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Palabre/s en mode marron & Rite de passage || solo 2

Symposium: Palabre/s en mode marron

The Neilma Sidney Theatre
December 6 – 7 | 12pm
Free with RSVP

Performance: Rite de passage || solo 2

The Keith Haring Theatre
December 6 – 7 | 7:30pm
Tickets

 

Artist Bintou Dembélé presents Palabre/s en mode marron, a gathering of artists, academics, activists, and more with connections to Paris and the French West Indies. This program will feature a day of exchanges and encounters with conversations, film screenings, readings, DJ sets, and workshops, culminating in a dance performance by Dembélé, performed by Michel “Meech” Onomo. Palabre offers a dedicated space for artists’ voices, conflict resolution and community engagement while cultivating diasporic exchange among scholars, stakeholders, and activists. Working collaboratively with Performance Space and L’Alliance New York to bring communities together, Dembélé demonstrates the multifaceted nature of performance.

 

Dembélé’s work explores ritual and corporeal memories, interrogates gender dynamics, and addresses both individual and collective wounds of the past. Palabre/s is an iteration of a series she has presented several times in the past, which, with the blessing of the Bushnengue elders of French Guiana, allowing her to invent a ‘Maroon Dance,’ a memory of marronnage – of descendants of Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean who created new, free societies on the margins of slavery and colonization.

 

As part of the invitation, Bintou Dembélé also presents a movement-based work, Rite de passage || solo 2, that ends each day and blends together this ritual practice of palabre with the essence of Hip Hop. They assume the role of MC and orchestrate the flow of speech within the space, inviting vulnerability and fragility and enabling participants to find common ground and collectively reimagine new narratives. As an artist, Dembélé unearths the memories buried in bodies, souls and minds, as a living archive of another point of view on histories of French enslaved people and colonial histories more generally.

 

Friday, December 6
 

Arrivals and Welcome
12:30 – 1pm, Open Room; Keith Haring Theater

Palabre 1: With Mawongany, Audrey Célestine, and Bintou Dembélé
1 – 4pm, Keith Haring Theater

Film Screening and Conversation: Here Ends the World We’ve Known with Anne-Sophie Nanki
4:30-5:30pm, Keith Haring Theater

Dinner and Discussion with BEM Books
5:30-7pm, Open Room / Neilma Sidney Theater

Performance: Rite de passage || solo 2
7:30 -8:30pm, Keith Haring Theater
 
Saturday, December 7
 

Arrivals and Welcome
12-12:30pm, Open Room; Keith Haring Theater

Palabre 2: With Stefanie Batten Bland, nora chipaumire, and Bintou Dembélé
12:30 – 2:30pm, Keith Haring Theater

We The Youth – Keith Haring Lecture with mayfield brooks
2-3pm, The Neilma Sidney Theater

Palabre 3: With Mame-Fatou Niang and Bintou Dembélé
3-4pm, Keith Haring Theater

Film Screening: Vanille
3:30-4pm, The Neilma Sidney Theater

Palabre 4: With C Riley Snorton and Bintou Dembélé
4-6pm, Keith Haring Theater

Performance: Rite de passage || solo 2
7:30 -8:30pm, Keith Haring Theater

DJ set and dance party with UBABU
8:30-10:30pm, Keith Haring Theater

 

This project is co-presented by L’Alliance New York, as part of Crossing The Line Festival.

About L’Alliance New York

L’Alliance New York is an independent, not-for-profit organization committed to providing its audience and students with engaging French language classes and audacious multi-disciplinary programming that celebrates the diversity of francophone cultures and creativity around the world. A welcoming and inclusive community for all ages and all backgrounds, L’Alliance New York is a place where people can meet, learn, and explore the richness of our heritages and share discoveries. L’Alliance New York strives to amplify voices and build bridges from the entire francophone world to New York and beyond.

About Crossing The Line Festival

Crossing The Line is a citywide festival that engages international artists and New York City audiences in artistic discovery and critical dialogue to re-imagine the world around us. Crossing The Line is produced by L’Alliance New York in partnership with leading cultural institutions.

Organizational Strategic Consultant

 

What does a consultant really do?
What are they offering?
What are they consulting on?
And what solutions (if any) do they provide?

 
“Consultants are the wackest performers of corporate America,” says artist Nile Harris, setting the tone for his year-long engagement with Performance Space New York as an Organizational Strategic Consultant. At a now mid-year point, Harris has embedded himself in the inner workings of the organization and uses consultancy as a framework to explore the intricacies of non-profit institutional governance as point of departure for his upcoming lectured-based performance set for April 2025.
 
