Bahala Na

Created and Performed by Melani De Guzman

Melani De Guzman is a Filipinx multi-hyphenate performer, actress, and integrative specialist committed to the life-long process of unlearning and unteaching oppressive, othering, and superficial ways of moving. Melani graduated from Loyola Marymount studying dance and sociology. She has trained in a variety of movement forms to enrich her cultural studies of various backgrounds. Melani integrates her eclectic practices of mysticism, somatic, and healing work into collaborative partnerships creating site-specific solo works, dance films, and movement offerings. She is now residing in Brooklyn NY, and loves to surf, pole dance, cook, and host sound healing baths. www.melanideguzman.com

Photos by Shige Moriya and Brandon Perdomo

OUTSIGHT is presented by LEIMAY in partnership with New York Restoration Project.

The New York Restoration Project believes that access to nature is a fundamental human right. We work to ensure that all New Yorkers have equitable access to green space. For 25 years, NYRP has invested in and stewarded parks and gardens throughout the city’s five boroughs to strengthen communities, promote food sovereignty, and counter environmental and social injustice. Effectively carrying out our mission requires collaboration, synergy, and understanding of the communities we serve on many different levels. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are embedded into our core identity and we deeply value the unique perspectives, knowledge, and resources that each member of our team and extended community brings to NYRP. Visit nyrp.org

LEIMAY is a grassroots non-profit arts organization and ensemble based in Brooklyn since 1996. LEIMAY attracts, provokes, and supports exchange and generative confrontation, among culturally diverse audiences and artists, by producing work and programs that center the creation and the experience of art as catalysts to transform ourselves and the world around us. Programs include OUTSIGHT (2017-Present), LEIMAY Incubator Program (2021-Present), LEIMAY Fellowship (2008-2021), LEIMAY Art in the Community Garden Commissioning Fellows Program (2018-2021), SOAK (2012-2018), the NY Butoh Festival (2003-2009), the CAVE gallery (1996-2006), Vietnamese Artist-in-Residence Program (2004-2005), Butoh Workshops (2001-2007), NY Butoh Kan Training Initiative/ NY Butoh Kan Teaching Residency (2008 -2011).

OUTSIGHT is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.

LEIMAY works and programs are supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, the City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Dance/NYC, The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Indie Space, and Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and many generous contributions from individual donors.

Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya: Artistic and General Co-Directors
Krystel Copper: Marketing and Outreach Associate
Talissa Bavaresco: Marketing Associate
Brandon Perdomo: Administrative and Program Associate
Greer Dworman: Finance Associate
Megan Kendzior: Strategic Development Consultant