After creating performances exploring trauma for years, J. Bouey has rested and found a calling to explore joy + liberation. This RECESS offering is an active composting of the past to nurture our imaginations of liberation and a healthy earth for ourselves and future generations.
Co-Presented by Gibney and JACK
Curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa for Gibney’s New Voices: Spotlight series, and by JACK as part of Stacy Grossfield’s Images // Landscapes series
As conversations of mental health and generational trauma become more widely discussed within Black communities, Chiron in Leo enters those conversations by showing the effects that white supremacy has had on the mental health of Black families, and how the traumas experienced in childhood have a lasting impact on adult life.
Informed by an astrological aspect in J. Bouey’s chart, Chiron in Leo brings about a healing of the inner child by addressing trauma and modeling healing practices that could benefit the witnesses. In Greek mythology, Chiron is known as the “wounded healer” and this mythos greatly informed the characterization and narrative of Chiron in this film. This work is largely informed by storytelling, particularly, the overwhelming and fragmented sensational experiences related to trauma through both the physicalization and vocalization of metamorphosing memories.
Your ticket purchase will give you access to a private link that will allow you to stream Chiron in Leo from Friday, May 28 at 9:00 am EDT through Sunday, May 29 at 11:59 pm EDT. You may also choose to join a live streaming of the film on May 28 or 29 at 7:00 pm EDT, which will also include a live post-streaming discussion with J. Bouey and guest moderators. The livestream events will be held via Zoom.
J. Bouey explores grief through movement and improvisation. Calling on the grief that exists at the intersections of being Black and queer with mental illnesses, J. hopes to learn the lessons that grief during multiple global pandemics (namely COVID-19 and Anti-Blackness) has to offer
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This Open Studios program is open for Black people only.
As a resource, we suggest reading this Everyday Feminism article about why Black-only spaces are needed and healthy in our current social and political climate.
This program will take place virtually, via Zoom.
TICKETS: $0 - $25, pay what you can
CPR 2021 Artist-in-Residence J. Bouey organizes a virtual Open Studios that gives a peek into the creative processes of angel edwards, Jayson P. Smith, and Janae Williams/juh weems/fatblackclit as they explore the ‘captive maternal’ (coined by Joy James), love and care during Black death, interrogating the ruptures that global anti-Blackness creates, and birthing self and others (obligatory and otherwise). The showings of each artists' work will be followed by a conversation with curator J. Bouey where they will share more about their creative processes, and what informs them.
Open Studios is a series of work-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year, and serves as an incubator for new work, inviting the public into the artistic process. Each installment is curated by an invited guest, usually someone close to the CPR family, and features a diverse group of artists, performance-makers, choreographers, and dancers. Each Open Studios culminates in a conversation with the artists and organizers, where audiences are invited and encouraged to share their feedback.
Closed captioning will be provided, and ASL interpretation may be provided, upon request, and with at least two weeks’ advance notice, by emailing remi@cprnyc.org.
This event will take place online via Zoom. A link will be sent to registrants via email 30 minutes prior to the stream.
Registration closes 30 minutes prior to the program.
Danspace Project’s DraftWork series hosts informal showings of new works in varying stages of development. They are followed by a conversation and Q&A between the artists and DraftWork curator Ishmael Houston-Jones.
This season, Danspace has re-envisioned DraftWork as a series of virtual engagement.
Accessibility: This program will be captioned.
View excerpts of the live performances from 2018 & 2019
Live discussion w/ Janae Williams (@fatblackclit)
Live on Zoom, FaceBook, &YouTube
Janae Williams (juh weems) is a fat black genderqueer circus of a human being born and raised in the Black Baptist church pews of Virginia. janae is a dreamer, doer and diviner deeply committed to the transformative and contagious power of being whole.
What is Chiron in Leo?
Chiron in Leo is largely informed by storytelling, particularly, the overwhelming and fragmented sensational experiences related to trauma through both the physicalization and vocalization of metamorphosing memories.
Join the USA TODAY Network and its Storytellers Project for an hour of true, first-person stories celebrating the ways race and ethnicity weave through American identities.
The Storytellers Project is launching a special series of five storytelling nights called “I Am” to more fully tell the stories of America. The first is “I Am Black” features personal stories from people who identify as Black.
