, Aubrey Donisch, George MacLeod, Patricia Mullaney-Loss, Kate Sullivan, and Emma Welch.
The Sometimes Together Group photos by Roberta Kim