Dominica Greene. Image by Laura Carella.
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Hi Sarah,
Following up to check in about curatorial language—Do you think you could put together 1-3 sentences by the end of the week? This short event description might include your curatorial framing of the evening, and/or why you chose these particular artists, etc. If you'd prefer to send over bullet points, we'd be happy to edit together for you.
Let us know, we look forward to hearing from you.
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Anna
Dearest Anna
well to be honest i don’t feel myself as a curator - or maybe thats redundant to say since y’all did ask me and then i did ask some artists if this might be a good moment for them to share their practices in this context -I thought to be honest and with deepest respect that the cash amount for them is modest- so for whom might this opportunity be useful right now- maybe for varying reasons -
These artists are all people that work very specifically and on their own terms - They are all people I have connected with deeply and have some understanding of the very specific spaces that their work can hold- spaces I have deep curiosity about -all these artists are -as I understand the term- dancers -
Thank you for this opportunity
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.
PROGRAM
Oren Barnoy: (Radio Edit)
A meditation on inspiration from those who are no longer with us.
Dominica Greene: lover
to be inflicted with pain and marked forever
what does the body remember of those it has loved
while being inflicted with pain
and marked forever
while remembering
those it has loved
while remembering
love
to be inflicted with pain
and marked forever
love
to be
forever
Seta Morton: madzoon
A hero on my grandmother’s table, madzoon (or yogurt) was the only word I learned in Armenian before English. Madzoon is a fermentation of milk made by mothers and grandmothers, an ancient cure-all, a vessel for live active culture(s). A transmutation of individual, collective, and ancestral grief and love—madzoon is a dance and movement research project about intergenerational alchemy. With this work in process, I consider what fermentation—as a method for both preservation and change—can teach about archiving ephemerality, cultural memory, ancestral knowledge, and intergenerational healing.
Stevfni.XYZ: A Portrait for Sailor
Since the loss of my cat, Sailor, I disallowed myself the space to mourn and grieve her passing, due to heartbreak. I choose to offer myself my own condolences to her and I through this portraiture of my belated familiar. Acknowledging the time allotted does not encapsulate the entirety of the sorrow I feel, it is a moment for me to observe stillness as a dynamic process of movement and mourning. I offer this piece to Center as a moment of solace and as a reckoning of difficult emotions.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Oren Barnoy is a dancer and choreographer from Brooklyn where he lives and works.
Dominica Greene is a bi-racial Caribbean-American artist harnessing the elements, spirit, and womanness into an existence rooted in love, community, and regeneration. Residing on the unceded lands of the Munsee Lenape people, Greene creates conceptual, body-based art guided by her philosophy that dance is a ubiquitous energetic entity encompassing anything that moves. Her work seeks to reflect nature, human and otherwise, as a way of highlighting humanity and the stark sameness and differences—and sameness in the differences—between all of us.
Seta Morton is an interdisciplinary performance curator, producer, writer, and dance artist based in Lenapehoking (NYC). She is the Program Director/Associate Curator at Danspace Project and the editor of Danspace’s print and digital publications. With Danspace and Executive Director and Chief Curator, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Seta has published over a dozen print and digital publications and curated numerous artist commissions, public programs, residencies, and artistic research fellowships, and has co-organized four Danspace Project Platforms, including, Platform 2020 with Okwui Okpokwasili and Platform 2024 with Kyle Abraham. Independently, she has guest-curated and produced an evening of performance and ritual, V E S S E L L / / FERMENT: archive alchemy (make it a prayer), this year at PAGEANT, and is guest curating the first solo exhibition for Yves B. Golden at the Feminist Center for Creative Work this summer in LA. Seta’s writing has been published with Danspace and in the Gibney Journal, and she has had the pleasure of performing with choreographers including iele paloumpis and Miguel Gutierrez. Seta’s curatorial practice is grounded in somatics, collaborative practice, and Black feminist thought, and her written and embodied works live in the tremble between iteration, fermentation, and intergenerational memory.
Stevfni.XYZ (aka Stev) is an emerging new media artist and academic hailing from the NYC metropolitan area. Born in ’93 to immigrant Trinidadian parents and raised across both sides of the Hudson River during the 2000s, Stev’s work plants roots within themes experienced by the urbanized cultures of the Afro-Caribbean and Latinx folks within her immediate area and community, primarily filtered through her own lens of trans-femininity. As a child influenced by the turn of the new millennium, Stev’s artistic style is encapsulated within the early Internet aesthetic of that era. She often communes with topics of self-identity and shared traumatic experiences, as well as interpersonal connectivity and the complex social intricacies that lead us to nuanced intrapersonal discoveries. As a black trans futurist storyteller, Stev combines spoken and written word and distorted abstract symbols and markings, including the presence of her live or pre-recorded physicality, interacting with a variety of digital technologies to share stories that reflect and explore trans activism, Afrofuturisim, and the African diaspora, and their relationships to ecomodernism and urban development.
Sarah Michelson (curator) is a dancer- dance maker based in Brooklyn.