We are pleased to share the second edition of the S P A C E Alliance Studio Residency program! In response to the current conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic, this edition of the program is an accelerated 6-week residency focused on projects that involve cross-disciplinary collaborations that are not required to be in physical proximity or share physical space. This program promotes the cooperation of local spaces and movement-artists, building artistic community, artist development, and to provide a platform to share new work. In alignment with DISCO RIOT’s overall mission, we foster interdisciplinary movement-based art with themes of social change and storytelling.
DISCO RIOT’s community partners Art Produce, Balletcenter West, and San Diego Ballet will provide 40 hours of rehearsal space over a 6-week period to the selected resident artists from June 28 – August 9, 2020. In the spirit of community, collaboration and exchange, the residency program also includes master classes taught by the resident artists for their home studio communities, showings of each artist’s work-in-progress, and culminates in a final presentation of artists’ work on August 7 and 8, 2020.
These artists and their projects were chosen for the 2020 S P A C E Alliance Studio Residencies for their unique combination of interdisciplinary approach to current events driven subject matter. Given the conditions created by COVID, these projects also really embraced the possibilities of virtual processes and include collaborators from all across the United States.
This iteration of S P A C E will culminate in a virtual presentation of artists’ work. The artists’ virtual residency portfolios will premiere on Friday the 7th with live talk-backs, showings, discussions to be held via Zoom on August 8th, 2020.
Chelsea’s project is an episodic process –
workshopping and creating a series of
dance one-acts [in multiple mediations]
which move us closer to a question:
How can dance propose systems
for Crisis & Care?
She will be working with a rotating cast of collaborators
in addition to multi-media editor/producer,
Summer Dunsmore.
Jaime’s project explores the questions:
Why do our bodies produce sound?
If we make sound, does that mean we are heard?
What is the value of listening,
and how can we interpret symbols and fantasies
through the sounds of our lives?
Jaime will be collaborating
long-distance with Angel Acuña.
Nicole’s project will research societal and political
issues within America in regards to white privilege,
allyship, the Black Lives Matter movement,
and the unpacking of racial inequality.
Her collaborators include (Alyshia) Sheree Harper,
Trent D. Willams, Michelle Mercedes, and Cierra Willis.
Her collaborators are the source
for this work and she aims to elevate
and empower their voices as Black artists.
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