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SUMMARY:Salt (as part of Solo: A Festival of Dance)
DESCRIPTION:Solo: A Festival of Dance explores the solo as a rebellious act of self-expression. \nThe 2020 festival will feature an evening length program that includes performances from all five solo artists each night. In addition to these regularly scheduled performances there will be additional day-time and late-night programing co-curated with Dani Tirrell that will happen throughout the OtB building. \nThe 2020 Solo Artists:\nJade Solomon Curtis\nJumatatu Poe\nAdrienne Truscott\nMarianna Valencia\nAllie Hankins \n  \nSaltCreation and performance by jumatatu m. poeMetronome designed by EUMLabPlastic by RiteAid HOME\n\nI see this work as a lil’ cousin to my solo\, Android Tears\, which I was working on at one of the more difficult creative moments of my artistic life.  Through these two works\, I have been interested in the expansiveness of finite spaces.  Subversion and signifying have both been necessary tools for creation\, hopefully an absurd humor through imagery that paves the way for the freedom of confusion.  I like puzzles\, in their celebration of both confusion and order.  This performance is a puzzle – finding my infinity by way of rigidity.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/salt-as-part-of-solo-a-festival-of-dance/2020-02-21/
LOCATION:On the Boards\, 100 W Roy Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98119\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Salt (as part of Solo: A Festival of Dance)
DESCRIPTION:Solo: A Festival of Dance explores the solo as a rebellious act of self-expression. \nThe 2020 festival will feature an evening length program that includes performances from all five solo artists each night. In addition to these regularly scheduled performances there will be additional day-time and late-night programing co-curated with Dani Tirrell that will happen throughout the OtB building. \nThe 2020 Solo Artists:\nJade Solomon Curtis\nJumatatu Poe\nAdrienne Truscott\nMarianna Valencia\nAllie Hankins \n  \nSaltCreation and performance by jumatatu m. poeMetronome designed by EUMLabPlastic by RiteAid HOME\n\nI see this work as a lil’ cousin to my solo\, Android Tears\, which I was working on at one of the more difficult creative moments of my artistic life.  Through these two works\, I have been interested in the expansiveness of finite spaces.  Subversion and signifying have both been necessary tools for creation\, hopefully an absurd humor through imagery that paves the way for the freedom of confusion.  I like puzzles\, in their celebration of both confusion and order.  This performance is a puzzle – finding my infinity by way of rigidity.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/salt-as-part-of-solo-a-festival-of-dance/2020-02-20/
LOCATION:On the Boards\, 100 W Roy Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98119\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Queer Slow Jam
DESCRIPTION:Maybe less of a throwback and more of a reclaiming: we are about to transform those memories of high school dances that many of us didn’t attend – at least not in the way we wanted to.  We are going to welcome the slow jam onto the dance floor\, and meet it with a close embrace – maybe just of ourselves\, or of a consensual partner… or maybe more than one.  Let’s get close; feel our wise hips swing into the same dimly lit spaces\, hear inhales and exhales from a mouth hovering near our ear\, pumping oxygen for a heart rate that’s pulsing a bit faster than usual…  Let’s see what we can get up to way down below 95 bpm.  Let’s be people dancing up on other people\, when we want to and when we are wanted.  Let’s give our permission for the proximity that we are feeling.  Let’s be queer and normal and strange and open and close… very close…  Sweating to the beat of slow motion. \nWe will be blessed in the space with the sage musical curations DJ’s soon-to-be-announced.  Even as we may challenge\, tempt\, and transgress it\, we will honor that slow pulse\, the space in it\, the complex syncopations\, the polyrhythmicity.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/queer-slow-jam/
LOCATION:The Sankofa House\, 906 S 49th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Party
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SUMMARY:Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion (part of Wildin' In workshop series)
DESCRIPTION:Wildin’ In workshop series is a 4-day laboratory on cultivating erotic and wild energies within rigorous dance/performance play. The series is being offered for QTBIPOC and BIPOC accomplices. jumatatu’s The Switching and Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion workshops and a closing Queer Slow Jam will be structured vehicles to contain this play and shape our collective exploration. All events will be held at Sankofa House in Philadelphia from February 3 – 6\, 2020.  Registration will be open until workshop spots are full. Fees $0 – $150\, sliding scale. \n\nSweat to the Beat of Slow Motion\n6 – 9pm each day (on the final day\, we will likely end one hour early)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are going to welcome the slow jam onto the dance floor\, and meet it with a close embrace – maybe just of our individual selves\, or of a consensual partner… or maybe more than one. Let’s get close; feel our wise hips swing into dimly lit spaces\, hear inhales and exhales from a mouth hovering near our ear\, pumping oxygen for a heart rate that’s pulsing a bit faster than usual… Let’s see what we can get up to way down below 95 bpm. Let’s be people dancing up on other people\, when we want to and when we are wanted. Let’s ask for and give our permission for the proximity that we are desiring. Let’s be queer and normal and strange and open and close… very close… Sweating to the beat of slow motion. This is a collective exercise in exploring slow\, and experimenting with how to construct a mutually attentive unit with someone else – leading\, following\, and getting tangled in a consensual gray area. Within this\, we will explore movement related to the hip swing of the J-Sette march\, the entangled embrace of forms like Cuban Son and Angolan Kizomba\, and the importance of deeply communicative pelvic movement in African-descended dance forms. We will disrupt gendered notions about who follows and who leads\, slowly discovering the ways we would like to embrace and be embraced on the dance floor.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/sweat-to-the-beat-of-slow-motion-part-of-wildin-in-workshop-series/2020-02-06/
LOCATION:The Sankofa House\, 906 S 49th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
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SUMMARY:The Switching (part of Wildin' In workshop series)
