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Premiered at @southbankcentre on 9.12.2026

What a process of researching, failing and discovering through all the moving parts!! This process has taken me beyond a collaboration of technology and body by teaching me the resilience of art making through doubt, complexity, curiosity and hope.
To be a part of a vision by @kevinpeterhe as a performer and choreographer alongside @ben_green was an absolute pleasure and gift !

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Maxine is two weeks old today 💕

Her cute little face is getting us through the long days.

While Jessie was post-op, DadMax was the primary caretaker for the first week. He is now an expert swaddler and calmly handles the scariest of diaper changes.

Maxine hates sponge baths more than anything in the world (so far). But she loves her shark swaddle towel from Aunty Echo.

Our first-born, Detective Blueberry, is a model older sister. She spends all day watching over Maxine, even during bouts of crying.

Maxine is an expert at eating and sleeping. She and her mom have that in common.

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💕MiniMax💕

We managed to keep a baby alive for one week!

The Unicorns in Captivity

Baby’s first car ride with Uncle John and Aunty Stephanie

Detective meeting her little sister for the first time

Dad Max is the most loving, caring, kind, supportive, and attentive father and husband.

Detective Blueberry is in love with her sister

*✮ 🎀 𝑀𝒶𝓍𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝒜𝓂𝒶𝒹𝑒𝒶 𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓇 🎀 ✮*

Postpartum gaunt is the new pregnancy glow

Meeting Granny G for the first time

big yawn

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Maxine Amadea Char arrived yesterday on 9/26/26 at 8:58 AM, a New Yorker, born on the same day as George Gershwin and Serena Williams.

In the womb she attended the opera and ballet, partied on the streets after listening to the Knicks win, and communicated with our cat through an advanced system of kicks and purrs.

She will grow up so lucky, because she will know all of you, artists and dancers and scientists and scholars and makers. We can’t wait for her to meet you all.

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ITS THE DAY OF THE SHOW Y’ALL! Or in this case, it’s not just a regular day at the Rouge, it’s the very last one of all 💔 What a trip to be given the gift of FIVE years on Broadway. For a freelance musician who has spent a career hopping from one gig to the next, one tour to another, it cannot be expressed how lucky I felt to have a home base (and a locker!) in midtown for five years. Not only that but I got to go to work every day with some of the most freakishly talented, funny, goofy, beautiful humans I’ve ever known. The second picture here is from our grand reopening after the shut down and the third is from a couple days ago. It’s crazy to think of all the major life moments that have passed between. Thank you @m2musicnyc for hiring me!!Massive shoutout to my two MDs @jewelsmcb and @andrewscottgraham and my string quartet family @the_rachelgolub @kikuindaface #maximmoston and last but not least @katiekresek who not only led us from the CM chair with finesse and artistry EVERY SHOW but she also orchestrated our parts which were a freaking joy to play. I may have aged in these last five years but the music really and truly never got old. That’s because Moulin Rouge will go down in time and legend as one of the greatest hit shows of Broadway. The energy of the cast, the sets, the costumes, the choreography are SO insanely dazzling from beginning to end. It is and will forever be a sparkling diamond, not just for all the audiences but in my heart too. Last shoutout and perhaps the most important goes to my PHENOMENAL sub cellists who held down the fort for me when I couldn’t be there. Y’all were there for me and there for the show and you represented!!! Thank you thank you. Here’s to TRUTH, BEAUTY, FREEDOM, and LOVE ❤️💃🐘⭐️

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just a casual day in New York City for the queen of doing
too much 🫣 #newyork #masquerade #nycdotgram

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Why not remember everything just in case

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*Dancing About Architecture*
How have dancers and their movements shaped the built environment of New York — and how has the city shaped them in return?

Read the full conversation at the link in bio.

✏️ @renniemcd and @_maxnc_
📸 The 1970 premiere of Trisha Brown’s Leaning Duets, © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY – The Savoy Ballroom. Rutter Studio, via the New York City Municipal Archives, Condemnation Photograph Files – The dance floor at the Palladium in the 1980s with mural by Keith Haring, courtesy of Timothy Hursley – 1970s NYC subway by Hope Alexander, US National Archives and Records Administration, via Wikimedia Commons

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So @princefplay lost a @dramadeskawards last night and we didn’t even get to take a photograph to commemorate it because as the guy who ran the red carpet said when he was closing it “you’ll only get a photo on the carpet if you’re famous now”. Which cool I guess…love that after six years of working on this play and finally being able to celebrate our lead creatives they don’t get a photo but instead get 3 and a half hours in very uncomfortable seats. Anyway we ate at @cotekoreansteakhouse after. Thank you @jordan.tannahill for writing such a beautiful play and @mishachowdhury for directing it so well. I love this crew so much. Thank you @bode for making Jordan and I feel like belles of the ball even if an unpleasant man didn’t make time for us to photograph them.

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SPACES BETWEEN: MAXWELL NEELY-COHEN ON ARCHIVING SOUND AND MOVEMENT

How does a record collection started at age 12 shape a career spanning literary publishing, dramaturgy, and digital preservation? In the first episode of Spaces Between, a new Cultural Fingerprints series, Maxwell Neely-Cohen (@_maxnc_) shares how growing up immersed in D.C.’s go-go, punk, and electronic music scenes laid the groundwork for a practice that refuses to sit in one medium. We dive into Max’s early days as a classically trained percussionist and the makings of The HTML Review, the literary publication he runs with artist and engineer Shelby Wilson (@shheeelllbby) that treats the web itself as a medium. Then, we turn to his work as a consulting dramaturg at the New York Choreographic Institute and his passion for personal, community, and professional archiving, including why oral history might be the truest way to preserve dance.

SPACES BETWEEN uncovers the personal histories of those who work across disciplines and mediums. When crossing paths with someone who does not allow their practice to be placed within a box, this asks—what brought them there? What aspects of their background, unique experiences, beliefs, and life story informed that choice?

Swipe for highlights from our conversation, and stream this episode wherever you get your podcasts (or at the link in my bio). It was a joy to interview you Max, I learn so much from you! Thank you for being my first guest <3

#dance #technology #music #writing #interview

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Excerpt from my work A Solo Piano @nychoreographicinstitute 🩰✨ Dancers @emmavonenck @kj.takahashi_ @julesmabie @kennardhenson @wiamilliams @laurrencollett @peytonggin @xanderperone Film @qwharton Music @alfonsopedutomusic Dramaturg @_maxnc_

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