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Choreographed by Mina Nishimura

Performed by Laurel Atwell (Facilitator/ Space Activator) and Mina Nishimura (Astral Body Practitioner)

Note: During the performance, pure tones of 1185 Hz, 1296 Hz, 1074 Hz and 741 Hz are being played.

Running time: 40 min

ARTISTS BIO:

Laurel Atwell has been performing and making work since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 2008. Her work and collaborations have been presented at MoMA PS1, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace Project, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, Center for Performance Research, Gibney Dance, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, as part of Sundays on Broadway, and Performa ’11, as well as in Los Angeles, CA, Marfa, TX, and Minneapolis, MN. She has worked with luciana achugar, Phoebe Berglund, Kim Brandt, Milka Djordjevich, ryen heart, Ursula Eagly, Nikima Jagudajev, Melanie Maar, and Melinda Ring, among others. In 2022, Laurel joined the Maumaus Independent Study Program cohort in Lisbon, Portugal, and in 2023 she graduated from Melanie Maar’s Process as Guide MFA program. Laurel runs an apothecary out her apartment where she teaches qi gong, channels reiki, administers tattoos, and offers divination readings. @spooky_action.tif | laurel.atwell@gmail.com | 4404886837–@spooky_action.tif

Mina Nishimura, originally from Tokyo, was introduced to butoh and improvisational dance practice through Kota Yamazaki and studied at Merce Cunnigham Studio in NYC. Carrying Buddhism-influenced philosophy across her somatic, performance and art practices, Nishimura attempts to access to and converse with invisible, marginalized, forgotten, abandoned or unknown senses, beings and landscapes. She has been performing and collaborating with a number of groundbreaking artists, in the most recent years, such as John Jasperse, Dean Moss, Yasuko Yokoshi, Kota Yamazaki, Vicky Shick, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Nami Yamamoto, Ursula Eagly, Moriah Evans and SIA for her Saturday Night Live performance. Commissioners of her recent works include NYU Skirball Center, Danspace Project, Gibney, Mount Tremper Arts Center, Whitman College, and Sarah Lawrence College. Nishimura is a recipient of Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award 2019, and was a cover and featured artist in the May 2021 issue of Dance Magazine. Nishimura was the Renewal Residency Artist of 2021-22 at Danspace Project where her new work, Mapping a Forest while Searching for an Opposite Term of Exorcist premiered in November 2022. Nishimura also completed the MFA Fellowship at Bennington College in 2021 at where she currently teaches. www.minanishimuradance.com   IG@minanekobubble

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Friday, June 16th at Squibb Park at 5pm

Mina Nishimura

Inspired by astral projection practice and the odd nothingness of Squibb Park, this work explores a possible impossible disconnection between mind and body, and body and space while playing with various modalities of no-mindness.

With a curiosity for blurring the boundary between private and public realms, this work also attempts to drag out and expose an unprotected internal journey to the odd public site while vibrating and enlivening energy of the void-ness of the space.