DESCRIPTION:Wildin’ In workshop series is a 4-day laboratory on cultivating erotic and wild energies within rigorous dance/performance play. The series is being offered for QTBIPOC and BIPOC accomplices. jumatatu’s The Switching and Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion workshops and a closing Queer Slow Jam will be structured vehicles to contain this play and shape our collective exploration. All events will be held at Sankofa House in Philadelphia from February 3 – 6\, 2020.  Registration will be open until workshop spots are full. Fees $0 – $150\, sliding scale. \nThe Switching workshop\n1:30 – 4:30pm each day\n\n\nI like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation\, The Switching\, is a strategy in immediate evolution\, rapid-fire shifting\, sublime learning of and in the moment. I began this practice while dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?” \nOur practice will deal with strategic essentialization – through the immediate re-design of ourselves into other creatures\, or other ways of being our innate creatures – and working with immediately identifying the restrictions/limitations that are inescapable. It’s round about\, and ideally will come full circle. \nNow\, in this moment\, it’s circle/curve through my distals\, and my distalsare everywhere\, and my desire travels in orbits\, in cycles\, and my vision is a limb.And now\, in this moment\, my vision is a limb\, and I am comprised of everythingthat I can sense that I cannot see\, and I am composed of the samematerial all throughout my body\, and my voice is flat.And now\, in this moment\, my voice is flat\, and my rhythm is insistentlypercussive\, and my organs erupt to propel me into movement\, andthen they recompose themselves\, and I am responsible for all of the sound I canhear\, and I am feeling overwhelmed at all of my responsibility\, and myerotic desire is piercing through my pores. \nFor me\, there is something deeply spiritual about it\, something confusing\, something humbling/humiliating about it. I feel like it has theoretical links to code switching\, especially as it has to do with my Blackness and queerness\, experiences of immediate compartmentalization/contextualization as a defense mechanism\, as a means of survival. \n“It kinda asks the “safe space” academic overuse and misuse to reexamine itself cause not only am I accountable for what I’m choosing to put into the room\, but I’m acknowledging that there are things about my makeup/training/culture/privilege/unconscious/blind spots that can also cause a shift in the room or the community or the world for better or for worse or who knows really what the effect will be. Something about this philosophy is great to me because it doesn’t make me feel like I have to fret. It doesn’t make me feel totally paralyzed to choose or move. It does make me hyper-diligent about the messiness of it all\, the plurality of it all.“ \n—Christina Gesualdi
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/the-switching-part-of-wildin-in-workshop-series/2020-02-06/
LOCATION:The Sankofa House\, 906 S 49th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/switching-gif.gif
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SUMMARY:Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion (part of Wildin' In workshop series)
DESCRIPTION:Wildin’ In workshop series is a 4-day laboratory on cultivating erotic and wild energies within rigorous dance/performance play. The series is being offered for QTBIPOC and BIPOC accomplices. jumatatu’s The Switching and Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion workshops and a closing Queer Slow Jam will be structured vehicles to contain this play and shape our collective exploration. All events will be held at Sankofa House in Philadelphia from February 3 – 6\, 2020.  Registration will be open until workshop spots are full. Fees $0 – $150\, sliding scale. \n\nSweat to the Beat of Slow Motion\n6 – 9pm each day (on the final day\, we will likely end one hour early)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are going to welcome the slow jam onto the dance floor\, and meet it with a close embrace – maybe just of our individual selves\, or of a consensual partner… or maybe more than one. Let’s get close; feel our wise hips swing into dimly lit spaces\, hear inhales and exhales from a mouth hovering near our ear\, pumping oxygen for a heart rate that’s pulsing a bit faster than usual… Let’s see what we can get up to way down below 95 bpm. Let’s be people dancing up on other people\, when we want to and when we are wanted. Let’s ask for and give our permission for the proximity that we are desiring. Let’s be queer and normal and strange and open and close… very close… Sweating to the beat of slow motion. This is a collective exercise in exploring slow\, and experimenting with how to construct a mutually attentive unit with someone else – leading\, following\, and getting tangled in a consensual gray area. Within this\, we will explore movement related to the hip swing of the J-Sette march\, the entangled embrace of forms like Cuban Son and Angolan Kizomba\, and the importance of deeply communicative pelvic movement in African-descended dance forms. We will disrupt gendered notions about who follows and who leads\, slowly discovering the ways we would like to embrace and be embraced on the dance floor.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/sweat-to-the-beat-of-slow-motion-part-of-wildin-in-workshop-series/2020-02-05/
LOCATION:The Sankofa House\, 906 S 49th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
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SUMMARY:The Switching (part of Wildin' In workshop series)
DESCRIPTION:Wildin’ In workshop series is a 4-day laboratory on cultivating erotic and wild energies within rigorous dance/performance play. The series is being offered for QTBIPOC and BIPOC accomplices. jumatatu’s The Switching and Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion workshops and a closing Queer Slow Jam will be structured vehicles to contain this play and shape our collective exploration. All events will be held at Sankofa House in Philadelphia from February 3 – 6\, 2020.  Registration will be open until workshop spots are full. Fees $0 – $150\, sliding scale. \nThe Switching workshop\n1:30 – 4:30pm each day\n\n\nI like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation\, The Switching\, is a strategy in immediate evolution\, rapid-fire shifting\, sublime learning of and in the moment. I began this practice while dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?” \nOur practice will deal with strategic essentialization – through the immediate re-design of ourselves into other creatures\, or other ways of being our innate creatures – and working with immediately identifying the restrictions/limitations that are inescapable. It’s round about\, and ideally will come full circle. \nNow\, in this moment\, it’s circle/curve through my distals\, and my distalsare everywhere\, and my desire travels in orbits\, in cycles\, and my vision is a limb.And now\, in this moment\, my vision is a limb\, and I am comprised of everythingthat I can sense that I cannot see\, and I am composed of the samematerial all throughout my body\, and my voice is flat.And now\, in this moment\, my voice is flat\, and my rhythm is insistentlypercussive\, and my organs erupt to propel me into movement\, andthen they recompose themselves\, and I am responsible for all of the sound I canhear\, and I am feeling overwhelmed at all of my responsibility\, and myerotic desire is piercing through my pores. \nFor me\, there is something deeply spiritual about it\, something confusing\, something humbling/humiliating about it. I feel like it has theoretical links to code switching\, especially as it has to do with my Blackness and queerness\, experiences of immediate compartmentalization/contextualization as a defense mechanism\, as a means of survival. \n“It kinda asks the “safe space” academic overuse and misuse to reexamine itself cause not only am I accountable for what I’m choosing to put into the room\, but I’m acknowledging that there are things about my makeup/training/culture/privilege/unconscious/blind spots that can also cause a shift in the room or the community or the world for better or for worse or who knows really what the effect will be. Something about this philosophy is great to me because it doesn’t make me feel like I have to fret. It doesn’t make me feel totally paralyzed to choose or move. It does make me hyper-diligent about the messiness of it all\, the plurality of it all.“ \n—Christina Gesualdi
