Torrent

Tickets- $25 An evening of contemporary dance featuring work by Evalina “Wally” Carbonell/Seed II Crown, Mijkalena Smith, Jessica Warchal-King/JCWK Dance Lab, Karen Fox/Bella Deluxe Entertainment, and Malcolm Shute/Human Landscape Dance. Our work explores current pressures on artists to not only survive, but respond to our culture’s attempts to silence dissenting viewpoints. Smith explores the use of education as protest, keeping the arts alive through mentorship. Shute’s “Waiting Room” explores the anxiety of waiting for the next attack. Dancers twitch, shift, and jump with restless energy, swarming and settling, waiting to be caught. Fox imagines activists as superheroes, weapon wielding truth talkers, and advocates of intergenerational inspiration and hope. Carbonell performs a ritual of regeneration through spirals and undulating phrases. Warchal-King focuses on the body as a source of healing through rhythm, gesture, and touch. Five dancers strike angular poses in articulated unison, beating a steady pulse on both the floor and…