albums i’ve written:

Mother Sparrow is a site-specific performance film by Eryka Dellenbach interpreting Sonya Belaya's song about her experience of unresolved loss following her mother's disappearance in 2014. Shot on the banks of Moodna Creek—a tributary of the Hudson River designated by the Daughters of the American Revolution, the film evokes the tensions between family and chosen family, prophecy and hallucination, agency and observance and cycles of haunting and return. 16mm celluloid film fragments shot and hand-processed over the course of a year at the site by Dellenbach are woven throughout activating latent circumstances. Created with an all-women cast and crew, the film features camera work by Carmen Hilbert, and performance by K.J. Holmes, Nola Sporn Smith and Dellenbach.

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COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS, ANCESTRAL PATTERNS

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE AT Center For World Performance Studies, University of Michigan, 2022

"Cognitive Distortions, Ancestral Patterns" uses cognitive distortions to understand the experiences of immigrant women artists as it relates to assimilation, segregation, and mental health care. Alongside research of social work practices with immigrant communities, Belaya documents the expertise of these artists to examine communal care of immigrant women in the United States. Featuring filmed interviews of immigrant women artists living in New York City, live video projection mixing, movement, and music written for string quartet + jazz quintet. Sonya Belaya in collaboration with Laura Sofía Pérez, featuring Grey McMurray and students at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Presented by the Center for World Performance Studies in partnership with the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

RESIDENT ARTIST at Roulette Intermedium (2020-2021)

ТРИ СЕСТРЫ (THREE SISTERS)