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/the-switching-part-of-wildin-in-workshop-series/2020-02-05/
LOCATION:The Sankofa House\, 906 S 49th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T210000
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SUMMARY:Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion (part of Wildin' In workshop series)
DESCRIPTION:Wildin’ In workshop series is a 4-day laboratory on cultivating erotic and wild energies within rigorous dance/performance play. The series is being offered for QTBIPOC and BIPOC accomplices. jumatatu’s The Switching and Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion workshops and a closing Queer Slow Jam will be structured vehicles to contain this play and shape our collective exploration. All events will be held at Sankofa House in Philadelphia from February 3 – 6\, 2020.  Registration will be open until workshop spots are full. Fees $0 – $150\, sliding scale. \n\nSweat to the Beat of Slow Motion\n6 – 9pm each day (on the final day\, we will likely end one hour early)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are going to welcome the slow jam onto the dance floor\, and meet it with a close embrace – maybe just of our individual selves\, or of a consensual partner… or maybe more than one. Let’s get close; feel our wise hips swing into dimly lit spaces\, hear inhales and exhales from a mouth hovering near our ear\, pumping oxygen for a heart rate that’s pulsing a bit faster than usual… Let’s see what we can get up to way down below 95 bpm. Let’s be people dancing up on other people\, when we want to and when we are wanted. Let’s ask for and give our permission for the proximity that we are desiring. Let’s be queer and normal and strange and open and close… very close… Sweating to the beat of slow motion. This is a collective exercise in exploring slow\, and experimenting with how to construct a mutually attentive unit with someone else – leading\, following\, and getting tangled in a consensual gray area. Within this\, we will explore movement related to the hip swing of the J-Sette march\, the entangled embrace of forms like Cuban Son and Angolan Kizomba\, and the importance of deeply communicative pelvic movement in African-descended dance forms. We will disrupt gendered notions about who follows and who leads\, slowly discovering the ways we would like to embrace and be embraced on the dance floor.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/sweat-to-the-beat-of-slow-motion-part-of-wildin-in-workshop-series/2020-02-04/
LOCATION:The Sankofa House\, 906 S 49th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/jumatatu-julian.gif
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T163000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T232834Z
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SUMMARY:The Switching (part of Wildin' In workshop series)
DESCRIPTION:Wildin’ In workshop series is a 4-day laboratory on cultivating erotic and wild energies within rigorous dance/performance play. The series is being offered for QTBIPOC and BIPOC accomplices. jumatatu’s The Switching and Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion workshops and a closing Queer Slow Jam will be structured vehicles to contain this play and shape our collective exploration. All events will be held at Sankofa House in Philadelphia from February 3 – 6\, 2020.  Registration will be open until workshop spots are full. Fees $0 – $150\, sliding scale. \nThe Switching workshop\n1:30 – 4:30pm each day\n\n\nI like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation\, The Switching\, is a strategy in immediate evolution\, rapid-fire shifting\, sublime learning of and in the moment. I began this practice while dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?” \nOur practice will deal with strategic essentialization – through the immediate re-design of ourselves into other creatures\, or other ways of being our innate creatures – and working with immediately identifying the restrictions/limitations that are inescapable. It’s round about\, and ideally will come full circle. \nNow\, in this moment\, it’s circle/curve through my distals\, and my distalsare everywhere\, and my desire travels in orbits\, in cycles\, and my vision is a limb.And now\, in this moment\, my vision is a limb\, and I am comprised of everythingthat I can sense that I cannot see\, and I am composed of the samematerial all throughout my body\, and my voice is flat.And now\, in this moment\, my voice is flat\, and my rhythm is insistentlypercussive\, and my organs erupt to propel me into movement\, andthen they recompose themselves\, and I am responsible for all of the sound I canhear\, and I am feeling overwhelmed at all of my responsibility\, and myerotic desire is piercing through my pores. \nFor me\, there is something deeply spiritual about it\, something confusing\, something humbling/humiliating about it. I feel like it has theoretical links to code switching\, especially as it has to do with my Blackness and queerness\, experiences of immediate compartmentalization/contextualization as a defense mechanism\, as a means of survival. \n“It kinda asks the “safe space” academic overuse and misuse to reexamine itself cause not only am I accountable for what I’m choosing to put into the room\, but I’m acknowledging that there are things about my makeup/training/culture/privilege/unconscious/blind spots that can also cause a shift in the room or the community or the world for better or for worse or who knows really what the effect will be. Something about this philosophy is great to me because it doesn’t make me feel like I have to fret. It doesn’t make me feel totally paralyzed to choose or move. It does make me hyper-diligent about the messiness of it all\, the plurality of it all.“ \n—Christina Gesualdi
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/the-switching-part-of-wildin-in-workshop-series/2020-02-04/
LOCATION:The Sankofa House\, 906 S 49th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20200113T233911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T233911Z
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SUMMARY:Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion (part of Wildin' In workshop series)
DESCRIPTION:Wildin’ In workshop series is a 4-day laboratory on cultivating erotic and wild energies within rigorous dance/performance play. The series is being offered for QTBIPOC and BIPOC accomplices. jumatatu’s The Switching and Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion workshops and a closing Queer Slow Jam will be structured vehicles to contain this play and shape our collective exploration. All events will be held at Sankofa House in Philadelphia from February 3 – 6\, 2020.  Registration will be open until workshop spots are full. Fees $0 – $150\, sliding scale. \n\nSweat to the Beat of Slow Motion\n6 – 9pm each day (on the final day\, we will likely end one hour early)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are going to welcome the slow jam onto the dance floor\, and meet it with a close embrace – maybe just of our individual selves\, or of a consensual partner… or maybe more than one. Let’s get close; feel our wise hips swing into dimly lit spaces\, hear inhales and exhales from a mouth hovering near our ear\, pumping oxygen for a heart rate that’s pulsing a bit faster than usual… Let’s see what we can get up to way down below 95 bpm. Let’s be people dancing up on other people\, when we want to and when we are wanted. Let’s ask for and give our permission for the proximity that we are desiring. Let’s be queer and normal and strange and open and close… very close… Sweating to the beat of slow motion. This is a collective exercise in exploring slow\, and experimenting with how to construct a mutually attentive unit with someone else – leading\, following\, and getting tangled in a consensual gray area. Within this\, we will explore movement related to the hip swing of the J-Sette march\, the entangled embrace of forms like Cuban Son and Angolan Kizomba\, and the importance of deeply communicative pelvic movement in African-descended dance forms. We will disrupt gendered notions about who follows and who leads\, slowly discovering the ways we would like to embrace and be embraced on the dance floor.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/sweat-to-the-beat-of-slow-motion-part-of-wildin-in-workshop-series/2020-02-03/
