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OPEN STUDIOS | Maho Ogawa, Kate Williams, Rochelle Jamila, and AJ Wilmore, curated by mayfield brooks

  • CPR – Center for Performance Research 361 Manhattan Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11211 (map)
mayfield brooks, wearing an orange blindfold, yells before a pile of soil as green leaves fall overhead, kneeling in the sand of a beach as spectators watch against an ocean backdrop.

mayfield brooks by Nir Arieli.

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mayfield brooks curates OPEN STUDIOS, inviting Kate Williams, Maho Ogawa, Rochelle Jamila, and AJ Wilmore to present work from their unique practices and experiments in dance & performance. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

mayfield brooks improvises while black and is based in Lenapehoking, the unceded land of  the Lenape people, also known as New York City. brooks is a movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer. brooks teaches and performs practices that arise from Improvising While Black (IWB), their interdisciplinary dance methodology which explores the decomposed matter of Black life and engages in dance improvisation, disorientation, dissent, and ancestral healing. brooks is currently a Creative Time Research & Development fellow. They love living by the sea.

OPEN STUDIOS is a series of work-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year, organized by guest curators, and serves as an incubator for new work, inviting the public into the artistic process.

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Technical Residency: Ogemdi Ude (closed to the public)