Photo by Whitney Browne.
to love the rise/pt.2 [REMNANTS]:
Ogemdi Ude, Kimiko Tanabe, s. lumbert, anna thompson, taylor knight, Symara Johnson, Tara Sheena, Malcolm-x Betts, Athena Kokoronis, Myssi Robinson, HandyQueers, Stephanie Acosta, Iris McCloughan, jess pretty, Theo Armstrong, and marion spencer
Opening and Live Performance
Thursday, September 8, 2022 | 6:00–9:00 P.M.
Tickets: $0-$25, pay what you can
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Gallery Hours
Saturday, September 10, 2022 | 12:00–6:00 P.M.
Free and open to the public
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to love the rise/pt.2 is a multimedia dance project grounded in physical practice, collective imagination, and relationships, created by a multidisciplinary group of artists under the direction of marion spencer. Through movement, vocalizations, and carpentry, a new Utopia is composted, built, and traversed, collaging moving and grooving, sensing and sounding, constructing and deconstructing, order and chaos, to arrive together into a transformed ecosystem and alternative order. The collaborative process has developed through an apocalypse previously imagined, and now lived, offering a feminine, feminist vision of a world built from the detritus of our current one.
Premiering as a process in two parts, to love the rise/pt.2 begins with [REMNANTS], a live performance exhibition at CPR – Center for Performance Research, followed by an evening-length performance presented by Roulette Intermedium in October 2022.
The Opening and Live Performance on Thursday, September 8 will feature a durational activation of the live performance exhibition in CPR’s Storefront Gallery, accompanied by a large-scale video installation in the Large Studio. During Gallery Hours on Saturday, September 10, remnants of the opening will be on view in the Storefront Gallery only, with intermittent embodied activations throughout the day.
we are back
we are composting
we are cracking open
we are meeting in prospect park/Munsee Lenape & Canarsie Land
we are listening
we are taking our time
we are dancing
we are making sounds
we are witness to what is here
we are examining what remains
we are laughing
we are talking
we are talking shit
we are being together
we are still making a dance
to love the rise/pt.2 has been supported through its development by The Chocolate Factory Theater, Mana Contemporary, Gibney Dance Center (for one day before the Covid-19 lockdown), Prospect Park, an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New Dance Alliance, The Field Center, Catwalk Institute, and Bridge Street Theatre.
Important note about visiting CPR:
CPR requires all visitors, artists, and staff to provide documentation of full vaccination against Covid-19 as well as a vaccine booster (if eligible), along with a photo ID, to enter CPR. For more information about booster eligibility, please visit the CDC's website. Masks must also be worn at all times inside CPR.