25th Anniversary Winter Walk Award Grantees

Hudson Hall is pleased to announce the winners of the Winter Walk 25th Anniversary Artist Grant Program. Celebrating the perseverance of Hudson’s creative community, the $15,000 in grant funds give artists financial support to help create work that will be featured at Winter Walk:

  • Adam H. Weinert is a choreographer, researcher and gardener based in Hudson. For Winter Walk 2021, Weinert will curate a series of dancers to appear in Warren Street shop windows, harking back to the first Winter Walk a quarter century ago.
  • Artschatz, an artist team who produce large-scale public sculptures, video screenings, art spaces and performances, will create an elaborate light installation in a space on Warren Street.
  • Beautiful Racket, a group who offer music programming that encourages self-expression and empowerment, will perform a selection of Christmas Carols from 7th & Warren to 3rd & Warren (with a special surprise ending).
  • Inspired by a deep love and appreciation for life and sharing essential rhythms of celebration, Diata Diata International Folkloric Theater will offer their renowned percussion ensemble for animation of passersby throughout the 25th Anniversary of Winter Walk.
  • DJ Ronnie Rave, who creates rave-like experiences with lights, sounds and great dance music, will turn a corner of Winter Walk into a family-friendly dance party for all ages.
  • Artist, musician and composer Dmitry Wild will collaborate with Ryder Cooley of Dust Bowl Fairies (accordion / saw) and Peter Breed (keyboards) to perform musical theater piece God, Ghost and a Ship.
  • Flow Chart Foundation, who’s work explores poetry and the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of American poet John Ashbery, will collaborate with Oral History Summer School to present a three-part project featuring teen poetry works in the form of visually arresting “blackout poems” created by young people engaging with Hudson oral histories.
  • Local dancers Francesca Avani and Yvonne Michelle present a fusion belly dance set that will simultaneously tell you a story and leave you wanting to get up and shimmy
  • Hudson Festival Orchestra is a Hudson-based orchestra led by local veteran conductor and artistic director, Gwen Gould. They will lead a festive “Holiday Sing” at the Park Theater (723 Warren Street) featuring Hudson Festival Players with local students and Winter-walkers singing Christmas and Hanukkah songs, ending with the Hallelujah Chorus.
  • The Hudson Sloop Club is dedicated to bringing the Hudson River back into the daily lives of our community. At this year’s Winter Walk, the Sloop Club will offer a space to learn and celebrate the vibrant winter ecology of the Hudson River. With fish tanks, microscopes, monitors and drawings, visitors to their new mobile ecology center can explore the plants and animals who survive and thrive in our beautiful river all winter long.
  • Jef “Wolfy” Scharf is a designer, drawer, installation artist, musician, master screen printer is creating a new kind of holiday shop – where all the gifts will be free and created using found objects and repurposed materials.
  • Jonah Bokaer Choreography (JBC), whose work merges dance with visual art and design, collaborates with performing artist, poet, and freelance writer Hala Shah (Egypt/USA), dance artist, writer, and creator Nadia
  • Khayrallah (Lebanon/USA) and fashion designer Yeohlee Teng to present JBC repertory “About An Arabesque” in the window of Kasuri (1 Warren Street). The silent choreography will be accompanied by two video art portraits of the dancers with the same title.
  • Leslie Gerchick & Nathaniel Doyno will bring life-size puppet/paintings of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe to perform “Cold Readings on the Hudson: puppets and poetry with Walt, Edgar and Lou”.
  • Magician, mentalist, and street performer Michael Udwary will bring the Alpine Christmas tradition of Krampus – the horned figure in Alpine folklore – to Winter Walk.
  • MMS is a sound artist, composer and musician who employs field recordings, tape loops, prepared guitar, and musique concrete techniques. For Winter Walk, MMS will create a conceptual musical interpretation of the Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market). Utilizing samples recorded in Germany, this durational musical composition blends the familiar sounds of the season (vintage holiday music, crackling fire, wind, etc) with live effects to create a cacophony of wintry cheer.
  • Experimental jazz group Microfauna will premier two original compositions written by emerging Hudson Valley-based composers, Adriana Tampasis and Alden Slack. Each composition is closely inspired by Hudson and the importance of Winter Walk to the local communities.
  • Operation Unite’s Kuumba Dance & Drum will heat up Winter Walk once again with their colorful African dance and drum ensemble.
  • Surprise window and performance activations by R.B. Schlather.
  • Roz’s Danceworks brings 50 Years of Holiday Cheer to Winter Walk with a special holiday-themed preview of their 50th anniversary annual show, scheduled to take place in June 2022.
  • Sondra Loring, choreographic artist and Joro Boro, sound artist, partner with FACE/Stockholm to present Inner Landscape – a view into intentional sound and movement based on interoception, the brain’s process of integrating signals relayed from the body into specific subregions.