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UPCOMING DATES

Just Art: Workshop Series – Poetry is not a Luxury
Mar
19
to Apr 30

Just Art: Workshop Series – Poetry is not a Luxury

Three body and performance-based workshops with Dahlia Li and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow Dahlia Li will host artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko for three body and performance-based workshops drawing from their collaborative practice centering Black feminist poetics. Offered in conjunction with GSST 1: “Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Life Across Generations,” workshops explore productive frictions between personal feelings of sexuality, space, and gender as they meet social expectation, restriction, and possibility. Open to the public; no prior poetry or performance experience required.

  • February 19, 1:15 – 2:30 pm, IC Sproul 201 Dome Room

  • March 19, 1:15 – 2:30 pm, LPAC 003, Boyer Dance Studio

  • April 30, 1:15 – 2:30 pm, IC Sproul 201 Dome Room

For more information, email dli3@swarthmore.edu

Co-sponsored by the Clark Fund for Gender Discourse.

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(chrysalis: activation 4)
Apr
5

(chrysalis: activation 4)

The (chrysalis: activations) unfolds as a hybrid media performance project offering an intimate glimpse into the transformative limbo where what is seen and what vanishes intertwine. This live art experiment putting the artist’s creative laboratory on view. In collaboration with movement artist Song Aziza Tucker and lighting designer LD DeArmon, this work navigates the delicate thresholds of being and non-being, hypervisibility and erasure. The work explores themes of memory, Black futures, queer archival strategies, and ecological grief.

This peformance is 30 minutes long.

Tickets for this show are Pay What You Can, which means you are able to pick your price. Seating is General Admission and is not determined by the amount you choose to pay.

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End of Dances at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School
Apr
25
to Apr 26

End of Dances at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School

An experimental film project for New School students that explores new ways to express identity, memory, and transformation. The work will be shown at New York Live Arts as part of the New School’s Lang Dance Spring Production.
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School offers a distinctive undergraduate dance experience centered on recent developments in the field. Featuring works by jaamil olawale kosoko, Stacy Spence, and Katy Pyle, along with student-created work from Juliette Mapp's Performance Research: Improvisation Through Theory and Practice course.

Accessibility: Please let Eugene Lang College know when registering if you need any additional accommodation.

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Voncena's Spell
Jun
20
to Jun 22

Voncena's Spell

Voncena’s Spell is a performance exploring memory, Black futures, queer histories, and ecological grief. Set aboard the spacecraft Voncena in a near-future galaxy, an artificially intelligent being – named after the artist’s deceased mother – awakens. Through choreography, video installation, and poetry, the performance asks: How can we transform the multi-generational legacy of extraction and surveillance into a thriving, abundant coexistence for all?

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Note: Masks are required for the June 21st performance.

Accessibility

Abrons Arts Center’s Experimental Theater is a flexible seating space. Wheelchair and mobility device seating locations change from performance to performance. The Experimental Theater is accessed via an elevator.

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we come to collect at The Flea Theater
Aug
26
to Sep 28

we come to collect at The Flea Theater

Eyyyyyy, capitalism is trying to holler at you. Whatever will you say… Fuck around and find out over 90-ish minutes of comedic performance stylings that beg your engagement. An emerging vision instigated and performed by Jenn Kidwell and artistic collective the blackening, this workshop performance of we come to collect melds genres from stand up, to performance art, to carnival, and questions work-life’s inherent imbalance.

Come through, you cute little miracle, you.

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Access: Elevator access to all spaces, gender-neutral restrooms, and 14 Listen Technologies Receivers available.

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Jan
13
to Jan 16

REST CRAFT CONJURE

Upcoming restshop REST CRAFT CONJURE is a 4-day Intensive with MFA candidates at Institut Chorégraphique International — Centre Chorégraphique National Montpellier Occitanie.

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Dec
17
to Dec 22

we come to collect residency at The Flea Theater

we come to collect (a flirtation, with capitalism) by the blackening is an anti-capitalist ritual comedy with original music in which performers and audience together explore value, labor, and currency. Woolly Mammoth and Eaton House are happy to offer this in-process performance free to audiences.

the blackening is jarvis benson, juliette jones, jenn kidwell, jaamil olawale kosoko, adam lazarus, jordan mccree, and ashlin parker.

