Sundays on Broadway - October 25
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Sundays on Broadway - October 25
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, October 25
mayfield brooks | Osmani Tellez | Jo Warren
Wave Jumper is a dance spell created by mayfield brooks in conversation with the legendary Detroit underground electronic music duo Drexciya. The duo named themselves after pregnant African women who were thrown off slave ships and gave birth to amphibious creatures known as the Drexciyan wave jumpers—great warriors of the abyss. This mythos was first noted in the inner sleeve notes of Drexciya’s 1997 release, The Quest.
Osmani Tellez’s Fire the Editor enters the unstable territory between who we are and who we think we should be. Through movement, text, sound, and transformation, the self fragments, multiplies, and searches for what remains when the editing stops.
Jo Warren’s Somebody’s Dream (working title) is a solo-turned-ensemble dance about the myth of the rugged individual. Warren writes: “It’s about being a loser, a failure, a nobody. It’s about having toilet paper stuck to your shoe and falling down. Come watch as a man falls to his death in slow motion!”
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/.
