to love the rise/pt.2 premieres this Fall in NYC
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to love the rise/pt.2 Wednesday October 19 8p* Thursday October 20 8p* Friday October 21 8p* *livestream available all evenings presented by Roulette Intermedium 509 atlantic avenue brooklyn ny information + tickets we are still making a dance- this is the evening-length performance premiere of our project about -
the continental rise is an underwater environment found between the continental slope & the abyssal plain. Composed of all the accumulated and deposited sediments & runoff from the continent, it is the final threshold, the liminal space between the continents & the deepest part of the ocean. Here lies the detritus, the sludge, the muck from Earth- in the detritus, in the marrow, in the compost pile, lives to love the rise/pt.2- to love the rise/pt.2 is a multimedia dance project grounded in physical practice, collective imagination, and relationships, created by marion spencer and collaborators Ogemdi Ude, Kimiko Tanabe, s. lumbert, slowdanger, Symara Johnson, Tara Sheena, Malcolm-x Betts, Athena Kokoronis, Myssi Robinson, HandyQueers, Stephanie Acosta, Lindsey Jennings, Meghann Trago, Iris McCloughan, jess pretty, Shana Crawford and theo armstrong. Emerging out of a solo marion built in 2019-2020 (to love the rise/pt.1), the collaborative process has developed through an apocalypse previously imagined, and now lived, offering a feminine, feminist vision of a world built from the detritus of our current one. Through a collage of movement, vocalizations, live installation, photography, film and carpentry, a new Utopia is composted, built and traversed by the collective. Responding to Yrsa-Daley Ward’s poetry collection Bone and Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell, this project considers how we mend from disaster – as macro as the global pandemic and late stage capitalism, as small as one’s own personal loss and grief. Taking lessons from Mariame Kaba’s writings on abolitionist practice, this process examines what we take with us, what we leave behind, and how we move forward with scars, embracing experimentation and relationships. Offering an anti-capitalist mindset and alternative order, this project posits that our world is made by us — by us all — through imagination, collaboration and action. to love the rise/pt.2 has been supported through its development by The Chocolate Factory Theater, Mana Contemporary, Gibney, Prospect Park, an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New Dance Alliance, The Field Center, Studio 44, Catwalk Institute, Bridge Street Theatre, MOtiVe Brooklyn, Center for Performance Research and Roulette Intermedium- this project is created in collaboration with a growing team of artists:
marion spencer - director + choreographer Ogemdi Ude - performer Kimiko Tanabe - performer s. lumbert - performer slowdanger - performers + sound designers Symara Johnson - collaborating artist + former performer Tara Sheena - collaborating artist + former performer Lindsey Jennings - understudy performer Meghann Trago - understudy performer Malcolm-x Betts - costume designer Athena Kokoronis - costume designer Myssi Robinson - creative archivist Stephanie Acosta - experimental archivist + video editor HandyQueers - set designers Iris McCloughan - dramaturg jess pretty - creative producer Shana Crawford - lighting designer theo armstrong - stage manager |
photos by Whitney Browne