{"id":60690,"date":"2023-04-24T18:53:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T18:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/dance-assembly-conversation-series\/"},"modified":"2023-12-07T17:37:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T17:37:05","slug":"dance-assembly-conversation-series","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/dance-assembly-conversation-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Assembly: A Conversation Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dance Assembly: A Conversation Series<\/em><\/strong> is part of the\u00a0Albertine Dance Season<\/a>: A year-long celebration of the art of dance from inception to performance in 2023.<\/p>\n

The series is curated with writer, teacher and curator No\u00e9mie Solomon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

PAST EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Archives Dancing<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
\nWith Jay Pather, Nelisiwe Xaba, and nora chipaumire
\nModerated by Candace Thompson-Zachery
\nScreening of the dance film\u00a0La Visite<\/em>\u00a0(2020) directed by Tommy Pascal with the choreographer and dancer Wanjiru Kamuyu
\nApril 6\u00a0| 6PM ET\u00a0|\u00a0Villa Albertine Headquarters<\/p>\n

This conversation gathers\u00a0interdisciplinary 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

\u201cThis concerns all of us.\u201d A Somatics of (Political) Agitation<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
\nAn online conversation between Miguel Gutierrez and Emma Big\u00e9, as part of\u00a0Skirball\u2019s Office Hours<\/a>
\nApril 21 & 22\u00a0| NYU Skirball’s Office Hours<\/p>\n

An exchange between two dancers, somatic practitioners, improvisers, teachers, writers on how to choreograph disturbance and togetherness. Drawing on the US premi\u00e8re of Gutierrez’s group piece conceived for le Ballet de Lorraine around the 50th anniversary of May 68, the interlocutors discuss some of the gaps and overlaps when it comes to dance making on both sides of the Atlantic, with a particular attention on the ways in which bodies intersect with and are shaped by distinct histories across vectors of gender, race, class. How can agitation \u2013 \u201cthe collective shaping of dissent\u201d in Mel Y. Chen\u2019s words \u2013 be a somatic as well as a choreographic tool? How can the unruly gathering of insurgent bodies breach the theater of politics to enable other ways of dancing and being with one another.<\/p>\n

Transformations: A partial history of Hip Hop Dance across France and the U.S.<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
\nC\u00e9line Gallet, Linda Hayford, and Sa\u00efdo Lehlouh from the collective FAIR-E\u00a0(Centre Chor\u00e9graphique National<\/a>, Rennes) in conversation with Tatiana Desardouin, Rokafella, and Caleaf Sellers, moderated by Martha Diaz, Founder and Executive Director,\u00a0Hip Hop Education Center<\/a>.
\nThe exchange will include video interviews of France-based performers Walid Boumhani, Nac\u00e9ra AKA B-girl Hurricane, Lumi Sow and Massangila “Yugson” Lumengo\u00a0<\/strong>conducted by Jimmy Yudat.
\nMay 24 | 6:30PM ET | Villa Albertine Headquarters<\/p>\n

This conversation explores the development of Hip Hop dance in the U.S. and France through the lens of transmission: The ways in which styles and knowledges are being passed on and shift over time and across territories. Initiated by the Collective FAIR-E<\/a> \u2013 a group of self-taught Hip Hop dancers and organizers at the head of the National Choreographic Center based in Rennes, France \u2013 the event features video portraits of key actors and witnesses of various styles and periods on both sides of the Atlantic. These testimonies serve as prompt for a broad discussion on Hip Hop dance through issues of collaboration and circulation; the dense traffic of aesthetic and political influences that shapes its histories.<\/p>\n

O Samba<\/em> \u2014 An Evening of dance, queerness, blackness and afterlifes with Luiz de Abreu and Calixto Neto, Aim\u00e9e Cox and Andre Lepecki<\/strong><\/u><\/a>
\nOctober 13 | 6:30 PM | New York University-Tisch School of the Arts<\/p>\n

Haptic Rituals<\/em> with Nacera Belaza<\/strong><\/u><\/a>
\nOctober 14 | 7:00 PM | Wesleyan Center for the Arts, Middletown, CT<\/p>\n

Monique Wittig’s French-American Legacy <\/strong><\/em>with Ad\u00e8le Haenel, Sande Zeig, Annabel L. Kim. Moderation by No\u00e9mie Solomon<\/strong><\/u><\/a>
\nOctober 18 | 6:00 PM | Villa Albertine Headquarters<\/p>\n

Professional Symposium – Making and Supporting Dance between France and the United States<\/strong><\/u><\/a>
\nOctober 26 – 27 \u00a0| 10 AM – 5 PM (ET) | Villa Albertine Headquarters<\/p>\n

Afrofuturism and Ecological Justice in French West Indies’ Contemporary Dance with performance artists Marl\u00e8ne Myrtil, Myriam Soulanges, and Fana Fraser. Moderation by Audrey Celestine.<\/strong><\/u><\/a>
\nDecember 5 | 6:00 PM | Villa Albertine Headquarters<\/p>\n

About No\u00e9mie Solomon<\/strong><\/p>\n

No\u00e9mie Solomon works in the field of dance and performance as a writer, teacher, and curator. She edited the collections DANSE<\/em>\u00a0(an anthology and a catalogue published by Presses du r\u00e9el, 2014 and 2015) that translate and present key texts on the somatic and linguistic trades between French and North American choreographic cultures.\u00a0She holds a PhD in Performance Studies and is Director of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance.<\/p>\n

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