Qilo
COMMUNITY CLASS
Saturday, September 26
10:30 - Noon
Somatic Research and Dance Lab
Sourcing experiential anatomy and developmental movement from BodyMind Centering®
Fundamentals: we will explore our internal sense of movement through hands-on partner work, sweat as we move across the floor in a flow of follow-the-leader, and improvise with each other and the space. A listening/sensing/moving dialogue between parts of our bodies and between body and space/floor/others.
Performance
Saturday, September 26
7:30p
a/ fam/ily/his/tory/of ur/ani/um m/inin/g in/new/me/xi/co: the body of remediation
Suggested donation: $10 at the door
Cash Credit Venmo
I started thinking about this piece 14 years ago when I spent a month helping my grandmother shred old business documents, mining claims, and stock certificates before she died. A year later, I inherited her 1970’s paper shredder and began to use it as a physical metaphor to process my complicated feelings about family secrets, white defensiveness, resource extraction, and deep love of family and land. This next version of the body of remediation starts with a sound score incorporating my deepening trans voice as instrument, a hazmat suit, and video projection using my body and movement as a way to process toxic family history. Sourced from site-specific movement research at the sealed-over Ambrosia Lake uranium mine/superfund site on Navajo Dine land in Grants, NM, where my grandfather’s involvement in uranium mines landed him in prison, the body of remediation troubles the myths of manifest destiny and resource extraction, using my body to somatically engage the epigenetic history of white settler colonialism. I dance to
untangle my inheritance.
“… environmental injustices, whether on Native lands or lands of other others, must always be viewed through the lens of settler colonialism. While the connections between the two forms of power are various, the body is a good place to start…” Traci Brynne Voyles, Wastelanding, Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country. 2015
“Land is that physical mass called our bodies.” Cherrie Moraga, The Last Generation, Prose and Poetry. 1993
