Please join Jupiter Performance Studio in welcoming the following associate artists to join us for our fall 2025 season, Sojourn to Ellum. See them make magic in again, the watercarriers, by Ebony Noelle Golden. JPS will be in Ashfield, MA in September, Durham, NC in October and Utica, MS in November.
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Mawu Ama Ma’at Gora (dey/dem/mawu) is a black, queer, Caribbean artist and Brooklyn native currently residing in Philadelphia. As a multimodal artist they explore movement, textile art, history and science fiction as recipes for their performance art. As an educator they are a community organizer, a gatherer and a guide. They divine in the classroom and find pleasure in the unknown. As a deep listener and neurodivergent human being they are led by curiosities on life, love, grief, the made up and the absurd. Their work is ritual, cathartic, raw and unconcerned with beauty, but sometimes beautiful. Told, recently that they write plays, so they write plays and they play. Movement lineages in West African dance, whining, Akoms, Fetes and the Parkway in Brooklyn for carnival. Child of many griot ancestors, hoodoo, christian and neither.
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Aveiri Fanfair is a professional percussionist and cultural performer whose artistry reflects both discipline and deep community connection. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he began drumming at the age of two, developing his foundation in West African traditions before expanding into global percussion styles. Under the mentorship of Baba Dellwyn since age 12, Aveiri has honed a versatile skill set that blends traditional rhythms with contemporary performance.
His work spans celebrated stages and institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, The Met, Brooklyn College, Weeksville Heritage Center, and the International African Arts Festival. Aveiri also leads OmoluabiChildrenGoodCharacter, a youth program that teaches drumming as a tool for discipline, cultural pride, and character building.
With experience performing for audiences of over 10,000 and teaching across generations, Aveiri uses rhythm as a universal language—bridging cultures, inspiring creativity, and fostering community through music.
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Ashni, daughter of Cynthia and Allan, is a farmer, at Mumbet’s Freedom Farm, facilitator, educator and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY with rich roots in the island of St.Vincent & The Grenadines.
Movement, music, healing and their expansion through meditation and love are essential keys to Ashni’s being. From early experiences with death, escapades in library stacks to discovering yoga and teachings with Buddhist monks in High school, Spirit has always peaked her curiosity and tickled her heart. From an early age, Ashni has been devoted to learning from and listening to Spirit.
Ashni is a land steward, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and has a private practice at Minka. She facilitates 1 on 1 and a group sessions, ceremonies, meditations and experiences permeated with love that cultivate radical awareness, appreciation of self and overall ecstatic wellness within participants and their community with the intention of re-cultivating a deep connection with the Earth.
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Aneesah is a student of life, using theatre and drama, dance, visual art, interdisciplinary art and social practice, healing arts and cosmology as mediums of expression to essentially extract the essence of living in alignment with divine law. Her thesis of studying energy (light) in motion to articulate how body’s (mass) move in space has served as a framework to narrate the interconnected development of her learnings. Initially, began her study with three pivotal and immensely stimulating questions that started her process for researching and experiencing in the art of self-study as practice art. These stimulating questions were:
a. Who am I?
b. What is my purpose?
c. What does my purpose serve to enhance the social frequency of my community?
These questions later folded into questions like “What is my relationship to my body, voice, space and time?”
Production Stage Manager
Danielle Harrow is a NYS based theatre enthusiast and freelance artist. She has an everlasting thirst for knowledge and appreciation of all things creative and all forms of expression. Her previous participation in creative spaces has included being a performer, costume designer, production assistant stage manager, and production stage manager.
Costume Designer and Creative Producing Consultant
jaamil olawale kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American author, performance artist, educator, and designer. jaamil’s interdisciplinary practice merges performance, video, sculpture, fashion, and poetry, exploring queer Black theory, emergence, and critical rest-care strategies for BIPOC+ liberation and reparation. As an educator and community organizer, jaamil teaches and facilitates in Black-centered creative non-profit and corporate sectors. jaamil’s works—including The (chrysalis) Archives, Black Body Amnesia, Chameleon, Séancers, and Bessie Award-nominated #negrophobia—have toured to venues and festivals, including EMPAC, Fusebox Festival, The Guggenheim Museum, ICA at VCU, Montréal Arts Interculturels, Museum of Arts and Design, New York Live Arts, and Wexner Center for the Arts, among others. Jaamil’s practice has received support from the National Dance Project, Princeton Arts Fellowship, Doris Duke Performing Arts Technology Lab, LMCC, Slamdance, La Becque Artists Residency (Switzerland), MacDowell Fellowships, and the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. jaamil.com
Costume Styling Assistant and Fabricator
Philip Errico is a performance artist, event producer and stylist from NYC.
