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[the-vanderbilt-republic]

The Middle Passage ↬ 21 January - 19 February 2017

The Vanderbilt Republic × The People Movers proudly present The Middle Passage — a four-week performance art narrative in site-specific camera obscura at Open Source Gallery.

20-22 JANUARY Free public preview (camera obscura installation only) 28 JANUARY Elsa Waithe 4-5 FEBRUARY Dante Brown | Warehouse Dance × Jayson P. Smith 11-12 FEBRUARY Same As Sister (S.A.S.) × Intrinsic Grey 18-19 FEBRUARY Dances for Solidarity × A Theatre Genesis feat. Chee Malabar

The Middle Passage is a performance art series curated by George Del Barrio & Kate Ladenheim at Open Source, remade as a focused camera obscura with multiple projections of the world outside the gallery as surface-mapped stages — upside-down and backwards.

The Brooklyn landscape outside of Open Source has been offered to artists of color as a laboratory for this profound reinterpretation of the proscenium. Within the blacked-out gallery, these contemporary artists will fill the space with light, bringing site-specific performances to a darkened space in subtle activism. During our day to day lives, we operate within a given set of assumptions about property, race, gender and time: inside of the obscura, these rules are literally turned on their head. “The Middle Passage aims to transform shared space into an unforgettable spectacle that can allow the physics of the universe to bend in support of our artists”, said George Del Barrio. “We’re working to give our collaborators more than the opportunity to just present new versions of their work — we want to use this mechanic to reach deeply into hearts and minds.” “Every day, the theatre will fade as the light dies, offering a metaphor for resilience,” said Kate Ladenheim. “We’re very deliberately presenting artists of color within an illuminated blackout that requires patience and observation to fully discover. One act outside can be two inside; this is hopefulness — bringing light to dark spaces.”

Performances in obscura will be staged by daylight every weekend through February 19, with tickets in strictly limited supply.

[ 3-4 performances per day every weekend from 28 January to 19 February 2017 at Open Source — tickets ]

[whileiamdying]

"Win It" from Lola Kirke's EP 'Friends & Foes & Friends Again' Director and Choreographer: Celia Rowlson-Hall Associate Choreographer: Jesse Korvasky Production Company: Made by Limbo Exec Producer: Chris Dodds Line Producer: Jonathan Melton Production Manager: Tess Pereyo Set PA: Max Novick Driver/Set PA: Sam Prout Director's Assistant: Sarah Dahnke Editor: Matthew C Levy Colorist: Samuel Gursky Color House: Irving Harvey // Kerry Mack Site Rep: Greg Rutkin DP : Jake Saner 1st AC: Alex Hass Gaffer: Reed Nisson Light Board Operator: Chris Lunney Key Grip: Tim Ciavara Production Designer: Kit Sheridan On Set Sound Mixer: Joe Damico Make-up: Manana Saralidze Hair: Jenny Thomas Vintage from Gabriel Held Vintage Costume Designer: Liana Blum Wardrobe Assistant: Claire Pruett Cow-Pokes: Ida Saki Cow-Poke: Jesse Korvasky Cow-Poke: Kingsley Ibeneche Cow-Poke: Renata Lima Dancers: Bethany Disque Danny Qiblawi Camila Arroyo Malin Barr Amy Bernardo Holly Sass Kate McGregor Adrienne Storrs Jacob Goodhart Rebecca Greenbaum Matilda Sakamoto Sarah Dahnke Claire Pruett Lauren Blair Smith Leal Zielinska Miranda Runyon Emily Pacilio Alexis Evans-Krueger Special thanks to Billy Jones at The Dance

[artwalktv]

