We are excited to announce the second event of our WE ARE NATURE series!
Join us on the rooftops for a solstice gathering where sound, movement, and light converge in celebration of art, nature, and collective presence. This special event will feature the debut of our 2025 Residency Award installation (by artist Jeannie Rhyu), the unveiling of Entangled Light, a site-specific installation created by artist Mollie Serena for the Sunset Stage, the release of MaYita’s new concert experience and album: SOMOS, and a live dance performance by Mizuho Kappa.
- SOMOS is a sacred musical offering to honor the peak of the sun’s light, the MaYita Summer Solstice Medicine Music Concert is a heart-opening ceremony where ancestral rhythms, healing music, and sacred chants guide the community into deep remembrance and joyful celebration. Aligned with the energy of the solstice, MaYita channels prayers of light, unity, and transformation through her voice and presence, creating a portal for collective healing, connection, and renewal. This is more than a concert - it is a living ceremony of music, spirit, and soul.
Maya Martínez - Guardian of Sound on this Musical Journey:
Since time immemorial, sound has been a creative force, a vibration that unites, heals, and transforms. Maya Martínez is a daughter of that sacred energy, a tireless traveler of sound art who has dedicated her life to the study, performance, and healing through music. Born in Colombia and shaped by the diversity of New York, her voice echoes from multiple latitudes. Along the way, she absorbed the essence of classical music in Havana and the vibrant pulse of jazz in Brooklyn, perfecting her craft to weave melodies that speak to the soul. With Pacha Massive, her sound resonated in legendary venues, sharing space with Café Tacuba, Bomba Estéreo, and Aterciopelados. But her journey didn't stop there. Maya embraced discipline, challenge, and evolution while serving as a sound engineer in the U.S. Army, becoming the first graduate of this specialty from the Army Music School. There, sound took on new dimensions, from technical precision to its power of connection. Guided by ancestral wisdom, her sonic exploration led her to the indigenous communities of Central and South America, where she learned the mysteries of sound as medicine. Amid ceremonial chants and deep vibrations, she understood that music is not just art: it is a vehicle for healing. Today, under the spirit of MaYita Music, Maya intertwines lineages, cultures, and generations, restoring harmony to the world with every note. Her mission is clear: to honor sound as a transformative force, awaken ancestral memories, and activate the universal heartbeat that reminds us that, in music, we are one.
- MIZUHO KAPPA will present a live dance performance centered around the embodiment of electrons as they move through the universe.
“The embodiment of electrons as they move through the universe.
Entropy—a measure of uncertainty or “mixedness” in a quantum system—reveals how information is distributed and how order decays over time.
It plays a crucial role in understanding quantum entanglement,
a phenomenon where two or more particles become correlated in such a way that the state of one instantly reveals information about the other, regardless of distance.
We meet.
We separate.
We mix.
Our states remain connected.”
MIZUHO KAPPA is a choreographer and performing artist with a degree in Entomology, originally from Osaka, Japan. She has recently performed with Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NY, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, and Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks, among others. She is an assistant artistic director of dance-theater company PROJECT/TAG . Her multidimensional choreographic works have been presented at The Shed, La MaMa, Dixon Place, Gene Frankel Theater, TheaterLab, Kennedy Center, The Brick, Ars Nova and more. She also collaborates with cross-disciplinary artists, including a neuroscience researcher, a transmedia playwright, a hybrid writer, and a choreographic researcher. These works have been showcased at New Museum, New York Hall of Science, Open Source Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, City University of Hong Kong, House of Yes, Chocolate Factory and beyond. She is a commissioned choreographer for Peridance Contemporary Dance Company's 2025 Spring Season, also a recipient of the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency. Kappa was a resident artist at Experimental Film Virginia 2022, where she performed lead roles in two award-winning films, Devouring Stones Up Close and Sole, both of which premiered at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival. The way she conveys narratives through these intricate and simultaneous scientific experiments has been described as 'Evoking and Unhinged' (Brooklyn Magazine) and ‘Potent’ (The New York Times).
Doors: 6 PM
Our programs are made possible in part with public support from the New York State Council on the Arts, with support from Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and Broadway Stages.