[vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” background_animation=”none” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” background_animation=”none” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]As part of PACAP 8 \/ Mystery School, Forum Dan\u00e7a 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.<\/p>\n
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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<\/em> methodology, exploring possibilities for embodied liberation and collective practices of presence.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””]This lecture will be conducted in English. <\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” background_animation=”none” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_accordion active_tab=”false” collapsible=”yes” style=”boxed_accordion”][vc_accordion_tab title=”Mayfield Brooks” title_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#eeeeee”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=”no” text_align=”left” css_animation=”” css=”.vc_custom_1687372899171{padding-left: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”33450″ img_size=”250×334″ add_caption=”yes” css=”” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text css=””]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<\/em> (IWB) methodology, which explores improvisation as a practice of disorientation, dissidence and ancestral healing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He is a Hodder Fellow<\/em> at Princeton University and was a resident artist at the Danspace Project.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She received the Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and was nominated for a Bessie Award with the film Whale Fall<\/em>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”General information” title_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#eeeeee”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1743551615899{padding-left: 25px !important;}”]Date<\/strong><\/p>\n 2 April 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Venue<\/strong> <\/p>\n Free entry, subject to capacity.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_accordion_tab][\/vc_accordion][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””]Top photo: Renewal Residency, December 2022, Danspace Project \u00a9 Ian Douglas\/courtesy Danspace Project.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” background_animation=”none” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”-1″ style=”pagination” items_per_page=”6″ element_width=”2″ item=”22505″ initial_loading_animation=”none” css=”” grid_id=”vc_gid:1744204266408-a96b94a6-97dc-3″ taxonomies=”888″][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” background_animation=”none” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n Co-Production PACAP 8:<\/strong> Culturgest | Teatro do Bairro Alto | Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk | Goethe-Institut Portugal, in the scope of Kulturfest<\/em> festival.<\/p>\n Co-producer in Residency PACAP 8:<\/strong> O Espa\u00e7o do Tempo<\/p>\n Support PACAP 8: <\/strong>Alkantara | Casa da Dan\u00e7a \u2013 Almada | Funda\u00e7\u00e3o GDA | Kees Eijrond Foundation | OPART, E.P.E\/Est\u00fadios Victor C\u00f3rdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=”no” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”33352″ img_size=”” css=”” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PACAp 8\/MyS talk by Mayfield Brooks. 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