exciting events with mayfield brooks this weekend!

[Meg Foley]

Hi all,

I wanted to send a quick note to share that mayfield brooks will be at Shebang this weekend: 

• facilitating Rage Rave - a durational experience and dance party for the r(evolutions) to come - on Friday May 1 6-9pm - $15 suggested / PWYC / NOTAFLOF / RSVP here
• leading Decomposing Dance... Choreographing Breath, a workshop on Saturday and Sunday May 2+3 10:30am-4:30pm (one day attendance is possible on Sat) - sliding scale $105-200 / RSVP here
  

Both at The Whole Shebang, 1813 S 11th St, Philadelphia, PA 19148. 

mayfield is an incredible artist. More about them and the events below. I hope to see some of you there! <3

warmly,

meg

mayfield brooks improvises while black and is based in Lenapehoking, the unceded land of  the Lenape people, also known as New York City. brooks is a movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer. brooks teaches and performs practices that arise from Improvising While Black (IWB), their interdisciplinary dance methodology which explores the decomposed matter of Black life and engages in dance improvisation, disorientation, dissent, and ancestral healing. brooks is the 2021 recipient of the biennial Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a 2021 Bessie/New York Dance and Performance Award nominee for their experimental dance film, Whale Fall and a 2022 Danspace Project Platform artist. They were a 2022-3 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, and the 2024 Alma Hawkins Visiting Chair at the UCLA World Arts and Cultures Dance Department. They are currently a Creative Time Research and Development Fellow.

Rage Rave Re-Gen-Eration - May 1 6-9pm

"a meditation on sacred rage,
an homage to assata shakur,

a dance party for all the r(evolutions) to come."

a durational grief experience - come and go as you please

Decomposing Dance... Choreographing Breath - Saturday + Sunday

"For this workshop I will offer an embodied way of working that continually asks questions without seeking answers or solutions through decolonizing and decomposing our expectation of dance making, vocal expression and choreography. What is dance composition and dance (de)composition? How can ecological systems such as compost or the whale fall offer an example of (de)composition that give way to radical creative processes? What kinds of rebellion can the body and the voice enact through play and chance encounters? What does it mean to surprise oneself while dancing, singing, choreographing? What does it mean to (de)compose expectations for performance? What kinds of choreographies show up in everyday life? What choreographies liberate, what choreographies dominate, and how can these binaries be challenged, changed, decolonized, and (de)composed? This method has been developed through my ongoing art/life/movement project, Improvising While Black or IWB which came to be after my experience of being racially profiled when driving while black. IWB invites lived experience, personal story, ancestral healing and radical experimentation into our movement practices.

All are welcome. Let's catch the spirit together!" ~mayfield 

 

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ON VIEW: Primordial site-responsive installation at CORPUS Festival, through May 8
megfoley.org - choreographic work

thewholeshebangphilly.com - a space for the trying out of things, workshops, & art-making

actionisprimary.com - once upon a time I danced everyday at 3:15pm with some badass collaborators

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