Miguel Alejandro Castillo Le Maitre

ELMO-MENTO is a multidisciplinary dance-theater work, centering the stories of immigrant New Yorkers who make a living as cartoon character street performers in Times Square. Conceived by inter-disciplinary artist Miguel Alejandro Castillo in collaboration with researcher-artist Carolina Alonso Bejarano, and devised with a cast of street performers, this piece investigates notions of labor, anonymity, hybridity, and migration. By blending personal narratives with surreal embodiment, ELMO-MENTO immerses audiences in the lives and imagination of the performers. Straddling between spectacular fanfare and sensible ethnography, ELMO-MENTO challenges audiences to consider who is seen, who remains invisible, and what it means to truly belong.

Caretakers of Land/Land Acknowledgement: We are situated on the Lenape island of Manhahtaan (Mannahatta) in Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland.

Estimated Artist Fee:

• In-Person Engagement Artist Fees: $47,100
• In-Person Engagement Travel Estimate: $30,368
• In-Person Engagement Total Estimated Cost: $77,468