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COMMUNION. Umi Akiyoshi Photography 2024

Sidra Bell, Immanuel Wilkins

COMMUNION

Communion focuses on the ascendancy of community (muscle), compromise, effortfulness, support, simplicity, and love. Sidra Bell Dance New York’s company performs with live music by Immanuel Wilkins Quartet.
Work-in-progress image from Pioneer Winter’s Apollo. Photo by Passion Ward.

Pioneer Winter

Apollo

Apollo is a dance-theater work exploring intergenerational queer dynamics, memory, HIV/AIDS, and legacy.
Crossing

Amelia Rudolph

Crossing

Traversing the Sierra Nevada Range from West to East for three weeks, the performer/mountaineers of the artist’s dance troupe Project Bandaloop created site-specific dances along the crest of the Sierra.
Laurel arches backward, balancing on two wheels, impossibly close to the floor. Arms curve loosely up over body and face; her silver top drapes and flows into her silver chair frame. Photo David Clifton-Strawn

The Choreodaemonic Collective, Sydney Skybetter, Laurel Lawson

The Choreodaemonic Platform

A multiply-manifesting choreo-computational performance in which artists, audiences, and AI contend with symbiotic and adversarial relationships between nature, art, and emerging technologies.
Five performers stand still with video projection in which reddish halos shine from their behind.

LEIMAY, Ximena Garnica, Shige Moriya

Extinction Rituals

Extinction Rituals is an evening-length, interdisciplinary grieving ritual/performance that reflects on biodiversity loss in the artists’ places of home and birth: Japan, Colombia, New York City.
A Latinx woman with black curly hair and tan skin dances in a mint green and black tiger print t-shirt and maroon leggings. The floor is blonde wood, the walls are off-white her feet are bare.

Mariana Valencia

Arrival

An improvisatory score of choreography, music, and text that responds to time; a flux of embodied ease, rigor, and distress. Arrival is a rumination on refracture.
Poor People’s TV Room

Okwui Okpokwasili, Peter Born

Poor People’s TV Room

Poor People’s TV Room is a multidisciplinary performance work that plays in a discursive performance space concerned with the entanglement of visibility and shared embodiment, with the spectral and insistent presence of forgotten women.

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