LOCATION:The Sankofa House\, 906 S 49th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200203T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200203T163000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20200113T232834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T232834Z
UID:10000061-1580736600-1580747400@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:The Switching (part of Wildin' In workshop series)
DESCRIPTION:Wildin’ In workshop series is a 4-day laboratory on cultivating erotic and wild energies within rigorous dance/performance play. The series is being offered for QTBIPOC and BIPOC accomplices. jumatatu’s The Switching and Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion workshops and a closing Queer Slow Jam will be structured vehicles to contain this play and shape our collective exploration. All events will be held at Sankofa House in Philadelphia from February 3 – 6\, 2020.  Registration will be open until workshop spots are full. Fees $0 – $150\, sliding scale. \nThe Switching workshop\n1:30 – 4:30pm each day\n\n\nI like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation\, The Switching\, is a strategy in immediate evolution\, rapid-fire shifting\, sublime learning of and in the moment. I began this practice while dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?” \nOur practice will deal with strategic essentialization – through the immediate re-design of ourselves into other creatures\, or other ways of being our innate creatures – and working with immediately identifying the restrictions/limitations that are inescapable. It’s round about\, and ideally will come full circle. \nNow\, in this moment\, it’s circle/curve through my distals\, and my distalsare everywhere\, and my desire travels in orbits\, in cycles\, and my vision is a limb.And now\, in this moment\, my vision is a limb\, and I am comprised of everythingthat I can sense that I cannot see\, and I am composed of the samematerial all throughout my body\, and my voice is flat.And now\, in this moment\, my voice is flat\, and my rhythm is insistentlypercussive\, and my organs erupt to propel me into movement\, andthen they recompose themselves\, and I am responsible for all of the sound I canhear\, and I am feeling overwhelmed at all of my responsibility\, and myerotic desire is piercing through my pores. \nFor me\, there is something deeply spiritual about it\, something confusing\, something humbling/humiliating about it. I feel like it has theoretical links to code switching\, especially as it has to do with my Blackness and queerness\, experiences of immediate compartmentalization/contextualization as a defense mechanism\, as a means of survival. \n“It kinda asks the “safe space” academic overuse and misuse to reexamine itself cause not only am I accountable for what I’m choosing to put into the room\, but I’m acknowledging that there are things about my makeup/training/culture/privilege/unconscious/blind spots that can also cause a shift in the room or the community or the world for better or for worse or who knows really what the effect will be. Something about this philosophy is great to me because it doesn’t make me feel like I have to fret. It doesn’t make me feel totally paralyzed to choose or move. It does make me hyper-diligent about the messiness of it all\, the plurality of it all.“ \n—Christina Gesualdi
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/the-switching-part-of-wildin-in-workshop-series/2020-02-03/
LOCATION:The Sankofa House\, 906 S 49th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/switching-gif.gif
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20191005T125230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191005T125230Z
UID:10000059-1574272800-1574283600@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:The Switching
DESCRIPTION:The Switching\nA Workshop Series With Jumatatu Poe\nNovember 17 – 4pm-7pm\, And November 18-20 – 6pm-9pm\nFull Workshop Early Bird $75-100 (Until Oct 17) // Full Workshop After Oct 17 $100-125 // Drop In $20-35 (Drop Ins Only Allowed Sun + Mon)  \n  \nI like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation\, The Switching\, is a strategy in immediate evolution\, rapid-fire shifting\, sublime learning of and in the moment. I began this practice while dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?”  \nOur practice will deal with strategic essentialization – through the immediate re-design of ourselves into other creatures\, or other ways of being our innate creatures – and working with immediately identifying the restrictions/limitations that are inescapable. It’s round about\, and ideally will come full circle. \nNow\, in this moment\, it’s circle/curve through my distals\, and my distals\nare everywhere\, and my desire travels in orbits\, in cycles\, and my vision is a limb.\nAnd now\, in this moment\, my vision is a limb\, and I am comprised of everything\nthat I can sense that I cannot see\, and I am composed of the same\nmaterial all throughout my body\, and my voice is flat.\nAnd now\, in this moment\, my voice is flat\, and my rhythmic is insistently\npercussive\, and my organs erupt to propel me into movement\, and\nthen they recompose themselves\, and I am responsible for all of the sound I can\nhear\, and I am feeling overwhelmed at all of my responsibility\, and my\neroticism desire is piercing through my pores. \nFor me\, there is something deeply spiritual about it\, something confusing\, something humbling/humiliating about it. I feel like it has theoretical links to code switching\, especially as it has to do with my Blackness and queerness\, experiences of immediate compartmentalization/contextualization as a defense mechanism\, as a means of survival.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/the-switching/2019-11-20/
LOCATION:The Whole Shebang\, 1813 South 11th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19148\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/switching-gif.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="The Whole Shebang":MAILTO:art.at.shebang@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20191005T125230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191005T125230Z
UID:10000058-1574186400-1574197200@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:The Switching
