Offerings: Lena Engelstein + Lisa Fagan / River L. Ramirez / evan ray suzuki

Doors open at 7:00 PM, and the show begins at 7:30 PM. There will be a reception during that half hour. 

Artists

Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein are NYC-based experimental choreographer-performers whose work has been dubbed “The High Weird” by critics. Since 2017, they’ve functioned as a cogenerative, circulatory idea machine, whose unconventional performative frameworks reimagine what choreography can be used to accomplish theatrically. Recent work includes: This Could Be You (Sugar! Sugar! Festival, Domino Square Park 2025), Friday Night Rat Catchers (Under the Radar / LiveArtery 2026, New York Live Arts Spring 2025), Deepe Darknesse (New York Live Arts’ Live Artery 2024; full-page review in The New York Times; June 2023 at The Collapsable Hole; Nationally in DC, SF), 1-800-3592-113592 (MITU580 2024, with performance collective CHILD), and many more short works and experimentations. The duo received the 2025 Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) Grants to Artists in Choreography. Their work has been supported by Baryshnikov Arts Center (2023 BAC Open), NYSCA Individual artists grant, The FCA, Coffey Street, Mercury Store, and others.

Along with their work as a collaborative duo, credits include, Fagan: No President by Nature Theater of Oklahoma (dancer), Anne Washburn’s The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire at The Vineyard (choreographer), Peggy Stafford’s Everything Is Here (choreographer), experimental opera HILMA at Tony Award Winning theater The Wilma (choreographer), Open Throat at Little Island NYC, (choreographer), THESE DAYS short indie series, Sundance 2021 (choreographer), Engelstein: American Idle Concept & Dir. by Maia Chao, commissioned by Times Square Arts (choreographer), this is the beginning, this is the end by Joanna Kotze (dancer), Adult Relationships by Ben Gassman (actor), Oceanic Feeling by Faye Driscoll (dancer), all i want is what you want (Exponential Festival 2022 choreographer w/ Jo Warren) Then She Fell by Third Rail Company (dancer, 2019-20). Lena holds a B.A. in Mathematics from CC.

River L. Ramirez (they/them) is a Philly based, comedian, musician and writer from Miami, FL. A Peruvian/Puertorican multihyphenate, it’s easy to forget they are just a little furby with a knife. Their work can be found in the mediums of Writing, Visual Art and Music. River’s work explores the intersections of mysticism, collective consciousness, class consciousness, liberation and play. Their work has been written about in the NYT, Forbes, SSense, Art in America, Vulture, GQ and more. You can see their image, feel their writing, and hear their voice on various films and TV shows such as; Problemista, Fantasmas, High Maintenance, BIRDGIRL, Teenage Euthanasia, and more. Currently, they live in a charming Victorian home with a black cat doing spells all day.

For more follow them on substack at River's world, @pileoftears everywhere else.

evan ray suzuki is a dance artist and filmmaker of yonsei Japanese descent who creates butoh-ish performance works that investigate liminal hauntings and postinternet unbodiedness. Presentations include internationally at the Umbria Factory Festival in Spoleto, Italy, and at venues such as Pageant, Ars Nova, JACK, Abrons Arts Center, Center for Performance Research, Trans-Pecos, Icebox Project Space, WestFest, DCTV, and many parks, galleries, and basements. evan has received grants and residencies from the New York State Council on the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Ars Nova, New Dance Alliance, Amanda+James, and Centro Umbro di Residenze Artistiche. As a performer, evan’s credits include works with Kim Brandt, maura nguyễn donohue, Ayano Elson, Gordon Hall, David Neumann, Mina Nishimura, and Glenn Potter-Takata, and he has been a member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company since 2023. evan is currently a 2025-26 Resident Artist at La MaMa Etc. and a 2026 Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellow.

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Offerings is a performance series at the Church of St Mary the Virgin on West 46th Street in New York City.

Offerings gathers multiple artists to share work alongside one another, providing an open space for people to gather, witness, and support one another.