Same As Sister (S.A.S.) will be sharing early research and ideas for Upstairs, In Our Bedroom as part of HERE’s Resident Artist Workshops (RAW) Series. The program will include a post-show talkbalk with S.A.S.’s co-directors and choreographers Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley.

Upstairs, In Our Bedroom is an autobiographical performance that radically reimagines Same As Sister’s experiences as female identical twins of color next to those of outsider authors, June and Jennifer Gibbons (a.k.a. The Silent Twins). Utilizing dance, text, VR technology, and puppetry, they will reveal the powerful and painful intersections between twinship, blackness, madness, and art-making.

For more info visit: here.org/shows/here-raw

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) is elated that their first ever podcast, Dismantling Anti-Black Logics: Creating Alternative Forms of Knowledge and Storytelling, was in the company of Couched Podcast hosts Dr. Romy Reading, PhD and Dr. Ally Merchant and fellow invited guest, psychoanalyst Chanda D. Griffin.

Podcast Description: Join us for a heartfelt conversation between psychoanalyst Chanda D. Griffin and choreographers Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley. Our guests share their embodied and scholarly knowledge about anti-blackness and creativity. They inspire and challenge us to think beyond the confines of white supremacist structures and invite us into new imaginaries.

To listen visit: couchedpodcast.org/dismantling-anti-black-logics

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) will be joined by York University’s 3Dance research team, VR specialist Lora Appel and disability arts advisor Rachel da Silveira Gorman, to give an artist talk with augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) demonstration, Bridging Dimensions of Dance Performance and Mental Health through Virtual Reality, about their collaboration on Upstairs, In Our Bedroom.

The event will be hosted at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)’s Auditorium and is a co-presentation with Dancemakers as part of Workman Arts’ 2023 RENDEZVOUS WITH MADNESS FESTIVAL (Oct 27 - Nov 5)—The first and largest arts and mental health festival in the world.

Using art as the entry point to illuminate and investigate the realities and mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction, RENDEZVOUS WITH MADNESS spotlights the human capacity for endurance in the face of great challenges. This year’s tagline “Mind the Gaps” considers gaps in infrastructure and the systematic “cracks” people, particularly those with lived experience of mental health and addiction, fall through. It is a call to think through what is missing and how things could be better.

For more info visit: workmanarts.com/rendezvous-with-madness

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) was visited by CBC Arts’ journalist Genelle Levy during their Dancemakers-supported residency at Dance Arts Institute to discuss their history as a performance collective and current project in-development, Upstairs, In Our Bedroom.

Upstairs, In Our Bedroom is an autobiographical performance that radically reimagines Same As Sister’s experiences as female identical twins of color next to those of outsider authors, June and Jennifer Gibbons (a.k.a. The Silent Twins).

To read the profile, The twin sisters bringing the tragic story of the 'Silent Twins' to the stage, visit: cbc.ca/arts

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) is incredibly honored to announce that their performance work, This is NOT a Remount, originally commissioned as part of The Miserere Project, a co-production with Citadel + Compagnie, has been nominated for a Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts’ 2022 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Production (Dance Division). Congratulations to all the 2022 Nominees!

For more info visit: tapa.ca/nominations

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) joined commissioned artist/director Aaron Duffy’s imaginative reality as a three-headed monster for Apple’s The Illusionists series. The commercial was produced by Special Guest and 1stAveMachine as part of the #ShotoniPhone campaign.

For more info visit: instagram.com/p/CgMyglflZ0r

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) is thrilled to announce that they are a two-time recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergency Grant Program.

S.A.S. will use their 2022 Emergency Grant in Dance to present This is NOT a Remount at The Citadel: Ross Center for Dance in Toronto, Canada, with performances May 18-21.

For more info visit: foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/emergency-grants/recipients

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) will be sharing an in-person screening of This is NOT a Remount, as part of Spring Movement | Crossroads: Curated by Pioneers Go East Collective. The program will also include live-performances by Angela Schöpke Gonzalez and Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett.

Each year, CPR – Center for Performance Research presents two weekend-long festivals of works by local and international emerging and established artists in dance and performance. Spring Movement and Fall Movement feature finished works and premieres by six different artists, companies, or collectives, and often include unique collaborations with filmmakers, musicians, and visual artists.

For more info visit: cprnyc.org/events/2022springmovement

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) invite you to join them for the virtual screening of This is NOT a Remount, a video collaboration with performers ALEXA GRÆ, Annie Wang & Jessie Young, dramaturg Susan Mar Landau, and videographer Yuan Liu.

The screening will be followed by a pre-recorded artist q&a* with live chat to provide insight into S.A.S.'s creative team and process during the making of This is NOT a Remount, as both a commissioned video and live-performance project.

