PERFORMANCE :: Seattle FEB 10, 7:30 improvising in the break
“The death rattle of all that sits between real love and the end of love is purely a mistake, and any injustice knows this about itself.” (mayfield and karen)
Come to Velocity on Sunday, February 10 for Improvising in the Break, a one-night only collaborative, improvisational performance by NYC-based artist mayfield brooks and Vashon Island’s own Karen Nelson.
“The design of brooks’s Improvising While Black…breaks the framework for presentation. It is not one thing; it is different things. People gather not to just watch people do stuff but possibly do stuff themselves. Anything originally planned for one point in time might easily show up in another. And we all bring ourselves to it because it can’t exist without us.” –Eva Yaa Asantewaa
7:30 pm VELOCITY DANCE center
“The death rattle of all that sits between real love and the end of love is purely a mistake, and any injustice knows this about itself.” (mayfield and karen)
Come to Velocity on Sunday, February 10 for Improvising in the Break, a one-night only collaborative, improvisational performance by NYC-based artist mayfield brooks and Vashon Island’s own Karen Nelson.
“The design of brooks’s Improvising While Black…breaks the framework for presentation. It is not one thing; it is different things. People gather not to just watch people do stuff but possibly do stuff themselves. Anything originally planned for one point in time might easily show up in another. And we all bring ourselves to it because it can’t exist without us.” –Eva Yaa Asantewaa
7:30 pm VELOCITY DANCE center
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photos scott shaw, john dancey
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.
Karen Nelson based in Vashon Island/Seattle is a dancer/choreographer, performer, teacher and organizer, who co-founded Joint Forces Dance Co, Breitenbush Jam, Dance Ability, Diverse Dance Research Retreat, and the performance group Image Lab, among other projects. She explores dance history and currency that centers intersections of practitioner experience. She interrogates whiteness within her own embodiment and larger community, often collaborating with artists around the world. Since 1980 Karen has taught and performed at festivals and venues in North America, Europe, South America and Asia. She has received awards for choreography and research from National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon Arts Commission, National Performance Network, Wild Woods Foundation, Vashon Allied Arts, On the Boards NW New Works and private supporters.
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.
Karen Nelson based in Vashon Island/Seattle is a dancer/choreographer, performer, teacher and organizer, who co-founded Joint Forces Dance Co, Breitenbush Jam, Dance Ability, Diverse Dance Research Retreat, and the performance group Image Lab, among other projects. She explores dance history and currency that centers intersections of practitioner experience. She interrogates whiteness within her own embodiment and larger community, often collaborating with artists around the world. Since 1980 Karen has taught and performed at festivals and venues in North America, Europe, South America and Asia. She has received awards for choreography and research from National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon Arts Commission, National Performance Network, Wild Woods Foundation, Vashon Allied Arts, On the Boards NW New Works and private supporters.
