International Human Rights Art Festival Modern Dance: J CHEN PROJECT Dance Commissions J CHEN Project
About This Show
In case you missed it the first time around, a reprise of Jessica Chen of JCHEN PROJECT’s four commissioned dance pieces, based in and incorporating a specific human rights-oriented textual inspiration. They include:
Karla Puna Garcia’s (Broadway’s Hamilton): Being a Filipino-American, I am constantly inspired by the beauty of diversity in this country. Expressing this celebration and excitement through movement is what I share through this piece!
Heather Robles’ (Managing Director of The Bessies Awards) piece is about women’s rights.
Tom Tsai’s: In his dance works, Tom Tsai exhibits creative, athletic movement, considers themes of identity construction and authentic representation, and fosters audience connection and empathy through personal, poignant performance. Tom sources from his training in Breaking, Modern and Postmodern dance, his multicultural Taiwanese-American background, and incorporates text to reframe, question and investigate the subjectivity of perspective and meaning.
JCHEN PROJECT will present two shorter pieces. “Digital Vortex” a multi-media piece about the overpowering influences of our media and how that shapes our identity, and “First Words” a trio with two dancers representing shackles about how we can sometimes feel confined but there’s always a choice.
About the Festival
Dixon Place and the Institute of Prophetic Activist Art present: The International Human Rights Art Festival, produced, March 3-5, 2017 at Dixon Place. This is the first human rights art festival in the long and vibrant history of New York City’s cultural scene. The Festival is produced by Tom Block, long-time artist-activist, author of Prophetic Activist Art: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution, and founder of the Institute of Prophetic Activist Art, an art-activist incubator housed at Dixon Place. Playwright and Director Julia Levine is the Assistant Producer.
The 2017 Festival will involve more than 70 artists presenting 40+ advocacy art events over the weekend, including theatre, visual art, music, dance, installations, workshops, panels, performance, films and KidsFest, to introduce children to the importance of art-advocacy work through hands-on activities. Join us for a weekend of art, advocacy, and celebration, with a happy hour featuring tasty human-rights themed concoctions, human rights trivia, prizes, t-shirts and much more.
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Sunday, March 5 at 4:00pm
60 minutes
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