Congratulations to the winners of the Tomayko Foundation’s 2024 Performing Arts Sponsorship:

Artists Heidi Wiren Kebe, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, and Veronica Santiago Moniello!

Kebe, Hsieh, and Moniello present HORSES & FOXES, a 40-minute durational immersive performance with dance, sound, and sculpture performed live by the three artists, three women. This project is a synthesis of choreography and sound composition in which all elements are in constant conversation with one another; the materials used are strong yet elastic: steel, wood, glass, and ice. Depicting the shapeshifting quality of these creatures in folklore and the malleability of women kind. Built on the histories and mythologies of its namesake, HORSES & FOXES will take over Studio A at Pittsburgh’s WQED (The Fred Rogers Studio) and will feature Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Veronica Santiago Moniello, and Heidi Wiren Kebe.

The performance will premier in February 2025.

About the artists:

Image courtesy of Jim Carmody

Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh

@anniehuihsinhsieh
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh is a Taiwanese-Australian composer working in acoustic and electroacoustic mediums. Her work focuses on creating immersive physical experiences and articulate sonic expressions in terms of choreography and musical-social interactivity.


Image courtsey of Porter Loves

Heidi Wiren Kebe

@heidiwiren
Heidi Wiren Kebe is an interdisciplinary performance artist from the Great Plains. Her work is concerned with the portrayal, oppression and subversive existence of women in America today. Whether creating laborious action or still objects, Kebe blurs the line between public and private; deconstructing notions of gender, race and corporeality through sculpture, photographs, moving image, and performance.


Image courtsey of Michael Amacio

Veronica Santiago Moniello

@veronica_santiago_moniello
Veronica Santiago Moniello (she/her/hers) is a Venezuelan choreographer and dancer currently based in New York. She actively networks with Latinx artists across diverse contexts, exploring how together they conceive the body and its disruption of identities and cultures. Her practice engages in a dialogue with memory, dreams, and 'naturaleza,' navigating the tension between absence, dark poetry and rituals, while questioning what is not real.