Eco Art and Performance Workshops with Maira Duarte
\nA NEXT! Educational Workshop Series by Pioneers Go East Collective<\/p>\n
Friday, June 6: Seniors | 11 am-1 pm
\nSaturday, June 7: Youth | 11 am-1 pm
\nSunday, June 8: Youth | 11 am-1 pm
\nFriday, June 13: Seniors | 11 am-1 pm
\nSaturday, June 14: Seniors and Youth | 11 am-1 pm\u00a0<\/p>\n
Free with RSVP, Email community@pioneersgoeast.org
\n*Participants are welcome to attend single or multiple sessions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In this intergenerational workshop, facilitated by Maira Duarte from Dance to the People, in partnership with Pioneers Go East Collective and Socrates Sculpture Park, participants will engage in the exploration of movement in nature and will manufacture wearable art pieces made of reused materials. Participants are welcome to bring materials they would like to create their pieces with, such as clothing in need of mending or objects that they have in excess (socks, plastic cutlery, cardboard, etc.). These workshops will explore the themes of land, water, and access to public natural spaces as well as the power of art and performance in manifesting the relationship between the individual, the community, and earth.<\/p>\n
Eco Art and Performance workshops provide a way of using art to explore environmental issues affecting our community. Activities will take place outdoors. Participants will engage in movement forms such as modern, improvisation, story-based creative movement, indigenous Mexican dance, as well as some exercises from the theater of the oppressed with discussions about waste management, sustainable\u00a0 practices, and human and animal rights. Participants will also learn to create costumes, posters, or other artifacts made from repurposed materials. Eco Art and Performance workshops aim to bring together community members of all ages, artists, and local activists into conversation about the defense of the land and the right of the land\u2019s inhabitants to live free from pollution.
\nAbout Maira Duarte, Instructor
\nMaira Duarte is a Mexican artist, educator,\u00a0 and organizer based in New York City. In 2014, she founded Dance to the People\/Danza para la Gente (DTTP), a collective dedicated to fostering anti-capitalist forms of artistic exchange, operating in both New York and Mexico. DTTP uses dance, ritual, environmental education, and costume making to address the exploitation of people and the natural world. The collective\u2019s work emerges from participatory public experiences, workshops, community forums, and dance laboratories. DTTP has received support from the CUNY Dance Initiative, Queens Council on the Arts, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Maira has taught for over 16 years in innumerable public schools in NYC and New Jersey, through the organizations Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dancewave, The New Victory Theater and Dance Theater of Harlem. A 2022 Emerge alumna, Maira has been the Artist in Residence at Grace Exhibition Space since 2023. She also co-manages The Woods, a low-cost rehearsal and performance space in Ridgewood, Queens. dancetothepeople.org
\nPioneers Go East Collective<\/p>\n
Pioneers Go East Collective is a radical Queer laboratory collective dedicated to dance-theater and video art to empower the LGBTQ experience. An artist-driven collective, we create works of high artistic merit, speak out about social issues and build a platform to positively impact the LGBTQ community. Based in NYC, the collective is led by BIPOC and\/or immigrant artists and cultural organizers Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Daniel Diaz, Philip Trevi\u00f1o, Joyce Isabelle, Joey Kipp, Remi Harris, and Anabella Lenzu. We portray same-gender-loving experiences, memory, and marginalization that resonate with contemporary lives. The collective combines stories of vulnerability and courage with popular culture to facilitate communal meaning and advocate for cultural integrity. Our work has been widely presented in NYC at Judson Church, La MaMa, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, St Ann’s Warehouse, The LGBT Center, JACK, Exponential Festival, LMCC’s Process Space at Governors Island, Chashama Gallery, Incubator Arts Project, New Dance Alliance, and Goethe Institut. For more information about their work please visit their website here and to reserve a spot for the workshops, please email community@pioneersgoeast.org<\/p>\n
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