About This Show

Three Rites: Liberty (work-in-progress excerpt) Concept + Performance: Edisa Weeks; Text: The Pathologizing of the African American by Psychiatry, Gary Null; Edisa Weeks

Three Rites is made possible in part by choreographic residencies at Materials For The Arts, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and the Center for Arts and Culture at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation; the sponsorship of The Field; the Durst Organization; and the generosity of individuals.

Edisa Weeks was an Alberto Vilar Performing Arts Fellow. She has taught and created works for the Alvin Ailey School, Ailey II, Bard College, Brigham Young University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Milwaukee University, Princeton University, Prodanza Italia, Queens College, Saint Ann’s High School and Texas Christian University. She received choreographic residencies at Joyce SoHo and the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York, as well as Djerassi in California and The Yard in Martha’s Vineyard. She has also received a New York Foundation for the Arts BUILD grant, a Mondo Cane grant from Dixon Place as well as grants from the American Music Center’s Live Music for Dance Program, Brooklyn Arts Council, and United States Artist International. http://www.deliriousdances.com

They will be joined by Dugal Dance, who created a new work, “Under” choreographed by Jacqueline Dugal. This work is about being under him, under scrutiny, and under estimated while addressing sexuality, gender, privilege, and power. “Under” was developed during the Mare Nostrum Elements’ Emerging Choreographer Series 2017.  Choreographed by Jacqueline Dugal in collaboration with the dancers.  Performed by: Desiree Amadeo, Isaac Lerner, Louisa Pancoast, Michelle Russell, Jessica Stroh. Music composed by Brett Copeland. Costumes designed by Kait McDonald.

This project is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Jacqueline Dugal has been commissioned by the Steffi Nossen Dance Foundation, The International Human Rights Arts Festival, selected for Mare Nostrum Elements Emerging Choreographer’s Series as a 2016 participant and 2017 returning choreographer, and awarded Director’s Choice at Spoke The Hub’s Winter Follies (2016).