Attend

Attend is a radical care-as-performance dance work. It has already happened. You were not invited. Instead, this iteration of Attend is an interactive crip video performance. It is a counter-performance to the conventional ideas of ‘performance’ and ‘audience.’ Attend invites audiences to experience, witness, and embody the traces of a disability dance work made for the needs and desires of ONE Disabled audience member. Weaving together the edges of care and access from a performance for one, Attend troubles product-oriented performance and instead prioritizes the small, slow interdependence that disability culture-building requires. Ultimately, the work asks what the imaginaries of care and access are and how its audiences might attend to them.

Tickets for Attend are available on a sliding scale from $5 - $25. No one will be turned away from attending for lack of funds.

Please Note: Attend is a 15 minute video installation played on a loop. Audience may enter and exit as they wish. You may arrive at any point in the 2 hour event timeframe.

Attend includes artistic and open audio descriptions that capture a range of sensorial priorities, captioning, and ASL. Access workers and ASL interpreters will be floating throughout the event space to support Disabled, D/deaf, Blind, low vision, visually impaired, Sick, chronically ill, Mad, and neurodivergent audiences.

Created in collaboration with Elisabeth Motley, Cory Nakasue, Brent Felker (Video and Projection Design), India Harville, Beatriz Castro, Ifasina Clear (Audience), Jose Miguel ‘Miggy’ Esteban, and JJ Omelagah.

Attend is supported by the Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist in Residence Program (2024-2025), the Access. Movement. Play (A.M.P.) Residency Program (2024) made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Movement Research.

If you have access needs not met or mentioned below? Please reach out to artistprograms@bax.org.

Banner Image Description:

ID: A distorted image of dancers Jose Miguel “Miggy” Esteban, India Harville, and Cory Nakasue who move through various positions of seated, leaning, and lying on a studio floor. Surrounding them are blue floor cushions, a cane, and purple strip lights. Overlaying this image are yellowish-white twinkly Christmas lights. White text reads: “Attend - May 10th, 2025, BAX Annex, 80 Hanson Pl, Bklyn. Created by Elisabeth Motley, Cory Nakasue, Brent Felker, JJ Omelagah, Beatriz Castro, Ifasina Clear, India Harville, Jose Miguel “Miggy” Esteban.” Image by Brent Felker.

Accessibility:

Location: The BAX Annex is located on the ground floor of 80 Hanson Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11217. The entrance is on Hanson Pl. BAX Annex is an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant accessible building.

This event includes artistic and open audio description, captioning, and ASL.

Access workers and ASL interpreters will be floating throughout the event space.

Restrooms: There are two all-gender and wheelchair/mobility device accessible bathrooms with ADA-compliant interiors.

COVID/Viral Protocols:

KN95 masks are required for this event. Masks will be available upon entry. Air purifiers will be positioned in the main spaces.

Access Kit Info:

The following will be on hand at the event.

1. Fidget/stimming toy(s)
2. Earplugs
3. Various seating options
4. Floor cushions

Service Animals: BAX is welcoming to individuals with service animals. Under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), a service animal is defined as a dog that has been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for an individual with a disability.

Public Transportation: Please visitMTA Accessible Stationsand Elevator and Escalator Statuspages for daily updates.

Trains:

1. The B D Q N R 2 3 4 5 MTA trains stop at Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center. This is an accessible station. From the station, walk 0.2 mi to 80 Hanson Pl.
2. The G MTA train stops at Fulton St. This station is not accessible. From the station, walk 0.2 mi to 80 Hanson Pl.
3. The C MTA train stops at Lafayette Avenue. This station is not accessible. From the station, walk 367ft to 80 Hanson Pl.
4. The Long Island Rail Road stops at the Atlantic Terminal stop. This is an accessible station. From the station, walk 0.2 mi to 80 Hanson Place.

Buses:

1. The B25, B26 and B52 bus stops at Fulton St / South Portland Ave. From the stop, walk 0.1 mile to 80 Hanson Pl.
2. The B38 bus stops at Lafayette Ave / South Portland Ave. From the stop, walk 0.2mi to 80 Hanson Pl.

Parking:

GGMC Parking - Barclays Center, located in the Atlantic Center Mall, 625 Atlantic Avenue.

Garcha’s Parking, located at 209 S Portland Avenue.

About BAX

BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange, founded in 1991, is a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process through education, residencies, and performance at the intersection of arts and social justice.

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