Join us for a day-long event filled with music, dance, performance art, immersive installations, wearable sculptures, and meditative rituals! This is an incredible opportunity for adults and children alike to come together with friends in the beautiful and inspiring setting of a former marble quarry transformed into an outdoor museum. The visitors are invited to intermingle with the art, gather by a bonfire, enjoy delicious food, and participate in community art projects and workshops.
This year's theme is “Roots and Wings”. The festival celebrates the deep-rooted connections that shape us, while simultaneously embracing the soaring possibilities of the future. You always need roots to be grounded and wings to be able to fly when it’s time! Start your summer with TurnPark! Let it be a summer of growth, discovery, and unforgettable moments!
Kids under 12 - free
Tickets: $35 through February-April, $40 (through June 13), $45 (gate), 15% off for members, $20 with EBT card
TURNPARK SUMMER FESTIVAL 2025: ROOTS AND WINGS
PROGRAM
INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES:
Throughout the day, Wandering Musicians Dmitry Umansky and Mariya Vasilevskaya of MooBox, along with Garik Bagdagyulyan and Luke G fill the grounds with joyful song!
Food and drinks will be available for purchase from Charlie’s Bistro Bus, Queensboro Wine & Spirits, and others.
PARTICIPANTS:
KlimToT & Drey project
The musicians bringing the "KlimToT & Drey project" to life are Dima Klim and Sasha Drey - multi instrumentalist artists with a passion for ethnic, ambient, and meditative sound. Currently residing in New York (originally from the Soviet Union), they refined their musical skills through years of live-performance experience, including theatrical projects and work in the underground experimental music scene. As performing members of Petroglyph, AB OVO, Yantra, and Chingis Dub, Dima and Sasha’s music is a reflection of eclectic taste and artistic vision. It is a creative blend of shamanic, trance, and electronic sounds. Dima and Sasha presented the Chingiz Dub program at TurnPark’s Summer Festival last year, and now return with their latest project, KlimToT & Drey, which showcases the production skills and creativity of both artists, demonstrating their potential as an emerging force in combining live instruments with electronic sounds. The program is intended to be performed with a collective of other artists, providing the audience with a more immersive and shamanic experience.
Uyanga Bold
Uyanga Bold is a Mongolian artist passionate about transformative experiences through sound, with a focus on the voice as a catalyst for healing. Her devotion to training with the medicine in the Andean and Brazilian traditions for nearly ten years is reflected in the depth of the space that she holds. She also teaches voice and leads singing retreats. A Berklee College of Music and LA Recording School alumna, she is featured in productions by Disney, Marvel, BBC, and Paramount (Mulan, The Marvels, Spider-Man). She toured arenas, performed with symphony orchestras worldwide, and reached over 50 million views. Her widely used vocal sample library, Voices of the Empire, made her voice a staple in film and TV. Forbes describes her voice as “harkening back to ancient civilizations,” while Electronic Musician calls it “masterful” with “remarkable chops,” and Cosmopolitan nominated her for “Best Female Singer of the Year.”
Bansara (Josh Geisler)
Bansara is a multi-instrumentalist specializing in Bansuri flute, as well as a breathwork facilitator and retreat leader. He is deeply committed to sharing breath and sound as transformative gateways, opening the heart, deepening presence, and awakening a connection to the sacred mystery of life. An accomplished musician, he has released numerous solo albums and toured globally for nine years as flutist, guitarist, and bandleader of Cirque du Soleil’s TOTEM, performing over 2,650 shows in 45 cities. A Berklee College of Music graduate, he also studied North Indian classical music for 15 years with the
legendary Pandit Raghunath Seth.
Tommy Nguyen is a Vietnamese American artist born in California currently based in Philadelphia. He works in sculpture, performance, illustration, video, animation, and puppetry, recently receiving the Henson Workshop Grant to produce the premiere workshop production of the first Vietnamese American Water Puppet show at TurnPark.
Recipient of the ReVEALED Emerging Artist award, Tommy installed and curated performances for his continuing series May the PLUSH Be With You playable, wearable queer armor at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland and collaborated with The Cleveland Art Museum to present a workshop PLAY SMELL TOUCH FEEL HEAR and WEAR your COLORS.
He recently curated a comic arts show at The Pace University Art Gallery showing the works of Barbara Slate, June Kim, Jesse Lambert, Suja Wong, Kuri Huang, and Ronald Wimberly. The show was funded by NYSCA and partially through National Endowment for the Humanities. Tommy publishes his comic and cartoon works through Eisner awarding winning publisher Rosarium where he is working on his queer comics BiHARD, Texas Chainsaw Manicure, and Kill Phil.
