Mayfield
Brooks
2 April 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00
As part of PACAP 8 / Mystery School, Forum Dança is hosting Mayfield Brooks, an artist who develops an artistic practice that crosses movement, voice, writing and cultivation of the land, intertwining creation, experimentation and ecology. Through improvisation, she investigates forms of listening, disorientation and transformation in the body and in the relationship with the world.
Based in Brooklyn, New York, and with a background rooted in pedagogy, performance and ancestral care, Mayfield Brooks has been developing the Improvising While Black methodology, exploring possibilities for embodied liberation and collective practices of presence.
This lecture will be conducted in English.
Mayfield Brooks
A performance artist working in movement and voice, urban farmer, writer and pedagogue, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she develops the Improvising While Black (IWB) methodology, which explores improvisation as a practice of disorientation, dissidence and ancestral healing.
Her work encompasses dance, vocalisation, writing, pedagogy and ritual practices, and has been presented in contexts such as the Museum of Modern Art NYC, The New Museum, Tanzhaus Dusseldorf, Muzeum Susch and The Center for the Less Good Idea in South Africa.
He is a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and was a resident artist at the Danspace Project.
She received the Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and was nominated for a Bessie Award with the film Whale Fall.
General information
Date
2 April 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00
Venue
Forum Dança – Espaço da Penha
Travessa do Calado, 26B, 1170-070 Lisboa
Free entry, subject to capacity.
Top photo: Renewal Residency, December 2022, Danspace Project © Ian Douglas/courtesy Danspace Project.
PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures
Support and Partnerships
Co-Production PACAP 8: Culturgest | Teatro do Bairro Alto | Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk | Goethe-Institut Portugal, in the scope of Kulturfest festival.
Co-producer in Residency PACAP 8: O Espaço do Tempo
Support PACAP 8: Alkantara | Casa da Dança – Almada | Fundação GDA | Kees Eijrond Foundation | OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina
