Anthony Roth Costanzo
About This Event
Countertenor and opera director Anthony Roth Costanzo performs at Little Island with a lineup that includes Anysia Kym, Gwen Jean, Justin Vivian Bond, Nita Aviance, Qween Jean and Tama Gucci. The program pairs Costanzo’s operatic and curatorial practice with live synthesis, club-rooted DJ sets and cabaret-informed songwriting, exploring exchanges between opera, downtown performance and electronic nightlife.
About Radiolab: Fruit Fantasia
“Radiolab: Fruit Fantasia” arrives at Little Island as a live, hybrid performance that treats radio-style storytelling as stagecraft. Built around fruit as a cultural object and a set of metaphors, it moves between science, appetite, labor, and queer nightlife codes, with featured performers Justin Vivian Bond, Tama Gucci, Nita Aviance, Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Qween Jean. The program sits in a New York tradition of public-media performance crossing into downtown performance spaces. Its most telling gesture is how it lets pleasure and information share the same room without resolving their tension.
About the Artists
Tama Gucci
Tama Gucci is a New York City–based DJ and producer whose sets move between club rhythms and pop-leaning electronics. At Little Island, Gucci has shared the bill with Justin Vivian Bond and Nita Aviance, and has appeared in programs alongside countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo.
Nita Aviance
Nita Aviance is a New York–based DJ and producer whose work moves between electronic club music and performance-rooted disciplines, drawing on experience as a dancer, percussionist, and vocalist. She is part of the Carry Nation with Will Automagic, and collaborates through projects including BOOKWRMZ, Brooklyn Is Burning, and the production team Pyramide.
Qween Jean
Qween Jean is a New York City–based Rock/Pop artist who has performed at the Knitting Factory. On local bills, Jean has shared lineups with BUFFY’S DIRTY THIRTY, MTHR TRSA, AMYGDALA, Didi Opulence, Maya Margarita, Reed Rushes, Kate Williams, and ARCHANGEL.
Gwen Jean
Gwen Jean is a New York City–based performer who appears on bills that move between club culture and contemporary classical presentation, including Little Island. She has shared stages with artists such as Justin Vivian Bond, DJs and producers Nita Aviance and Tama Gucci, and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, placing her work in conversation with both downtown performance and opera-informed programming.
Anysia Kym
Anysia Kym is a New York City–based electronic and rock/pop artist whose work moves between live synthesis, rhythm programming, and song-driven structures. She has appeared at Pioneer Works, including the World Dweller program alongside Giggs, Junglepussy, 454, and dj blackpower.