mayfield brooks:
IWB: Dancing in the Hold

Part of Gathering Place: Black Queer Land(ing)
Curated by Marýa Wethers

Part II: DANCING IN THE HOLD
April 12 – 13 AT 8:00 PM
TICKETS $15 – $20

post-show talk: april 13

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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, is 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.

Part II, Dancing in the Hold, is an evening-length performance exploring underwater textures like shipwrecks and contaminated seaweed while embracing Black queer ancestors, Black rage, brilliance and joy.

Part III, Process(Ion), is 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.

Part of Gathering Place: Black Queer Land(Ing), curated by Marya Wethers. View full series →

Photo by Lucy Nystrom