This Thursday, my friend Hentyle will be performing with Xandra Ibarra at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in what will be an examination of the relationship between dance/performance/artists and the contemporary urban museum space. Or, “an evening of racialized sexual spectacle, participatory twirling, and Isadora Duncan-inspired dance reconstruction.” Awesome. Please join.  * * * Converge: Xandra Ibarra and Hentyle Yapp Dec 20, 2012 4:00pm – 8:00pm Grand Lobby FREE The recent rise of performance and movement in museum spaces forces us to think more critically about the relationship between performance and the museum. Performance-based works have often arose in opposition to Western, masculinist and historicist traditions of the museum. However, now that the relationship between performance and the museum is increasingly in flux and destabilized, are there possibilities for new, critical approaches to performance art within museum spaces? What does it mean for practitioners of performance mediums to work within the museum’s borders? Working through their respective performance-based trainings in burlesque and contemporary/modern dance, Xandra Ibarra and Hentyle Yapp collaborate in December’s YBCA ConVerge event to explore and disrupt this predicament. Their collective approach questions how white womanhood structures their performance genres, and how, as racialized performers, they use parody to disarm and contend with whiteness, gender, institutions, history, and memory. Join us for an evening of racialized sexual spectacle, participatory twirling, and Isadora Duncan-inspired dance reconstruction! Complimentary food and drinks.
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This Thursday, my friend Hentyle will be performing with Xandra Ibarra at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in what will be an examination of the relationship between dance/performance/artists and the contemporary urban museum space. Or, “an evening of racialized sexual spectacle, participatory twirling, and Isadora Duncan-inspired dance reconstruction.”

Awesome. Please join. 

* * *

Converge: Xandra Ibarra and Hentyle Yapp
Dec 20, 2012 4:00pm – 8:00pm
Grand Lobby
FREE

The recent rise of performance and movement in museum spaces forces us to think more critically about the relationship between performance and the museum. Performance-based works have often arose in opposition to Western, masculinist and historicist traditions of the museum. However, now that the relationship between performance and the museum is increasingly in flux and destabilized, are there possibilities for new, critical approaches to performance art within museum spaces? What does it mean for practitioners of performance mediums to work within the museum’s borders?

Working through their respective performance-based trainings in burlesque and contemporary/modern dance, Xandra Ibarra and Hentyle Yapp collaborate in December’s YBCA ConVerge event to explore and disrupt this predicament. Their collective approach questions how white womanhood structures their performance genres, and how, as racialized performers, they use parody to disarm and contend with whiteness, gender, institutions, history, and memory.

Join us for an evening of racialized sexual spectacle, participatory twirling, and Isadora Duncan-inspired dance reconstruction! Complimentary food and drinks.

Source: ybca.org

Freestyling in the streets of Chinatown

I’m digging CAAAV’s new/updated #danceathon trailer (i posted about the original video here) featuring Dennis Chin, Meejin Richart, Marlene Paez, Eric Trott and other CAAAV organizers and members. 

This is a notable example of a grassroots org with limited resources doing a one-day experiment to produce a publicity piece. Most importantly, folks had fun doing it and it shows, offering a peek into the everyday culture and relationships in CAAAV. Lastly, in the video Chinatown doesn’t simply appear as an exotic background, but it shows the community and people that the organization lives in and works with, organizing residents against gentrification, police violence, etc.

Source: youtu.be

CAAAV members (Dennis, Marlene, Meejin & Tai) dance in the streets of Chinatown to promote their upcoming dance-a-thon event as well as to promote their ongoing anti-gentrification and community organizing work in Chinatown.

A great example of guerrilla performance and low-resource production (they danced freestyle without any reference sound/track on a cold winter day), yielding a high-impact communications piece. And most importantly, they had fun doing it. 

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