Roles in Archive: Artist
Enrico D. Wey makes his work primarily through the living laboratory. He has shown iterations of work from 2006 onwards at various spaces in the New York area. He was commissioned for Danspace Project’s winter season. He was selected as a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council SwingSpace and Dance Theater Workshop Fresh Tracks Residency Recipient in 2010. As a performer, Enrico has worked extensively with Team Djordjevich and has had the pleasure of working for choreographers Ashley Byler, Melinda Ring, Vanessa Anspaugh, and Jen Rosenblit, with the bands Great Republic of Rough and Ready and Shitheads on Dynamite, and puppet artists Tom Lee and Emily Decola. Wey has been engaged as a member of Handspring Puppet Company from South Africa since 2004, touring internationally with Tall Horse and the William Kentridge directed opera, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse. In addition to serving as a technical director and designer, Wey is a part of Danspace Project’s Platform 2010: The Adventure, curated by Trajal Harrell, and is developing collaborative B-sides.