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Join us in movement , mystery & a multimedia experience.
Philadelphia, PA, US
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Overview
A Tree When No Moon Shines is a 45-minute multimedia dance theatre work that mixes storytelling with seeds concerning family, land & migration. It premieres September 2, 11 and 19 in The Cannonball Festival within the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Researching African American music and film of the early 20th century and colliding that with movement, text and vocal discoveries, we're exploring the seeds of today's issues with equitable access to nature for city dwellers. We hope you will join our team and support A Tree When No Moon Shines!
Show blurb:
“She left behind a body a mile back, almost completely hidden in the reeds. She stood now in overgrown grass, looking back at what was home, in the tandem tension between the past & present, between the sweet smell of honeysuckle and of red dirt singing to her legs and bared feet.”
History
A Tree When No Moon Shines is a 45-minute multimedia dance theatre work that mixes storytelling with seeds concerning family, land & migration. It premieres September 2, 11 and 19 in The Cannonball Festival within the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Researching African American music and film of the early 20th century and colliding that with movement, text and vocal discoveries, we're exploring the seeds of today's issues with equitable access to nature for city dwellers. We hope you will join our team and support A Tree When No Moon Shines!
Show blurb:
“She left behind a body a mile back, almost completely hidden in the reeds. She stood now in overgrown grass, looking back at what was home, in the tandem tension between the past & present, between the sweet smell of honeysuckle and of red dirt singing to her legs and bared feet.”
History
The great migration is one of the biggest events of the twentieth century that is still unknown to many people. The great migration was the outpouring of 6 millions African Americans from the Jim Crow south to cities of the north and west between 1915 and 1970.
In this work we take bits of the known and tell fragments of stories to pebble a path to the present. What does it mean to let go of land, knowledge of the land to embrace the unknown, to start over with nothing but a belief in the right to a life of freedom?
Most children of immigrants experience the difficulty in getting to hear the stories, often being met with phrases like "that's the past" and "why do you want to go digging up all that old stuff?"
The work creates space to inhabit dreams, to connect the past to the present, to remember memories that don't belong to us, but that affect our every day lives.
Here are some facts to consider:
- The dispossession of 98% of Black agricultural landowners in America is part of our history of racial injustice that is hugely important but mostly overlooked. 1
- Half a million Black-owned farms across the country failed between 1950 and 1975. Black farmers lost about six million acres from 1950 to 1969. Black-owned cotton farms in the South almost completely disappeared, and in Mississippi from 1950 to 1964, Black farmers lost almost 800,000 acres of land, which translates to a financial loss of more than $3.7 billion in today’s dollars, The Atlantic reports. 1
- Lynchings, police brutality, and other forms of intimidation were sometimes used to force Black farmers off their land and still more land was abandoned as Black families fled racial terror in the South. From 1950 to 1970, Mississippi’s Black population declined by almost one-fifth... By the time Black people could exercise the vote in that state, they were a clear minority. 1
1 [https://eji.org/news/one-million-black-families-have-lost-their-farms]
WHAT
WHAT
A Tree When No Moon Shines is a new performance project premiering September 2, 11 & 19, 2023 at the Ice Box Gallery for the Cannonball Festival in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival for three performances.
WHEN
September 2 ( 630pm), September 11 (630pm) & September 19 (5pm)
Ice Box Gallery | Crane Arts | 1400 N American Street
WHO
Keila Cordova (Choreographer | Director)
Keila Cordova is a choreographer, performer and writer whose works have been performed at Judson Church, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, in New York City at Aaron Davis Hall, the Cool NY Dance Festival, Solar One Arts Festival, Dixon Place, the Boogie Down Dance Festival, BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Art & Dance), the D.U.M.B.O. Arts Festival, Clement Soto Velez Center, the HERE Arts Center, Mulberry Street Theater, as well as the Kelly Strayhorn's newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival (Pittsburgh, PA), Celebrate Dance Festival (San Diego, CA), Outlet Dance Project at the Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ), Sweat Modern Dance Festival (Hoboken, NJ), the Around the Coyote Festival (Chicago) and the Toronto Dance Fringe (fFIDA).
As the artistic director of the 3 Pony Show/ keila cordova dances, she creates dance performance works riding the boundaries between dance and theatre. Evening-length performance works include KITH, Linear Default, As Pretty Does, Volcano My Love, Agnes Falling, Janet 2.0. Cordova holds a bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric from UC, Berkeley and a master of fine arts in Creative Writing from the New School for Social Research. Keila Cordova co-founded and directed the 954 Dance Movement Collective from 2009 to 2020, providing movement space and dance opportunities for all ages. She founded and produced the World Dance Day in Philadelphia festival from 2010 to 2019. From 2010 to 2020, she also founded and ran Dance for PD in Philadelphia in partnership with the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Parkinson Council and Penn Medicine. Cordova was awarded funding by the Leeway Foundation and the Puffin Foundation. She has also received artistic support with Funds for New Work awards from Aaron Davis Hall, a commission from the Greenwall Foundation and the International Center for Advanced Studies; artist residency awards from the Constance B. Saltonstall Foundation, The Millay Colony, Norcroft, as well as an Audre Lorde Fellowship. She teaches master classes and workshops on dance and writing everywhere.
