Rage Rave
Rage Rave
Rage Rave
re-gen-eration
Mayfield brooks, May 1, 6-9pm, $15
"a meditation on sacred rage,
an homage to assata shakur,
a dance party for all the r(evolutions) to come."
for participants:
this is a durational process; you can come and go as you please
this is first come, first serve, with a rolling maximum occupancy of 40 people.
if the space is full when you arrive, you’ll be asked to wait until a spot opens up.
suggested donation of $15 at the door via cash or venmo.
this is a covid conscious space; there’s an air filter that turns over air every 30 minutes; masks are optional.
there will be some chairs and cushions along the sides for accessibility and rest.
mayfield brooks improvises while black and is based in Lenapehoking, the unceded land of the Lenape people, also known as New York City. brooks is a movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer. brooks teaches and performs practices that arise from Improvising While Black (IWB), their interdisciplinary dance methodology which explores the decomposed matter of Black life and engages in dance improvisation, disorientation, dissent, and ancestral healing. brooks is the 2021 recipient of the biennial Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a 2021 Bessie/New York Dance and Performance Award nominee for their experimental dance film, Whale Fall and a 2022 Danspace Project Platform artist. They were a 2022-3 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, and the 2024 Alma Hawkins Visiting Chair at the UCLA World Arts and Cultures Dance Department. They are currently a Creative Time Research and Development Fellow.
This event is in hosted in conjunction with mayfield’s workshop,
decomposing dance…choreographing breath.
Interested? Check it out here!
Have questions? Please email us at art.at.shebang@gmail.com and we’ll get back to within 1-2 business days.