Monday, September 1st
*inside*
6-7pm
No cover!
ACT Trio: Improvised Movement, Sound, and Light
This performance features three artists—Angie Pittman, Cody Jensen, Tuçe Yasak —collaborating through improvisation to explore the relationships between sound, light, and movement.
The performance will unfold in real-time, with each artist contributing to a collective, improvised piece that emphasizes the spontaneous interactions between their different mediums.
Angie Pittman (she/they) is a New York-based dancer-choreographer whose work uses dance, text, and sound. Their choreography has been presented by numerous NY-based organizations, including Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen, Gibney Dance, BAAD!, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, STooPS, The Domestic Performance Agency, The KnockDown Center, The Invisible Dog (Catch 73), The Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, and Roulette Intermedium. As a dancer, they have performed in works by Larissa Valez-Jackson, MBDance, Tere O’Connor, Anna Sperber, Donna Uchizono Company, among others. Currently, they are performing in the work of Cynthia Oliver and Jasmine Hearn. Their choreographic work has received support from the New York State Council for the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, and residencies at Earthdance, Tofte Lake Center, Movement Research, New Dance Alliance Black Artists Space to Create, and Djerrassi. Their most recent project, Black Life Chord Changes, is touring to Urbana, IL through Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on October 17-18, 2025.
Cody Jensen is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Urbana, Illinois, with a B.M. in Percussion Performance from the University of Illinois. His diverse musical background includes over 1,000 hours of apprenticeship in West African and Balinese music. Jensen has performed with groups such as Bones Jugs, Chicago Farmer, and Alma Afrobeat Ensemble, and his compositions have been featured at venues like the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Roulette Intermedium.
Jensen has been accompanying dance since at the University of Illinois since 2010. He also serves as an adjunct lecturer, teaching courses that explore the intersection of music and dance. He is an active composer in the dance field, including works with choreographers Angie Pittman and Alfonso Cervera.
Jensen’s solo albums, banjoboy and Moon Songs, reflect his eclectic musical style, which merges folk, jazz, and experimental elements.
Tuçe Yasak has been following light since her move from Istanbul to New York in 2009, creating over 100 site-specific light installations for performance in the US and abroad. Yasak received the 2018 BESSIE (...Memoirs of a... Unicorn by Marjani Forte-Saunders) and 2019 BESSIE (Oba Qween Baba King Baba by Ni'Ja Whitson) for Outstanding Visual Design with her lighting design. Light, movement and architecture intertwine in Yasak's work to support space-making and story-telling. Her Light Journals were presented in March 2021 by Ars Nova. She was one of the 2021 resident artists at JACK Brooklyn. Her first solo installation "light is generous" was presented by Five Myles Gallery in July 2022. Yasak is one of the 2023 Resident Artists of Watermill Arts Center where she created her installation "The light comes through the heart of darkness" as a homage to the lives lost in the February 2022 earthquake in Turkey
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