Green Space is pleased to kick off our performance programs Take Root and Fertile Ground! All performances will be held virtually on a donation-made basis. Please click here for more information and donation links.
Take Root’s January 2021 performances feature exciting works by Nia & Ness and Misaki Hayama that will be available to view beginning January 22nd through June 2020.
Photo credits: Blake & Robinson Photography and Marius Shanzer
home. (an excerpt) is a portion of Nia & Ness’s second evening-length dance-poetry piece home. that deeply explores our daily realities as a Black, out-lesbian couple living and loving in New York. With this work, we posit that our bodies are our homes, collecting stories like dust and decor as we move through the world. This work also recognizes that as Black out-lesbians, our bodies themselves put our literal shared home on display every time we walk out of its doors. From sharing our everyday experiences with “micro” aggressions to making visible the impacts of violence, we go there with this work.
Misaki Hayama presents Warabe Uta for January’s Take Root performances. “Warabe Uta” are traditional Japanese songs, similar to nursery rhymes often sung as part of children's games. The dance pieces created and presented here explore this hidden history and show how the past has influenced new generations to find their future paths.
Fertile Ground features the works-in-progress of six NYC-based emerging choreographers. This performance will be available to view beginning January 26th through June 2020.
Featured Artists:
Maija Rutkovska, Olivia Passarelli, Kristina Hay & Jamie Robinson, Aya Jane Saotome / Who Knows The Show, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Catherine Gallant/DANCE
Photo courtesy of Alison Cook Beatty Dance