DESCRIPTION:The Switching\nA Workshop Series With Jumatatu Poe\nNovember 17 – 4pm-7pm\, And November 18-20 – 6pm-9pm\nFull Workshop Early Bird $75-100 (Until Oct 17) // Full Workshop After Oct 17 $100-125 // Drop In $20-35 (Drop Ins Only Allowed Sun + Mon)  \n  \nI like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation\, The Switching\, is a strategy in immediate evolution\, rapid-fire shifting\, sublime learning of and in the moment. I began this practice while dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?”  \nOur practice will deal with strategic essentialization – through the immediate re-design of ourselves into other creatures\, or other ways of being our innate creatures – and working with immediately identifying the restrictions/limitations that are inescapable. It’s round about\, and ideally will come full circle. \nNow\, in this moment\, it’s circle/curve through my distals\, and my distals\nare everywhere\, and my desire travels in orbits\, in cycles\, and my vision is a limb.\nAnd now\, in this moment\, my vision is a limb\, and I am comprised of everything\nthat I can sense that I cannot see\, and I am composed of the same\nmaterial all throughout my body\, and my voice is flat.\nAnd now\, in this moment\, my voice is flat\, and my rhythmic is insistently\npercussive\, and my organs erupt to propel me into movement\, and\nthen they recompose themselves\, and I am responsible for all of the sound I can\nhear\, and I am feeling overwhelmed at all of my responsibility\, and my\neroticism desire is piercing through my pores. \nFor me\, there is something deeply spiritual about it\, something confusing\, something humbling/humiliating about it. I feel like it has theoretical links to code switching\, especially as it has to do with my Blackness and queerness\, experiences of immediate compartmentalization/contextualization as a defense mechanism\, as a means of survival.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/the-switching/2019-11-19/
LOCATION:The Whole Shebang\, 1813 South 11th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19148\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/switching-gif.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="The Whole Shebang":MAILTO:art.at.shebang@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20191005T125230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191005T125230Z
UID:10000057-1574100000-1574110800@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:The Switching
DESCRIPTION:The Switching\nA Workshop Series With Jumatatu Poe\nNovember 17 – 4pm-7pm\, And November 18-20 – 6pm-9pm\nFull Workshop Early Bird $75-100 (Until Oct 17) // Full Workshop After Oct 17 $100-125 // Drop In $20-35 (Drop Ins Only Allowed Sun + Mon)  \n  \nI like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation\, The Switching\, is a strategy in immediate evolution\, rapid-fire shifting\, sublime learning of and in the moment. I began this practice while dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?”  \nOur practice will deal with strategic essentialization – through the immediate re-design of ourselves into other creatures\, or other ways of being our innate creatures – and working with immediately identifying the restrictions/limitations that are inescapable. It’s round about\, and ideally will come full circle. \nNow\, in this moment\, it’s circle/curve through my distals\, and my distals\nare everywhere\, and my desire travels in orbits\, in cycles\, and my vision is a limb.\nAnd now\, in this moment\, my vision is a limb\, and I am comprised of everything\nthat I can sense that I cannot see\, and I am composed of the same\nmaterial all throughout my body\, and my voice is flat.\nAnd now\, in this moment\, my voice is flat\, and my rhythmic is insistently\npercussive\, and my organs erupt to propel me into movement\, and\nthen they recompose themselves\, and I am responsible for all of the sound I can\nhear\, and I am feeling overwhelmed at all of my responsibility\, and my\neroticism desire is piercing through my pores. \nFor me\, there is something deeply spiritual about it\, something confusing\, something humbling/humiliating about it. I feel like it has theoretical links to code switching\, especially as it has to do with my Blackness and queerness\, experiences of immediate compartmentalization/contextualization as a defense mechanism\, as a means of survival.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/the-switching/2019-11-18/
LOCATION:The Whole Shebang\, 1813 South 11th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19148\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/switching-gif.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="The Whole Shebang":MAILTO:art.at.shebang@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20191005T125230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191005T125230Z
UID:10000056-1574013600-1574024400@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:The Switching
DESCRIPTION:The Switching\nA Workshop Series With Jumatatu Poe\nNovember 17 – 4pm-7pm\, And November 18-20 – 6pm-9pm\nFull Workshop Early Bird $75-100 (Until Oct 17) // Full Workshop After Oct 17 $100-125 // Drop In $20-35 (Drop Ins Only Allowed Sun + Mon)  \n  \nI like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation\, The Switching\, is a strategy in immediate evolution\, rapid-fire shifting\, sublime learning of and in the moment. I began this practice while dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?”  \nOur practice will deal with strategic essentialization – through the immediate re-design of ourselves into other creatures\, or other ways of being our innate creatures – and working with immediately identifying the restrictions/limitations that are inescapable. It’s round about\, and ideally will come full circle. \nNow\, in this moment\, it’s circle/curve through my distals\, and my distals\nare everywhere\, and my desire travels in orbits\, in cycles\, and my vision is a limb.\nAnd now\, in this moment\, my vision is a limb\, and I am comprised of everything\nthat I can sense that I cannot see\, and I am composed of the same\nmaterial all throughout my body\, and my voice is flat.\nAnd now\, in this moment\, my voice is flat\, and my rhythmic is insistently\npercussive\, and my organs erupt to propel me into movement\, and\nthen they recompose themselves\, and I am responsible for all of the sound I can\nhear\, and I am feeling overwhelmed at all of my responsibility\, and my\neroticism desire is piercing through my pores. \nFor me\, there is something deeply spiritual about it\, something confusing\, something humbling/humiliating about it. I feel like it has theoretical links to code switching\, especially as it has to do with my Blackness and queerness\, experiences of immediate compartmentalization/contextualization as a defense mechanism\, as a means of survival.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/the-switching/2019-11-17/
LOCATION:The Whole Shebang\, 1813 South 11th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19148\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/switching-gif.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="The Whole Shebang":MAILTO:art.at.shebang@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191104T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20191005T122649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191005T122649Z
UID:10000001-1572883200-1572890400@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:Big Body workshop in Austin\, TX
DESCRIPTION:The Carver Museum and Fusebox Festival Present\n// A *FREE* dance workshop with jumatatu m. poe & Jermone “Donte” Beacham //\nNovember 4th\, 2019 4-6pm. \nJ-Sette\, also known as Bucking\, is a performance style popular in the southern United States\, practiced widely among majorettes and drill teams at historically Black colleges and universities\, and also among teams of primarily queer men who compete in gay clubs and pride festivals. The workshop focuses on bombastic performance energy\, complex relationships to rhythm and music\, movement precision\, group dynamics\, and discovering joy in flesh and community. We will explore how the performance of J-Sette creates expectations around attention and accountability to a community\, and how it positions leadership. All bodies are encouraged to participate\, regardless of previous training or ability. \nThe Big Body workshop is part of jumatatu and Jermone’s research for their performance “Let ‘Im Move You: Intervention\,” which will be performed at Fusebox Festival in April 2020 (15th-19th) in partnership with the Carver Museum. \nWorkshops are free\, but reservations are required.\nQTPOC participants will be prioritized.\nSign up by emailing anna@fuseboxfestival.com \nThe Carver Museum\, Dance Studio\n1165 Angelina St\, Austin\, TX 78702 \nNovember 4th\, 2019\n4-6pm.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/big-body-workshop-in-austin-tx/
