mayfield brooks: IWB: Dancing in the Hold

First Preview: Apr 04, 2018

Opening Date: Apr 10, 2018

Closing Date: Apr 14, 2018

Running Time: 01:15

mayfield brooks: IWB: Dancing in the Hold

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Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center

280 Broadway (53A Chambers St) New York City, NY 10007

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IWB: Dancing in the Hold is a performance in three parts investigating mayfield brooks’ ongoing project, Improvising While Black (IWB), which uses dance improvisation as a tool to create atmospheres of care and inquiry while listening to ancestral whispers of the middle passage.

Part I, P(a)rLAY - an invitation to Black-identified artists to participate in an improvisational dance workshop and performance exploring IWB’s improvisatory techniques including speaking in tongues, wandering practices, somatic awakenings and partner work.
April 10 from 6:00 - 9:00 pm Free

Part II, Dancing in the Hold - an evening-length performance exploring underwater textures like shipwrecks and contaminated seaweed while embracing Black queer ancestors, Black rage, brilliance and joy.
April 12 & 13 at 8:00 pm

Part III, Process(Ion) - a durational performance installation exploring gestures of Black revolt, poetics of oceanic abyss, spontaneous readings of Afropessimist scholarly texts and a procession to the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan.
April 14 from 2:00 - 8:00 pm

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Age Guidance: 13

Show Notes: No Intermission (for most shows)

Audience Advisory:

Performance in The Black Box

Performance Schedule:

THURSDAY & FRIDAY @ 8 PM
SATURDAY @ 2 PM

Choreography

mayfield brooks

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R/W to City Hall4/5/6 to City HallJ/M/Z to ChambersA/C/E to Chambers1/2/3 to Chambers2/3 to Park Place

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

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