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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Abrons Arts Center":MAILTO:info@henrystreet.org
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191010
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191014
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191009T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191009T180000
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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
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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
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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
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/butts.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="BAAD! (The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance)":MAILTO:info@baadbronx.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190803T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190803T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190802T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190802T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190722
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190728
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20190614T150926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190614T150926Z
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SUMMARY:MELT–BIG BODY: Experimental J-Sette Performance Workshop
DESCRIPTION:MELT–BIG BODY: Experimental J-Sette Performance Workshop\nJermone Donte Beacham and Jumatatu Poe\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 people and their bodies are encouraged to participate\, with respect to our varied range in previous training and ability. \nPhoto by Chris Cameron
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/melt-big-body-experimental-j-sette-performance-workshop/
LOCATION:Danspace Project\, 131 E 10th St\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:L'MY,Teaching
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ORGANIZER;CN="Movement Research":MAILTO:info@movementresearch.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190715
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20190614T145602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190614T145829Z
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SUMMARY:Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion
DESCRIPTION:Sweat to the Beat of Slow Motion:\nLeading and following beyond body/gender expectations\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 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 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 areas. Within this\, we will explore movement related to the hip swing of the J-Sette march\, and the importance of 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/
LOCATION:Earthdance\, 252 Prospect St\, Plainfield\, MA\, 01070\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LMYTIAF-intervention-gif-1.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="Touch&Play":MAILTO:apply@touchandplay.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190608T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190608T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20190614T144057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190614T144057Z
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SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: Intervention
DESCRIPTION:Your Content Goes Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart of the duo’s seven-year collaborative research into J-Sette performance\, Intervention activates multiple historically Black neighborhoods in Philadelphia\, as it uses rhythm and precision as vehicles into subversion and satisfaction. On sidewalks and in alleyways\, jumatatu m. poe and Jermone “Donte” Beacham 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-2/
LOCATION:West Philadelphia (19143)\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Intervention,L'MY,Performance
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Philadelphia Thing":MAILTO:INFO@PHILADELPHIATHING.COM
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190607T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190607T180000
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SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: Intervention
DESCRIPTION:Part of the duo’s seven-year collaborative research into J-Sette performance\, Intervention activates multiple historically Black neighborhoods in Philadelphia\, as it uses rhythm and precision as vehicles into subversion and satisfaction. On sidewalks and in alleyways\, jumatatu m. poe and Jermone “Donte” Beacham 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/
LOCATION:West Philadelphia (19143)\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Intervention,L'MY,Performance
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Philadelphia Thing":MAILTO:INFO@PHILADELPHIATHING.COM
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190427T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181128T184733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T114452Z
UID:10000018-1556391600-1556402400@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:terrestrial in Black.Art.Empowerment: I see\, I speak\, I am movement (MAI)