Uta Bekaia is a Georgian-born multimedia artist currently based in Brooklyn and Tbilisi. His artistic practice revolves around the speculative recreation of ancestral rituals, reimagined for a Queer utopian future. Drawing inspiration from traditional crafts, Bekaia creates elaborate wearable sculptures, ceramics, tapestries, and objects, which are assembled into immersive installations, films, and live performances.
Olga Rabetskaya is a U.S. based artist originally from Belarus. She is a dancer, choreographer, director and photographer whose work spans film, choreography and photography, multimedia production. Olga's artistic research and exploration focus on the deep knowledge of the body and how to share our emotional experience, memories, and body intelligence through movement.
Elliana Lynch-Daniels (She/Her) is a Chapel Hill, North Carolina native. She attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts for high school and proudly holds a BFA in Dance from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Upon Graduating, she was a part of the inaugural GibneyPro 2022 cohort under direction of Alexandra Wells, where she performed works by choreographers Elia Mrak, Laja Fields, and Rena Butler. Elliana has danced with choreographers Kyle Abraham, Camille A. Brown, Kayla Farrish, and Olga Rabetskaya among others. She has also attended programs such as Springboard Danse Montreal, NVA & Guests, Vim Vigor, Ate9, and multiple Gaga Labs. Elliana is currently freelancing in NYC and has worked on varying projects, like product campaigns for Virtue Labs and the designer Jane Wade for NYFW. Elliana hopes to continue to engage in more artistic pursuits with an emphasis in collaboration.
Carl Ponce Cubero (they/them/siya) is a first generation Filipinx American movement artist/creative, originally from California's Central Valley, currently based out of New York City. Graduating from University of California, Irvine, they received their BFA in Dance Performance with a minor in Anthropology. While at university, they had the amazing honor and privilege of dancing under the late Donald McKayle. They have performed domestically and internationally with Ailey II from 2018-2020 and was a guest artist with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the Spring of 2022. Carl Ponce has had the opportunity to dance works by Donald McKayle, Alvin Ailey, Aszure Barton, Jessica Lang, Lar Lubovitch, Andrea Miller, and Rena Butler.
Lavy is a choreographic dance artist, producer, and DJ. Graduating with their BFA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College, Lavy founded VERBAL ANIMAL, a rotating cohort of interdisciplinary collaborators. Since its inception, Lavy has been commissioned by the 14th St Y, TADA! Theater, 3 Dollar Bill, and Triskelion Arts. VERBAL ANIMAL curates Queer Noise, a platform created to provide emerging queer choreographers an opportunity to present experimental and process centered work. Most recently, Lavy was commissioned by Triskelion Arts to close out their 2024 season with the premiere of their new work, IN EXCHANGE FOR ANONYMITY. Lavy is a Co-Producer for the NY show Kiss My Face. They are active in creating decentralized performance experiences in club spaces that emulate sweat, connectivity, and Queer resilience. For, they are the founder and producer of PLAY ME TECHNO AND TELL ME IM PRETTY, an experience that doubles as a fundraiser for the Trans community.
Ragin Smith is a Brooklyn-based dance artist. She works with a surrealist approach to develop deconstructed narratives—stringing together physical performance, text, visual art, and sound. Ragin has been an artist in residence at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre, Chez Bushwick, and M.O.T.I.V.E. Brooklyn. She has also presented work at The Tank, Fabled Narcissism, and ESTIA Day Fest. Aside from her own projects, Ragin has performed works by Sigrid Lauren, Akira Uchida, Evan Ray Suzuki, Brendan Fernandes, August Henderson, Michelle Thompson-Ulerich, Troy Ogilvie, and others. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from Marymount Manhattan College and is now a member of Hivewild, Wet Hairy Women, Verbal Animal, Headlights Theatre, MORISATO Co, and Apogee Arts. Alongside Haley Morgan Miller, Ragin is the co-producer and creative director of the Fabled Narcissism arts events.
Jenna Davis
Doug Fitch is a multimedia artist who works in media ranging from architecture and opera to puppetry and food.
Inna Zhukovsky-Zilber is an artist, born in Lithuania in 1971 to an engineer father and an artist mother, Inna Zhukovsky-Zilber played the violin and studied art from a young age. In 1990, Zhukovsky-Zilber and her family immigrated to Israel where she enrolled in the Department of Fine Arts at Haifa University, working in numerous mediums, including photography, the subject of her thesis. With her husband and twins, Zhukovsky-Zilbert immigrated to the United States in 2021, settling in Boston, where she became creative director of the proclaimed event planning company, Hopple Popple. She is also the founder of Kaziuki Wearable Art Company, the creations of which can be found in more than 30 stores worldwide.
