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@voxigmaloLiberty Styles (they/them) is a tap dancer, electronic musician, and performer based in NYC. Satire, collaged sound, drag, and rhythmic improvisation are all pillars of their practice. Their research engages with histories of tap dance and queer performance art, drawing connections between embodied rhythm, nightlife, and experimental sound as sites of memory, mischief, survival, and futurity.
Liberty produces and performs in sold-out events that bring in collaborators to explore the intersection of tap dance and drag performance. In 2023 they toured the UK as a tap soloist with BBC Jazz Musician of the Year Xhosa Cole and featured on his 2025 album On a Modern Genius V ol. 1. They also perform regularly across the UK and Europe with artists including Edi May and electronic duo Zyggurat. Liberty has performed in Ayodele Casel’s Diary of a Tap Dancer at the American Repertory Theater, and also collaborated extensively with Michela Lerman, Orlando Hernández, Naomi Funaki, and Ian Berg. Other stage credits include the Guggenheim, New York Live Arts, The Joyce Theater, and the Apollo Theater. Their work has been mentioned in The New York Times, Jazzwise, and Billboard.
Kestrel Osman is a sculptor based in Southern Vermont. She explores how fine art can become part of the ecosystem and facilitate the growth of habitats. The correlation between the wrinkles and scars on old-growth trees and humans is a common thread through her work. Her observations of how the human body heals and grows, carrying the memories through the marks and folds on its fleshy exterior. Kestrel captures these natural forms through three-dimensional collages with ceramic, steel, wood, and stone. She tends to listen to the material and allow it to guide her to the form they want to take. Driven to make art that pulls people out of their societal bubble into the larger ecosystem, in hopes of finding appreciation and responsibility for little critters and lifeforms that keep our large biome running.