"Win It" from Lola Kirke's EP 'Friends & Foes & Friends Again' Director and Choreographer: Celia Rowlson-Hall Associate Choreographer: Jesse Korvasky Production Company: Made by Limbo Exec Producer: Chris Dodds Line Producer: Jonathan Melton Production Manager: Tess Pereyo Set PA: Max Novick Driver/Set PA: Sam Prout Director's Assistant: Sarah Dahnke Editor: Matthew C Levy Colorist: Samuel Gursky Color House: Irving Harvey // Kerry Mack Site Rep: Greg Rutkin DP : Jake Saner 1st AC: Alex Hass Gaffer: Reed Nisson Light Board Operator: Chris Lunney Key Grip: Tim Ciavara Production Designer: Kit Sheridan On Set Sound Mixer: Joe Damico Make-up: Manana Saralidze Hair: Jenny Thomas Vintage from Gabriel Held Vintage Costume Designer: Liana Blum Wardrobe Assistant: Claire Pruett Cow-Pokes: Ida Saki Cow-Poke: Jesse Korvasky Cow-Poke: Kingsley Ibeneche Cow-Poke: Renata Lima Dancers: Bethany Disque Danny Qiblawi Camila Arroyo Malin Barr Amy Bernardo Holly Sass Kate McGregor Adrienne Storrs Jacob Goodhart Rebecca Greenbaum Matilda Sakamoto Sarah Dahnke Claire Pruett Lauren Blair Smith Leal Zielinska Miranda Runyon Emily Pacilio Alexis Evans-Krueger Special thanks to Billy Jones at The Dance

[hotfps]

"Win It" from Lola Kirke's EP 'Friends & Foes & Friends Again' Director and Choreographer: Celia Rowlson-Hall Associate Choreographer: Jesse Korvasky Production Company: Made by Limbo Exec Producer: Chris Dodds Line Producer: Jonathan Melton Production Manager: Tess Pereyo Set PA: Max Novick Driver/Set PA: Sam Prout Director's Assistant: Sarah Dahnke Editor: Matthew C Levy Colorist: Samuel Gursky Color House: Irving Harvey // Kerry Mack Site Rep: Greg Rutkin DP : Jake Saner 1st AC: Alex Hass Gaffer: Reed Nisson Light Board Operator: Chris Lunney Key Grip: Tim Ciavara Production Designer: Kit Sheridan On Set Sound Mixer: Joe Damico Make-up: Manana Saralidze Hair: Jenny Thomas Vintage from Gabriel Held Vintage Costume Designer: Liana Blum Wardrobe Assistant: Claire Pruett Cow-Pokes: Ida Saki Cow-Poke: Jesse Korvasky Cow-Poke: Kingsley Ibeneche Cow-Poke: Renata Lima Dancers: Bethany Disque Danny Qiblawi Camila Arroyo Malin Barr Amy Bernardo Holly Sass Kate McGregor Adrienne Storrs Jacob Goodhart Rebecca Greenbaum Matilda Sakamoto Sarah Dahnke Claire Pruett Lauren Blair Smith Leal Zielinska Miranda Runyon Emily Pacilio Alexis Evans-Krueger Special thanks to Billy Jones at The Dance

[dominicanslovehaitians]

Please join me and @culturepusher Sunday April, 28 at 1:15pm - 3:15pm followed by a panel discussion from 3:30-5pm hosted by the 8th floor, for"Show Don't Tell" : a symposia with The Fellowship for Utopian Practice. Workshops and discussions by Adelaide Matthew Dicken and Mel McIntyre, Claudia Prado @claudiaprado111 , Clarivel Ruiz @Dominicanslovehaitiansmovement and you’re truly Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow @lynkeeart moderated by Jerron Herman. The symposia continues on 4/29 , 6-8pm with Olaronke Akinmowo, Chloe Bass @publicinvestigator , Alicia Grullón @aliciagrullon moderated by Sarah Dahnke. Special thanks to The 8th Floor and the @rubinfoundation. RSVP! www.culturepush.org/symposia #culturepusher #performanceart #socialjustice #rubinfoundation #blackdollproject #sacreddoll #dismantlewhitesupremacy #handmade #sacredvessel https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwx8yo3lanB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qzbm8krdq3ou

[ozkamal]