Her film, “RESIDUALS'' was a 2021 Official Selection at the Montreal Independent Film Festival, DUMBO Film Festival & Toronto International Women Film Festival. In 2018, she received the Story Changers Award for Outstanding Leadership and for Empowering Women in the Arts in Philadelphia from the Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival. She’s currently a co-board chair of thINKingDANCE and a mentor with GWYN, the Get What You Need Residency Program for Philadelphia movement artists.
Vyette Tiya (Performer)
September 2 ( 630pm), September 11 (630pm) & September 19 (5pm)
Ice Box Gallery | Crane Arts | 1400 N American Street
WHO
Keila Cordova (Choreographer | Director)
Keila Cordova is a choreographer, performer and writer whose works have been performed at Judson Church, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, in New York City at Aaron Davis Hall, the Cool NY Dance Festival, Solar One Arts Festival, Dixon Place, the Boogie Down Dance Festival, BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Art & Dance), the D.U.M.B.O. Arts Festival, Clement Soto Velez Center, the HERE Arts Center, Mulberry Street Theater, as well as the Kelly Strayhorn's newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival (Pittsburgh, PA), Celebrate Dance Festival (San Diego, CA), Outlet Dance Project at the Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ), Sweat Modern Dance Festival (Hoboken, NJ), the Around the Coyote Festival (Chicago) and the Toronto Dance Fringe (fFIDA).
As the artistic director of the 3 Pony Show/ keila cordova dances, she creates dance performance works riding the boundaries between dance and theatre. Evening-length performance works include KITH, Linear Default, As Pretty Does, Volcano My Love, Agnes Falling, Janet 2.0. Cordova holds a bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric from UC, Berkeley and a master of fine arts in Creative Writing from the New School for Social Research. Keila Cordova co-founded and directed the 954 Dance Movement Collective from 2009 to 2020, providing movement space and dance opportunities for all ages. She founded and produced the World Dance Day in Philadelphia festival from 2010 to 2019. From 2010 to 2020, she also founded and ran Dance for PD in Philadelphia in partnership with the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Parkinson Council and Penn Medicine. Cordova was awarded funding by the Leeway Foundation and the Puffin Foundation. She has also received artistic support with Funds for New Work awards from Aaron Davis Hall, a commission from the Greenwall Foundation and the International Center for Advanced Studies; artist residency awards from the Constance B. Saltonstall Foundation, The Millay Colony, Norcroft, as well as an Audre Lorde Fellowship. She teaches master classes and workshops on dance and writing everywhere.
Her film, “RESIDUALS'' was a 2021 Official Selection at the Montreal Independent Film Festival, DUMBO Film Festival & Toronto International Women Film Festival. In 2018, she received the Story Changers Award for Outstanding Leadership and for Empowering Women in the Arts in Philadelphia from the Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival. She’s currently a co-board chair of thINKingDANCE and a mentor with GWYN, the Get What You Need Residency Program for Philadelphia movement artists.
Vyette Tiya (Performer)
Vyette Tiya (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based dancer and collaborator. Through movement research and improvisation as practice, she seeks to explore the range of human experiences. Her movement vocabulary includes African, freestyle and urban choreography, contemporary, and jazz. Vyette has collaborated with and performed in works by Britta Joy Peterson, Meredith Rainey, Omari Wiles, Davalois Fearon, Extreme Lengths Productions, and CultureShock DC, among others. She has performed in site-specific as well as immersive projects at the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Dance Place, John F. Kennedy Center, and McCarter Theatre. In 2020, she was selected to present a solo dance film through the Washington Project of the Arts as a part of KUVV, an multidisciplinary showcase for emerging artists. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in international studies with a minor in dance from American University and a Master’s degree from Princeton University, where she performed in two seasons of Princeton’s Dance Festival. Connect with her at vyettetiya.com and @vyettetiya on social media.
Jaye Allison (Performer)
Jaye Allison is honored to have been hand selected as a 2nd Generation Silver Belle (following in the legendary steps of the the one and only Silver Belles, Harlem's original showgirls from the Cotton Club and Apollo Theater. Jaye has experience and a history of success in contributing to the dance community. In addition, Jaye received the following grants and achievements for her artistic merit: Dance Advance, The ‘Rocky Award’, Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) Fellow and Intern programs, Community Education Center’s (CEC), PIAS, and Emerging Choreographer for Choreo LAB with Martha Meyers of American Dance Festival.
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You are invited to an open rehearsal! Here's your chance to get a behind-the-scenes look at the development of A Tree When No Moon Shines. And you get the MYSTERY BOX t-shirt (send us your size | limited inventory), the sticker with the thank you card that I will write & sign personally. Plus a grateful thank you shout out on Facebook, in the show program & our website donor page.
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