The singer-songwriter Somi, the choreographer Faye Driscoll, the Trusty Sidekick Theater Company and the multidisciplinary artists Ralph Lemon and Okwui Okpokwasili and the visual artist Alex Dolan have been named as the Park Avenue Armory’s 2013 artists-in-residence. The residencies were established in 2010 and include space at the armory for the research and creation of new projects.
They are associated with the armory’s Under Construction series, in which artists present works in progress, which they continue to shape based on the responses of the armory’s audiences. This season’s Under Construction programs begins with “The Lagos Music Salon,†a program created by Somi during a 15-month sabbatical in Lagos, Nigeria, on May 17.
Ms. Okpokwasili presents her “Bronx Gothic,†a performance piece that includes movement, spoken word and songs, and combines elements of the West African griot tradition and the 19th-century epistolary novel, on May 30. Other offerings by the resident artists include the Trusty Sidekick Theater Company’s production of “The 7 1/2 Mysteries of Toulouse McLane,†a new immersive work in which the audience is expected to solve a mystery, on Oct. 6.
