WHEN:
March 13-15, 2025 7:30pm
WHERE:
New York Live Arts
219 W 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...Conceived by Makini (Durham, North Carolina, USA), with co-direction by Anderson Feliciano (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) and Nefertiti Charlene Altan (San Francisco, California, USA), The Sprout is a solo dance performed by Germaine Ingram that wonders about the legacy of a single human lifetime as it relates to the broader expanse of a planet’s geological history. Jazz-informed artist and scholar Melanie George participates in the creative team as Movement Doula. The work weaves sensuous, rhythmic choreographies into spatial and intellectual puzzles as choreographies move in currents through the performance space. Audiences join the performer on stage, occasionally invited to move within and through the space. Additional collaborators include Angel Edwards, Germaine Ingram, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lou Pires, Majesty Royale-Jackson, Marco Farroni, Saúl Ulerio and Sweet Corey-Bey.
Wandering through the terrain of identity amidst the impossibility of individuation, this multi-lingual, transgeographic space is a collaborative of Black, Indigenous and Mestiza artists from lands currently called “Brazil” and the “US.” Together, they are developing a body of performance-based time capsules that interweave imagined / half-truth / rumored / hyperbolized image fragments of Blackness and Indigeneity throughout the past several decades, patching together the plurality of these phenomena through invented court/ceremony dances situated in the very distant future..."