Luna Go is a multimedia artist and costume designer, who specializes in unexpected and colorful costuming decisions. Luna has worked with theater companies, outdoor performance venues and collaborators, including Krymov Lab NYC in their critically acclaimed run of Big Trip at LaMaMa ETC in the East Village, several performance groups at TurnPark Art Space in the Berkshires, and multiple theater companies in New York City. Luna's past experience includes set and costume design as well as hair and makeup for theatre and opera productions, independent sculptural work, abstract costume design and fiber-arts work, as well as installations and collaborations with other artists such as Uta Bekaia and Doug Fitch and Tommy Nguyen. She continues to work on costume and puppet design for Krymov Lab NYC, as well as designing for upcoming productions of Anna Karenina in New York, Pinocchio in Boston, and developing several of her own costume collections for the 2024-2025 seasons.
Maidibor (Sergey Aniskov) is an award-winning animation visionary and former Moscow Maly State Theater set designer, whose animated films have been featured in film festivals worldwide, including Cannes and the Sundance Film Festival. His work ranges from classic animation, to documentary film, to groundbreaking projection design for avant garde performances and theatrical productions. Sergey studied under the maestro of classical Russian theater set design - Yegeniy Kumankov, and brings his theatrical background to each project, injecting experimental productions with the fairy-tale graphics, signature to Sergey's artistic style. His experience in children's animation provides an additional layer of lighthearted whimsy to his projection works. Maidibor has developed creative property concepts and produced pitch reels that greenlighted productions for AOL, BBC Kids, Cartoon Network, Handmade Films, Lionsgate, MTV Networks International, Nickelodeon US and Australia, TV Ontario, and YTV Canada, among others. Sergey also directed and produced numerous episodes of animated broadcast and cable network series as well as online and mobile gaming and learning content for AOL, MTV, Harcourt-Mifflin, the US Department of Education, and the National Science Foundation. He is the owner and founder of the production company Sorka Enterprises.
NCDA Lab Theater Group (Washington DC):
Natasha Mirny, Natalie Cutcher, Max Johnson, Liza Yanovich
Natasha Mirny is an actor, stage director, teaching artist and founder of Happy Theaterv (www.happytheater.com). Her background is in pantomime, puppetry, and physical theater. Apart from running her own theater company, she is currently working as a teaching artist and Arts Integration specialist at several theaters and educational programs in Washington DC area - Inspired Child, Arts for Learning, and Wolf Trap, Lucy School (Arts Based School) – designing and implementing programs for teachers and students in public and private schools in DC, VA and MD. Natasha is also a faculty member at National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.
Max Johnson (He/Him) is a Washington, DC local working actor, teaching artist, electrician/lighting designer, and deviser. Recent theater credits include The Pliant Girls (Theatre Prometheus/Nu Sass), The Waverly Gallery (u/s, 1st Stage), Inside Out and Backwards (Imagination Stage), A Commedia Romeo and Juliet (Faction of Fools), The Caretaker (Edge of the Universe Theatre), Angel Number Nine (Rorschach Theatre), Mankind (Iron Crow Theatre), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and A Raisin in the Sun (Olney Theatre’s National Players Tour 72.) Max graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in Theatre and a BA in History. More information about Max can be found at his website: maxjohnsonactor.com
Natalie Cutcher is a theatre practitioner and educator based in the DMV. She's written, directed, and collaborated on multiple TYA world-premiers in partnerships with Arts on the Horizon, and is currently adapting a puppet-driven Emil and the Detectives. She's also crafted diverse roles ranging from a sassy stalk of celery, delusional murderesses, to Shakespeare-
spewing royalty. With roots in Commedia dell'Arte and Clown, she's drawn towards the beautifully absurd.
Liza Yanovich is an education specialist, actor, and a child and youth advocate. She has 15 years of combined experience in education, theatre, and children's issues. Since childhood Liza has been involved in theatre and has been acting in a Russian-speaking theatre group in the DC region since 2011. Over the years, Liza has trained with various artists and theatres exploring and adopting different approaches. She is most interested in physical theatre and movement techniques. For many years, Liza combined theatre work with a career in international education and children’s issues. She has worked in government institutions, international organizations, and philanthropy. Her vast international experience includes working with diverse populations to address some of the most pressing and complex issues in West and Central Africa, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Liza also has a background is in teaching, developing curriculum materials, and designing and leading teacher trainings. She uses arts-based methods in her facilitation and research work, and she is passionate about broadening horizons for children and youth through education and creative arts. Liza is a native speaker of Russian and English and is fluent in French. After welcoming her son in 2023, Liza quit her day job and is working towards combining her two loves – theatre and education.
