An evening of original plays by Jonelle Walker and Leticia Ridley that focus on women as victims and perpetrators of both systematic and physical violence, in the present as well as in the past.
Residency at Joe's Movement Emporium: February 6-10, 2017
Using spatial dynamics,movement and physical theatre, text, live sound, theatrical clown and improvisational play, Threshold explores moments of transition, from the simplicity of entering and exiting a space, to the profound transition from innocence to experience.
Happenstance Theater engages the audience by bringing curiosity and delight to the idea of crossing over into unknown spaces: the moving, meeting, leaping, partnering, parting, aging and dying that require us to cross the threshold.
Gatekeepers/All that you touch, You Change is immersive dance-theater that explores the roles of artists in communities as everyday gatekeepers. A gatekeeper in a social system decides which of a certain commodity – materials, goods, and information – may enter the system. The gatekeeper’s choices are a complex web of influences, preferences, motives and common values.
Join us for a pre-performance panel discussion that gives context to the Lucretia story as it relates to each panelist's field of expertise.
Women play men regularly in opera. For centuries, higher voices were equated with nobility, purity and even virility. What does this say about attitudes toward gender and the transgendered in ages past? What is our experience today in watching women play romantic male leads and heroes? Sociology, psychology and politics collide in music.
Join us to celebrate the final concert of the 2016 National Orchestral Institute + Festival!
Event information to be announced.
Our human imprint and the memory of our movement linger in spaces well after we have migrated through them. The One-Mile Radius Project explores these imprints and the unique spaces within a one-mile radius of Joe’s Movement Emporium. In collaboration with Joe’s, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Brentwood Arts Exchange and their workshop participants, Orange Grove Dance will investigate the personal and uniquely traversed spaces of the community.
