join us for a FREE LGBTQ COMMUNITY DANCE PROJECT AND VIDEO CREATION AT BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER
**December 9th & 10th [10am to 5pm - lunch included]
RSVP REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE : BCP@camba.org
Free your body, shed those limitations and blast through to your fabulous queer self. Weâll also be exploring dance as resistance, videotaping our dance work out in the streets of Brooklyn!
The creative process is oriented towards the creation of a short dance film on LGBTQ's representatio...
join us for a FREE LGBTQ COMMUNITY DANCE PROJECT AND VIDEO CREATION AT BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER
**December 9th & 10th [10am to 5pm - lunch included]
RSVP REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE : BCP@camba.org
Free your body, shed those limitations and blast through to your fabulous queer self. Weâll also be exploring dance as resistance, videotaping our dance work out in the streets of Brooklyn!
The creative process is oriented towards the creation of a short dance film on LGBTQ's representations directed by French choreographer Matthieu Nieto, in collaboration with American video artists Quincy Scott and Effy Grey.
WEEKEND FULL PROGRAM :
**DECEMBER 9TH :
10am to 12:30pm : DANCE WORSHOP - DANCING AS RESISTANCE [Brooklyn Community Pride Center]
We will create dances and performances to showcase our inner strength. Reaching into the poetic and political representations of our bodies to deconstruct stereotypes and choose our own narratives.
To do that we will reach as much into popular and urban dance styles as in contemporary and experimental dance.
12:30pm to 1:30pm : LUNCH is provided
1:30pm to 3:30pm : VIDEO CREATION - DANCING AS RESISTANCE [Outside]
We will take those dances to the street to create bodies of resistance, bodies of love and celebrate our flamboyant selves.
3:30pm to 5pm : WORDS AND BODIES [Brooklyn Community Pride Center]
In this part of the workshop, we'll talk more about our personal stories, discussing sexuality & health, queerness, gender and identity politics, and expressing those through writing prose and poetry, thinking about how words can challenge representations and affect people reception of one's body image. We will be making placards that be featured in the dance film.
**DECEMBER 10th :
10am to 12:30pm : DANCE WORKSHOP - DANCING AS RESISTANCE [Brooklyn Community Pride Center]
Continue to create dances and performances to showcase our inner strength. Reaching into the poetic and political representations of our bodies to deconstruct stereotypes and choose our own narratives.
12:30pm - 1:30pm : VIDEO CREATION - DANCING AS RESISTANCE [Outside]
1:30pm to 2:30pm : LUNCH is provided
2:30pm to 4pm : DEMONSTRATION/PERFORMANCE
[Outside]
This will also be an occasion to include a few more people who couldn't commit to the whole weekend into participatory actions or improvisational dance that we experimented over the weekend.
4pm-5pm : WORKSHOP CLOSE
Time to talk about our experience, give feedbacks and reflect over a coffee.
HOW TO PARTAKE IN THE PROJECT :
This is a free community project and collaborative process. Coffee and lunch will be provided, RSVP required.
We are looking for LGBTQ community members, performers and or activists, comfortable in their bodies and willing to celebrate themselves through movement. All body shapes and dance styles are welcomed, though no particular dance experience is needed.
As it's a community project based on a creative process, it's better to be committed to the two full days so that we can have time to build and share together.
For questions and registration, please email: BCP@camba.org
With the Support of CAMBA, Afro NYC and Brooklyn Community Pride Center.
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MORE INFO ON THE X-TOPIA PROJECT :
X-topia is a lab to incorporate and embody utopian visions and fictions into our realities. Through dance, performance and video creations in public spaces, X-topia investigates the representation of poetic and political bodies.
Each edition of X-topia will take place in a different territory to explore utopia from various geographical and cultural perspectives. Participants will have the common task of performing actions in the territory that welcomes them to address social and political issues through dance and performance. Each experience will produce its own unique dance film to document the local dynamics and physical research of the collective.
X-topia invites artists, researchers, activists, outsiders and dreamers to come together and explore the possibilities of using the body as a tool to create alternative representations and imaginaries that will influence the world of tomorrow.
www.mouvementsmigrateurs.com