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the hot brown granules in both desert dirt and beach sand\, terrestrial is a performance and visual examination of humans as earth and Black humans as having a long\, continuing terrestrial history that far precedes—and will outlive—the past five centuries of white supremacy’s specific oppressions.  The movement patterns are pathways\, appearing and dissolving into geometric returns\, similar to traces of dust on the desert horizon or footprints embedded in the surface of the soil\, skin.  A type of court dance referencing an embodied time capsule\, the work assembles fragments of history\, existing in a subterranean world. \nThe work is directed by jumatatu m. poe\, with video design by Tayarisha Poe and performance by dancers jumatatu and Samantha Speis.  An early showing of this in-progress work was featured in Gibney’s Gathering Place: Black Queer Land(ing)\, curated by Marýa Wethers.  The work was initiated through a residency at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought organized through Movement Research. \n\n\n\nFrom April 12 to 27\, Black.Art.Empowerment: I see\, I speak\, I am movement\, curated by Rhodnie Désir\, will feature gatherings and socio-artistic laboratories by Afrodescendant artists from Montreal and the diaspora. The focus will be on issues and experiences of civil rights social engagement. This three-week event is organized in conjunction with performances by five international artists
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/terrestrial-in-black-art-empowerment-i-see-i-speak-i-am-movement-mai/
LOCATION:MAI (Montréal\, arts interculturels)\, 3680\, rue Jeanne-Mance\, bureau 103\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2X 2K5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance,terrestrial
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ORGANIZER;CN="MAI (Montr%C3%A9al%2C arts interculturels)":MAILTO:info@m-a-i.qc.ca
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181128T184738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T114753Z
UID:10000019-1556305200-1556316000@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:terrestrial in Black.Art.Empowerment: I see\, I speak\, I am movement (MAI)
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the hot brown granules in both desert dirt and beach sand\, terrestrial is a performance and visual examination of humans as earth and Black humans as having a long\, continuing terrestrial history that far precedes—and will outlive—the past five centuries of white supremacy’s specific oppressions.  The movement patterns are pathways\, appearing and dissolving into geometric returns\, similar to traces of dust on the desert horizon or footprints embedded in the surface of the soil\, skin.  A type of court dance referencing an embodied time capsule\, the work assembles fragments of history\, existing in a subterranean world. \nThe work is directed by jumatatu m. poe\, with video design by Tayarisha Poe and performance by dancers jumatatu and Samantha Speis.  An early showing of this in-progress work was featured in Gibney’s Gathering Place: Black Queer Land(ing)\, curated by Marýa Wethers.  The work was initiated through a residency at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought organized through Movement Research. \n\n\n\nFrom April 12 to 27\, Black.Art.Empowerment: I see\, I speak\, I am movement\, curated by Rhodnie Désir\, will feature gatherings and socio-artistic laboratories by Afrodescendant artists from Montreal and the diaspora. The focus will be on issues and experiences of civil rights social engagement. This three-week event is organized in conjunction with performances by five international artists
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/terrestrial-in-black-art-empowerment-i-see-i-speak-i-am-movement-mai-2/
LOCATION:MAI (Montréal\, arts interculturels)\, 3680\, rue Jeanne-Mance\, bureau 103\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2X 2K5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance,terrestrial
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/terrestrial-gif-2.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="MAI (Montr%C3%A9al%2C arts interculturels)":MAILTO:info@m-a-i.qc.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190209T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181205T193217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T114819Z
UID:10000021-1549738800-1549747800@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:[PREMIERE] Let 'im Move You – This Is a Formation
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Tayarisha Poe \n  \nThis is a move. This is a deep spinal curve on top of a high booty.  This is a game\, and the rhythm is key. This is luminous black and smooth brown and hard yellow skin tones.  This is an alien\, and that is a fairy. This is a movement; we did not start it. This is a stomp through the floor\, and a buck across the universe.  This is an invitation for you to amplify the respect\, curiosity\, and love you find in our shared space. This is exquisitely normal. This is so queer\, it’s inside out.  This is a show for the family\, with nudity and sexual themes. This is rigorous beauty. This is a formation. \nTHIS IS A FORMATION is the latest project in the LET ‘IM MOVE YOU series and is a performance work being designed to tour to sidewalk and alleyway sites within historically Black neighborhoods\, institutional art spaces\, and queer niteclub spaces.  The project is the only larger group project in the current series\, bringing together 7 Black dancers\, a DJ\, and a lighting designer as performers for the work.  Audiences travel within performance spaces with relative freedom\, sharing the same spaces as performers. Live captured video design elements will focus on close-up capture of the performers to reference both hyper-surveillance of Black people’s bodies\, and pop-star scale megalomania. \nTICKETS NOW AVAILABLE!!! \nLet ‘im Move You stems from jumatatu m. poe (r) and Jermone “Donte” Beacham (l)’s artistic relationship and is rooted in the J-Sette dance form\, a call-and-response dance form originated in the early 80’s by Black southern US majorette lines at various historically Black colleges. \nPlease follow the project on instagram at @_move_you_ for additional performance events that will happen in various historically and/or predominantly Black neighborhoods on February 6th (around rush hour) and February 9th (around noon) in Philadelphia.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/premiere-let-im-move-you-this-is-a-formation/
