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If you were wondering how Queens warm up…

“When We Were Queens” rehearsal residency @hawriverballroom before heading to our show next week @bmcmuseum in Asheville…links in bio! ✨ taken in The Haw River Ballroom by @culturemillnc

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“When We Were Queens… “ is back in rehearsal (at @durham_arts!) leading up to the next performance at Black Mountain College Museum (@bmcmuseum), and what a delight. the discovery to be found in listening and noticing and in the acknowledgment of that noticing is profoundly limitless.
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Thursday, November 13 @ 7 PM
Black Mountain College Museum
120 College Street, Asheville, NC
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“When We were Queens...” is shaped as a ritual to call the ancestors. It is the whispering of a spell. It is an attempt to reclaim a lost mythology through somatic embodied imagination. It seeks to face the void of erasure for individual and collective healing. It is shaped as a diptych: two solos in conversation to acknowledge both the singularity of Murielle and Shana’s cultural experience (one is French, the other is American) and the common thread running through their experience as women of color from the African Diaspora. The performance convokes the audience for a moment of shared witnessing while acknowledging the complexity of a gaze which has often exoticized our Black and Brown bodies.

@murielleelizeon @shanatucker @culturemillnc #whenwewerequeens taken in Durham, North Carolina by @culturemillnc

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Early morning today at the Culture Mill Lab preparing for the Parkinson's Performance Project Season's first gathering ready to test our new floor mats(thank you Caitlyn!!😍) with floor improvisations scores...AND, AND, AND, checking out our new Culture Mill teeshirts handmade through screen printing. For tongiths Season Launch at the Haw River Ballroom!! Hope to see you rhere! Bring a teeshirt and make your own CM teeshirt!!( and... thank you Caitlyn and Megan!!)
@culturemillnc
@caitlynswett
@megajett
@heatherlagarde
@hawriverballroom taken in Saxapahaw, North Carolina by @culturemillnc

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2 years ago

Lors de notre résidence au Dansomètre, nous arrivons avec l'intention de sortir de nos schémas habituels de création et de recherche afin de créer un nouveau lieu pour nos pratiques. Il y a quelque chose de précieux, de génératif, et parfois, de déstabilisant dans cet espace "entre" nous, cette exploration de nouvelles portes vers une danse en présence. Ecouter, sentir, ancrer, bercer, savoir, ne pas savoir, bouger, être immobile, respirer, exulter, tomber, écouter, écouter, écouter, softening when possible, in a neccessary movement between, and with, power and vulnerability. Without forgetting lightness as a practice.
And hard conversations....
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Ouf!
And then also....
Les montagnes suisses, le lac Lémam et les oiseaux:-)

So grateful for Dansometre for this space and time.
#embodiment
#contemporarydance
#workingsofter
#decolonizingpractices
#creativepractice
@dansometre
@culturemillnc
@tipperarydance taken in Dansomètre by @culturemillnc

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2 years ago

I am still here, in Switzerland and trying to come to terms about being away from the place I call home while it is grieving again the violent murder of a black woman by a police officer
. taken in Lausanne, Switzerland by @culturemillnc

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La plage de Lausanne. Tranquille. Magnifique.
Eau bleue, soleil, temps étiré, montagnes. Enfin.
Ex-haling.
And here they are coming "pêle-mêle", the ideas, the memories, the clarifying insights, the hidden fears, the unknown joys, the overlooked desires, the new courage.
REST IS PRODUCTIVE @boneheadart
#restisproductive #breathing #pausing #aliveness #lettinggo #trustingtheundoing taken in À la plage de Vidy by @culturemillnc

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2 years ago

I have arrived in Lausanne. Switzerland.
Arriving here involved, first, looking at my kid walking away in Paris Airport to her first alone TGV train ride to her OWN French vacation🤯
Sweet letting go and multitudes of.motherhood happy heartbreaks.
Now jetlag and happy seeping coffee looking at lac Leman allowing solitude to touch my aliveness and joy
Grateful for the deacdes of friendship that lend me here.
Merci ma Virginie.

Rebuilding strength for THIS beautiful complicated painful and magical life/world.

