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WORKSHOP:: end of knowing :: FEB9, 2-5PM, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle; open to all
This workshop will explore mayfield's ongoing dance practice and project "Improvising While Black/IWB" using voice/body, somatics, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, afropessimist theory, and heart mapping practices. We acknowledge our privilege, oppression, joy and trauma. There is play, dynamic partnering, deep belly laughter, wandering, reading, writing, questioning, critiquing, seeking, democratizing, deconstructing, and exploring giving into gravity’s call as a trustworthy proposition. Who’s got your back? And who can you catch? Trust comes with embodied knowing of one’s own capacities. We will train in a multiplicity of methods: trust, falling, and wildness. The possibilities are endless. // REGISTER Velocity Dance
What is dance improvisation? What is Blackness in a world where most things Black and/or African are reviled, demonized, erased while at the same time desired, coveted and appropriated? What is a Black Aesthetic? Is it all made up? Improvising While Black (IWB) is dancer and performance artist mayfield brooks’ inquiry into racial representation, spontaneous movement creation and survival.
mayfield brooks improvises while black, and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. mayfield is a movement-based performance artist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer. They studied contemporary dance at the School for New Dance in Amsterdam, moving on centre in Oakland, CA, and hold an MFA in interdisciplinary performance from UC Davis and a Masters in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. Mayfield was a 2017 artist in residence at Movement Research, NYC, and was a 2018 WOW/UNY artist in residence at Governor’s Island New York.
photo: David Gonsier
This workshop will explore mayfield's ongoing dance practice and project "Improvising While Black/IWB" using voice/body, somatics, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, afropessimist theory, and heart mapping practices. We acknowledge our privilege, oppression, joy and trauma. There is play, dynamic partnering, deep belly laughter, wandering, reading, writing, questioning, critiquing, seeking, democratizing, deconstructing, and exploring giving into gravity’s call as a trustworthy proposition. Who’s got your back? And who can you catch? Trust comes with embodied knowing of one’s own capacities. We will train in a multiplicity of methods: trust, falling, and wildness. The possibilities are endless. // REGISTER Velocity Dance
What is dance improvisation? What is Blackness in a world where most things Black and/or African are reviled, demonized, erased while at the same time desired, coveted and appropriated? What is a Black Aesthetic? Is it all made up? Improvising While Black (IWB) is dancer and performance artist mayfield brooks’ inquiry into racial representation, spontaneous movement creation and survival.
mayfield brooks improvises while black, and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. mayfield is a movement-based performance artist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer. They studied contemporary dance at the School for New Dance in Amsterdam, moving on centre in Oakland, CA, and hold an MFA in interdisciplinary performance from UC Davis and a Masters in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. Mayfield was a 2017 artist in residence at Movement Research, NYC, and was a 2018 WOW/UNY artist in residence at Governor’s Island New York.
photo: David Gonsier