{"id":60225,"date":"2023-03-15T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/albertine-dance-season-conversation-series-black-archives-dancing\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:45:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:45:44","slug":"albertine-dance-season-conversation-series-black-archives-dancing","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/albertine-dance-season-conversation-series-black-archives-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Albertine Dance Season 2023 | Black Archives Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Black Archives Dancing\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nwith Jay Pather, Nelisiwe Xaba, and nora chipaumire<br \/>\nModerated by Candace Thompson-Zachery<br \/>\nScreening of\u00a0<em>La Visite<\/em> (2020) directed by Tommy Pascal with the choreographer and dancer Wanjiru Kamuyu<\/p>\n\n<p>This conversation gathers interdisciplinary performance makers around questions of corporeal memory and agency. It examines the ways in which Black dancing bodies channel layered histories while creating other futures. Addressing the specific projects of this group of artists, the exchange maps the movements of stories, objects, and practices that exist within the culture of the African peoples from the continent and the Diaspora, and how those collide with larger legacies of archiving. It asks what choreographic and curatorial practices can do to resist a long history of violence, exclusion, and misrepresentation, and shed light on moving bodies as sites of knowledge and transformation.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>April 6th &#8211; 6 PM\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nfollowed by Q &amp; A session and drinks\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>At Villa Albertine Headquarters, 972 Fifth Avenue (at 79th st)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1392\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/panel20120photos.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/panel20120photos.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/panel20120photos-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/panel20120photos-1024x469.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/panel20120photos-768x351.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<figcaption>\n\t\t\t<p>Nelisiwe Xaba, Jay Pather and Nora Chipaumire<\/p>\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Nelisiwe Xaba<\/strong> is a South-African choreographer and performer based in Johannesburg. Her body of work is politically driven and challenges stereotypes of the black female body and cultural notions of gender mainstreams. She collaborates with artists in and outside of her medium, most notably, with fashion designer Carlo Gibson of Strangelove, choreographer Kettly Noel, film director Mocke J van Vueren, Swiss choreographer Marie-Caroline Hominal. Xaba has started InfluenZart, a live art, video and sound installation platform that first showcased at Carfax, in September 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Jay Pather<\/strong> is a Professor at University of Cape Town, directing the Institute for Creative Arts. He is a performance theorist, choreographer and curator. He curates the Infecting the City Festival; the ICA Live Art Festival and the Afrovibes Festival (The Netherlands). Artistic works include Qaphela Caesar, a deconstruction of Julius Caesar, at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Recent publications appear in Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm and a book, Transgressions, Live Art in South Africa.\u00a0 He served as a juror for the TURN Fonds and on the Board of the National Arts Festival of South Africa. He was recently made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>Born in 1965 in Mutare, Zimbabwe (formerly known as Umtali, Rhodesia) <strong>nora chipaumire<\/strong> is a product of colonial education for black native Africans &#8211; known as group B schooling &#8211; and has pursued her studies at the University of Zimbabwe (law) and at Mills College in Oakland, CA (dance). As a distinguished artist, chipaumire has collaborated with notable figures such as Thomas Mapfumo, Omar Sosa, Okwui Okpokwasili, Jawole willa Jo Zollar, Germaine Acogny, and Ari Marcopoulos. Her long-term research project &#8220;nhaka&#8221;, a technology-based practice and process to her artistic work, investigates the nature of black bodies. chipaumire is also the founder of the nhereraHUB &#8211; a pioneering female-led cultural space in Zimbabwe which provides a safe place for individuals of all backgrounds and nationalities to come together, fostering generative thought through creative practice and communal ritual.