Location
- Jun 17 2022
- Expired!
River to River Festival 2022
Jonathan Gonzalez
Practice
June 17 at 7:00 pm
La Plaza at The Clemente Soto VĂ©lez Cultural & Educational Center, 114 Norfolk Street
In PRACTICE, Afro-Diasporic cultural idioms are interwoven through dance, sound, speech acts and design to incite the critical through-lines of creolized expressive arts formed within the greater Caribbean and Turtle Island. Performed in the historic open-air setting of La Plaza at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, this one-night engagement invites audience members into the performative practice as party-goers, celebrating the gift of gathering in person and holding space for the long emancipatory uses of culture by African-descendants in the supposed “New World” for radical place-making and liberation.
Co-commissioned by LMCC and The Clemente Soto VĂ©lez Cultural & Educational Center with support of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Presented in partnership with The Clemente Soto VĂ©lez Cultural & Educational Center, with additional support from Brooklyn Academy of Music and Dance & Performance Institute, Trinidad & Tobago
Presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels