Fly: A Celebration of Juneteenth

Wednesday, June 19th at 7pm
Join us to celebrate Juneteenth with African dance, music, and aerial arts!
Presented with Hawai'i Jazz, Jazz Maui, and Mana'o Radio

Of all our national holidays, Juneteenth National Independence Day commemorates not just the ending of legal slavery in the United States, but the ending of legalized ideologies of supremacy and racial separation. Juneteenth uplifts the ideals of true and total freedom and justice for all. It’s one of the few, perhaps the only holidays globally, that commemorates legal practices of human rights, dismantling legal inequity and civil unrest. In a world of that commemorates conquerors, political figures, war, and martyrs,  this holiday is a significant treasure to celebrate for the progress of humanity.

Performers include:
Dr. Joie Yasha Taylor: Producer, Director, musician, aerials, dance
Gabriel Fara Tolno: Djembe Fola and dance
Chloe Malyshkin: (featured painter, narration)
Etiange Doma: dancer, poet
Sara Patrinellis:  rope Lyra 
Caye Mckibben: flying Pole
Victoria Roos: aerial straps
Accompanied by Lee Djundjun Fola and Jesse Krebs on djembe

Tickets
$60 Premium (large cushy front-row chairs with small tables)
$50 Preferred (front row of any seating tier)
$40 Regular Seating

$10 off for Kupuna (65 and older)

Run time:  90 minutes - with NO intermission

ARTIST BIOS

Dr. Joie "Yasha" Chiana Taylor, born in Tuscaloosa, AL, the seat of the Civil Rights Movement,  is a true visionary and renaissance woman.  She is a professional gemstone jeweler at yashajewels.com.  She received a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Clark Atlanta University and Ph.D. from Cornell University while minoring in music and dance. She has  performed with award winning artists including  Samite, Larry Coryell, Delfayo Marsalis, and Javon Jackson, Roy Ayers, B.B. King , Donald Byrd, and Joshua Redman, and Gunhild Carling.  and has headlined at the Blue Note Hawaii where she is regularly featured with the Mike Lewis Big Band.  As a dancer,  she professionally trained in Ghana, Guinea, Atlanta, and NY and has taught, choreographed and performed around the world.  She is a professionally trained aerialist and member of UIpliftmaui and Cirqueliscious Aerial Dance Maui. 

Fara Tolno was born in Guinea, West Africa. He spent his youth in the village of Kissidugu and Guinea’s capital city, Conakry. Playing djembe since the age of nine, he traveled extensively performing and teaching both drumming and dance. Fara is a keeper of the history, the music, and the dance in his culture and founder, director, and choreographer for Kissidugu, his percussion and dance theatre ensemble. Fara also provides access to the rhythms of Guinea through the Rhythm Reference Project, the most comprehensive audio and notation library ever compiled for West African Drumming. Fara has performed with many of the world’s premier musicians including Mamady Keita, Burning Spear, Neil Young, Sekouba Bambino, Otis Taylor, Joe Cocker, Youssou N’Dour, Salif Keita Habibe Koite, B.B. King, Oumou Sangare, and many more. Fara’s performance style has been described as mystical as he dazzles audiences around the world.

Chloe Malyshkin (1991) was born in St. Louis Missouri. Her study of Philosophy and Religion at Truman State University in Missouri largely informs her work. When she moved to New York in 2014 her practice in oil paint began, with Acrylic and multimedia to follow. Her current work focuses on music and video production, and makes use of vivid color in Maui, Hawaii.  Chloe is participating in the 2024 Canopy Program, a yearlong mentorship intensive.

Etiange Domoa was born in Harlem, NYC to two Côte d'Ivoire immigrants. Her biggest health inspiration was her father, who encouraged her health and well-being by making sure she committed to sports and art. She has trained in professional dance (hip hop, ballet, West African, jazz, etc.) for 15 years with Alvin Ailey, Broadway Dance Center, and other professional choreographers stationed in LA. She continues to build her passion for the arts by teaching dance and Pilates on Maui as well as training in Pole dancing.

Sarah Patrinellis is a strength-based aerial artist from Northern California who splits her time seasonally between the West Coast of the mainland and Hawaii. As a coach and performer with a decade of technique training to draw from and a love for choreography / act creation, her focus is on silks, lyra, duo work, cube, rope, sling and dance trapeze. She thrives in a solo, duo & collaborative group setting, is always up for a good challenge, and to start learning a new apparatus! Sarah’s true calling is to share the empowering movement practice of aerial to others through lessons, workshops and international retreats in a supportive and inspiring environment. 

Victoria Roos:Victoria graduated with a Bachelor of Circus Arts, specialized in Aerial Rope from CODARTS Rotterdam. For the past 15 years she has performed world wide (Europe, India, China, USA) as a solo aerialist and dancer with various companies. Since moving to Hawaii where she was hired as the silks artist Mo'o in 'Ulalena at the Lahaina Theater she has performed across the Islands in various shows and disciplines including Hair Hanging, Rope, Silks, Lyra, Handstand, Partner Acrobatics and more. She works closely with Aerial Arts Hawai'i on the big Island and Samadhi on Oahu. On Maui she has worked with Leipono Productions for Luaus and events on a regular basis. She owns and operates Cirquelicious Entertainment Maui which provides local artists the opportunity to perform for corporate events, weddings and private parties. She has been part of the ArtMixx with FuzzBox Productions and has co-produced Aerial Shows on Maui and the Big Island. Her latest work is FLEURISH her first self-produced, directed and performed show, which features 10 local artists.

For information on our Access for All initiative, please go to proartsmaui.org/access-for-all/