Shana Falana - Creator / Music Director
Shana Falana is a songwriter, performer, and community architect originally from San Francisco, based in the Hudson Valley since 2008. For over 25 years, she has merged music and public service—bringing 12-step meetings into jails and institutions throughout Ulster County, helping coordinate the early years of O+ Festival, and co-founding the I Want What SHE Has radio show on Radio Kingston.
She is the founder and creative force behind The Goddess Party, a performance collective uplifting women through music, ritual, and radical joy, with sold-out shows at Opus 40, Old Dutch Church, and Basilica Hudson.
Her artistic and social practice centers on amplifying women in their perimenopausal and menopausal years, increasing the visibility of aging women on stage and reshaping cultural narratives about power, beauty, and relevance after fifty. She is the creator and showrunner of a scripted television series inspired by The Goddess Party, expanding its story from live performance into narrative television.
Alicia Genevieve Mikles - Artistic Director / Visual Design Director
Alicia Genevieve Mikles is an artist, designer and performer from Syracuse, NY. She brings to TGP her decades-long practices of yoga, modern and classical dance, performance, painting, graphic design, costume design/fabrication and installation art.
A darkwave/shoegaze fan, Alicia connected with Shana after moving to the Hudson Valley, appearing in the Shana Falana Cool Kids music video. As a member of the TGP creative team, she has made reality of her rich fantasy life and loves collaborating and creating community.
Days before the March 2025 show, Unplugged, she developed a terrible eye infection and felt great aversion to the spotlight. Embodying the problem-solving and supportive qualities of TGP, Shana got her a pink eyepatch, and she rocked it.
Jules Abraham - Executive Director
Jules Abraham is Executive Director of The Goddess Party, building the financial and strategic pathways that allow the magic to grow. With 20 years in media and advertising, she helps secure resources, support bold creative vision, and protect the collective’s work.
She joined after a friend told her, “You’ve just GOT to join our singing group”—and what began as an invitation became a rekindling. A longtime devotee of femme community and Riot Grrl spirit, TGP reignited her creative fire.
Jules also leads TGP’s community engagement project, Between the Veil and the Vine, weaving eco-feminism, earth-centered ritual, and performance into public life.
Chris Mercan - Hair Design/ Creative Movement Director
Chris Mercan found her voice later in life. After years as a hairstylist and creative spirit in NYC and the Hudson Valley, she began singing in women’s circles and ceremony—then took a “Reclaim Your Voice” intensive during the pandemic that changed everything.
When her friend Alicia Mikles invited her to sing with The Goddess Party, it felt like divine timing.
TGP has become her playground for voice, movement, beauty, and bold self-expression—making her childhood dream of being a “Fly Girl” come true in her own sacred way.
“TGP is the most joyful soul expression. As I approach 50, I feel so lucky. We get to make art together, build real community, and share it all.”
Mor Pipman - Production Coordinator
Mor’s lifelong artistic journey spans a range of visual expressions, including sculpture, painting in various media, drawing, and collage. After three decades immersed in the vibrant NYC arts scene, she relocated to the Hudson Valley in 2008. There, she and her family transformed a church into a studio and its community hall into their home, creating a welcoming hub for artists, musicians, writers, and fellow creatives.
Beyond her studio practice, Mor orchestrates multi-sensory events that weave together music, art, literature, and theater with her own culinary creations, crafting immersive and distinctive experiences for the wider community.
Her involvement with the Goddess Party began with a serendipitous invitation to a singing practice. Since then, she has enthusiastically contributed her creative energy to performances, behind-the-scenes production, and the administrative team.
Laurie Henzel - Feminist Advisor
Laurie Henzel is a painter, garden enthusiast, and devoted choir lover. As the former Co-founder and Creative Director of BUST Magazine, she spent 30 years shaping feminist media before moving to the Hudson Valley.
Now, she brings her art, music obsession, and irreverent spirit to The Goddess Party—where being on stage (this time singing) feels like a full-circle moment.
Dana Devine - Hair Design, Choir Liason
Dana Divine, known as “The Goddess Maker,” is a transformational hairstylist who treats the human head as her canvas. She specializes in bold, non-traditional design—from woven color and dreadlocks to custom extensions with feathers, fibers, and unexpected texture—guiding clients from subtle enhancement to full metamorphosis. She has styled icons including George Clinton and Thorgy Thor, and works out of her Bushwick, Brooklyn studio. Within The Goddess Party, Dana serves as Director of Community Care & Cohesion—guiding new member intake, tending to grievances, liaising with leadership, and holding the emotional architecture of the choir with steadiness and discernment. Her gift for transformation extends far beyond hair; she helps shape the inner culture of the collective.
Gala Delmont-Benatar - Creative Production Manager
Gala Delmont-Benatar was born in Venezuela and raised between Caracas and New York. Since the summer of 2023, she has called the Hudson Valley home. With over 13 years of experience as a creative project manager, she’s led cultural and luxury projects around the world—and now brings her grounded vision and organizational magic to The Goddess Party. An avid hiker, cyclist, skier, and all-around outdoor enthusiast, Gala infuses the team with energy, a deep love of nature, and a talent for bringing order to creative chaos.
Gala’s creativity runs deep. A former vocalist in a ska jazz band back in Venezuela, she’s been singing since she could make a sound. Her musical tastes span salsa, reggaeton, jazz, soul, disco—anything that moves the body and stirs the spirit. This fun polaroid collection was also her idea!
Past Collaborators:
B.A. Miale - Visual Projections
Prolific live projection artist B.A. Miale has been creating stunning visual backdrops in NYC and the Hudson Valley since 2007. With 600+ events / installations, collaborating with 100+ artists (including FourTet, Kate Pierson of The B-52s, Mercury Rev) B.A. has also been a crucial contributer to the look and experience of attending The Goddess Party events.
Collaborations: Opus 40 , O+ Festival, and 'Springtide'
Rachel Brennecke - Artistic Director (2023-24)
Rachel Brennecke received her BFA from the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2007. Raised by generations of artists, Rachel began immersing herself in fashion and art in New York and Europe at the age of fourteen. She has since mentored under artists Peter Beard, Marina Abramovic, and Gilles Bensimon; performed at The Museum of Modern Art for Marina Abramovic, Deitch Projects for Vanessa Beecroft, and Performa 09 in Mother Earth Sister Moon. As a performer and photographer her personal work has always centered around female objectification and beauty ideals.
Artistic Director for: Opus 40 , O+ Festival, 'Springtide' and 'The Parting of the Veils’