Image description: David Sierra—a white trans woman with light skin, high cheekbones, blue eyes, and dark blonde hair parted in the center—looks toward the camera, head tilted, her left finger pressed gently to her temple. She wears a black silk button-down, silver chain-link earrings, a thin silver nose ring, lip gloss, and long black press-on nails.
David Sierra is a New York-based artist and writer practicing and researching performance and production. She creates text, dance, video, sound, photography, installation, and public programming. Sierra reads and writes about sex, science, fiction, disability, transness, feminism, aesthetics, and linguistics. Her artistic practices are concerned with embodied experiences of movement and sound in horror, gothic literature, popular culture, and medical technology. davidleesierra.com.
Public Structures of Feeling, an iterative performance that examines the embodied negotiations between how structures force us to move and how we desire to move. The work uses electronic music, physical structures, and choreographic labor to examine disabled and trans sex, work, and feeling in private, public, solo, and collective contexts.
“Thank you thank you and thank you to everyone who made this residency (Black Artist Space to Create) possible. These past two weeks have been a blessing! Not only have I been able to deepen my own personal/artistic practices, I was given the space to connect with people that I love! I was given space to reflect on love, and to prepare for what this next year (2021) will bring! Shout out to New Dance Alliance, Modern Accord Depot and Angie Pittman for the time, the space, and opportunity! I am forever grateful! It felt like a good meal, with dessert!”
– Johnnie Cruise Mercer
New Dance Alliance
182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
