<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Following a developmental
residency at Catwalk Institute, Brooklyn-based Marion Spencer Dance will
present a live public performance of a new work entitled “to love the
rise/pt.2” at Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre on Saturday July 16, 2022, at 7:30pm.<br>
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“to love the rise/pt.2” is an emerging/ongoing
multimedia dance project directed by Marion Spencer and including artists
Ogemdi Ude, Symara Johnson, Kimiko Tanabe, Tara Sheena, s. lumbert and
slowdanger. Here is her description of the project: “Taking lessons from
abolition, liminal space, transformation, and Donna Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg
Manifesto,’ our process continues developing through a previously imagined and
now lived apocalypse, offering visions of a world built from the detritus of
our current one. Reflecting upon Mariame Kaba's writings on abolition and
transformative justice, we collectively consider how we move forward with
scars, embracing an alternative order. Emerging on a different imaginative
plane, a new utopia and all her elements are built by our collective, collaging
moving and grooving, sensing and sounding, constructing and deconstructing,
finding and losing order to arrive together in a transformed ecology of
sensing, imagination, and action. We offer an anti-capitalist mindset and
alternative order in this project, posing that our world is made by us all through
resistance, imagining and action.”<br>
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According to her website, Marion Spencer is “an interdisciplinary dance artist
currently living on the unceded land of the Munsee Lenape and Canarsie peoples,
known today as Brooklyn, NY. I propose dance and dance making as salvor -
cellularly, individually, sociopolitically, societally. Amidst a creative
process including movement, vocalization, and collaging that are rigorously
researched and rigorously intuitive, I dance and makes dances to dream and make
dreams alive, inviting you to journey terrains of my imagination.”<br>
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The performance of “to love the rise/pt.2” will take place on Bridge Street
Theatre’s “Priscilla” Mainstage, located at 44 West Bridge Street in the Village
of Catskill, NY, at 7:30pm Saturday July 16. Tickets are $15, $10 for Students/Seniors/Working Artists, and can be purchased at the door one-half hour prior to the
performance or in advance online at <a href="http://bridgest.org/spencer-tickets/">bridgest.org/spencer-tickets/</a>. To learn
more about Marion Spencer dance, visit their website at </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.marion-spencer.com/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">www.marion-spencer.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. And for more information regarding the performance of “to love the
rise/pt.2” on July 16, go to <a href="http://bridgest.org/marion-spencer/">bridgest.org/marion-spencer/</a>.<br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Performance Calendar<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Catwalk Institute (in
partnership with Bridge Street Theatre) presents<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Marion Spencer Dance:
to love the rise/pt.2<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Saturday July 16,
2022 @ 7:30pm<br>
Bridge Street Theatre’s “Priscilla” Mainstage<br>
44 West Bridge Street, Catskill, NY<br>
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Tickets:<br>
</b>General Admission $15, Students/Seniors/Working Artists $10<br>
Advance tickets online at <a href="http://bridgest.org/spencer-tickets/">bridgest.org/spencer-tickets/</a><br>
Tickets can also be purchased at the door one half hour prior to the
performance (subject to availability)<br>
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</span><br></span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Photo: Stefano Altamura</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
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</span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Events at Bridge Street
Theatre are supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with
the support of the Governor of New York and the New York State Legislature and
by Public Funds from the Greene County Legislature through the Cultural Fund
administered in Greene County by the CREATE Council on the Arts.</span></i><br></div>