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Acknowledging Grief and Rage Through Land and Site by devynn emory & Angie Pittman

March 5, 2021

 


This video footage was recorded on February 29, 2020, Saturday Afternoon Conversation #2: Kin & Care during Platform 2020: Utterances From The Chorus. 2019-2020 Kin & Care Research Group Fellows, choreographer, Angie Pittman, and dance artist, choreographer, bodyworker, and acute care and hospice nurse, devynn emory, welcomed the public into Danspace Project that day, inviting all that entered to participate in a practice of acknowledging site, the history of slavery at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, and the Indigenous Lenape homeland that the church occupies.

Angie and devynn’s “Acknowledging Grief and Rage Through Land and Site” was published in the virtual Platform 2020 catalogue, PLATFORM 2020: Utterance From The Chorus, Volume II (page 20-25).

To hear more from devynn and Angie please see, Conversations Without Walls: devynn emory & Angie Pittman.


 

devynn emory is a mixed Lenape/Blackfoot transgender choreographer, dance artist, bodyworker, ceremonial guide, acute care and hospice nurse currently working as a COVID-19 nurse in NYC. emory’s performance company devynnemory/beastproductions draws from their multiple in-between states of being, holding space for liminal bodies bridging multiple planes of transition. Their formal dance training pulls on mathematical and mapped scores to support bodies decolonizing and bleeding human truths, opening peep holes and revelations for collective performers and audiences. They are currently working on a trilogy centering medical mannequins processing transitional mediumship. “deadbird” with it’s touring public altar can anyone help me hold this body will be first. Cindy Sessions and “boiling-rain” are to follow which are interactive storytelling projects with an elder mannequin holding a collection of grandmother wisdom. As a healer they have dual licenses in “western” and “eastern” bodywork and run a private practice sage-massage that offers end of life consultation, channeled counseling and hands on care modalities in conversation with thresholds. You can find their work at devynnemory.com and sage-massage.

Angie Pittman is a New York based Bessie award-winning dance artist. Her choreographic work has been performed at The Kitchen, Gibney Dance, BAAD!, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, STooPS, The Domestic Performance Agency, The KnockDown Center, The Invisible Dog, and Danspace Project. Angie has had the pleasure of dancing in work by MBDance, Ralph Lemon, Tere O’Connor, Cynthia Oliver, Anna Sperber, Donna Uchizono Company, Jennifer Monson, Kim Brandt, Tess Dworman, Antonio Ramos and many others.  Angie has also had the joy of being able to create collaboratively with Jasmine Hearn, Jonathan Gonzalez, Athena Kokoronis, and Anita Mullin.  She holds a MFA in Dance and Choreography with a graduate minor in African American Studies, and is a M’Singha Wuti certified teacher of the Umfundalai technique. Angie’s work resides in a space that investigates how the body moves through ballad, groove, sparkle, spirit, spirituals, ancestry, vulnerability, and power.

Tags: Angie Pittman, devynn emory, Platform 2020, Utterances from the Chorus
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