Up until this point in Harris’ consultancy period, he’s engaged with all staff and board members – conducting one-on-one interviews and dropping in on meetings. His love for downtown theater has drawn him to research the Performance Space archives, and bridge the legacies of PS122’s avant-garde history with our evolving contemporary identity. He’s interested in serving as a sounding board for important questions like, “Why is the front door always locked?” Throughout this year, Harris has spontaneously presented marginal micro-performances, such as reading the bylaws of the Board of Directors in the hallways and making slideshow presentations about his findings, ultimately consulting on…(?)
 
With a background in nonprofit administration and as the co-artistic director of New York theater company, Ping Chong and Company, Harris poetically and continuously reflects on his genuine interest in bureaucratic systems and structures that he himself is deeply familiar with. Harris refers to the writings of Stefano Harney and Fred Moten who lament, “The consultant is not here to provide solutions, innovation, or even advice. The consultant exists to demonstrate access in the era of logistical capitalism.”
 
As this consultancy period continues, Harris lovingly reveals the circuitous, nonsensical, and bureaucratic nature of nonprofits, holding up a mirror for us to examine our own organizational structures.

Open Movement

As we approach our 100th Open Movement workshop, we continue our tradition of providing an open platform for movement exploration and artistic expression. Curated and organized by Monica Mirabile, Open Movement is a free program open to all ages, abilities, and levels of experience that offers both space for self-guided movement practice and artist-led workshops.

Every Sunday from noon to 4pm, we welcome you to the Performance Space New York theaters where Open Movement is held. Here, participants are invited to move in whatever way feels comfortable to them—stretching, drawing, dancing, rehearsing, and observing if they don’t feel called to move. Many in the Open Movement community describe this environment as a sacred space for self-discovery, connection, and feeling present in their bodies.

At 4pm, our program shifts to feature workshops guided by artists and practitioners. Each week, these sessions offer a unique opportunity for participants to engage in two hours of participatory practice, exploring a range of themes from movement techniques, to performance philosophies, wellness practices and beyond. Open Movement workshop facilitators are a part of our extended Performance Space network: many of these artists have been regular participants in Open Movement and have created or hosted programs in our theaters. This season will feature workshops by Elliot Reed (who presented a performance commission, You can hear footsteps, as a part of our 2023-2024 season), BE HEINTZMAN HOPE, Alexandra Tatarsky, Sigrid Lauren, Samer Ghadry, Zion the 83rd Lion, Morgan Bobrown-Williams, Reed Rushes, Danyela June Brown, and Whitney Mallett who will also participate in this season’s performance program.

As part of our commitment to process-focused initiatives, throughout the year we also host WIP Feedback Front, a showcase of works in progress from emerging artists, many of whom are part of the Open Movement community. Artists present their projects in a casual, supportive atmosphere to get feedback while the works are still being developed. Audience members are invited to share their responses anonymously, creating open exchange between creators and observers.

At Open Movement, performance is for everyone, whether you’re experienced or a newcomer. Our mission is to provide a welcoming space for curious-minds to reconnect, ground themselves, and expand their perspectives, wherever they may be on their journey.

Free with RSVP

Alex Tatarsky, a clown by trade, is interested in all the ways we can fall apart on stage, break down, break things down, be in the brokenness, decay, decompose, and uncivilize ourselves. Let’s stop workshopping. Let’s stop working. Let’s stop shopping. No more development. Time to undevelop. What might that look like? Sound like? Feel like? In this class we will embrace the rude child and the elemental: hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon. And especially where and how these elements encounter and transform one another. Water meets earth and becomes mud. Now duet with the mud. Speak from the mud. An attempt to seek pleasure in impossible circumstances. Take delight in the dirt. Turn our shit into gold.

Free with RSVP

A workshop for sluts and goblins who wanna get a little messy, in the name of making dances!
With a playful approach this workshop explores socialized notions of sexiness, while referencing the concept of the ‘hungry ghost’. In eastern philosophy the hungry ghost represents the insatiable hunger alive in people often associated with craving and addiction. It is represented most popularly by the spirit character ‘no face’ in the Hayao Miyazaki movie Spirited Away and is a focal point in Gabor Maté’s book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. The hungry ghost can also be found in the Gollum/Sméagul character of J.R.R. Tolkein’s novel, The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings.

 

Impressions – i press on you, you press on me. we press on it and it on us.