LOCATION:George Washington Carver Museum\, Cultural and Genealogy Center\, 1165 Angelina Street\, Austin\, TX\, 78702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Formation,Intervention,L'MY,Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Formation-Studio-rehearsal-Ken.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="George Washington Carver Museum%2C Cultural and Genealogy":MAILTO:carver.museum@austintexas.gov
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191101T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20191005T124051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191026T053401Z
UID:10000055-1572636600-1572642000@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:excerpts from Let ‘im Move You: This Is a Success / A Study
DESCRIPTION:jumatatu m. poe\, Donte Beacham\, and William Robinson\nLet ‘im Move You: This Is A Success / A Study \njumatatu m. poe  and Jermone “Donte” Beacham create works that stem from the study and performance of J-Sette\, the call-and-response dance form originated by majorette lines at various historically Black colleges. Leagues of Black queer men\, prohibited from trying out as majorettes\, adopted the form and created competitive teams to practice in gay clubs and pride parades. Searching for satisfaction and subversion within J-Sette’s team-oriented call-and-response structure\, the Let ‘im Move You series houses jumatatu and Donte’s projects together. The series’ most recent creation\, This Is A Formation\, was co-commissioned by the CAC. \nWithin the exhibition “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott”\, jumatatu\, Donte\, and William Robinson will mount a choreographic discourse with Colescott and his work\, mining the intersections of narratives concerning allegiance/allowance in relationship to Black communities\, and Colescott’s own Blackness. Featuring excerpts of the works This Is A Success and A Study\, this “conversation” will explore Colescott’s commitment to presenting multifaceted representations\, extrapolations\, and transgressive fantasies of Black people amidst a reality that feels much more absolute. \nFriday\, November 1\, 2019\, 7:30PM \n4th Floor\, Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott”
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/excerpts-from-let-im-move-you-this-is-a-success-a-study/
LOCATION:Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center (CAC)\, 44 E. 6th Street\, Cincinnati\, OH\, 45202\, United States
CATEGORIES:L'MY,Performance,Success / Study
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/butts.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center (CAC)":MAILTO:thoughts@contemporaryartscenter.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20191026T054154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191026T054528Z
UID:10000060-1572462000-1572469200@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:BIG BODY: Experimental J-Sette Performance Workshop
DESCRIPTION:J-Sette\, also known as Bucking\, is a performance style popular in the southern United States practiced widely among majorettes and drill teams at historically Black colleges and universities\, and also among teams of primarily queer men who compete in gay clubs and pride festivals. This workshop focuses on bombastic performance energy\, complex relationships to rhythm and music\, movement precision\, group dynamics\, and discovering joy in flesh and community. We will explore how the performance of J-Sette creates expectations around attention and accountability to a community\, and how it positions leadership. \nBIG BODY is organized in connection with an upcoming CAC performance\, with details to be announced on a later date. All bodies are encouraged to participate\, regardless of previous training or ability. \nTo reserve space at BIG BODY\, send an email to bigbodycincy@gmail.com confirming your participation.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/big-body-experimental-j-sette-performance-workshop-4/
LOCATION:Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center (CAC)\, 44 E. 6th Street\, Cincinnati\, OH\, 45202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Formation,L'MY,Success / Study,Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Formation-Studio-rehearsal-Ken.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center (CAC)":MAILTO:thoughts@contemporaryartscenter.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191012T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191013T030000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190822T142323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190911T180058Z
UID:10000004-1570917600-1570935600@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:Queer Slow Jam
DESCRIPTION:Maybe less of a throwback and more of a reclaiming: we are about to transform those memories of high school dances that many of us didn’t attend – at least not in the way we wanted to.  We are going to welcome the slow jam onto the dance floor\, and meet it with a close embrace – maybe just of ourselves\, or of a consensual partner… or maybe more than one.  Let’s get close; feel our wise hips swing into the same dimly lit spaces\, hear inhales and exhales from a mouth hovering near our ear\, pumping oxygen for a heart rate that’s pulsing a bit faster than usual…  Let’s see what we can get up to way down below 95 bpm.  Let’s be people dancing up on other people\, when we want to and when we are wanted.  Let’s give our permission for the proximity that we are feeling.  Let’s be queer and normal and strange and open and close… very close…  Sweating to the beat of slow motion.\n\nWe will be blessed in the space with the sage musical curations of our own DJ  dø√∑Ç@K∑\, alongside A²Z\, JADALAREIGN\, and Prdiva09.  Even as we may challenge\, tempt\, and transgress it\, we will honor that slow pulse\, the space in it\, the complex syncopations\, the polyrhythmicity.  Choreographers jumatatu m. poe and Donte Beacham will start off the night with a short instruction of some of the close dancing they have been experimenting with in rehearsal\, related to the hip swing of the J-Sette march\, and the importance of pelvic movement in African-descended dance forms.  Throughout the night\, the dancers of This Is a Formation will perform brief slow choreographies\, and also dance with you…
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/queer-slow-jam-party-3-2019-10-12/
LOCATION:NO Bar\, The Standard\, 25 Cooper Sq\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:L'MY,Party,Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/queer-slow-jam-gif2.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="Abrons Arts Center":MAILTO:info@henrystreet.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191012T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191012T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190822T144834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T144834Z
UID:10000007-1570906800-1570915800@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: This Is a Formation