The show will be livestreamed at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday, March 2. Register to watch at https://www.storytellersproject.com/all-events and receive a reminder.
The shows promise insightful, entertaining stories that invite listeners of all identities to consider what we all have in common, and what divides us — a mix of touching moments and hard truths.
*drop-in* *for Black folx born between Feb. 6, 1991 and Jan. 28th, 1994*
7pm EST / 4pm PST: Saturn Return In Aquarius Support Group
If you were born between Feb. 6, 1991, and Jan. 28th, 1994 WELCOME!! You're in your Saturn Return! When Saturn returns to the place in the sky it was at during your birth, Saturn requires us to reckon with our past and discipline ourselves for the future we want to live in. If you've been thinking a lot about your past since December 17th, you're in it baby! Bring your existential questions and crises to these gatherings and we will walk through this window of time together.
Join performers J. Bouey, Elena Demyanenko, Javier Padilla, and Marion Spencer in a community setting, as they share new work developed in their Gibney choreographic residencies at Mana. The performers showcase new ideas in the field of dance and engage in cross-pollination between creative communities in New York and Jersey City.
NEVER BEFORE NEVER AGAIN is dedicated to improvisation. Our goal is to bring together improvisation-based performance artists, to cross-pollinate communities, and to highlight the varied possibilities and styles of improvisation. The artists presented chase the surprises and invitations that come along with improvising for an audience and approach performance as an experiment rather than a predetermined idea.
NEVER BEFORE NEVER NEVER AGAIN also offers a variety of workshops hosted by our Festival Artists. The workshops are designed to expand our investigation and understanding of improvisational forms. Workshops are open to ALL movers, shakers, and magic makers and will take place in Triskelion Arts' Muriel Schulman Theater.
In collaboration with DJ TearDrop, 2018-2019 Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow, J. Bouey, will present an excerpt of a new work, entitled Chiron in Leo, hosted by Movement Research at their 9th St Studio (CC122). In Greek mythology, Chiron is known as the ‘wounded healer.” Informed by an astrological aspect in their chart, Chiron in Leo is a performance addressing trauma and healing through storytelling and movement-based ritual. Bouey writes, “My artistic practice is most concerned with addressing systems of oppression through a lens of healing centered around the body and movement.” Working within a space of care (for themselves as an artist and dancer, and for the audience as witnesses), Chiron in Leo brings together storytelling and dance to transform past traumas into new revelations of possibility. The finished work will receive its world premiere at JACK in Brooklyn, Spring 2020.
Performance followed by discussion and Q+A with J. Bouey and their Mentor, David Thomson.
Full event information here: https://www.queer-art.org/events/chiron-in-leo
I’ll be teaching Open Contemporary Forms class at Gibney Dance Center at 10 am. Classes are $17!
I’ll be teaching Open Contemporary Forms class at Gibney Dance Center at 10 am. Classes are $17!
I’ll be teaching Open Contemporary Forms class at Gibney Dance Center at 10 am. Classes are $17!
I’ll be teaching Open Contemporary Forms class at Gibney Dance Center at 10 am. Classes are $17!
An excerpt of Chiron in Leo will be shown at the Performance Mix Festival for New Dance Alliance.
Ticket information here: https://performancemixfestival33.brownpapertickets.com/
“Informed by an astrological aspect in his chart, J. Bouey’s Chiron in Leo explores healing of the inner child by addressing trauma and showing healing practices that could benefit the witnesses. In Greek mythology, Chiron is known as the “wounded healer,” a figure that Bouey often embodies in this performance. The work is informed by storytelling, particularly the overwhelming and fragmented sensational experiences related to trauma through both the physicalization and vocalization of metamorphosing memories.”
A new work-in-progress exploring how trauma takes over the body, self-harm, and the causes leading to this. Hijacked Bodies will be shown for Fresh Tracks at New York Live Arts. Ticket information here: https://newyorklivearts.org/event/fresh-tracks-residency-showing-19/
A new work-in-progress exploring how trauma takes over the body, self-harm, and the causes leading to this. Hijacked Bodies will be shown for Fresh Tracks at New York Live Arts. Ticket information here: https://newyorklivearts.org/event/fresh-tracks-residency-showing-19/
