Images L to R: mayfield brooks by Nir Arieli; Osmani Tellez image courtesy of the artist, Jo Warrren by Izzy Leung.

Sundays on Broadway curator Cathy Weis with co-curators David Guzman and Zo Williams present an evening of performances by mayfield brooks, Osmani Tellez and Jo Warren.

Wave Jumper is a dance spell created by mayfield brooks in conversation with the legendary Detroit underground electronic music duo Drexciya. The duo named themselves after pregnant African women who were thrown off slave ships and gave birth to amphibious creatures known as the Drexciyan wave jumpers—great warriors of the abyss. This mythos was first noted in the inner sleeve notes of Drexciya’s 1997 release, The Quest.

Osmani Tellez’s Fire the Editor enters the unstable territory between who we are and who we think we should be. Through movement, text, sound, and transformation, the self fragments, multiplies, and searches for what remains when the editing stops.

Jo Warren’s Somebody’s Dream (working title) is a solo-turned-ensemble dance about the myth of the rugged individual. Warren writes: “It’s about being a loser, a failure, a nobody. It’s about having toilet paper stuck to your shoe and falling down. Come watch as a man falls to his death in slow motion!”

Sundays on Broadway
6:00 p.m. - doors open at 5:45 p.m.
WeisAcres, 537 Broadway #3
New York, NY 10012

All donations go to the performers.
$5-20 suggested.

Artists' bios:

mayfield brooks improvises while Black and is based in Lenapehoking, the unceded land of the Lenape people, also known as New York City. brooks is a movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer. brooks teaches and performs practices that arise from Improvising While Black (IWB), their interdisciplinary dance methodology that explores the decomposed matter of Black life and engages in dance improvisation, disorientation, dissent, and ancestral healing. brooks is the recipient of the biennial Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a Bessie/New York Dance and Performance Award nominee for their experimental dance film Whale Fall, a Hodder Fellow alum, and most recently a Creative Time Research & Development fellow. They love living by the sea.

Osmani Tellez is a Cuban-born dancer, choreographer, teacher, and filmmaker whose practice spans performance, choreography, improvisation, and dance film. He graduated from Cuba’s prestigious Escuela Nacional de Arte (National Art School), earning a degree in professional dance, teaching, and choreography. During his more than three-decade career in dance, Tellez has collaborated with internationally recognized artists including David Zambrano, Mia Lawrence, Jeremy Nelson, Jennifer Monson, Yvonne Meier, Cathy Weis, Kirstie Simson, Chamecki-Lerner, Jennifer Miller, Tim Feldmann, Bo Madvig, and Alexey Taran, among others. He has also worked as a videographer for over 20 years, contributing to projects for Movement Research, Danspace Project, PBS South Florida, and Omstars Yoga Company. His dance film Crossing was selected for three 2026 festivals, including Dance on Camera at Symphony Space and Screendance Miami at PAMM. In 2026, he also received a Telly Award for his videography work with PBS.

Jo Warren is a New York-based dancer and choreographer. As a performer, Warren has worked with artists such as Sarah Michelson, Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein, Vanessa Anspaugh, Faye Driscoll, and the LAVA Acrobatic and Dance Company. As a director, Warren has shared original work at Judson Memorial Church, The Brick Theater, Performance Mix Festival, the Exponential Festival, and at Socrates Sculpture Park. Their work has been described by Culturebot as “operatic,” and “subtly campy and hilariously queer” by the Brooklyn Rail. Warren currently tours in the ensemble of Faye Driscoll’s Weathering and is in process for new works with Vanessa Anspaugh, James Barrett, Juliana May, Cori Olinghouse, and Gillian Walsh.