Planning to attend multiple performances during HMD's 2020 Bridge Project POWER SHIFT: Improvisation, Activism, and Community? Purchase a Performance Pass and SAVE.
Starting at $50, the Power Shift Performance Pass gains you access to any of the following performances:
10/2/2020, 8 PM: Real Talk #1: Vectors of Adverse Desire | randy reyes
10/9/2020, 8 PM: Free Play | Jarrel Phillips
10/10/2020, 12 PM: Encaje | Judith Sánchez Ruíz
10/11/2020, 12 PM: PURPLE is | Judith Sánchez Ruíz, with sam wentz
All performances will be live streamed. Times listed above are PDT. You will receive a link to access the live stream the day of the performance. Read below for full event details.
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Friday, OCTOBER 2, 8 PM (PDT): Real Talk # 1: Vectors of Adverse Desire by randy reyes
bb, do you notice the things getting in your way? i touch myself first in order to re-member. viscosity through the body until I become the space itself. undoing shame by naming the shame directly. is watching porn bad? does something else exist in the underground of your desire? language drip drips dripping as you find pulsing pleasure practice partners on the dance floor. yearning for...myself? again and again.
Friday, OCTOBER 9, 8 PM (PDT): Free Play by Jarrel Phillips
Joy is, both, freedom and resistance. Capoeira is, too.The best part about Capoeira is that you play it. It is pure improvisation. I can't tell you exactly what I'm going to do because it's all spontaneous and in relationship to the music, my partner and the ashé (energy). What I do know is that I'm going to enjoy myself.
“In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.” - Audre Lorde
Saturday, OCTOBER 10, 12 PM (PDT): Encaje by Judith Sánchez Ruíz
“What can I love? a country, an arm, a doll, a new brand? We scratch our hearts with the patience of a farmer in a glittering landscape.” – JSR
Encaje is a piece about hypocrisy, and it is inspired by the body of work of writer Anaïs Nin. Working with two concepts, the “diary” and the “radio”. Judith Sánchez Ruíz recaptures the snapshot contents of an archive of her own days approaching dance like a „diary of movement.” with reinvents the untold, the undisclosed presence of disorder and vulnerability. The “radio” concept lets the body jump from one state to another as if someone turned the dial on an old radio trying to find a new frequency, thereby provoking a clash of opposing facts within one life, one body.
Sunday, OCTOBER 11, 12 PM (PDT): PURPLE is by Judith Sánchez Ruíz, with sam wentz
PURPLE is, the fourth iteration of Judith Sánchez Ruíz’s improvisational duet form in homage to the late choreographer Trisha Brown, takes place over Zoom with fellow Trisha Brown Dance Company alum sam wentz (2009-14). Brown's work reset Sánchez Ruíz’ perception of movement and structural choreography and inspired her to use improvisation as her primary creative tool. The last segment of the performance will be a Q and A among the dancers and the audience moderated by Hope Mohr, also an alumna of TBDC. By bookending the dancing with talking, the performers acknowledge that history lives on and expands through both oral and physical language.
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HMD's commitment to bringing people together through art and dialogue drives everything we do. We are currently in dialogue with POWER SHIFT artists to reimagine events that bring us together safely as we navigate the covid-19 pandemic. All POWER SHIFT events will take place in the digital space, or in-person at outdoor locations with restrictions on capacity and ample space for safe distancing. Masks will be required at in-person events. All events are subject to change. We look forward to sharing art and community with you this coming fall.
QUESTIONS? Email admin@hopemohr.org
ABOUT POWER SHIFT | POWER SHIFT: Improvisation, Activism, and Community invites artists and activists to share the practice and performance of improvisation. Co-curated by Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr, and Karla Quintero, POWER SHIFT brings you inside the improvisational practices of Black/African American, Latinx/Latin American, Asian American, female-identifying and queer improvisers and social justice activists. The program highlights voices from African dance, jazz aesthetics, social and street dance, contemporary forms, and Capoeira.
POWER SHIFT is about more than performance. A wide array of intensives and workshops at the intersection of dance and social action offer opportunities to build and share tools for the creative process. In these spaces, we will move and imagine together. We will cultivate power and resilience in the face of shifting and uncertain landscapes.
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Photos (L to R): Jarrel Phillips; Judith Sánchez Ruíz by David Beecroft; randy reyes by Ariel Appel
For more information on the entire Power Shift line up visit bridgeproject.art/powershift.
