Concept Director, Choreographer, Performer: Ashley Pierre-Louis
Choreography in collaboration with Dominica Greene
Artistic Director: Shamel Pitts

Dates:

Thursday, June 4, 7 p.m. | Opening Reception 8 p.m.
Friday, June 5, 7 p.m.
Saturday, June 6, 5 p.m.

Tickets:

$25 General Admission
$50 TRIBE Supporter

About:

With initial inspiration stemming from Nicole Krauss’ book entitled To Be A Man – SORE aims to create a safe environment for the performers to live and thrive inside. In this world, explorations within the in-between of “the beginning of [their] sense of self and the chaos of [their] strongest feelings” will take place, culminating in a found unassailable power, rooted in the erotic.

Ashley is currently developing Pleasure Practice: a movement meditation rooted in breathwork, pleasure mapping, physicalization, and internal observation and reflection on what, where, when, and how pleasure arrives in the body. This practice aims to connect to pleasure and movement as sources of power and righteousness, offering a pleasure-centered, embodied path to joy, liberation, and self-discovery.

SORE | Artistic Team

Concept Direction: Ashley Pierre-Louis
Choreographer: Ashley Pierre-Louis in collaboration with Dominica Greene
Artistic Director: Shamel Pitts
Performers: Dominica Greene and Ashley Pierre-Louis
Lighting Designer and Artistic Production Manager: Sarai Frazier
Video Content & Projection Designer: Lucca del Carlo
Sound Collager: Tushrik Fredericks
Scenic Designer: Nadir Bey
Managing Director: Brittany Wilson
Creative Director: Mirelle Martins
Artistic Administrator: E Katrina Lewis
Development Director: Eric Umble
Digital Creative & Development Associate: Pam Panozzo

Presented and produced by TRIBE

Performing Artists

Ashley Pierre-Louis

Ashley Pierre-Louis is originally from Miami, FL. For high school, she attended New World School of the Arts and continued her education at Florida State University, where she earned her BFA in Dance. Now based in New York City, she is a dance artist, choreographer, producer, and cook, whose practice centers pleasure through dancing, communal gathering, and food.

Through her creative work, Ashley invites both herself and audiences to imagine their deepest, strongest, and richest expressions of the self, asking how we might share these collectively to cultivate freedom in both mind and body.

She is a performer and creator with Shamel Pitts’ multidisciplinary arts collective TRIBE, and plays a vital role in arts leadership as the Associate Producer at Performance Space New York (PS122) and Dream Partner/Program Manager for Florida State University’s Arts in NYC program.

Ashley has worked as dramaturg for Shamel Pitts’ work Touch of RED (2024 Bessie Award Winner), as the Associate Choreographer for the play Help (2022) by acclaimed poet and playwright Claudia Rankine, directed by Taibi Magar, and commissioned at The Shed in New York. She has premiered the play Thoughts of A Colored Man by playwright Keenan Scott II and director Steve Broadnax III at Syracuse Stage and Baltimore Center Stage as well as performed for the premiere of Donna Uchizono’s work March Under an Empty Reign at The Joyce: NY Quadrille Festival. She is a 2026 NYSCA grantee, a 2021 Gallim Moving Women spring artist – in – residence.

Dominica Greene

Dominica is a movement-based conceptual artist, dancer, and facilitator based in Brooklyn, New York. She values dance as one of the purest forms of expression, utilizing it as an energetic entity capable of affecting real and palpable change. Her company and freelance experience is extensive, having collaborated with, performed, and toured the work of many notable choreographers domestically and internationally. She creates body and time-based work which aims to reflect movement as one of the most fundamental conduits of existential and ancestral knowledge. As a Queer, mixed-race, Guyanese-American woman, she is committed to dreaming up and worldbuilding alternative realities and more expansive futures with her BIPOC, immigrant, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Creation & Tour History

SORE is a new live performance work developed with the support of Solace of RED performance art incubator (2020-2025). The solo SORAYA has been presented at JACK (2022), Triskelion Arts as part of Beyond the Black Box's BLACK BLACK BLACK Week (2023), Arts on Site as part of the Made by Women Festival (2023), eden studios***** as part of b12's free radicals program (2023), and The Flea Theater in New York City as part of Luminescence by TRIBE (2025). SORE’s debut performances will take place at The Flea Theater June 4–6, 2026.

Funding Credits

This presentation of SORE is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Special thanks to Performance Space NY and The Center for Ballet and the Arts (special shoutout to Shoey Sun) for providing residency and rehearsal space for the continued development of the work.

TRIBE (TRI314 Multidisciplinary Visual Performances, Inc., d/b/a TRIBE),
is a Brooklyn, New York based multidisciplinary arts collective founded by Shamel Pitts in December 2019.

The arts collective, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is composed of international and local artists working across mediums such as movement, choreography, lighting design, video mapping projection, poetry, spoken word, painting, cinematography, scenography, dramaturgy, costume styling, and music composition.

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SORE

New Duet by Ashley Pierre-Louis in collaboration with Dominica Greene. Produced by TRIBE.