New Work Reading: TWA: Maryland Opera Studio

Join us in person at The Clarice! Please note that this event will not be livestreamed.
 
This new opera inspired by the popular folk ballad THE TWA SISTERS, explores the eternal conflict between the opposing forces of love and jealousy; and why this ancient ballad resonates even more deeply today with the proliferation of social media and virtual sharing platforms.
 

BlackLight Summit & Dance Place: afterGLOW Drag Show • IN-PERSON

About the Event

In continued support of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities, Dance Place and The Clarice's BlackLight Summit have partnered to present an exciting new drag show produced by haus of bambi. afterGLOW closes out the three-day 2023 BlackLight Summit with a glitter-filled, wig pulling, lip-syncing, drag celebration. Featuring performances from some of the DMV's most dynamic drag artists, afterGLOW affirms that the future is Black, queer, beautiful and happening now!

BlackLight Summit & Dance Place: Last Night the DJ Saved My Life: Who Heals the Healers? • IN-PERSON

"When the dream was slaughtered and all that love and labor seemed to have come to nothing, we scattered... We knew where we had been, what we tried to do, who had cracked, gone mad, died, or been murdered around us... Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." –James Baldwin

BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with Christian A. Warner • IN-PERSON

About the Event

BlackLight Summit artist Christian A. Warner leads a movement workshop. Pulling from codified modern techniques, ballet, floorwork and musical theatre styles, this workshop exists as a contemporary movement class that often explores a wide range of systems with an emphasis on strengthening the integrated mind and body. All abilities and levels welcome.

BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with Symara Johnson • IN-PERSON

About the Event

BlackLight Summit artist Symara Johnson leads a movement workshop. This class is in practice with your romantic present, a conversation that ignites the many parts within us to activate and shift our perceptions of the world. We take time to choose where we want to go and dive into our agency. Symara Johnson plays the role of a facilitator as she shares entrances and exits formulated through her own experience of being. You are invited to be whoever and whatever during this. All abilities and levels welcome!

BlackLight Summit & Gibney's Black Diaspora: Empty Chairs, Empty Tables: Waking the Absence with Pathways to Grief & Grieving • LIVESTREAM

"When the dream was slaughtered and all that love and labor seemed to have come to nothing, we scattered... We knew where we had been, what we tried to do, who had cracked, gone mad, died, or been murdered around us... Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." –James Baldwin

About the Event

As descendants of the diaspora, what is our role and responsibility of BIPOC Curators to guide consumers of performance through periods of deep loss?

BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with Shanice Mason & Jamison Curcio • IN-PERSON

About the Event

BlackLight Summit artists Shanice Mason and Jamison Curcio lead a movement workshop on the last day of the 2023 summit. What does it mean to allow yourself to be? To be in control of time, space and energy? Explore the depths of your inner world through a guided music study that invites you to be in control of time and play, and allows you to be in your most present body. As a community we will map the space and unlock new doors together, leading us into a new world. Get ready for this adventure.

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