"Win It" from Lola Kirke's EP 'Friends & Foes & Friends Again' Director and Choreographer: Celia Rowlson-Hall Associate Choreographer: Jesse Korvasky Production Company: Made by Limbo Exec Producer: Chris Dodds Line Producer: Jonathan Melton Production Manager: Tess Pereyo Set PA: Max Novick Driver/Set PA: Sam Prout Director's Assistant: Sarah Dahnke Editor: Matthew C Levy Colorist: Samuel Gursky Color House: Irving Harvey // Kerry Mack Site Rep: Greg Rutkin DP : Jake Saner 1st AC: Alex Hass Gaffer: Reed Nisson Light Board Operator: Chris Lunney Key Grip: Tim Ciavara Production Designer: Kit Sheridan On Set Sound Mixer: Joe Damico Make-up: Manana Saralidze Hair: Jenny Thomas Vintage from Gabriel Held Vintage Costume Designer: Liana Blum Wardrobe Assistant: Claire Pruett Cow-Pokes: Ida Saki Cow-Poke: Jesse Korvasky Cow-Poke: Kingsley Ibeneche Cow-Poke: Renata Lima Dancers: Bethany Disque Danny Qiblawi Camila Arroyo Malin Barr Amy Bernardo Holly Sass Kate McGregor Adrienne Storrs Jacob Goodhart Rebecca Greenbaum Matilda Sakamoto Sarah Dahnke Claire Pruett Lauren Blair Smith Leal Zielinska Miranda Runyon Emily Pacilio Alexis Evans-Krueger Special thanks to Billy Jones at The Dance

[davidgiven]

D&D Yoga from 39forks on Vimeo.

World premier of D&D Yoga, the idea that these two activities and communities don't have much in common turned out to be untrue. The guided adventure intended as an experiment left people asking when the group will meet regularly. Players were given a 10 sided die and a character sheet as they entered the space in Brooklyn, NY. They embodied a single character, "...a roguish rugged individual who has run afoul of the local law. You are given the opportunity to be absolved of your crimes. Your task at hand is to take this package to the ancient temple in the nearby forest and leave it in its proper place."

While spending a weekend at an ashram in upstate NY, artist Scott Wayne Indiana participated in regular yoga sessions as well as guided meditation. During the weekend he came up with the idea that a guided narrative could be fun to listen to during yoga. Taking it a step further to involve some interaction, the idea was born to mashup D&D and yoga. SWI's work can be seen here: 39forks.com/

Along with her experience as a dance/movement instructor, Sarah Dahnke brought her skills as an experimental dance and performance artist to the table to create new yoga poses meant to interpret the action of the campaign. The video shows a selection of these new positions although there were more along with a balance of traditional yoga moves as well. See more of Sarah's work here: sarahdahnke.com/

Eric Hagan, an interactive and kinetic artist based in Brooklyn, served as Dungeon Master, pacing the journey to go along with the yoga, asking the players to make decisions as well as with manage dice outcomes. See more of Eric's work here: cargocollective.com/erichagan/About-Eric-Hagan-s-Portfolio

Please contact me with any questions, I'd love to help facilitate D&D Yoga in other locations: symplvision [ at ] gmail.com I'm also happy to share via dropbox the entire audio of the event.

Thanks to Brooklyn LaunchPad for hosting this event. brooklynlaunchpad.org/

Music in this video by Children of the Drone and High Places is from the free music archive.

[wtulnews]

Dances For Solidarity: for women and girls

“You want to talk about reform? Just say: I’m not impressed that you can get 10 degrees in prison if you’re not going to give me a chance to get out.”

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On Wednesday, July 14th, Dances For Solidarity- and ongoing project led by dance artist Sarah Dahnke in collaboration with other dancers, choreographers, artists, and socially conscious individuals- hosted an evening of performances followed by a panel discussion on women’s issues as they relate to incarceration and reentry. 

At this event in particular, a dance choreographed in collaboration with Dushaan Gillum- who is incarcerated in solitary confinement in Texas- and danced by Shantell Turner, Adinas Perkins, Dolfinette Martin, Rhonda Oliver, and Latasha Williams was performed. 

