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 and Utica, MS in November.
Hover over each image to learn more about JPS’ associate artists.
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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.
Composer, Music Director, Conjureman
Kofi Hunter imagines a world where Art can transform lives. As an in-demand multi-percussionist Kofi has been given the opportunity to support some of the biggest names in music, from Grammy Winning Jazz Saxophonist Casey Benjamin to Hip Hop Superstar ASAP Ferg. Kofi along with his brother established an Afro-Diasporic Neo-Folk Percussion and Vocal Group named ‘Akoko Nante Ensemble. ‘ Akoko Nante has performed at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Concert Series, and has been featured as a musical guest on VICE’s The Untitled Action Bronson Show. Their debut album ‘Nkrabea: Destiny” is available on all streaming platforms.
Kofi has composed music for films; “Ori Inu: In Search of Self” by Chelsey O, Documentary “Free Food” by Amandla Baraka, and “The Sound of Southside” by Tyrel Hunt, where Kofi also played the roll of “Curtis.”
Kofi recently released his debut album NATION TIME via his Righteous Rebel Music label
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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?”
