Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra/Lady Xøk
Lady Xøk Exoskeleton
When
Coming soon; details to follow
Where/How
A hand-printed and bound lyric book and artwork will be sent via USPS mail to festival passholders. This print piece will contain a password and video link to a mixtape.
Credits
Musician, audio engineer, screen printer: Xilam Balam
Videographers: GFTHRSE Video, Søren Olsen
Dancers: Pedro Pablo, Trey Chic
Bass/guitar: David Valentine
Thanks
Red Eye Theater Artistic Directors: You all are the best.
Fellow artists of Isolated Acts cohort: Thank you for your deep reflection, feedback, and generosity of spirit.
Collaborators
Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra a.k.a. Lady Xøk (she/her, enrolled Maya-Lenca tribal citizen, Central America) is a Twin Cities-based multi/interdisciplinary artist, musician, and culture bearer whose work is rooted in Indigenous Futurisms. Performing as Lady Xøk, she mixes electric and Mesoamerican instruments creating multimedia installations of light and shadow projections for body immersive experimental storytelling. She is a 2021-22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow.
Xilam Balam (he/him, b. San Antonio, Texas) is a contemporary visual artist, muralist, musician, and audio engineer whose work is a fusion of Pre-Columbian Indigenous art forms, hip-hop, and graphic arts. Part of the formative Headshots Crew of Rhymesayers Entertainment, he has performed internationally as producer/musician with Los Nativos, Curandero, Lady Xøk, and upcoming solo projects. His work has been highlighted in Chican@ Hip-Hop Nation, The Source Magazine, and on TPT MN Original. Balam was a 2018 McKnight Ceramics Fellow and teaching artist with Electric Machete Studios, MIA, and CLUES. @xilam_balam
GFTHRSE Video helps people make videos on a pay what you can scale. They film and edit music, commercial, wedding, promotional, and other videos for individuals and business in the Twin Cities area.
Pedro Pablo (they/them) is a Venezuelan-raised, Minneapolis-based queer dancer/performance maker. Founder/director of Viva la Pepa (www.vivalapepa.org). An inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Pedro began a collaborative co-creation with Celia Argüello, together in residence in Córdoba/Buenos Aires (Argentina 2020) and in Nayarit (Mexico 2021). Pedro co-directs a children and family theater program Drag Story Hour, and entertains the adults at night as their draglesque persona Doña Pepa. Currently a teaching artist with Upstream Arts and with the Pillsbury House Theater. Catch Viva la Pepa’s next work at CandyBox Festival 2021.
Trey Chic (they/them, she/her)
As a Two-Spirit Indigenous tribal member of the MHA Nation, (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation) born and raised on the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota, she currently resides in the Twin Cities where she models, performs, and studies at MCTC's Apparel and Technologies program. She plans to further pursue a master's in Apparel Construction and Design. Her current occupation is game testing of the Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company Activision and Blizzard, one of the world’s most successful standalone interactive entertainment and gaming corporations in the world.
David Valentine (he/him, Black/Cree/Métis)
Originally hailing from the Seattle area, David Valentine is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist specializing in bass, guitar, symphonica, and vocals. His musical stylings include punk and grunge infused guitar riffs, despairing acoustic meanderings, and goth and new wave inspired bass parts. When he isn't nailing down a dismal groove, he tends to dabble in woodcarving, screenwriting, and community engagement in the non-profit museum sector.
Accessibility
The video for this project will include closed captioning, transcripts and descriptive audio.
For other accessibility-related accommodations, please contact us at staff@redeyetheater.org | 612.870.7531.