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1076\" height=\"605\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Candace1_1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Candace1_1.jpeg 1076w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Candace1_1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Candace1_1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Candace1_1-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1076px) 100vw, 1076px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<figcaption>\n\t\t\t<p>Shoccara Marcus<\/p>\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Candace Thompson-Zachery,<\/strong>\u00a0based in Brooklyn and originally from Trinidad and Tobago, is a dancer, choreographer and cultural producer, with a vested interest in Caribbean dance and culture. She is the founder of Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE, an initiative that supports and presents Caribbean dance performance in NYC and produces her own choreographic work through the project ContempoCaribe. She is a graduate of the Performance Curation program at ICPP at Wesleyan University and works currently at Dance\/NYC as the Director of Programming and Justice Initiatives.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Screening of the dance film <em>La Visite<\/em> (2020) directed by Tommy Pascal with the choreographer and dancer Wanjiru Kamuyu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Confronted\u00a0by the 2020 health crisis\u00a0rendering\u00a0performances impossible, The National Historical Museum of Immigration, in partnership with Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de la Ville in Paris, commissioned dance film\u00a0<em>La\u00a0visite<\/em>. The film generates a dialogue between elements of performer Wanjiru\u00a0Kamuyu\u2019s\u00a0solo\u00a0<em>An Immigrant\u2019s Story<\/em>\u00a0and the Palais de la Porte Dor\u00e9e in Paris. Through dance and image, performed and captured in this space,\u00a0<em>La Visite<\/em> echoes the colonial heritage and contemporary revolts that are rooted in such a history.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caminaktion.eu\/en\/wkcollective\/\"><strong>Wanjiru\u00a0Kamuyu<\/strong><\/a>, born in Nairobi, Kenya, studied at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA and started her career in New York to then settle in Paris in 2007. Her choreography questions the notions of place, belonging and otherness. Her dance, a migratory map of encounters, starts with ballet, studied during her childhood in Kenya, moving into contemporary dance in the USA. Enfolded into this journey are dances from the African continent and diaspora as well as\u00a0but\u00f4.\u00a0Kamuyu\u2019s\u00a0body is a constantly shifting map. Wanjiru Kamuyu is a Villa Albertine resident.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>About\u00a0<em>Dance Assembly: A Conversation Series <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Curated by No\u00e9mie Solomon in collaboration with the Villa Albertine team<\/p>\n\n<p>The dance\u00a0figure of the\u00a0assembl\u00e9\u00a0\u2013 in which the feet meet in the air before\u00a0landing together on the ground \u2013 serves as a prompt for this series of panel\u00a0discussions, post-performance conversations and\u00a0symposia. In the\u00a0assembl\u00e9,\u00a0physical limits are tested for bodies and gestures to come together. A critical\u00a0mode of gathering, the assembly highlights the role of choreography in storing\u00a0collective\u00a0knowledge, anticipating social formations and sensorial revolutions.\u00a0Our questions and provocations include: what are the practices of collaboration\u00a0and transmission contemporary dance enacts across\u00a0disciplinary forms,\u00a0generational divides, and geopolitical borders? How does it rehearse\u00a0sustainable processes and futures? How do choreographic archives score\u00a0contemporary lives? Can diversity and\u00a0equity be aesthetic gestures as well as\u00a0political tools? What choreographic practices do we need to mobilize and transform\u00a0forces of violence and bodily agency? \u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>Dance Assembly: A Conversation Series is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/albertine-dance-season\">Albertine Dance Season<\/a>: A year-long celebration of the art of dance from inception to performance in 2023.<\/p>\n\n<p>Leadership support for Albertine Dance Season provided by Ardian<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":60223,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[234,227,233],"app_city_tax":[235,217],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-60225","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-all-disciplines","app_discipline-performing-arts","app_discipline-social-sciences-and-humanities","app_city_tax-all-cities","app_city_tax-nyc","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Albertine Dance Season 2023 | Black Archives Dancing - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/albertine-dance-season-conversation-series-black-archives-dancing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Albertine Dance Season 2023 | Black Archives Dancing - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Black Archives Dancing\u00a0 with Jay Pather, Nelisiwe Xaba, and nora chipaumire Moderated by Candace Thompson-Zachery Screening of\u00a0La Visite (2020) directed by Tommy Pascal with the choreographer and dancer Wanjiru Kamuyu This conversation gathers interdisciplinary performance makers around questions of corporeal memory and agency. 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