When possible, be well, rest, create space, reimagine.... and be moved

@virginielauwerier
#effortandrest
#pausing
#gratitude
#aliveness
#belonging taken in Lausanne, Switzerland by @culturemillnc

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2 years ago

Today is a hard day, struggling to see/feel/ trust in myself and in the world and yet....turning to some of the moments of connections, true friendship and love that these couple of picks are incapsukating across the last months, years and even decades, I am reminded that practicing being in rlationships with care, honesty and humor, when possible,, is at the core of transformation and the possibility for hope... we cannot do it alone...but it is also f..hard to do... being with the mess
Thank you Sarah Marguier for today's conversation .merci mon amie.
#saturday
#breathing
#mindfulmess
@shavinggrace2020 @clint.realness @angelikathiele_ @tommytomasimo @boneheadart @sarah.marguier taken in Saxapahaw, North Carolina by @culturemillnc

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And so.... I have started to run again...( thanks Tommy Noonan❣)and with it comes grappling an increase awareness of my relationship to aging and the changes in my body, in fitness, in sensations, in shape, not dismissing it, not overlooking it and practicing being kind with it... and also, reconnecting to the playfulness beyond goals: running, sweating, breathing, adapting, being creative and apontaneous, running up and down, forward and backward, following the tree shades to avoid the heat , giving high five to trees😅😂.....
#creativeaging
#moving
#beingwhole
#inspiration
#beingalive
#buildingcourageinsmallthings
@tommytomasimo taken in Saxapahaw, North Carolina by @culturemillnc

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Tonight, yoga sculpt with Lauren Miller brought A big smile on my face, lots of sweat, body awareness and sore muscles.
It is incredible that the Bridge at Rovermill is just 10min from my house here in Saxapahaw, NC!!! I can finish my day with a practice every day if I choose to while walking accross a. Beautiful river and meeting some unexpected new friends!
It is exactly what I needed and it is right there in the heart of Saxapahaw, 3 min walk from Culture Mill Lab!
In these very intense times, this is a true treasure.
#lifechoices #yoga #embodiedpractices #feelingmybody @thebridgeatrivermill @culturemillnc
@_cactustree_lb @SaxaphawNC taken in Saxapahaw, North Carolina by @culturemillnc

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Today, we had a beautiful, connected, tender, and very very fun workshop at ADF Samuel Scripps Studios with our beloved Parkinson's Performance Project group. So many years already since They are All, the performance ccmmissioned by ADF in 2019 and the work is still unfolding, deepening and changing me and us every time we move together!
Tonight, caping the day by watching the sunset in Saxapahaw, savoring the depth of this work
Feeling SOOOO HAPPY about doing what I do and being able to cultivate embodied relationships, care and imagination at the core of my work.
#contemporarydance #somaticpractice #creativecommunity #dancewithparkinsons @culturemillnc @caitlynswett @myra_vincenza_ @tommytomasimo @_lglglg_ by @culturemillnc

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maybe these stunning roses and dianthus’ will make this gush fest for the front-of-house a little more palatable!??
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to know me / Proxemic is to know an immense love for front of house in performance environments, in this instance with @culturemillnc @murielleelizeon @shanatucker and @ncstatelive at the @ncartmuseum. it is an honest to goddess passion for asking: What is important for the audience to have access to seeing / witnessing / experiencing? How do level changes and sight line shifts impact the way in which one experiences the work? How do you both minimize & simultaneously maximize the space and resources surrounding you?
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these are but starting places. add in layers like capacity. layers like physical access like space for wheelchairs, scooters and the like to maneuver easily. layers like proximity between performer and audience… who is actually who?
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you see, this is infrastructure of community gathering together. this is a glimpse of the intentionality and critical thinking that goes into sharing time and space together. to consider one’s audience and assisting them to more easily view & experience the work is an act of building for and with community.
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#WhenWewereQueens #WWWQ #performance #liveperformance #experience #liveexperience #museum #production #productionmanagement #producer #frontofhouse #buildingaudience #independentartist taken in North Carolina Museum of Art by @culturemillnc

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