Crossroads Series curated by Pioneers Go East Collective
Join us for a virtual Crossroads video art series curated by Pioneers Go East Collective
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Featuring BAIRA/ MVMNT PHLOSPHY with Shaina and Bryan Baira; Proteo Media + Performance with Bree Breeden and Kathleen Kelley; Joey Kipp; and Anabella Lenzu
CROSSROADS (CROSSWINDS, CROSSCURRENTS, CROSSFIRES) Performance + art + poetry + music + dance + food + community. A curated series presented by Pioneers Go East Collective. Crossroads Series features artists who explore new genres and known performance and art-making modes to share their creative practices with other artists and their audiences. Each evening we witness different generations of artists dealing with actual, day-to-day, contemporary challenges to further discussion between artists and to activate a network of exchange and inclusion with social and artistic intervention.
Proteo Media + Performance. Bree Breeden is from Cheraw, S.C. She choreographs and performs her own work which has been presented at Vital Joint Festival in 2019, Embodied Spaces Festival I and II in 2018, Movement Research’s Fall Festival at Danspace in 2018, and the Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts dance talk series in 2016. Currently, she performs with VON HOWARD PROJECT and Michiyaya DANCE. Kathleen Kelley is an Associate Professor of Dance + Technology at Montclair State University. She is a 2019 Gibney Work Up resident artist, Chez Bushwick Artist in Residence in 2018 and a 2015-2016 LEIMAY Fellow, and her choreographic work has been shown at venues such as Theaterlab, Gowanus Loft, Triskelion Arts, Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick, Movement Research and others. Together they direct Proteo Media + Performance, an intermedia company that produces creative experiences that engage live performers, film, projections, installations and other forms of visual/digital data to explore the rich intersections between technology and the body.
SUSPIRE by BAIRA / Shaina and Bryan Baira
SUSPIRE is a virtual-reality dance theatre film that takes you through a fly-on-the-wall experience of parenthood, pandemic life, and socio-political division. Slipping between mundane reality and fantastical surrealism, witness one family’s effort to contemplate and cope with it all.
Shaina and Bryan Baira are life-partners and co-directors of BAIRA / MVMNT PHLOSPHY, a dance-theatre company committed to understanding the human experience and sharing their perspective through the movement arts. Born in TX and MI respectively, the two found each other 8 years ago in NYC and have since been sharing their work and engaging communities throughout the U.S.A. Their work is known for its bravery, vulnerability and intricately athletic movement language. The couple is currently based out of Detroit where they are Artists-in-Residence at the Music Hall and Wayne State University's Department of Theatre and Dance.
Photo Credit Effy Grey
New Work by Joey Kipp
After being introduced to Lorraine Hansberry by my friend and collaborator, Cynthia Madansky, I felt that my new friendship with Lorraine was not only aligning like a perfect first encounter at a black queer dance party but that I was truly being called and invited to collaborate in the unearthing of her revolutionary work, thoughts, and truths so that they could truly breathe and be heard.
Joey Kipp was born in Brazil and raised in Mtn. View, California. Marymount Manhattan College (BA, Biology and Dance). Gibney Dance For the Moment Walls Down, Gotham Roller Girls Award Ceremony, Roulette, Judson Memorial Church, and Performance Space NY. Joey was recently an Artist In Residence at the Rauschenberg Residency with Heather Kravas and Vic Haven.
Out of the Folds of Women - Director, Choreographer and Dancer: Anabella Lenzu. Videographer, Editor and Music Composition: Todd Carroll.
Out of the Folds of Women tells a personal vision of femininity, and what it means to be a woman, mother, and immigrant today. “Unfolded out of the folds of the woman Man comes unfolded and is always to come unfolded" -Walt Whitman.
Originally from Argentina, Anabella Lenzu is a dancer, choreographer, writer, and teacher with over 30 years of experience working in Argentina, Chile, Italy, London, and the USA. Lenzu directs her own company, Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama (ALDD), which since 2006 has presented 390 performances, created 14 choreographic works and performed at 100 venues, presenting thought-provoking and historically conscious dance-theater in NYC.