LOCATION:Painted Bride Art Center\, 5212 Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Formation,L'MY,Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Formation-tech-rehearsal-at-MANCC-footage-from-Chris-Cameron-group.gif
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190209T020000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181111T030030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190201T114339Z
UID:10000026-1549663200-1549677600@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:Queer Slow Jam Party
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 DJs dø√∑Ç@K∑\, lawd knows\, and MHYSA.  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.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/queer-slow-jam-party-2/
LOCATION:Painted Bride Art Center\, 5212 Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Formation,L'MY,Party
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/queer-slow-jam-gif2.gif
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20180603T064507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T114851Z
UID:10000049-1549652400-1549661400@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:[PREMIERE] Let 'im Move You: This Is a Formation
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Tayarisha Poe \n  \nThis is a move. This is a deep spinal curve on top of a high booty.  This is a game\, and the rhythm is key. This is luminous black and smooth brown and hard yellow skin tones.  This is an alien\, and that is a fairy. This is a movement; we did not start it. This is a stomp through the floor\, and a buck across the universe.  This is an invitation for you to amplify the respect\, curiosity\, and love you find in our shared space. This is exquisitely normal. This is so queer\, it’s inside out.  This is a show for the family\, with nudity and sexual themes. This is rigorous beauty. This is a formation. \nTHIS IS A FORMATION is the latest project in the LET ‘IM MOVE YOU series and is a performance work being designed to tour to sidewalk and alleyway sites within historically Black neighborhoods\, institutional art spaces\, and queer niteclub spaces.  The project is the only larger group project in the current series\, bringing together 7 Black dancers\, a DJ\, and a lighting designer as performers for the work.  Audiences travel within performance spaces with relative freedom\, sharing the same spaces as performers. Live captured video design elements will focus on close-up capture of the performers to reference both hyper-surveillance of Black people’s bodies\, and pop-star scale megalomania. \nTICKETS NOW AVAILABLE!!! \nLet ‘im Move You stems from jumatatu m. poe (r) and Jermone “Donte” Beacham (l)’s artistic relationship and is rooted in the J-Sette dance form\, a call-and-response dance form originated in the early 80’s by Black southern US majorette lines at various historically Black colleges. \nPlease follow the project on instagram at @_move_you_ for additional performance events that will happen in various historically and/or predominantly Black neighborhoods on February 6th (around rush hour) and February 9th (around noon) in Philadelphia.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/premiere-this-is-a-formation/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Formation,L'MY,Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Formation-tech-rehearsal-at-MANCC-footage-from-Chris-Cameron-group.gif
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181220T051800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T114904Z
UID:10000022-1549566000-1549573200@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:Conversation with the This Is a Formation artists and their parents
DESCRIPTION:Please join This Is a Formation artists jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham as they engage in conversation about the work with their parents.  This pre-premiere conversation will be an opportunity for some insight into the themes of intimacy\, sexuality\, and belonging generated through this work\, as well as an opportunity for the artists to engage with questions from people who have known them longer than anyone else.  The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Jasmine Johnson. \n  \nBIOS COMING SOON
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/conversation-with-the-this-is-a-formation-artists-and-their-parents/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Formation
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jumatatu-and-Donte-photo-credit-Tayarisha-Poe-1.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190202T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181111T025309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T114921Z
UID:10000025-1549119600-1549126800@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:Big Body: Experimental J-Sette Performance Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Chris Cameron (MANCC) \n  \nIn connection with the premiere of their latest project\, Let ‘im Move You: This Is a Formation\, jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham lead their Big Body workshop together. \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.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/big-body-experimental-j-sette-performance-workshop-3/
