CROSSROADS series / DEC 9 : Arien Wilkerson/Tnmot Aztro

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CROSSROADS series
DECEMBER 9
8 – 9:30 PM ET

Location
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South,
New York, NY 10012

DEC 9 / CROSSROADS curated by Hilary Brown-Istref
featured artists: ALEXA GRÆ, Yuan Liu, gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata) and Arien Wilkerson/Tnmot Aztro

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Arien Wilkerson/Tnmot Aztro
@ariaztro
(They/she)

Performing
EQUATORS (Excerpt)

Credits
EQUATORS made in collaboration with Installation Artist David Borawski and Lighting designer Jon-Paul LaRocco and artist Domenic Pellegrini.

Project description
EQUATORS Performance installation: Is a visual exploration on the effects of climate change seen through the lens of racist social and historical practices that have displaced communities of color, such as segregation, re-zoning, gentrification, and redlining. You can catch the full performances in Philadelphia December 17 & 18, 2021.

BIO
Arien Wilkerson (They/she) is a queer black choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, director, producer, and installation artist. The Hartford, CT native began their dance training under the tutelage of Jolet Creary, and has been a student at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, The Artists Collective, Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts, and the Batsheva Dance Company’s „Gaga Intensive“ in New York, NY, along with visiting the company in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2008, they were a scholarship recipient for travel to Cape Verde, Africa to participate in CulturArte, a youth arts residency program. There, they studied with life and performance mentor Deborah Goffe (Artistic Director of Scapegoat Garden) and Mano Preto (Artistic Director of Raiz di Polon). As a high school senior in 2009, Wilkerson traveled throughout parts of Eastern Europe on scholarship. Additionally, David Dorfman and Nicole Stanton selected Arien’s work for inclusion in Wesleyan University’s Dance Masters programming, recognizing their potential as a groundbreaking choreographer in New England.

In their early role as Founder and Artistic Director of TNMOT AZTRO, Arien has been commissioned by Hartford’s Town & Country Club to develop their sold-out show, BLACK BOY JUNGLE, which went on to the Wadsworth Atheneum. As an Artist-in-Residence at The Garden Center for Contemporary Dance (2013-2014), Arien developed three iterations of „The Projector Series“, which went on to sell out RAW (Real Art Ways) for 3 consecutive evenings. Arien served as co-facilitator for the Invisible City Project Cooperative, a space and program with the goal of supporting Greater Hartford dance artists in making their best work. Wilkerson teaches numerous workshops and gives lectures to youth, adults, non-dancers and seniors throughout the globe.

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CROSSROADS series
Performance and video art series curated by Pioneers Go East Collective.

CROSSROADS (CROSSWINDS, CROSSCURRENTS, CROSSFIRES) Performance + art + poetry + music + dance + food + community. A curated series presented by Pioneers Go East Collective. Crossroads Series features artists who explore new genres and known performance and art-making modes to share their creative practices with other artists and their audiences. Each evening we witness different generations of artists dealing with actual, day-to-day, contemporary challenges to further discussion between artists and to activate a network of exchange and inclusion with social and artistic intervention.

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CROSSROADS series lineup

DEC 9 / ALEXA GRÆ, Yuan Liu, gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata), and Arien Wilkerson/Tnmot Aztro

DEC 16 / Jasmine Hearn, Amanda Loulaki, Janessa Clark, and Lydia Mokdessi.

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NEXT UP! WORKSHOP

DEC 9 / with Joey Kipp