International Human Rights Art Festival: What to do? An evening of dance curated by Charly Santagado
Sundday, December 15th @ 3:00pm
Featuring:
The Wetting of 12pm presented by Lucienne Parker
Lena Solomon -performer/collaborator
Nailah Murray - performer/collaborator
Luna Rous - performer/collaborator
The Wetting of 12pm utilizes text surrounding bodily autonomy and reproduction, as well as physicality's derived from feminist punk rock movements. These ideas meet to confuse and re-contextualize how we understand femme bodies in rigor and creation.
Maybe We’re Trash presented by Nathan Forster & Michelle Lukach
pussys beat, I say to you, Amen O Lord. presented by Lavy and Christian Warner
pussys beat, I say to you, Amen O Lord is an durational interdisciplinary activation of two bodies within the act of undoing. Through bearing witness to a failed facade we confront ourselves in a cataclysmic and shape shifting container; withstanding the weight of revelation in all its intensity. This is violent. It is sensual. We are exhausted.
The truth is the truth is the truth is the presented by Hallie Chametzky
Directed, Choreographed, and Written by Hallie Chametzky
Performed & Collaborated by Aviya Hernstadt and Aria Roach
Composed by Colton Dodd
Dramaturgy by Stephanie Saywell
"The truth is the truth is the truth is the" (excerpt) is a portion of a new, evening-length dance theater work about famed modernist writers and partners Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. The work explores their complexities: lesbian Jews in WWII Europe but friends with Nazi collaborators and inclined toward authoritarianism; the rare women in their artistic circles but often bigoted towards other women. Stein and Toklas’s writings are source material, script, and score.
Hearsay by IMGE Dance
Performed by Hanna Gosztyla, Lex Bolisay, Sang Santhebennur, Shreya Rawat, Shivani Lamba, and Ishita Mili
"Hearsay" is a mixed repertoire dance piece exploring how information is passed down through society. Through IMGE's signature powerful body language, rhythmic footwork, and colorful imagery, the pieces examine the dynamics of gossip, gender norms, and societal rules. This performance invites audiences to reflect on the complex ways we receive, interpret, and transmit information that shapes our understanding of the world.