This workshop uses daydreams, visualizations and image making to generate free movement and embodied experiences that challenge what we experience as inside and outside, internal and external.

Using impressions – how we impress on each other and are impressed on by the textures, architecture, objects, sounds of the room and how we in turn impress on them – this workshop will explore and undo the edges of things. Undoing and moving through the edges between walls and space, bodies and thoughts, emotions and objects, messing up any natural order of “things.”

Maybe we will reach a collective feeling of boundless interconnectedness or maybe we’ll hit an edge thats just too hard to budge..

For the session the room is a room that we move through. For the session the body is a room that moves through us.
Inside us are rooms of multitude.

Free with RSVP!

A 2-hour expansive sound journey to incite creative exploration between waking and dreaming

This practice combines meditation, sound bathing, and psychedelics-informed experiencing, using sound as the medium. Learning to incorporate the entire soundscape into our daily practice, and taking this into a darkened room as a group exercise to amplify the acoustics and become sensitive to group energetic synchronization via shared audible experience. Ideally we will craft a “waking up ” segment at the end to bring light back in slowly, or have a tea and humming moment in the cafe afterwards to further reinforce the quietude and simplicity of the state of being after 2 hours of sound meditation.

 

Free with RSVP

We’ll be workshopping ensemble scores, playing with ways to quickly assemble group choreography.

 

Free with RSVP

The Power of First Thought: Lessons only intuition can teach.

The Untapped Power of You: Cellular Regeneration, Healing the UnHealable.

(Includes healing foods The West will never teach, healing techniques for your teeth and healing movements for the Spine)

Free with RSVP

A series of somatic and relational exercises exploring the relationship between movement and language.

Free with RSVP

Zero point energy is the past present future. It is endless possibility. Initiation. Endless resource. Endless potential. Maximum capacity. Fullness of being. Freedom and play. Multi dimensional sensation. Fluctuation. Being.

Zero point energy is everything and everywhere.

Free with RSVP

In this workshop we delve into Sigrid’s four principles of performance. The performance of the everyday and the performance on the stage. We explore concepts and techniques to activate collaboration of our inner organs to the exhibition of 5,6,7,8’s. This workshop includes breathwork, duet exercises, moving meditations and choreographic phrases. All levels of movement experience are welcome.

*16 years old+

 

Free with RSVP

PUMPDABEAT extends our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has supported us over the years—through every click, listen and dip! This program is a tribute to the vibrant community of musicians, dancers, commentators, and sponsors who have contributed to the preservation of PUMPDABEAT artists and productions since our inception in 1999.

Join us for an unforgettable afternoon starting with a panel discussion unpacking the evolution of ballroom music production and vogue femme; followed by a ballroom mixer connecting artists, writers, and supporters; and culminating with live participatory performances in which you will experience the incredible talent represented by PUMPDABEAT including exclusive sets masterfully mixed by Capital K’aos, VJtheDJ and DJ Delish. 

We are excited to see you there as we look forward to many more years of nurturing the spirit of ballroom!

PUMPDABEAT

*Preserving the Vogue Beat*

Co-curated by VJtheDJ and Danyela June Brown

LIBRARY

 
LIBRARY is a four act performance program that celebrates the library as a space for communal gathering in an expansive reconception of a traditional reading that includes poetry, dialogues, and live performance. Whitney Mallett is the curator and organizer of LIBRARY and the founding editor of The Whitney Review—a new publication that features reviews and criticism of new writing and interviews with writers.
 
Mallett found inspiration in Jorge Luis Borges’s 1941 story The Library of Babel, which conceives of the universe as an infinite library, reimagining its “labyrinthine…hexagonal galleries, corridors, staircases, mirrors, and reflections” as a strip club, casino, and convention center. The program features a performance by Kellian Delice engaging choreographies of processing; a conversation between Esmé Naumes-Givens, contributing writer to The Whitney Review, and their father David Givens, writer and librarian; a demonstration of poet and painter Whitney Claflin’s language-based card game, its hyper-mediated presentation inspired by televised poker tournaments; and a performance by poet and performer, Maya Martinez, and writer and deputy editor of The Whitney Review, Mani Mekala, combining dance and spoken word.
 
The Whitney Review creates community around the printed word and LIBRARY embodies the communal function of the library, inspired by the many contributors to The Whitney Review. As the program unfolds, audience members are invited to participate in the ongoing narrative, the infinite act, where the spirit of the library lives on.

¡Cuidado!

