Join us on June 10th for a reflective experience with beekeeper Dr. Luke Dixon and artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo.
Dr. Luke and Mr. Nicolás communicate from London and the Bronx, conceiving of this Zoom gathering as a beehive, inviting participants to gather for an hour of breathing practices, somatic movements, humming and talking about bees and being. Pause for a while in your busy life to join us in this journey of sound, breath, and gentle communication. Participants are encouraged to dress in ‘bee’ colors and set their zoom virtual background to an image of your favorite flower(s).
Listen with us to the bees and to ourselves. Bring the outside in.
Photography bg Siobhann Tighe (L) & Melanie DewBerry (R)
Luke Dixon is a performance maker, writer, teacher and academic, internationally known for his innovative productions of Shakespeare, his site-specific performances, his teaching of actors and his research into performance. His productions for theatre nomad, of which he was Artistic Director for 20 years, included all-female versions of ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Hamlet’, cross-dressed ‘Duke Bluebeard's Castle’, ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’, ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘As You Like It’, and an erotic celebration of Anita Berber in ‘Triumphant Desire’. These productions have been seen in China, North America, South Africa, Germany, France, Poland, Russia, Czech and Slovak Republics, Spain and the UK. Recent work has included ‘Blue Wedding’ with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, and ‘Mulheres de Shakespeare’ in Brazil. He has a doctorate in 'The Performance of Gender' and has published regularly on performance. His book, 'Play-Acting', a guide to theatre workshops, is published by Methuen in the UK and by Routledge New York. Outside of his work in performance, Luke is a beekeeper, with hives across London. His book 'Bees and Honey - myth. folklore and traditions' explores the ecosexuality of man and bee. http://lukedixon.co.uk/ http://www.urbanbeekeeping.co.uk/
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively, through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. He has exhibited and performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, Casita Maria, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. He holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with Coco Fusco; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York; and he has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. He came out as an ecosexual at a workshop taught in the UK by Beth Stephens, Annie Sprinkle, and Luke Dixon. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, Estévez Raful Espejo was baptized as a Bronxitein 2011. https://www.elmuseo.org/office-hours/