a remnant, an alien, a wave…a prelude, a dedication, a shock of ghosts: a relay of entwined performances
Friday, September 27th, Doors at 7:00pm, sliding scale $10-25
Hana van der Kolk, Emmett Wilson, Shannon Brooks, and Olaiya Olayemi share a relay of dedications, meditations, and provocations towards otherwise. Each of the four artists offers a dance/practice that entwines with the others’ in a communing of presences and absences, intimacies and distances.
About the Artists
Hana van der Kolk is a queer dancer, artist, and ritual, learning, and celebration facilitator living on unceded Mohican, Mohawk, and Haudenosaunee lands (Hudson Valley, New York). They create performances, organize events, design and lead workshops, offer one-on-one counseling & sex and gender expansion work, write, and make videos, gifts, talismans, and environments for (re)enchantment. They see their work—which is always collaborative—as a conduit for knowing/unknowing what is here and now, for remembering and practicing intimacy at many proximities. Hana has worked internationally as a teacher and facilitator, performer, and artist. They completed an MFA in Dance from UCLA and a practice-based PhD in Art at RPI, where their dissertation focused on queer friendship and creative, embodied technologies for re-enchantment and recovery from the delusion of separateness.
olaiya olayemi is an antidisciplinary artist/radical academic/pleasure anarchist/and erotic healer who creates work at the nexus of cultural activism, teaching artistry, therapeutic expressive arts, and creative research and produces artist's books, performance art, art film/video art, and sound art. she holds a b.a. in english/creative writing from depaul university and an m.f.a. in creative writing from emerson college. she was a fall 2020 brooklyn arts exchange space grantee, a 2020-2021 dramatic question theatre playwriting fellow, and a 2019-2020 queer art performance fellow. she has received training at emergenyc's performance and politics program as well as community word project's teaching artist program. she has performed at dixon place, upenn, brooklyn arts exchange, and jack theatre. she has been a guest speaker/lecturer at emerson college, depaul university, and bates college’s annual dance festival. she currently lives in philadelphia, pa.
Shannon Brooks is a multidisciplinary artist making live, performance-based work. Their work wades between practice, performance, and happenstance; cultivating tactile experiences experimenting within the interstitial spaces between body, material, and the unreal. Shannon’s creative practice is deeply collaborative, eroding, and ever-transforming.
Emmett Wilson (he/they) does dance and performance art to make mistakes to harness the power of embarrassment with Others. He grew up in Houston, emerged into adulthood in Salt Lake City, and is now based in Philly, residing and gardening at the Headlong Performance Institute and caring for clients as a Licensed Massage Therapist; his practice is called Dear Body. In 2022, Emmett was awarded a ‘fringy’ at the FringeArts festival for their work, Afternoon of an Alter: a not so lonely solo. The following year he presented An Undertaking with Rose Luardo at the Laurel Hill Cemetery. Emmett has been commissioned to facilitate workshops to ‘find and physicalize alter-egos’ for queer youth as well as adults across this so-called country. Emmett is fascinated by all the personas that bubble out of their body.