Green Space Presents
December 14th, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In the Safe Emergency of the Therapeutic Situation
Choreographed by: Natalie Long in collaboration with Ellery Jernigan
Performed by: Natalie Long and Ellery Jernigan
Music by: Kara Wells / Fritz Perls / Gloria Szymanski
Costumes by: Natalie Long and Ellery Jernigan
BLAME IT!
Choreographed by: Gable Couch
Performed by: Julia Asher, Bella Van Bergen, Gable Couch, Madi Dyke, Kelsey Grady, Cecelia Murphy, Tiffany Rudi, Kira Stone
Music by: MIKA
Costumes by: Gable Couch
Before It Hurts (Excerpts)
Choreographed by: Jillian Garibaldi, in collaboration with the performers
Co-directed by: Jillian Garibaldi & Cerulean Long
Written by: Cerulean Long
Performed by: Stella Oh and Wisteria Deng
Dramaturgy by: Ziwei Chen
Twink Death
Choreographed by: Jack Murphy
Performed by: Jack Murphy & Marc Gammal
Music by: Gustav Mahler, Gazelle Twin
Costumes by: Jack Murphy
Thank you for attending Fertile Ground!
This evening’s performance will be immediately followed with a discussion moderated by Valerie Green. Wine will be served!
Upcoming at Green Space
Take Root January 23rd & 24th at 8:00 PM
Miho Ryu | Nicole Kadar-Green/NK&D/a movement company
Fertile Ground January 25th at 7:00 PM
Dan Doran, Bruised Pear Dance Project, Georgia Dahill-Fuchel, Macy Alday & Juliann Craft
Maïlys Dumas-Lattaque, and Susanna Procario-Foley.
ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHERS
Gable Couch is a New York City based dancer, actor, and choreographer. Their most recent choreographic work has been featured at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, Under St. Marks, and The Tank with One Day Dance Festival. Gable holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from the University of Central Oklahoma.
in-version ensemble is a performance collective amplifying BIPOC and female/queer narratives through collaboration, research, and audience interaction. We integrate video, movement, soundscape, and poetry to expand performance beyond discipline and form, redefining center and periphery. Jillian Faye Garibaldi (she/her) is a dance artist and educator based in Queens. Her work is about love and grief, memory and dreams, softness and violence, and, most of all, change. Cerulean Chen Long (she/they) is a queer interdisciplinary theater director, writer, and producer based in NYC and China. ceruleanchenlong.com
Natalie Long, the founder/director of ERELONG, graduated from the University of South Carolina with a double major in dance and psychology in 2022. She has since performed with Chutzpah Dance, Susie McHugh + Dancers and more. Natalie is currently a member of Six Degrees Dance and a student in an online Master of Arts in Counseling program. Another alumni of UofSC, Ellery Jernigan has collaborated choreographically and performed with ERELONG since its creation in 2022. She has also performed with Anna Patterson Dance Company and Moving Body Dance Company.
Jack Murphy is originally from Novi, Michigan. He began dancing at the age of 6. Upon graduating high school, Jack became a trainee at the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago before beginning his four years at the Juilliard School. Jack has danced works by Martha Graham, Jack Ferver, Ohad Naharin, Jose Limon, Matthew Neenan, Andrea Miller, Brian Arias, and Nelly Van Bommel during his time at Juilliard.
Claire Gaylor (Green Space Lighting Designer) is a production technician and performer based in Astoria, Queens. She holds a BFA in Dance from Adelphi University with a minor in Theater Technology and Design. Favorite production credits include lighting programming for Monica Bill Barnes and Company, NYCDA, Ailey Junior, and BDC Children and Teens. She is thrilled to be joining the Green Space team as lighting designer this season
Fertile Ground is a monthly, non-curated new works showcase for emerging and/or established artists. It has been a staple Green Space program since 2006. Evenings feature up to six choreographers, followed by a moderated discussion over wine that integrates the choreographers, dancers, and audience members. This series is an excellent opportunity for participants to share new and developing work, then receive informative feedback about it in a supportive environment. If you would like to apply for a future Fertile Ground, applications are accepted on a rolling, first come, first served basis. Apply at www.GreenSpaceStudio.org.
About Green Space: Responding to the need for professional rehearsal space in the New York metropolitan area, Valerie Green and Dance Entropy, Inc., opened Green Space in November 2005. Located in Long Island City, Green Space serves the public by offering discounted services to individual artists and dance companies in a spacious 1800 sq. foot facility. Green Space's mission is to serve the Queens and general dance community by providing an affordable and welcoming environment for rehearsals, classes, and performances. Green Space embraces the diversity of Queens as a strength, encouraging exchange on an artistic, educational, & interactive level.
Produced by: Dance Entropy Inc.
Lighting Design by: Claire Gaylor
Programs Manager: Lily Cole
Box Office: Isabelle Valtchanov
This program is made possible, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The Little Venue That Could Grant from the Howard Gilman Foundation and IndieSpace, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, and The Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust. Additional support provided by Resorts World New York City, Plaxall Inc., Leavitt, Kerson & Sehati Attorneys at Law, Robert S. Altman, Esq., PLLC, Gerard T. Dolan, LUTCF, TF Cornerstone, GNYADA, MEGA Contracting, Ponce Bank, Food Cellar & Co., and individual donors.