DESCRIPTION:This Is a Formation is the latest dance performance project in jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham’s Let ‘im Move You series\, a collection of performance and visual works centered around the artists’ explorations with the J-Sette form. Formation brings together 7 Black dancers\, a DJ\, and a lighting designer as performers for the work. Audiences travel within the performance space with relative freedom\, sharing the same spaces as performers. Live captured video design elements will focus on close-up capture of the performers for display on hanging panels throughout the space\, referencing both hyper-surveillance of Black people’s bodies\, and pop-star scale megalomania.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/let-im-move-you-this-is-a-formation/2019-10-12/
LOCATION:Abrons Arts Center\, 466 Grand Street\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Formation,L'MY,Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Formation-tech-rehearsal-at-MANCC-footage-from-Chris-Cameron-group.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="Abrons Arts Center":MAILTO:info@henrystreet.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191011T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190822T144834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T144834Z
UID:10000006-1570820400-1570829400@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: This Is a Formation
DESCRIPTION:This Is a Formation is the latest dance performance project in jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham’s Let ‘im Move You series\, a collection of performance and visual works centered around the artists’ explorations with the J-Sette form. Formation brings together 7 Black dancers\, a DJ\, and a lighting designer as performers for the work. Audiences travel within the performance space with relative freedom\, sharing the same spaces as performers. Live captured video design elements will focus on close-up capture of the performers for display on hanging panels throughout the space\, referencing both hyper-surveillance of Black people’s bodies\, and pop-star scale megalomania.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/let-im-move-you-this-is-a-formation/2019-10-11/
LOCATION:Abrons Arts Center\, 466 Grand Street\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Formation,L'MY,Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Formation-tech-rehearsal-at-MANCC-footage-from-Chris-Cameron-group.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="Abrons Arts Center":MAILTO:info@henrystreet.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190822T144834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T144834Z
UID:10000005-1570734000-1570743000@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: This Is a Formation
DESCRIPTION:This Is a Formation is the latest dance performance project in jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham’s Let ‘im Move You series\, a collection of performance and visual works centered around the artists’ explorations with the J-Sette form. Formation brings together 7 Black dancers\, a DJ\, and a lighting designer as performers for the work. Audiences travel within the performance space with relative freedom\, sharing the same spaces as performers. Live captured video design elements will focus on close-up capture of the performers for display on hanging panels throughout the space\, referencing both hyper-surveillance of Black people’s bodies\, and pop-star scale megalomania.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/let-im-move-you-this-is-a-formation/2019-10-10/
LOCATION:Abrons Arts Center\, 466 Grand Street\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Formation,L'MY,Performance
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ORGANIZER;CN="Abrons Arts Center":MAILTO:info@henrystreet.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191010
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191014
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190822T145846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T145846Z
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SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: Installation
DESCRIPTION:Installation is an open-ended collection of installation works presented alongside performance work in jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham’s Let ‘im Move You series. The works are a combination of media including video projection\, audio\, and sculpture that consider strategic essentialism and code switching as defense mechanisms and means of survival.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/let-im-move-you-installation/
LOCATION:Abrons Arts Center\, 466 Grand Street\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:L'MY
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ORGANIZER;CN="Abrons Arts Center":MAILTO:info@henrystreet.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191009T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190822T132550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T134014Z
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SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: Intervention
DESCRIPTION:Part of jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham’s decade-long collaborative research into J-Sette performance\, Intervention activates histories of Black neighborhoods in The Bronx and the Lower East Side\, as it uses rhythm and precision as vehicles into subversion and satisfaction. On sidewalks and in alleyways\, jumatatu and Donte draw on J-Sette’s call-and-response structure to reveal the powerfully singular expression that can emerge within this highly regimented dance. J-Sette originated among drill teams and majorette lines of historically Black southern universities and continues to grab the attention of half-time stadium crowds—while having found a second life\, and new political meanings\, in the Black gay club scene. Performance routes are announced only hours before their intervention\, freeing the performers to agitate the boundaries of propriety and belonging\, and confront the historic imaginations and limitations of these spaces.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/let-im-move-you-intervention-5-2019-10-09/
LOCATION:Lower East Side\, NYC
CATEGORIES:Intervention,L'MY,Performance
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ORGANIZER;CN="Abrons Arts Center":MAILTO:info@henrystreet.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191005T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191005T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190822T061756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T061756Z
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SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: This Is a Success and A Study
DESCRIPTION:Let ‘im Move You\, a series of performance and installation works\, is a continuation of jumatatu and Donte’s work within and in response to J-Sette’s movement vocabulary and Black queer performance aesthetics. In A Study\, performed by the artists\, J-Sette is a base of experimentation into the role of strategy both in dance making and social design. This Is a Success\, the second performance work in the series\, is a duet performed by jumatatu and dancer William Robsinon that explores notions of African-American exceptionalism as expressed through the middle class\, Black American values reiterated in the J-Sette form. J-Sette’s rhythmic rigor and team-oriented execution of in-time formal improvisations allow the artists to flirtatiously tease their audiences through playful games of rhythm\, pattern\, and attention. \nThe two respective duets inform the larger group work\, Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation\, which will be performed at Abrons Arts Center October 10 – 12. Purchase tickets for Let ‘im Move You: This is a Success and a Study and Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation and receive a $5 discount on your order!