Dramaturg and Producing Consultant
Ava Elizabeth Novak is a live performance and filmmaker dedicated to creating spaces that center black/queer people and foster the intersection of arts and community. Believing that time is not linear but a closed shape, they often pull together black spiritual epistemology with mundane afrofuturism to interrogate tradition and generational trauma. Notable works include: directing: milk thot (co-directed with keiyaA, Abrons Arts Center), CAPE (co-created with Lamb, The Kitchen x Montez Press Radio), Fettuccini (writ. Queen-Tiye Akamefula, Fresh Fruits Festival), Wetlands (writ. AriDy Nox, Live & In Color) asst. directing Bowl (dir. Nazareth Hassan, Vineyard Theatre) Untitled (1-5) ( dir. Nazareth Hassan + Talia Paulette Oliveras, the Shed)
Witch in Residence
Zoë Flowers is a globally recognized energy healer, artist, author, and advocate. As a Reiki Master, tarot reader, and certified Yoga teacher, she incorporates clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience into her classes, retreats, and workshops, from New York to Ecuador.
Her creative work spans multiple media, including From Ashes to Angel’s Dust, a book of interviews with women of color about their experiences with domestic and sexual violence, ASHES a play that uses monologues, poems, and vignettes to breathe life into the original stories chronicled in the book, a book of poetry entitled, In Praise of the Wytch, and the experimental films Thank You for Your Service and Offering.
2025 sees the shutdown of Tit2ba Productions and the creation of Not Easy. Not Hard, a multimedia production company, that brings forth stories that heal as they reveal, and like Zoë herself, exists at the intersection of art, healing, and truth.
Graphic Designer
Graceson is a passionate arts and culture worker with 4 years of visual language and design, complemented by 8 years in theatre and performance. Adept at merging the realms of artistic expression and strategic organizational goals with theatre directors, companies and grassroots organizations. Graceso is eager to bring a creative and collaborative spirit to dynamic roles that involve community-focused programming, graphic design and artistic organization.
Social Media Liaison
Morgan Gregory (born in Richmond, Virginia) is a transdisciplinary performer/choreographer/… who focuses on reimagining Afro-diasporic imagery through futurity. She is a graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA program, majoring in Africana Studies and Dance. Morgan has toured with Julien Creuzet/Ana Pi on a multi-disciplinary project, Algorithm Ocean True Blood Moves, to Dakar, National Opera & Ballet, Brown University, and Performa (NY). In 2024, she was named a recipient of the LiftOff Residency with New Dance Alliance, a fellow with The Performance Project-University Settlement, and a 2025 BAX Space Grantee. She has premiered performances at Mark Morris, Triskelion Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, Arts on Site, and more, which range from proscenium-situated performance, community cypher, and video installation.
Directing Apprentice
Enih Agwe is an award-winning actor, storyteller, teaching artist, and mentor of Cameroonian heritage, with a diverse body of work spanning stage, film, and voice arts. In 2023, she founded a mentorship program for young creatives to develop, amplify, and empower their authentic artistic voices. A multi-hyphenate creative with a BFA from NYU Tisch, she weaves her talents, experiences, and innate curiosity for human connectivity together through the characters and projects she embraces. Much of her work lies at the intersections of anthropology, advocacy, culture, and identity. As the directing apprentice of JPS, Enih is eager to expand her understanding of the craft and deepen her connection with the stories calling to her to be told. She remains deeply grateful for her community and God, always. Ubuntu.
Current Collaboration
1. again, the watercarriers: Ceremonies from in the name of the m/other tree-Directing Apprentice
