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The Cocoon Residency

 

A by-invitation performing artist residency in Albuquerque, NM, the Cocoon provides exceptional artists with rehearsal/performance space and financial support to grow their creative practice.

Hosted by Elyse Fahey and Studio Sway, The Cocoon offers artists-in-residence the rare opportunity to co-design their residency offerings.

Each annual Cocoon cycle is generously funded by Sandra Abruzzo:
dancer, artist, intuitive guide and visionary patron of the arts. 

 

"I have come to know Elyse as a beautiful dancer and gifted artist who explores the shadow and light of the human experience through her work.

 

I am honored to help Elyse support each Cocoon artist-in-residence,
so that they can create freely and share their unique gifts with the world." 

 

-Sandra Abruzzo

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2026 Cocoon
Artist in Residence

 

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ranf


 

 photo: Andres Salazar

     Bobcat Ranf is a multi-disciplinary artist and movement educator originally from Montana whose practice spans dance, choreography, acting, writing, storytelling, and podcasting.
     For over a decade, Bobcat performed his own work and danced for numerous choreographers in New York City, including long-term collaborations with Raja Feather Kelly’s the feath3r theory. In 2017, he was a Brooklyn Arts Exchange Upstart artist-in-residence, and in 2019, he joined the 54th cohort of the esteemed New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artists. In 2020, his work was selected for Movement Research at Judson Church. His first evening-length work, he rip his shirt off completely, was selected for ANTfest, Ars Nova’s renowned annual theater festival, in 2021. He has also performed internationally in Taiwan, Germany, and Canada.

     He holds a B.F.A. in Choreography and Performance from the University of Montana and attended the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School on scholarship from 2006-2008. As a movement educator he integrates his knowledge as a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher and years of experience teaching Pilates and working in clinical rehabilitation. Now based in Albuquerque, NM he balances his artistic practice with life as a muggle, helping small businesses meet their HR goals.
     His upcoming podcast, Bobcat’s MAD Thoughts, is a narrative-driven blend of surreal essays, sketches, and monologues unpacking the absurd realities of being just another triggered, oat milk-loving, avocado toast-eating, 30-something homosexual millennial navigating the late stage capitalistic hellscape and chasing every new fad in desperate search of validation.
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premiered march 21st & 28th to sold out audiences!

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Therapy unleashes a tirade of raw admissions, mutating bodies, destabilizing realities, and bleeding secrets. Characters move through fever dreams, conjuring nostalgia for a world before branding and masks erased authenticity.

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This transgressive dance-theatre production romps through popular culture in 2026, seen through the eyes of a post-hope generation.

This panoply of surreal pleasures spirals toward one unruly thought: maybe we’ve all lost our f*cking minds.​​

THERAPY 

will also feature in the second annual

ABQ FRINGE FESTIVAL

on June 24th at 6pm in The Experimental Theatre

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 photo: Andres Salazar

The Cocoon Residency

 

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