Image and Sculpture by LILLETH and Diana Michener.
Performance: 6:30 P.M.
Tickets: $0-$25, pay what you can
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Gallery hours: 5:00–6:30 P.M.
free and open to the public
*In the event that advance tickets for the performance are sold out, an in-person wait list will open at 6:00 P.M.
STRATA is a multi-sensory performance, a collective lucid dream, an urgent embodied call to slow down and experience our (be)longing. In this elemental and surrealist myth of recreation, the artists quite literally attempt to reassemble a massive earth body. Inside the matrix of self-abandonment, violence, and ecological catastrophe, can this communal excavation reveal an alternate path towards somatic and interdependent possibility?
This in-progress presentation - visioned, choreographed, and directed by CPR 2023 Artist-in-Residence LILLETH - is part of Sunday Salon (in this case, happening on a Saturday), a program which supports work at various stages of development by CPR resident artists. To accompany the performance, there will be an exhibition on view in CPR’s Storefront Gallery of research, ephemera, objects, and scores on the intersecting scientific methodologies, creation myths, rituals, and somatic practices that inform this work.
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LILLETH Vision, Creator, Direction, Choreography, Lights/Puppet/Installation Design, Music Composition, Creative Production
Rad Pereira Co-Facilitation, Embodied Liberatory Dramaturgy, Community Engagement
Jen Anaya Healing Dramaturgy, Composition, Co-Facilitation, Collaborating Performer
Jack (Gypjaq Kai) Fuller Co-Facilitation, Choreography, Divination Dramaturgy, Alter Builder, Collaborating Performer
Tianna (Restlust) Nicole Music Composition, Sound, Performance, Puppet Build Team, Creative Production
Kelley Shih Lights, Creative Production
Sohina Sidhu Co-Creative Producer, Co-Facilitation, Dramaturgy, Collaborating Performer
Xiaoyue Zhang Dramaturgy, Choreography, Co-Facilitation, Collaborating Performer
Lester St. Louis Music Composition, Sound Design, Collaborating Performer
Arewa Basit Collaborating Performer
Lluca Huatuco Collaborating Performer, Choreographic Co-Facilitation
Ann-Sylvia Clarke Collaborating Performer
Kari Ostensen Collaborating Performer
Ayelet Haschahar Jewish Spiritual & Herbal Consultant
Sarah Finn Co-Creative Producer
Nicole Amaral Production Stage Manager
Jackie Rivera Puppet Construction & Engineering, Puppet Deck Hand
69999 by Parisjoy Costume Designer & Stylist
edxi betts Somatic Dramaturgy, Zine Maker
Grant Jones Creative Scientist
Dria Brown Community Care Orbit & Consulting artDoula
S T A R R (busby) Creative & Spiritual Advisor
Niki Franco Somatic Installation Writer
Julia Kaganskiy Curatorial Advisor
Maria Camia Puppet Co-Direction & Design Consultation
Jon Riddleberger Puppet Co-Direction & Design Consultation
Elizabeth Stewart Associate Lighting Designer
dioganhdih hall soundscape storyteller & composer
Yin Cheng-Kokott Creative and Archival Advisor
Buffy Production and Access Assistant
Morgan Johnson Associate Producer and Production Assistant
Garrett Allen Creative Production Assistant
Flor Tejada Director of Photography
Lizardo Reyes Jr. Steadicam Operator
Andrea Resendiz Gomez Creative Production Assistant
Alexis Copithorne Creative and Graphics Advisor
Diana Michener Visionary Advisor, Grandmother and Mentor to Lilleth
Natalie Geary Medical Advisor, Mother and Mentor to Lilleth
Isabelle Glimcher Legal Advisor, Sister and Mentor to Lilleth
Workshop Collaborators Ashton Muniz, Ita Segev, Rayne Raney, Jax Jackson
Note: This project is an emergent organism cultivated through care, shared leadership, and accountability. Roles have been co-determined and will be updated as they continue to shift and emerge. Additional collaborators will be added as we continue to grow our team.
CPR is ADA compliant and wheelchair-accessible, with accessible and all gender single-occupancy restrooms. An integral part of the process is making this multisensory project as accessible as possible. Detailed notes on accessibility pertaining to the program will be announced in the coming months. If you have any questions, please contact CPR at info@cprnyc.org or write to Studio Lilleth directly at studio.lilleth@gmail.com.
Detailed notes on accessibility and what to expect:
What to Expect: At 5:00pm, doors open to the storefront gallery, where there will be visual art, video, herbal waters, research, and a cozy corner. At 6:15pm, doors to the performance space will open for the 6:30 in-progress performance sharing. The performance will be about 75 minutes, without intermission nor late entry. However, you can leave at any time if necessary.
What to Wear: We invite you to wear monochrome, so your top and bottoms are matching in color.
Covid Policies: Please do not attend if you are experiencing any cold, flu, or COVID-related symptoms. Masks will be required at all times for participants inside CPR unless you are drinking water. After the performance we will offer refreshments in the exhibition, at which point you can remove your mask. There will be a separate exit through which you can leave if you do not want to move through an unmasked room.
Divination: The performance invites ritual practice co-facilitated by different collaborators of this project. We will have very intentional openings and closings. If you would like more information about the traditions we are calling upon and our spiritual praxis, please reach out to strataemerging@gmail.com.
Sound/ASL Interpretation: The music will call upon solfeggio healing frequencies, harmonic minor scales, rhythmic beats, and droning sound scapes. We will not be offering ASL interpretation for this performance. We are in the process of building a long term collaboration to incorporate American Sign Language deep into the fabric of the project. This iteration foregrounds sound as a tool of healing. We will offer a virtual version this summer that will have interpretation and captions. Thank you for your patience as we build our processes slowly and intentionally with collaborators. If you have any questions, feel free to write to strataemerging@gmail.com
Light: The performance will involve bright light, saturated colorful light, low-light, slow pulsating light, and darkness, including some sudden darkness.
Scent: There will be essential oils and herbs bottled at the care station for your personal use as needed.
Care Station: We will have a facilitator on site who can support you in positive resourcing in the event that this performance activates any difficult and urgent emotions or sensations. During the event the welcome space will function as a calming retreat in the event you need to leave the performance space.
Documentation: We will be documenting the performance with video and photography.