Photo credit: NDERE
Elemental Awareness: A Warm Up for Growing a Green Heart
led by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo (NDERE) and Priscilla Marrero
Join Nicolas and Priscilla for a performative online experience via instagram live in Van Cortlandt Park, near the Tibbetts Brook inflow. This program will be livestreamed between 10am-11am on CALL’s instagram account. There is no need to register- simply pop into our instagram stories between 10-11am on Saturday the 23rd! https://www.instagram.com/cityaslivinglab/
This performance is a ‘warm up’ for our in-person workshop, the following weekend, October 30th. RSVP for that workshop here.
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 or performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, CALL, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, 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. Nicolás has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Residencies attended include P.S. 1/MoMA, Yaddo and MacDowell. Nicolás 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. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in 2011 he was baptized as a Bronxite; a citizen of the Bronx. Nicolás is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, a space working at the intersection of creativity and healing:www.interiorbeautysalon.com@interiorbeautysalon
Priscilla Marrero(ella/she) is an experimental performing + teaching artista from sunny Seminole, Taino and Tequesta land, also known as Miami, Florida. She is a passionate storyteller and loves to discover new ways to collaborate with interdisciplinary artistas through live performance or filmmaking. She has performed and presented her collaborations in the Musée Dapper (Paris, FR), The Empty Circle (Brooklyn, NY), Miami Light Project (Miami, FL), Inkub8 (Miami, FL), Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church (New York, NY) y más. Priscilla has received support from grants such as Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade Community Grants, Here and Now Grant, and Gluck Fellowship Grant, MFA Graduate Fellowship, and currently the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship Award. She graduated from Florida International University with a BA in Performance and Choreography (09’) and is currently an MFA Candidate for Experimental Choreography from the University of California Riverside (22’) for her research practice on La Pelvis. Priscilla lives and works on/with Munsee Lenape land, known as Harlem, NY and often travels to Miami Beach for el mar and some familia time. https://www.priscillamarrero.com
Growing a Green Heart is an experience conceived by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, combining choreography, pedagogy, and performance art, resulting in a multidisciplinary engagement to be presented with CALL, Van Cortlandt Park Alliance and the Bronx Council on the Arts . This project is supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts. This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the Bronx Council on the Arts. Nicolás will be working with Geoffrey Jones to document this experience in video.