Jordan Deal is a multidisciplinary practitioner, performance artist, and alchemist. Their investigative practice uses performance, sound, image, sculpture and their BODY as a conduit between unseen forces and the materializations of socio-political structures and mythologies. They have been investigating technologies/modalities of relations and movement that harnesses and disperses chaos force as a subversive material and methodology.
Jordan Deal will be presenting capeforce, with flying boots and all (excerpt) Through further explorations of chaos force as a current that can be harnessed and transformed into subversive material, capeforce, with flying boots and all (excerpt) bathes in the communal subterranean currents of the dead and the ghosts of the fugitive and social zombie. As a metzu zombie dance, this compositional and choreographic exploration invites the black imagining and the borders of madness into a dance with triple consciousness herself.
Photo: Susan Ragan
Mickey Davidson was primary choreographer for her own company Mickey D. & Friends, a group of dancers and musicians which explores and performs the interlocking relationship between music and dance. Her performing experiences include affiliations with Sounds in Motion Dance Company, Norma Miller’s Lindy Hoppers, Charles Cookie Cook, Savoy Swingers, Roots of Brazil, Okra Dance Co., Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Sharon Freeman, Ahmed Abdullah, Jeanne Lee, Oliver Lake, Frankie Manning, and the late Steve McCall, to name a few.
Mickey Davidson will be presenting Visiting The Past To See The Future In Visiting The Past To See The Future Mickey Davidson re-explores with the community two former pieces to physically re-discover the past to respect the future by facing the present.
Photo: Dare Kumolu
Aya Shabu is the Creator and Spirited Conductor of Whistle Stop Tours LLC, a walking tour company re-membering African American neighborhood history through the performing arts. Shabu has choreographed for original documentary theater including The Parchman Hour for the 50th Anniversary Reunion of The Freedom Riders in Jackson, MS in 2011. An alum of the African American Dance Ensemble, Shabu has performed with Ronald K. Brown and Sweet Honey in the Rock, and currently dances and drums with The Magic of African Rhythm. As the Director of Arts and Culture at Village of Wisdom Inc. — an education equity Durham-based non-profit —Aya helps protect the genius of Black parents, community, and neighborhoods through artmaking and event curation.
Aya Shabu will be presenting: LandED LandED (excerpt) is a solo narrative dance journey about Aya—a second-generation African American woman of Bajan descent—remembering her childhood memories marred by her grandmother’s colorism; gender norms; and prideful notions of Black mobility. Aya upsets the matriarchal curse when she discovers a family secret.
“My creative history with New Dance Alliance goes a way long. Since my friend, Chivas Sandage brought me to New Dance Alliance to rehearse in early 90’s, the place has become a part of my creative life. The long time existence of the studio and Performance Mix Festival are vital to the artists who seek and explore deep into their process. Whenever I step into the studio, it’s a new space with a lot of memories. I lie down on the floor, listen to my body, and I dance. It is valuable. The time in the space nurtures my practice and artistic vision. Karen’s vision of Lift-Off residency, feedback sessions, providing peer to peer connections are more significant than ever. It has been helping us to get through 2020 and we are going into 2021.”
– Nami Yamamoto
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