[ ] Dance Performance + Participatory Installation (ODC Theater)

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What does belonging mean in a family line? [ ] is a corporeal-sonic exploration into the untold histories of our femme ancestors co-created by choreographer Adrienne Westwood and composer Angélica Negrón, along with an interdisciplinary group of performers and creatives. 

[ ] is a dual experience of intimate performance and participatory installation. The work is anchored by an interactive musical sculpture from which “memories”– a collection of simple yet evocative objects – are suspended. [ ] calls in and holds experiences of private and personal memories of family lore, real/imagined histories, and femme ancestor’s visible/invisible labor, ultimately asking “What is long ago but still right now?”

Adrienne Westwood’s multi-layered work incorporates objects into embodied explorations of memory, bringing traces of other times and places into the present. Her work has been called “a finely crafted progression” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and noted for its “precision, attention to detail and unspecific but tangible sense of the barely remembered” (Culturebot). Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón writes music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys, and electronics. Her music has been described as “wistfully idiosyncratic and contemplative” (WQXR/Q2) while The New York Times noted her “capacity to surprise.”

The development of [ ] has been supported, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), NYSCA Support for Artists, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, and by residencies at BRIC Lab, Lincoln Center, MOtiVE Brooklyn, Harvestworks, SLIPPAGE Lab at Northwestern University, Barnard Movement Lab, and the LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island.

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