The link will go live on Same As Sister's YouTube channel at the date and time specified above.

Livestream Link: youtu.be/HMFKe51cU6U

*Captioning will be provided during the artist q&a portion of the livestream.

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) is incredibly honored and excited to be a part of Citadel + Compagnie’s 2021/22 Season in their hometown of Toronto, Canada. S.A.S.’s This is NOT a Remount will be performed as part of The Miserere Project, a shared evening of three world premieres by Penny Couchie, Same As Sister (S.A.S.), and Brodie Stevenson, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of David Earle’s masterwork, Miserere.

"The pandemic has highlighted the importance of the performing arts, and its unique ability to connect people in a shared human experience,” says Artistic Director Laurence Lemieux. “The 21/22 Season brings together a wide range of artists exploring how and where we connect. It is an extremely interesting time to be programming, as we will all be looking at work through a new post-pandemic lense. I hope for this season to pay tribute to the power of the creative process to drive artists forward, and the strength of artists’ desire to continue to provoke and inspire through dance.”

For more info visit: announcing-citadel-21-22-season

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) will be presenting an in-person work-in-progress showing of their upcoming commission, This is NOT a Remount, as part of their rescheduled 2019/20 Base Residency at Base: Experimental Arts + Space in Seattle, Washington.

This is NOT a Remount, is an interdisciplinary reenactment as tribute to the 41st anniversary of Canadian choreographer David Earle’s Miserere. Merging true and imagined stories from Toronto Dance Theatre’s 1981 production, the performance is a behind-the-scenes homage to the original cast, three of whom were lost to the AIDS epidemic.

For more info visit: thisisbase.org/same-as-sister-residency

Audience must RSVP to attend this limited capacity event. Proof of vaccination and masks are required.

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) will be sharing an animated video of Kallax, during Pioneers Go East Collective’s Crossroads Series. This virtual edition of Crossroads, a series dedicated to empowering LGBTQ and feminist artists in dialogue with their communities, will also feature video works by: Yasmeen Enahora & Ori Flomin, and Beth Graczyk.

The free event will be hosted on Zoom.

For more info visit: eventbrite.com/e/crossroads-same-as-sister-flomin-and-enahora-graczyk

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) is honored to announce that they were selected as a recommended Alternate and Finalist for the Jerome Foundation’s 2021-22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in Dance, and are the recipients of a grant towards the creation and production of new work.

Congratulations to the Fellows: Ephrat Asherie, Vie Boheme, J. Bouey, DejaJoelle, Fana Fraser, Jerron Herman, Herb Johnson III, LeilAwa, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, and Taja Will, as well as the other Finalists: Hadar Ahuvia, Maria Bauman-Morales, Alexandra Bodnarchuk, Moriah Evans, Kayla Farrish, Davalois Fearon, Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, Malcolm Low, Kaleena Miller, Music From The Sole (Leonardo Sandoval, Gregory Richardson), Christopher Núñez, Valerie Oliveiro, and Mariana Valencia.

For more info visit: jeromefdn.org/jerome-hill-artist-fellows-2021-22

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) is honored to announce that they have been awarded a Queens Council on the Arts’ 2020 Queens Arts Fund New Work Grant in Multi-Disciplinary Performance.

They will use the Grant to support the creation of their work, This is NOT a Remount, a commission for The Citadel’s 2022 Bright Nights Series, Toronto.

For more info visit: queenscouncilarts.org/2020-qaf-awardees

Same As Sister (S.A.S.)’s dance short, Odd Jewels: Beauty Under Mask, will be screened as part of the Erasmus+ 2019-20 Educational Program (Active Student-Active Citizen): Introduction to Video-Art for Teenagers, a collaboration between Video Art Miden and the 2nd Junior High School of Kalamáta in Greece.

For more info visit: festivalmiden.gr/en/educational-program

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) will be sharing a work-in-progress excerpt of Kallax (2019-20 Women in Motion NYC Commission), during Pioneers Go East Collective’s Crossroads: Crosswinds, Crosscurrents, Crossfires, at Judson Memorial Church.

This edition of Crossroads, a series dedicated to empowering LGBTQ and feminist artists in dialogue with their communities, will also feature performances by: Chris Riffle, Proteo Media/Bree Breeden & Kathleen Kelley, and Erick Montes/Danceable Projects.

This is a free event open to the community.

For more info visit: pioneersgoeast.org/crossroads-series

Same As Sister (S.A.S.) is incredibly honored to announce that they have been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts’ 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Choreography.

They are looking forward to using the unrestricted grant to support the expansion of their project, The Exciting Event…, with performers Kristina Hay and Rahmus Rifical and dramaturg Susan Mar Landau in 2021.

For more info visit: current.nyfa.org/introducing-nyscanyfa-artist-fellowship-program