Sundays on Broadway - November 8
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Sundays on Broadway - November 8
Founded by choreographer and video artist Cathy Weis in spring 2014, the one-night-only events bring together both luminaries and newcomers of downtown performance, creating a space for artists to perform and discuss their work and processes with audiences in the intimate setting of Weis’s SoHo studio. Since its inception, Sundays on Broadway has presented the work of more than 200 choreographers, filmmakers, performers, musicians, and visual artists. Robert Greskovic of The Wall Street Journal writes that “while the atmosphere evokes New York in the 1970s, the artistry on view feels up to the minute.”
Sunday, November 8
Quiet Ambassador | Jonathan Matthews-Guzman | Nailah Murray | Sakura Shimada
Quiet Ambassador is a sound and movement collective with dance artists Levi Gonzalez and Rachel Bernsen, and composer and vocalist Kyoko Kitamura. Together, they engage the synchrony and dyssynchrony of movement and sound as an integrated whole. As a trio, they prioritize listening, sonic and spatial connection, and mutual inspiration. They conjure both naturalistic and constructed environments as expressions of compositional ideas, reorienting our senses and the senses of the audience to imagined landscapes shaped by vibration, speech, and movement invention. They move the air.
Jonathan Matthews-Guzman’s What Will We Do? is a fully improvisational attempted recounting of plans for a previous piece by the same title. As this process unfolds, a musical selection from the work in question will be played at random, throwing a wrench of planned spontaneity into the remembrance. It is a seed for an ongoing series of multidisciplinary improvisational performances investigating setting intentions while honoring the mood the performer may or may not be in to realize them in the moment.
Nailah Murray will present a duet performed alongside Ricky Crews. Two solos defined by interruption and mirrored experience.
This summer, Sakura Shimada encountered Amish and Mennonite people, bears, loons, mushrooms, and a Japanese wrestler, Mayu Iwatani. For some reason, she says, they led her to find resilience and a piece of love in her heart.
All Sundays on Broadway events begin at 6pm. $5 to $20 suggested donation at the door. All donations go to the performers. WeisAcres is located at 537 Broadway, #3 (between Prince and Spring Streets), in Manhattan. For more information about Sundays on Broadway, visit https://cathyweis.org/weisacres/sundays-on-broadway/.
Pictured: Nailah Murray
