IRL + LIVE BROADCAST 12-14 AprIL 2023 7-9p
J. BOUEY DANCE PROJECTS × THE VANDERBILT REPUBLIC proudly present S A T U R N: A REVELATION (work-in-process) at BRIC
What would humanity be responsible for after we’ve abolished all systems of oppression?
Join us for a work-in-process showing of S A T U R N: A Revelation by 2022/23 BRIClab Performing Arts residents j. bouey and George Del Barrio.
S A T U R N: A Revelation is a reverse time capsule radio broadcast hosted by Mx. Black Copper with DJ NYX from the year 2220, when humanity is at the precipice of abolishing all systems of oppression. During the broadcast, we see Mx. Black Copper waacking to songs of liberation interwoven with the conjured discussions of ancestors from 2023 reflecting on their responsibility to leave behind a healthy global ecology for their descendants.
Conceived by dance artist j. bouey, S A T U R N: A Revelation is an immersive dance performance installation, direct action for community support, and multi-camera live broadcast exploring the question: what are we responsible for once we abolish all systems of oppression? This hologram-like radio show, with environmental projection mapping and multiple points of view, is magically performed in real-time through the Live Performance Camera Obscura designed by George Del Barrio, paired with a live broadcast film experience by MIDHEAVEN Network + Studio.
The Performance Obscura allows for larger-than-life images of performers dancing within an enclosed space to be projected onto any surface in the performance space at the speed of light. An educational, soulful, and energetic live broadcast will offer multi-camera viewpoints of the entire production (including the invitation-only 12 April tech rehearsal), revealing elements that no in-person attendee could ever see.
Free registration is required to attend the 13 & 14 April 2023 performance cycles — ADVANCE REGISTRATION HERE.
In collaboration with Universe City NYC — an ecological public health laboratory headquartered in East New York, Brooklyn — and BRIC, we are hosting a food/ pantry/ clothing drive at BRIC House (647 Fulton Street Bklyn 11217) 11-14 April 2023, with support items available for pickup or drop-off from 8a-10p daily alongside welcoming community experiences. Donations of non-perishable food and pantry items + clean clothing of all kinds are gratefully welcomed and will be openly shared with any and all.
j. bouey is the founder of The Dance Union Podcast, initiating the NYC Dancers COVID-19 Relief Fund and The Dance Union Town Hall For Collective Action to support the dance community through numerous world-changing events. As a creator, J. is a recent 2021-2022 Jerome Fellow and is a 2022/2023 Movement Research Artist in Residence. j. bouey was also recently a Gibney 2021 Spotlight Artist, Artist-In-Residence at CPR – Center for Performance Research, and 2021 Bogliasco Fellow. j. was also a 2018 Movement Research Van Lier Fellow, and 2018 Dancing While Black Fellow. They were also a former dancer with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and danced with Germaul Barnes’ Viewsic Dance, Maria Bauman’s MB Dance, Dante Brown, Christal Brown’s INspirit Dance, and apprenticed with Emerge 125 (formerly Elisa Monte Dance) under the artistic direction of Tiffany Rea-Fisher. Determined to manifest the dreams dreamt in their youth, J. is assuming this responsibility because these dreams sustained them when the sun didn’t shine or shined too bright to see.
Born 1976 in New York City and raised with the global immigrant community of Queens, George Del Barrio is the Founding Creative Director × Executive Producer of The Vanderbilt Republic (est. 2008) & MIDHEAVEN Network + Studio (est. 2020), as well as Creative Director × Executive Producer at Universe City NYC (2021-present).
As a 1st-generation American and all-media Creative/ Technical Director deeply versed in photographic physics, immersive curatorial design, and all phases of production, Del Barrio's practice is concentrated on archetype expansion. Every site response is architected by a resolute humanism; every invention, design, & transformation is in search of duende — meaning is not a discovery, it is a creation. Clients include The Keith Haring Foundation, Rutgers University, Textile Arts Center, MADERA, On The Revel, BARE Opera, Cardistry-Con & the dawning sunlight of an awakened mind.
Equipment and production solutions lovingly provided by Eastern Effects.
MIDHEAVEN NETWORK is a brave, generative space of healing and for the building — not “rebuilding” — of a fully inclusive society. MIDHEAVEN exists in paradox: FROM many, one.
THROUGH live arts programming from A GLOBAL phalanx OF performance, visual art, social justice, human development and cinema/ digital/ VR voyagers, MIDHEAVEN will ADVANCE COURAGEOUS, loving & possibility-driven VISIONS to the world.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR × EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GEORGE DEL BARRIO
ART DIRECTOR AL-KHABIR RICHMAN
DIRECTOR OF AUDIO ADRIAN MARTINEZ
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY BRIAN GONZALEZ
CAMERA OPERATOR + KEY GRIP IAN CHEN
COMPOSER + ASSOCIATE PRODUCER BANDIT LU
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