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Sep
23
to Oct 17

Dramaturgies of Care at Bennington College

We all need more care. That much is clear. As it pertains to modern social justice and public action projects, the imperative to incorporate systems of care and healing into the greater conversation has increased dynamically. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased environmental issues due to climate change, it has become even more vital to consider holistic care models in this age of perpetual global crisis. But how do we practice care within contemporary community structures? How might we center technologies of rest in the face of calamity? This seminar examines how contemporary creative researchers and activists might consider dramaturgy as a radical care strategy within contemporary culture and public life.

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The (chrysalis) Archives at River to River
Jun
7
to Jun 23

The (chrysalis) Archives at River to River

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The (chrysalis) Archives is an exhibition incorporating video installation, photographic imagery, sculpture, and performance in the Lower Gallery at The Arts Center at Governors Island. The exhibition will incorporate past works including the film Chameleon (A Visual Album), three-channel video and installation Syllabus for Black Love, as well as fabricated sculptural works and images. The multi-media installation will include a performance activation titled (chrysalis: activation 1)—a hybrid media performance work that integrates sculpture, moving image, original poetry, and emergent choreographic strategies prompted by the audience. The work examines concepts of metamorphosis, intergenerational knowledge, blood memory, negative space, and the environmental grief that lingers in the aftermath of the living gesture.

Gallery Hours 12 - 5 PM

Performance activation on June 9, 2024 at 6pm.

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Rest, Craft, and Conjure: a restshop series (Sessions 5-6)
May
16
to May 17

Rest, Craft, and Conjure: a restshop series (Sessions 5-6)

REST, CRAFT, and CONJURE is a virtual restshop series unfolding over the next three months. Centering themes of rest and restoration as a creative instrument for radical world building, exploring horizontality, the esoteric, and community archival methodologies, REST, CRAFT, CONJURE gifts critical time and space to its participants to deepen the reservoir of dreaming as a creative tool to allow the critical embodiments for healing, rest reparation, expanded visioning, and embodied self-care to emerge.

Session 5: Thursday, May 16, 2024 3-5pm ET

Session 6: Friday, May 17, 2024 3-5pm ET

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Rest, Craft, Conjure at Black Hole Hollow
May
10

Rest, Craft, Conjure at Black Hole Hollow

REST, CRAFT, CONJURE is a restshop. Centering themes of rest and restoration as a creative instrument for radical world building, exploring horizontality, the esoteric, and community archival methodologies, REST, CRAFT, CONJURE gifts critical time and space to its participants to deepen the reservoir of dreaming as a creative tool to allow the critical embodiments for healing, rest reparation, expanded visioning, and embodied self-care to emerge.

Black Hole Hollow, S. Arlington, VT

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Rest, Craft, and Conjure: a restshop series (Sessions 3-4)
Apr
18
to Apr 19

Rest, Craft, and Conjure: a restshop series (Sessions 3-4)

REST, CRAFT, and CONJURE is a virtual restshop series unfolding over the next three months. Centering themes of rest and restoration as a creative instrument for radical world building, exploring horizontality, the esoteric, and community archival methodologies, REST, CRAFT, CONJURE gifts critical time and space to its participants to deepen the reservoir of dreaming as a creative tool to allow the critical embodiments for healing, rest reparation, expanded visioning, and embodied self-care to emerge.

Session 3: Thursday, April 18, 2024 3-5pm ET

Session 4: Friday, April 19, 2024 3-5pm ET

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Rest, Craft, and Conjure: a restshop series (Sessions 1-2)
Mar
21
to Mar 23

Rest, Craft, and Conjure: a restshop series (Sessions 1-2)

REST, CRAFT, and CONJURE is a virtual restshop series unfolding over the next three months. Centering themes of rest and restoration as a creative instrument for radical world building, exploring horizontality, the esoteric, and community archival methodologies, REST, CRAFT, CONJURE gifts critical time and space to its participants to deepen the reservoir of dreaming as a creative tool to allow the critical embodiments for healing, rest reparation, expanded visioning, and embodied self-care to emerge.

Session 1: Thursday, March 21, 2024 3-5pm ET

Session 2: Friday, March 22, 2024 3-5pm ET

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