The panel discussion that followed touched on the topics of education, motherhood, mentorship, systemic racism, and recidivism as they relate to incarceration, reentry, and womanhood. 

The panel is made up of women from the National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, Family and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FLICC), Voice of the Experienced, Operation Restoration, and Covenant House. 

These women are Syrita Steib-Martin, Dolita Willhype, Verna Carr, and Dolfinette Martin. 

Mentioned Sites and Sources:

-Dances For Solidarity

-House Bill 688: Prohibits a public postsecondary education institution from inquiring about a prospective student's criminal history, except for history pertaining to specified offenses, prior to his acceptance for admission 

-Can-Do: Justice Through Clemency 

-Voice of the Experienced 

-The Operation Restoration 

-Family and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children 

-National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls 

 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/07/04/18800630.php

[nofomoartworld]

Hyperallergic: From Books by Black Women to Electricians’ Stories, a Show Catalogues Alternative Archives

Lise Brenner, with assistance from Christopher Kennedy, “Distributed Archive: Joe’s Story,” in The Archive of Affect at Nurture Art (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)

At first, the idea of an archive seems straightforward: an official repository of items that hold some kind of public or historical interest. But it’s all too easy to take that definition for granted without unpacking what lies beneath. Who has the power to make something official? Which public’s interests are being catered to? Whose histories do we deem worthy of preservation?

These are some of the questions raised by a small but impactful show at the Bushwick nonprofit Nurture Art. The Archive of Affect features six artists and groups who are building their own, more fluid archives than the concept traditionally suggests — evolving collections of art and testimony from people too often left out of official histories. All of the artists and groups — OlaRonke Akinmowo, Chloë Bass, Lise Brenner, Sarah Dahnke, Liz Linden and Jen Kennedy, and the Workers Art Coalition — have received Fellowships for Utopian Practice from the arts organization Culture Push, which curated the exhibition.

OlaRonke Akinmowo, The Black Women’s Free Library (2014–ongoing)

Akinmowo’s and Dahnke’s projects are the most affecting. The former, The Free Black Women’s Library (2014–ongoing), is a mobile library of books written by black women. The project has no fixed home, popping up every month or so in various cultural and outdoor spaces, and the rules that govern it are simple: Any book by a black woman can be a part of the library. You may take a book as long as you replace it with another one. At Nurture Art, Akinmowo’s installation doubles as a sort of shrine, with the books arranged on a small shelf and, hanging above them, black-and-white head shots of some of the authors. Standing before them was bittersweet: I felt both the inspiration of their brilliance and the shameful awareness that my culture, white American culture, had ignored them for far too long.

Sarah Dahnke, Dances for Solidarity (2015–ongoing), with drawings by Dwayne McKinney (#301554, Camp-C, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, LA 70712)

Dahnke also focuses on amplifying the voices of a group that’s shunned by society: prisoners in solitary confinement. For Dances for Solidarity, the artist sends a list of 10 basic movements to people held in solitary; they’re encouraged to not only perform the choreography, but also to respond by adding their own movements. According to Dahnke, nearly 300 incarcerated people have engaged with the project thus far; at Nurture Art, their choreographic contributions include “a basketball jump” (Israel Balboa), “add something vocal” (Dustin Clark), and “booty popping” (Shantaniqua Scott). The display also features letters, poems, and artworks sent by the prisoners. Dwayne McKinney’s drawn Afrofuturist portraits are the stunning standout.

Chloë Bass, The Department of Local Affairs

The strongest thread running through the show is the notion — so obviously true, yet so frequently neglected — that ordinary people are repositories of valuable knowledge. This underpins Bass’s The Department of Local Affairs, which crowdsources information about specific neighborhoods from people who actually live in them; the result is a delightful amalgamation of Yelp, travel guides, and community message boards. Brenner’s Distributed Archive: Joe’s Story (with design assistance from Christopher Kennedy) is presented more like a traditional archive than Bass’s work — boxes of typewritten cards, tagged photos — but shares a similar goal: the artist is mapping important, longtime community spots in the gentrifying Queens neighborhood of Dutch Kills, Long Island City.

