Pillow Lab:
André Zachery

At Perles Family Studio: Mar 4

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Pillow Lab:
André Zachery

Residency: February 24- March 5, 2023
Showing: March 4, 2023

Respiration will be an evening-length multimedia performance of dance, original music/sound and digital media inspired by and based on the novel The City We Became by acclaimed Afrofuturist writer N.K. Jemisin. This project, envisioned by Renegade Performance Group artistic director André M. Zachery, intends to translate the imagery of N.K. Jemisin’s text into an Afrofuturist choreographic work for an ensemble of dancers in collaboration with sound artists and musicians Sabine Blaizin, Okai Fleurimont, and Grammy-award winner Kendra Foster.

Zachery is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist of Haitian and African American descent, and is a scholar, researcher, and technologist with a BFA from Ailey/Fordham University and MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts from CUNY/Brooklyn College. As the artistic director of Renegade Performance Group, his practice, research, and community engagement artistically focuses on merging choreography, technology and Black cultural practices through multimedia work. André is a 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Gregory Millard Fellow in Choreography and 2019 Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Choreography.

Location

Perles Family Studio

Want to see the work? Jacob’s Pillow Members at the $500 level and above, as well as our College Partners, are invited to Jacob’s Pillow to attend an in-person, COVID-compliant showing by the artists at the end of the residency. Video livestreams may also be available for certain showings. This opportunity is offered by email invitation in advance of the event.

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Lead support for the Pillow Lab is provided by the Mellon Foundation