Installation

The Neilma Sidney Theatre

Exhibition Hours
November 8 – 24 | Tuesday – Sunday | 12 – 6pm
Free

Opening Performance
Friday, November 8, 2024
7:00pm

Closing Performance
Thursday, November 21, 2024
7:00pm

 

Tickets

 

Adán Vallecillo has been at the forefront of Central American creative and political praxis for decades working in sculpture, installation, and video, with roots in performance and sociology. Vallecillo’s installation and performance, ¡Cuidado!, marks his debut performance in New York. This title holds dual meaning in Spanish: both caution and care. Vallecillo explores this duality through performance and video installation, showcasing the honest experiences of Honduran migrants working as home care aides in New York City. Inspired by and dedicated to Vallecillo’s sister, Mabel Vallecillo, an immigrant who has worked for over two decades caring for the elderly in the United States, this project illuminates the essential but undervalued nature of care work. Vallecillo emphasizes the beauty of caregiving in the midst of a culture that considers mortality to be taboo and generates panic and shame around aging. This framework highlights the political and social relationships between the United States and Honduras. Care also frames Vallecillo’s interpersonal relationships with his community and forms the foundation of his methodologies of working with home care aids who often face issues such as racism, xenophobia, and labor exploitation.

Central to Vallecillo’s approach is extensive on-the-ground research, engaging intimately with communities to create site-specific and locally relevant exhibitions. ¡Cuidado! is informed by a series of interviews with home care aides of different backgrounds, ages, and experiences in Central American neighborhoods such as the South Bronx and Bushwick, as well as conversations with unions that center health care workers’ rights. This research forms the foundation of ¡Cuidado!, conveying the nuances and poetics of care work and giving the audience an intimate yet abstracted view of migrants’ daily lives. The installation will include video work that documents private performances that have taken place in various locations throughout the city. These video works will be displayed in the installation alongside other sculptural, visual, and audio works exploring different modalities of care work. The opening of the exhibition will feature live performances.

¡Cuidado! is the culmination of the inaugural Keith Haring Curatorial Fellowship, curated and co-produced by X Arriaga Cuellar.

 

Edición en Español

Adán Vallecillo ha estado a la vanguardia en la praxis creativa y política centroamericana durante décadas a través de su trabajo en escultura, instalación, con raíces en performance y sociología. La instalación y performance de Vallecillo, ¡Cuidado!, marca su debut de performance en Nueva York. El título carga doble significado: tanto precaución como cuidado. Vallecillo nos muestra esta dualidad a través de las experiencias vividas por los migrantes hondureños que trabajan como cuidadores de personas de la tercera edad en la ciudad de Nueva York. Inspirado por su hermana Mabel Vallecillo, una inmigrante que ha dedicado más de veinte años al cuidado de ancianos en Estados Unidos, este proyecto ilustra la naturaleza esencial y a su vez subestimada del trabajo de cuidado. Vallecillo destaca la belleza del cuidado dentro de una cultura que considera tabú la mortalidad y genera temor y vergüenza en torno al envejecimiento. A la vez este cuadro resalta las relaciones políticas y sociales entre Estados Unidos y Honduras. El concepto del cuidado también enmarca las relaciones interpersonales de Vallecillo con su comunidad y forma la base para sus metodologías de trabajo con cuidadores de personas envejecidas, quienes a menudo enfrentan problemas tales como el racismo, la xenofobia y la explotación laboral.

La práctica de Vallecillo está centrada en una investigación contínua sobre el terreno, interactuando íntimamente con las comunidades para crear exhibiciones específicas al lugar y localmente relevantes. ¡Cuidado! consiste de una serie de entrevistas con cuidadores de diferentes orígenes, edades y trasfondos, en barrios con grandes poblaciones centroamericanas como el Sur del Bronx y Bushwick, así como en conversaciones con sindicatos que defienden los derechos de los trabajadores de la salud. Esta investigación constituye la base de ¡Cuidado!, transmitiendo los matices y la poesía del trabajo de cuidado y ofreciendo al público una perspectiva íntima y abstracta de la vida diaria de los migrantes. La instalación incluirá obras de video dirigidas por Vallecillo que documentan acciones privadas realizadas en varios lugares de la ciudad. Estas obras de video se exhibirán junto con otras obras escultóricas, visuales y auditivas que exploran diferentes modalidades del trabajo de cuidado. La inauguración de la exposición incluirá performances en vivo.

¡Cuidado! es la culminación del becario curatorial inaugural Keith Haring de Performance Space New York, curada y coproducida por X Arriaga Cuellar.

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