LOCATION:Painted Bride Art Center\, 5212 Market Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19139\, United States
CATEGORIES:L'MY,Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Formation-Studio-rehearsal-Ken-1.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="Painted Bride Art Center":MAILTO:info@paintedbride.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181111T022534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T143004Z
UID:10000024-1549047600-1549054800@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:saNG(k)təˌfī
DESCRIPTION:saNG(k)təˌfī\na collaborative partnership between:\nLet ‘im Move You and the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative  \nThe Let ‘im Move You squad — with partnered support from the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative (BBWC) — will bring together six Black queer\, Black queer affirming\, and Black weirdo artists working between worlds of social space performance (ie. clubs\, street\, outdoor festival) and institutional space art performance (ie. theater\, art warehouse\, museum\, gallery works) rooted in queer performance emerging from the worlds of Black aesthetics for a workshop\, to publicly examine the following: \n\n What is our responsibility to the forms and our practice of them within White supremacist societies?\nHow do we promote and invest in sources/institutions/folks that are Black and queer affirming?\nWhat best practices are currently being utilized by Black artists and cultural producers in creative space?\nWhat concerns currently occupy the minds of Black Queer\, Queer affirming\, and Black weirdo artists and cultural producers?\nWhat challenges do Black Queer\, Queer affirming\, and Black weirdo artists face?\nWhat is our responsibility – to ourselves and artistic will to explore and to our chosen forms?\nWhat disruptive possibilities for social transformation live in Black art and Black cultural production?  \n\nThis public presentation will take place on Friday\, February 1st\, at 7pm at Church of the Advocate.   \nAbout the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative   \nWe the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative (BBWC)\, a direct action labor organizing collective\, have come together to combat injustices that manifest both in and out of the non-profit organizational structure and in the broader community of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Our mission is to actively challenge\, resist and dismantle\, those colonialist\, white supremacist and oppressive systems that impact our lives as Black and Brown workers who live at the intersections of race\, gender\, and sexuality.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/sangkt%c9%99%cb%8cfi/
LOCATION:Church of the Advocate\, 1801 Diamond St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Formation
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/sanctify.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Black and Brown Workers Cooperative":MAILTO:contact@blackandbrownworkerscoop.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190124T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181205T193028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T114948Z
UID:10000020-1548356400-1548361800@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:This is a Formation - Work-in-Progress
DESCRIPTION:Let ‘im Move You is a series of performance and visual works rooted in the J-Sette dance form. The most recent performance in the series\, This Is a Formation\, both agitates and plays with the energetic lead-and-follow form of dance\, which originated in the Black femme communities of Jackson\, Mississippi\, in the 1970s and had been widely popularized by the Jackson State University Marching Band dance team\, the Prancing J-Settes.\n\nArtists jumatatu m. poe and Jermone “Donte” Beacham are in residence at EMPAC to develop the next phase of the work\, Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation\, designed as a three-part performance that will travel across historically Black neighborhoods\, queer night clubs\, and institutional art spaces and theaters. The artists will be joined by a team of collaborators\, including seven dancers\, lighting\, audio\, and visual media designers\, as well as two ethical and artistic consultants to expand the theatrical and technological elements of the work. The team will also conduct a series of workshops with Rensselaer students as part of the development of the piece.\n\nWork-in-Progress events offer a window into the research\, development\, and production of new works by artists in residence at EMPAC. These events open up a dialogue between our audiences\, artists\, and EMPAC staff.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/this-is-a-formation-work-in-progress/
LOCATION:EMPAC\, 110 8TH STREET\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Formation,L'MY,Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Formation-tech-rehearsal-at-MANCC-footage-from-Chris-Cameron-Maria-1.gif
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190113T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190113T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181111T020803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T114957Z
UID:10000023-1547388000-1547398800@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:terrestrial in American Realness
