Conversations Without Walls: The Dream of the Audience

Part of Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II)

Saturday, June 4, 12pm-3pm
The Parish Hall will open at 12pm. The conversation will begin at 12:30pm. 

*Proof of vaccination with 1st booster and mask required for entry.*

Location: The Parish Hall

Accessibility: Projected CART captioning will be provided.

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A day of conversation with the audience led by a panel of selected audience members, deep listeners, and thoughtful witnesses: Platform 2021-2022 Writer-in-Residence, maura nguyễn donohue, 2021-2023 Research Fellow, devynn emory, and dance artist and audio describer, Tess Dworman. Together we will ruminate on questions around what it means to be an audience during pandemic times. What wisdoms, archives, and responsibilities do audiences carry? How do we learn or unlearn how to witness, as a practice of care?

Conversations Without Walls (CWW) was designed to bring together voices of artists, curators, scholars, writers, and more, into long-form roundtable discussions. The content of these conversations are intentionally wide ranging and artist driven—they can provide further context and insight into an artist’s research, reflect on a Danspace Project program, unpack methodologies and practices, or reflect on larger systemic and structural issues that impact artists today. 

Accessibility & Covid Safety at Danspace:
*Proof of vaccination with 1st booster and mask required for entry.*
Visit our Accessibility Info page & Covid Safety page for more information and guidelines for attending performances and events our venue.

mayfield brooks: Sensoria: An Opera Strange

Part of Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II)

Thursday, June 9, sunset, Arrive by 7:30pm
Friday, June 10, sunset, Arrive by 7:30pm
Saturday, June 11, sunset, Arrive by 7:30pm

*Proof of vaccination with 1st booster and mask required for entry.*

This event will not have a waitlist. Please purchase your tickets ahead of time.

Accessibility: Some visual description will be provided by the performers. Tickets are available for blind or visually impaired audience members. Please email Seta@danspaceproject.org to reserve AD tickets. $15 Wheelchair accessible tickets are available for every performance through OvationTix. Visit danspaceproject.org/accessibility for more information. 

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mayfield brooks is a performer, artist, urban farmer, and originator of the interdisciplinary movement project, Improvising While Black. Sensoria: An Opera Strange is a continuation of brooks’ Whale Fall Cycle – a series of written, digital and live provocations based on a whale’s decomposition process when its body falls to the ocean floor and feeds thousands of sea creatures. the first of which was a Bessie Award nominated film entitled Whale Fall.

Sensoria: An Opera Strange is an invitation into different auditory fields inspired by whale songs, laments, acoustic uprisings, and revolutionary chants. “Questions emerging from this stage of the Whale Fall Cycle are: ‘Who am I feeding?,’ ‘How am I listening?,’ and ‘What ghosts am I dancing with?,’” writes brooks. “When the continual hum of extraction dominates the auditory field, how does one attune to the ancestor’s whisper, and feed the hungry disembodied ghosts of our time?”

Choreography/Direction by: mayfield brooks
Performed by: mayfield books with Yusa Jacobo, and Julienne Rencher, Gabriel Torta, and Indira Suganda (1965-2009)
Performer/Audio Describer: Roger Q Mason
Composer: Anya Yermakova
Pianist: Patric Maguire
Stage Manager: Mars Neri
Dramaturg/Production Assistant: duskin drum
Set Designer: Caedron Burchfield
Sound Designer: James Kogan
Lighting Designer: Carol Mullins
Filmographers: Suz Murray Sadler and Chagua Camacho-Olguin

Accessibility & Covid Safety at Danspace:

*Proof of vaccination with 1st booster and mask required for entry.* Visit our Accessibility Info page & Covid Safety page for more information and guidelines for attending performances and events our venue.

Renewal Residency: Mina Nishimura

2021-22 Renewal Resident artist Mina Nishimura returns for residency time in the Sanctuary at St. Mark’s Church in anticipation of the premiere of a new work commissioned by Danspace Project this year.

By conversing with peripheral spaces and invisible inhabitants through specific physical modalities, Nishimura continues to sketch out an alternate dimension of St. Marks Church (like “The Upside Down”), which she began this fall in a Danspace residency.

“In my experience of social and identity divisions during the pandemic, I came to re-imagine a space we live through ‘around-ness’ and ‘in-between-ness,’ which are often ignored because these ambiguous spaces don’t fit within a world structured by categorization, division, and marginalization,” she writes. “This project started from a movement experimentation of accessing a world through expanded perceptions and particle energy as opposed to arrow-like wave energy, which forcibly takes us to familiar terrain.”

This residency is not open to the public. Stay tuned for updates on the premiere of this work!