TIDEWATER WORK IN PROCESS SHOWING PLUS Q +A with SARA SMITH

April 28th 6-7pm Eastern Time

Suggested donation of $15-$25

All proceeds will be donated to the Nolumbeka Project.

tidewater is an experimental dance-work and community ritual that will consist of three dancers and a live sound-score. The work explores our relationship to forms of solidarity through memory and recognition of water and land. One of our research questions is: If flooding is a river’s form of remembering, what can we remember, collectively, through our flooding bodies?

You are welcome to this work-in-process showing with artists Tyler Rai, Tatyana Tenenbaum, and Marion Spencer, with a Q & A moderated by choreographer and researcher Sara Smith after the showing.

All ages welcome.

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Tyler Rai is a movement artist and writer currently based in Nipmuc/Pocumtuc Territories (Western Massachusetts). Through performance and movement improvisation, her research questions how we embody kinship and relational empathy with the other/more-than-human-world. Her works have been performed at Judson Memorial Church, ARC Pasadena, SPACE Gallery, SWALE (a barge and floating food-forest), and The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought. She has collaborated with numerous artists and organizations and performed in the works of K.J.Holmes, Emily Johnson/Catalyst, Bouchra Ouizguen, Athena Kokoronis/Domestic Performance Agency, and Mina Nishimura. Her writings have been published in Culturebot and John Hopkins Medical Magazine for the Humanities, Tendon Magazine. www.tylerrai.com

Tatyana Tenenbaum (USA) is a choreographer and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her research seeks to bring sensational practices of music and movement into the same phenomenal body. She has presented her work in New York, LA, Seattle, and Philadelphia, and has taught classes on movement and voice through Movement Research (NYC), Temple University (Philly), Espacio Abimental (Bogotá, Colombia), and CLASSCLASSCLASS (NYC), among others. Tatyana has been creating original work since 2008 and has also performed in the work of Yoshiko Chuma, Daria Fain, Jennifer Monson, and Emily Johnson/CATALYST, among others. In addition to creating her own work, she is currently collaborating with Tyler Rai, Hadar Ahuvia and the Doing & Undoing Collective. www.tatyanatenenbaum.com

Marion Spencer is a dancer, choreographer and educator currently based on the lands of the Munsee Lenape and Canarsie peoples, currently known as Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been presented by Danspace Project (DraftWork), Gibney (Work Up), Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Green Space, Triskelion Arts, Center for Performance Research (Fall Movement), Movement Research at Judson Church, DanceNow NYC, Dance HOLO and the Domestic Performance Agency. Marion was a 2019-2020 season artist at The Chocolate Factory Theater (creative residency, December 2019) and Gibney (Solo for Solo, Spring 2020). She has held residencies at MANA Contemporary, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Turkeyland Cove Foundation and the Peaceable Barn, among others. Marion’s dances call for transformation through an undoing of ourselves, inviting us to feel, ask questions, and consider what else, both imaginatively and constructively. She currently dances for BAND|portier and Laura Peterson Choreography. Since moving to NYC, Marion has worked with Yackez/Larissa Velez-Jackson, Michelle Boulé, Athena Kokoronis, Shandoah Goldman, Melissa Riker, Annie Kloppenberg, and Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty, among others. She teaches at Freeskewl, Gibney, Dancewave and Greenwich Country Day Middle and High School. Marion has toured her choreographic work and teaching practice nationally to New Orleans, Seattle, and Amherst. http://www.marion-spencer.com

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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