Nov 5—9Performa Hub
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Performa Studio is conceived as a public, process-based program, placing emphasis on the creative research, experimentation, and learning, that occurs during the artistic process within a studio environment, to consider what it means to think with both mind and body.
ALL PERFORMA STUDIO EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Artists and choreographers Moriah Evans and Isabel Lewis have devised a program of open rehearsals, classes, participatory group work, and talks, uniting choreography, movement, somatic practices, sound, music, and discussion in a specially designed space by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro—housing an exploratory program that fosters collaboration with both participants and audiences, creating a community space for events of all kinds.
Each artist’s program considers what dance and movement can mean as a social, collaborative, political act, to consider the formation of individual movement and collective movement. Throughout the Performa Studio program, Evans and Lewis will address a series of fundamental questions: What does it mean to move as an individual and what does it mean to move as a group? What is the relationship between individual and collective consciousness? What differentiates vigorous collective movements from chaos? And what roles can structured choreographic movement, and seemingly chaotic, unstructured movement, play in creating societal change?
Musicians Chris Williams and David Watson join an open rehearsal with Moriah Evans and dancers Bria Bacon, Cyril Baldy, Malcolm-x Betts, Lizzie Feidelson, João dos Santos Martins, and Varinia Canto Vila. Chris Williams is a trumpet player and electroacoustic composer, and David Watson is an experimental musician usually performing with guitar or bagpipes. Both artists' practices exist between disciplines and traditions. In this open rehearsal, they are working (as are the dancers) with the idea of expanded consciousness and pushing beyond the limits of the body. There will likely be some duets and solos from Chris and David, some acoustic trumpet and bagpipes, and some processing of those instruments with effects which make them more electronic and ambient. They aim to keep the idea of the rehearsal front of mind and avoid delivering a finished product.