The final two projects in the exhibition also build on an ethnographic impulse. Linden and Kennedy’s Virtual Forum (2010–ongoing) invites anyone who’s interested to respond to the question, “What is the first thing that comes to mind when you see the word ‘feminism’?” In the gallery, a selection of answers covers two long sheets of striped paper that roll onto the floor, while a nearby tablet lets you type in your own reply online. Unfortunately, the results are not very interesting, likely because the prompt guiding them is under-thought and overly broad. Ordinary people contain valuable thoughts and ideas, but they’re not often stored at surface level.

Liz Linden and Jen Kennedy, Virtual Forum (2010–ongoing)

The Workers Art Coalition demonstrates this principle by way of its inverse. Illuminating History (2017) is a project documenting the work lives of IBEW Local 3 union electricians (that is, notably, destined for the Library of Congress). At Nurture Art, visitors can listen to audio clips of workers telling stories about their jobs while sitting within an installation of swooping metal tubes, which both showcase the electrician’s practice of conduit bending and frame prints and photographs of related objects and scenes. It’s an elegantly integrated display that uses multiple sensory approaches to immerse the visitor in a world of highly specialized knowledge. Having never given much thought to electricians’ work, I found myself fascinated and wanting to hear more. All it took was someone to remind me that their stories were worthwhile.

Workers Art Coalition (Barrie Cline, Jaime Lopez, Setare Arashloo, Paul Vance, Eliza Gagnon, Stella Fafalio, Kenny Cohen, Shantar Gibson, and Afiya Jackson), excerpts from Illuminating History (2014–ongoing)

The Archive of Affect continues at Nurture Art (56 Bogart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn) through April 16.

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[roundtuitdanceproject-blog]

What happens when you spend all your time in the studio learning girl group choreography. First in a series of many.

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Join us tomorrow with @junkanooacome with @get_repost ・・・ Please join me and @culturepusher Sunday April, 28 at 1:15pm - 3:15pm followed by a panel discussion from 3:30-5pm hosted by the 8th floor, for"Show Don't Tell" : a symposia with The Fellowship for Utopian Practice. Workshops and discussions by Adelaide Matthew Dicken and Mel McIntyre, Claudia Prado @claudiaprado111 , Clarivel Ruiz @Dominicanslovehaitiansmovement and you’re truly Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow @lynkeeart moderated by Jerron Herman. The symposia continues on 4/29 , 6-8pm with Olaronke Akinmowo, Chloe Bass @publicinvestigator , Alicia Grullón @aliciagrullon moderated by Sarah Dahnke. Special thanks to The 8th Floor and the @rubinfoundation. RSVP! www.culturepush.org/symposia #junkanooacome #culturepusher #performanceart #socialjustice #rubinfoundation " https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwx2SCZlfY2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cizgecbfx4v9

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As part of our art practice and extending making black dolls we have created s sacred doll workshop to support people in creating your own spiritual vessel. Show Don’t Tell: A Symposium with The Fellowship for Utopian Practice Day I Sunday, April 28, 2019 1 to 5pm Workshops from 1:15 to 3:15pm Workshop I - Junkanoo Come: Help Pitchy Patchy build Wild Indian - Workshop II - Building Common Ground - Workshop III - Preguntas, intrigas, dudas/Questions, intrigues, doubts - Workshop IV - Forming The Sacred Doll - RSVP Culturepush.org/symposia In Common: Making Space for Collective Transformation 3:30 to 5pm Panel with workshop artists facilitated by Jerron Herman II 10 Years of Practicing Utopia: Panel Discussion with Olaronke Akinmowo, Chloë Bass, and Alicia Grullón, Moderated by Sarah Dahnke Monday, April 29, 2019 6 to 8pm #dominicanartists #artmatters #arteducation #panelart #dominicanhaitian #haitiandominican #sacreddoll #blackdollproject @culturepusher @rubinfoundation (at The 8th Floor) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwm2QRSl76I/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l88uajxq8wyd