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/let-im-move-you-this-is-a-success-and-a-study/2019-10-05/
LOCATION:BAAD!\, 2474 Westchester Avenue\, Bronx\, NY\, 10461\, United States
CATEGORIES:L'MY,Performance,Success / Study
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ORGANIZER;CN="BAAD! (The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance)":MAILTO:info@baadbronx.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191005T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191005T133000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190822T132550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191005T115831Z
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SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: Intervention
DESCRIPTION:STARTING ON THE BRIDGE ON TREMONT AVENUE NEXT TO LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL (3000 TREMONT AVENUE\, THE BRONX\, NY 10461); https://bit.ly/2Mj5aoO for more information\, and a location share if you arrive after 12:15pm \nPart of jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham’s decade-long collaborative research into J-Sette performance\, Intervention activates histories of Black neighborhoods in The Bronx and the Lower East Side\, as it uses rhythm and precision as vehicles into subversion and satisfaction. On sidewalks and in alleyways\, jumatatu and Donte draw on J-Sette’s call-and-response structure to reveal the powerfully singular expression that can emerge within this highly regimented dance. J-Sette originated among drill teams and majorette lines of historically Black southern universities and continues to grab the attention of half-time stadium crowds—while having found a second life\, and new political meanings\, in the Black gay club scene. Performance routes are announced only hours before their intervention\, freeing the performers to agitate the boundaries of propriety and belonging\, and confront the historic imaginations and limitations of these spaces.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/let-im-move-you-intervention-5/
LOCATION:The Bronx\, NYC
CATEGORIES:Intervention,L'MY,Performance
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ORGANIZER;CN="BAAD! (The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance)":MAILTO:info@baadbronx.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191005T020000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190822T142323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190911T180156Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Slow Jam
DESCRIPTION:Maybe less of a throwback and more of a reclaiming: we are about to transform those memories of high school dances that many of us didn’t attend – at least not in the way we wanted to.  We are going to welcome the slow jam onto the dance floor\, and meet it with a close embrace – maybe just of ourselves\, or of a consensual partner… or maybe more than one.  Let’s get close; feel our wise hips swing into the same dimly lit spaces\, hear inhales and exhales from a mouth hovering near our ear\, pumping oxygen for a heart rate that’s pulsing a bit faster than usual…  Let’s see what we can get up to way down below 95 bpm.  Let’s be people dancing up on other people\, when we want to and when we are wanted.  Let’s give our permission for the proximity that we are feeling.  Let’s be queer and normal and strange and open and close… very close…  Sweating to the beat of slow motion.\n\nWe will be blessed in the space with the sage musical curations of DJ Rena Anakwe.  Even as we may challenge\, tempt\, and transgress it\, we will honor that slow pulse\, the space in it\, the complex syncopations\, the polyrhythmicity.  Choreographers jumatatu m. poe and Donte Beacham will start off the night with a short instruction of some of the close dancing they have been experimenting with in rehearsal\, related to the hip swing of the J-Sette march\, and the importance of pelvic movement in African-descended dance forms.  Throughout the night\, the dancers of This Is a Formation will perform brief slow choreographies\, and also dance with you…
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/queer-slow-jam-party-3/2019-10-04/
LOCATION:BAAD!\, 2474 Westchester Avenue\, Bronx\, NY\, 10461\, United States
CATEGORIES:L'MY,Party,Performance
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ORGANIZER;CN="BAAD! (The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance)":MAILTO:info@baadbronx.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190822T061756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T061756Z
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SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: This Is a Success and A Study
DESCRIPTION:Let ‘im Move You\, a series of performance and installation works\, is a continuation of jumatatu and Donte’s work within and in response to J-Sette’s movement vocabulary and Black queer performance aesthetics. In A Study\, performed by the artists\, J-Sette is a base of experimentation into the role of strategy both in dance making and social design. This Is a Success\, the second performance work in the series\, is a duet performed by jumatatu and dancer William Robsinon that explores notions of African-American exceptionalism as expressed through the middle class\, Black American values reiterated in the J-Sette form. J-Sette’s rhythmic rigor and team-oriented execution of in-time formal improvisations allow the artists to flirtatiously tease their audiences through playful games of rhythm\, pattern\, and attention. \nThe two respective duets inform the larger group work\, Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation\, which will be performed at Abrons Arts Center October 10 – 12. Purchase tickets for Let ‘im Move You: This is a Success and a Study and Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation and receive a $5 discount on your order!
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/let-im-move-you-this-is-a-success-and-a-study/2019-10-04/
LOCATION:BAAD!\, 2474 Westchester Avenue\, Bronx\, NY\, 10461\, United States
CATEGORIES:L'MY,Performance,Success / Study
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ORGANIZER;CN="BAAD! (The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance)":MAILTO:info@baadbronx.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190803T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190803T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190614T152703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190614T152703Z
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SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: Intervention
DESCRIPTION:jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham’s Intervention is part performance\, part public action\, designed to provoke dialogue about Black queer life in public space and centered around J-Sette performance and culture. Part public action\, this work is free and open to anyone who wishes to follow it through the streets of Portland on August 2nd and Lewiston on August 3rd. \n\n \ncredit Gema Galiana
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/let-im-move-you-intervention-4/
LOCATION:Lewiston\, ME – Performance begins at New Beginnings and Tree Street Youth and ends at Alumni Gymnasium\, Lewiston\, ME\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bates Dance Festival":MAILTO:dancefest@bates.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190802T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190802T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T053656
CREATED:20190614T152136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190614T152136Z
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SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: Intervention
DESCRIPTION:jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham’s Intervention is part performance\, part public action\, designed to provoke dialogue about Black queer life in public space and centered around J-Sette performance and culture. Part public action\, this work is free and open to anyone who wishes to follow it through the streets of Portland on August 2nd and Lewiston on August 3rd. \ncredit Gema Galiana
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/let-im-move-you-intervention-3/
LOCATION:Portland\, Maine – Performance begins at Indigo Arts Alliance and Blackstone and ends at SPACE Gallery\, Portland\, ME\, United States
CATEGORIES:Intervention,L'MY,Performance
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ORGANIZER;CN="Indigo Arts Alliance":MAILTO:info@indigoartsalliance.me
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