STATEN ISLAND, NY \u2014 Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden has named four new artists in residence for its Performing Arts Salon Saturdays program, with performances scheduled throughout 2026.<\/p>\n
The artists will present works in progress at 2 p.m. on the following dates: Madelyn Sher on Jan. 11, Kevin Lee-Y Green on March 28, Abbie Goldberg on May 2, and Torge Goderstad on May 30. Schedule details are available at snug-harbor.org\/pass.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year\u2019s PASS residency cohort brings a dynamic blend of the performing arts to Snug Harbor,\u201d said Melissa West, director and senior curator of the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor. \u201cEach of the selected artists are pushing boundaries in their discipline and will transform our cultural park with their creative work and ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n
The program received a record number of applications this year since shifting to an open call format in 2020, according to Snug Harbor. Artists are selected through a juried process with panelists from throughout the performing arts field.<\/p>\n
The residency provides time, space, an honorarium, and curatorial support to artists developing original works in dance, music, theater and multidisciplinary performance. Residents live in historic cottages on the 83-acre campus and have access to studio space at the Dance Center. Each residency concludes with a public work-in-progress performance.<\/p>\n
Sher is a Staten Island dance and theater artist whose choreographic work explores rhythms of change and cycles of loving and losing. She holds an MFA in choreography and performance from Smith College and currently serves as fellow in dance at Emory University. In 2025, she received a DCLA Premier Grant from Staten Island Arts to develop \u201cDandelions,\u201d a multidisciplinary composition.<\/p>\n
Green is a director, choreographer, and community arts educator from Bolivia, North Carolina. His work has appeared on television series including \u201cOur Kind of People\u201d and \u201cThe Summer I Turned Pretty,\u201d as well as the upcoming film \u201cThe Supremes At Earl\u2019s All You Can Eat.\u201d He founded Techmoja Dance and Theater Company with his mother, Donna Joyner Green.<\/p>\n
Goldberg is a multidisciplinary artist from Maine and a member of Pink Umbrella Theater\u2019s inaugural Disability Cohort. Their work has been performed at Lincoln Center, Joe\u2019s Pub, and venues in Tokyo, among other locations. They developed \u201cBelieving Cassandra\u201d through The New Opera and Musical Theater Initiative.<\/p>\n
Goderstad is an American artist working with composition, space, sculpture, and instrument building. He graduated from Berlin\u2019s Universit\u00e4t der K\u00fcnste with a master\u2019s degree in sound studies and sonic arts in July 2024, and holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in jazz double bass from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.<\/p>\n
The PASS program also includes choreographer Maria Bauman, who founded MBDance in 2009. Her company\u2019s world premiere at the Snug Harbor Dance Festival this past summer kicked off the season in partnership with the CUNY Dance Initiative, according to West. Snug Harbor has partnered with CUNY Dance Initiative since 2018.<\/p>\n
The residency receives lead support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, with additional support from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council.<\/p>\n
West described the residency as the only program of its kind on Staten Island, creating a platform for artists and audiences to engage through creative development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, NY \u2014 Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden has named four new artists in residence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-62426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}