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the hot brown granules in both desert dirt and beach sand\, terrestrial is a performance and visual examination of humans as earth and Black humans as having a long\, continuing terrestrial history that far precedes—and will outlive—the past five centuries of white supremacy’s specific oppressions.  The movement patterns are pathways\, appearing and dissolving into geometric returns\, similar to traces of dust on the desert horizon or footprints embedded in the surface of the soil\, skin.  A type of court dance referencing an embodied time capsule\, the work assembles fragments of history\, existing in a subterranean world. \nThe work is directed by jumatatu m. poe\, with video design by Tayarisha Poe and performance by dancers jumatatu and Samantha Speis.  An early showing of this in-progress work was featured in Gibney’s Gathering Place: Black Queer Land(ing)\, curated by Marýa Wethers.  The work was initiated through a residency at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought organized through Movement Research.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/terrestrial-5/
LOCATION:BAAD!\, 2474 Westchester Avenue\, Bronx\, NY\, 10461\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,terrestrial
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/terrestrial-gif-2.gif
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181111T020635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T115010Z
UID:10000031-1547316000-1547326800@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:terrestrial in American Realness
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the hot brown granules in both desert dirt and beach sand\, terrestrial is a performance and visual examination of humans as earth and Black humans as having a long\, continuing terrestrial history that far precedes—and will outlive—the past five centuries of white supremacy’s specific oppressions.  The movement patterns are pathways\, appearing and dissolving into geometric returns\, similar to traces of dust on the desert horizon or footprints embedded in the surface of the soil\, skin.  A type of court dance referencing an embodied time capsule\, the work assembles fragments of history\, existing in a subterranean world. \nThe work is directed by jumatatu m. poe\, with video design by Tayarisha Poe and performance by dancers jumatatu and Samantha Speis.  An early showing of this in-progress work was featured in Gibney’s Gathering Place: Black Queer Land(ing)\, curated by Marýa Wethers.  The work was initiated through a residency at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought organized through Movement Research.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/terrestrial-4/
LOCATION:BAAD!\, 2474 Westchester Avenue\, Bronx\, NY\, 10461\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,terrestrial
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/terrestrial-gif-2.gif
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190111T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181111T020455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T115018Z
UID:10000030-1547222400-1547233200@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:terrestrial in American Realness
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the hot brown granules in both desert dirt and beach sand\, terrestrial is a performance and visual examination of humans as earth and Black humans as having a long\, continuing terrestrial history that far precedes—and will outlive—the past five centuries of white supremacy’s specific oppressions.  The movement patterns are pathways\, appearing and dissolving into geometric returns\, similar to traces of dust on the desert horizon or footprints embedded in the surface of the soil\, skin.  A type of court dance referencing an embodied time capsule\, the work assembles fragments of history\, existing in a subterranean world. \nThe work is directed by jumatatu m. poe\, with video design by Tayarisha Poe and performance by dancers jumatatu and Samantha Speis.  An early showing of this in-progress work was featured in Gibney’s Gathering Place: Black Queer Land(ing)\, curated by Marýa Wethers.  The work was initiated through a residency at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought organized through Movement Research.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/terrestrial-3/
LOCATION:BAAD!\, 2474 Westchester Avenue\, Bronx\, NY\, 10461\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,terrestrial
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/terrestrial-gif-2.gif
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190110T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181111T020002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T115024Z
UID:10000029-1547139600-1547150400@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:terrestrial in American Realness
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the hot brown granules in both desert dirt and beach sand\, terrestrial is a performance and visual examination of humans as earth and Black humans as having a long\, continuing terrestrial history that far precedes—and will outlive—the past five centuries of white supremacy’s specific oppressions.  The movement patterns are pathways\, appearing and dissolving into geometric returns\, similar to traces of dust on the desert horizon or footprints embedded in the surface of the soil\, skin.  A type of court dance referencing an embodied time capsule\, the work assembles fragments of history\, existing in a subterranean world. \nThe work is directed by jumatatu m. poe\, with video design by Tayarisha Poe and performance by dancers jumatatu and Samantha Speis.  An early showing of this in-progress work was featured in Gibney’s Gathering Place: Black Queer Land(ing)\, curated by Marýa Wethers.  The work was initiated through a residency at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought organized through Movement Research.