Jenna Davis (she/her) is a movement artist from Dallas, Texas. She graduated from SMU Meadows School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance Performance and a BA in Film & Media Arts. She performed as a company artist with B. Moore Dance under the artistic direction of Bridget Moore for multiple seasons beginning in 2022. She has researched internationally, moving in multiple labs, workshops, and processes where she was gifted with rich knowledge and vulnerability from artists such as Pau Aran, Sidra Bell, Bret Easterling, Mike Esperanza , Madison Hicks, Annamari Keskinen, Ryan Mason, Cameron McKinney, and Kevin Pajarillaga, among many others. Most recently she was in process with Ethan Colangelo, Ella Rothschild, and Tom Weinberger at NOD/NuovaX in Torino, Italy. Jenna is also a movement photographer and filmmaker, engaging in independent and collaborative freelance work. Her work has been featured in programming at the Joyce Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Fest, Finding Compassion, Moving Forward Winter Fest, and SMU Meadows School of the Arts.
Volga Bo is a yoga-teacher, songwriter, performer, ritualist, and a Spirit embodiment guide. She has been immersed in the journey of “above&below” exploration through dance, music, yoga, astrology, mystical and spiritual studies of various traditions and Indigenous cultures. She has been spreading consciousness for over a decade; in her classes and workshops, Volga fuses and mixes various genres of movement, breathing, and self-expressing. DANCING is one of her favorite ways to transcend and connect with the spiritual realms.
Aliya Kamenshikov, Soprano, originally from Tatarstan, began her journey in liberal arts and jurisprudence with a passion for performing arts and sports. It wasn't until her move to the USA that she discovered her true calling in singing and acting. After graduating from Hunter College, where she studied psychology and classical music, Aliya embraced her passion for the performing arts, which led to a successful career as a professional opera singer, actress, and model, with her work spanning across New York and nationwide, encompassing various genres and modalities. Currently, Aliya is deepening her musical path as a Sound Healer, integrating her professional expertise with ancestral gifts, a profound connection to her soul and nature, and her ongoing personal healing journey. In addition, she is pursuing a Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling, aspiring to be a therapist who harmonizes art, science, and spirituality to guide others on their healing paths. Three years ago, Aliya joined the TurnPark community as a participant, where she flourished as a vessel of creative expression and a medicine woman. Aliya feels profound gratitude for being part of the TurnPark family and is excited to contribute to the collective journey of healing and the celebration of life!
Stuart Gray is a British born musician and artist, raised in Australia who fronts the band Art Gray Noizz Quintet. He was formerly in Lubricated Goat who famously played Nude on TV in the 80s. As an actor he was recently in a production of Eugene Oneil's In the Zone which was performed aboard the ship Wavertree which is docked at South Street Seaport
Britain Hope is a Pepperdine University Magna Cum Laude graduate with a BA degree in Theatre, emphasis in acting, and a Minor in Computer Science originally from Los Angeles, California before proudly transplanting this last Spring to New York City. He has performed at the Hollywood Bowl with Jason Mraz, stage managed for award-winning actor Alfred Molina at the Pasadena Playhouse, and most recently took the stage at the renowned Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston for the World Premiere of Pinocchio the Musical. Britain is thrilled to be joining Luna once again, this time in her company, after last working together with her in Pinocchio. He just knows they are bound to get up to all the goofy and creative things possible when working in the theatre together. Lastly, if you want to find out any more information about Britain, feel free to look up his instagram: @britishhope.
WANDERING MUSICIANS:
MOOBOX BAND (Maria Vasilevskaya, Dmitry Umansky)
The Moobox band project was born in 2020, debuting in the Off-Broadway play "Voyeur", directed by Mara Lieberman. Moobox is comprised of Masha Vasilevskaya and Dmitry Umansky. They are a mobile micro-orchestra, a portable music kit accompanied by their dog Bublik. They've played for cows in fields, adults and children in parks, on Hudson River ferries, and while blowing bubbles! You can find their music in remote forests, and even on the move in the car! Moooosic is always with them. Moobox has also performed with Tbilisi/New York artist Uta Bekaia at TurnPark, at Artpark Lewiston, and at the Jetlag festival.
Garik Bagdagyulyan
Luke G