Performed at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

as part of Stephen Prina's festival, A Lick and a Promise 2025.

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“The beat is the regular pulse, or heart of pop music,” notes Stephen Prina. This notion is interrogated and unraveled in Beat of the Traps. Presented for the first time since the year of its debut in 1992, this collaborative performance created by Mike Kelley, Anita Pace, and Prina assembles a dance performance, a percussion recital, a rock drum solo, a music fanatic’s vaudevillian monologue about rock star excess, and the number one song on Billboard’s Hot 100 at the time of the performance.

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New York premiere

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2025 Cast and Credits
Creators: Anita Pace, Stephen Prina

Rehearsal director (Los Angeles): Marco Rivera
Choreographer: Anita Pace
Voice and guitar: Stephen Prina
Actor: Abbott Alexander
Dancers: Jon Baldwin, Freeda Electra
Percussionists: M.B. Gordy, Jonathan “Butch” Norton
Stage manager (New York): Philip Treviño
Stagehands: Giordano “Gio” Cruz, Chris Peifer, Kasey Price, Stephen Workman
Lighting: Kelley Shih, Masha Tsimring
Costume reconstruction: Christian Joy