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/terrestrial-2/
LOCATION:BAAD!\, 2474 Westchester Avenue\, Bronx\, NY\, 10461\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,terrestrial
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/terrestrial-gif-2.gif
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181119T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181111T015016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181111T015016Z
UID:10000028-1542639600-1542650400@makinimakes.com
SUMMARY:The Switching with jumatatu m. poe
DESCRIPTION:“I like to imagine that this improvisation practice\, The Switching\, is a strategy in immediate evolution. I began to practice The Switching in relation to dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?” Our practice will deal with strategic essentialism – through the immediate design of creatures\, or ways of being – and immediately identifying “true” or imagined restrictions/limitations. For me\, there is something deeply spiritual about the practice\, 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.” \nThis workshop occurs only on 11/19!\nCost: $30\nRegister by visiting the linkn!
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/the-switching-with-jumatatu-m-poe/
LOCATION:Movement Research\, 537 Broadway 4th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
CATEGORIES:Teaching
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://makinimakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/switching-gif.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="Movement Research":MAILTO:info@movementresearch.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181012
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181013
DTSTAMP:20260407T084706
CREATED:20181109T151545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T115050Z
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SUMMARY:Let 'im Move You: Intervention in LAX Festival
DESCRIPTION:jumatatu m. poe + Jermone “Donte” Beacham\n \n\nLOCATIONS ANNOUNCED :: FRIDAY OCTOBER 12\, 2018 ONLY!!! \n\n11:30AM :: Inglewood\nMeet at Northgate Market\n10801 S. Prairie Ave.\nInglewood\, CA 90303\n\nRoute is approximately 1 mile in distance. You may choose one of the artists to follow\, as they take divergent routes.\n\n\n• • •\n\n4:30PM :: Windsor Hills\nMeet at either side of Olympiad Reservoir\n\nMonteith Dr. & Valley Ridge Ave.\nView Park-Windsor Hills\, CA 90043\nor\nAthenian Way & Monteith Dr.\nView Park-Windsor Hills\, CA 90043\n\nRoute is just over 1 mile. Choose one starting location\, and follow the artist on their route.\n\nNOTE :: It is expected to be 80 degrees and sunny tomorrow. Please plan accordingly\, appropriate attire for the weather\, comfortable walking shoes and water as needed.\n\n\n\nPart of the duo’s seven-year collaborative research into J-Sette performance\, Intervention activates multiple historically Black neighborhoods in Los Angeles\, as it uses rhythm and precision as vehicles into subversion and satisfaction. On sidewalks and in alleyways\, jumatatu m. poe and Jermone “Donte” Beacham draw on J-Sette’s call-and-response structure to reveal the powerfully singular expression that can emerge within this highly regimented dance. \nJ-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. Each locality is announced only hours before their intervention\, freeing the performers to test 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-in-lax-festival/
LOCATION:Los Angeles\, Los Angeles\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Intervention,L'MY,Performance
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SUMMARY:QUEER SLOW JAM PARTY
DESCRIPTION:QUEER SLOW JAM PARTY\nwith jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham\nand DJ Erika Kayne\n\nIt’s our sixth year\, and we’re ready for a slow jam. \nPlease join us in launching this year’s Los Angeles Exchange [LAX] Festival on October 11 at Think Tank Gallery. This year’s exchange is with artists and curators in Philadelphia\, and we’re so grateful to jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham for helping us kick things off. They’ll be joined by DJ Erika Kayne\, as well as other surprise guests! \nChoreographers jumatatu m. poe and Donte Beacham 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\, jumatatu and Donte perform brief slow choreographies with local dance artists Amaria Stern and Jakevis Thomason. \nThe space is blessed by the sage musical curations of DJ Erika Kayne. Even as we may challenge\, tempt\, and transgress it\, we will honor that slow pulse\, the space in it\, the complex syncopations\, the polyrhythmicity. \nLess of a “throwback” and more of a reclaiming: a transformation of 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.cal
URL:https://makinimakes.com/event/queer-slow-jam-party/
LOCATION:Think Tank Gallery\, 939 Maple Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90015\, United States
CATEGORIES:Party
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