Allies & Accomplices
Friday, January 29 – February 15
Created by ETC Pro Lab, Noelle Simone, Tessa May, & Bevin Victoria
Directed by Aaron Wheeler-Kay, Remythification Project Directed by Laura Cannon
This virtual event is FREE: $5 – $30 suggested donations (support all of the creatives who made this possible!)
Ways to watch (click the logos below). Video includes closed captioning:
Allies & Accomplices is a curated collection of performance works exploring the intersection of expressive disciplines themed around social justice. The final film project features a diverse mix of local artists who are pushing staged expression in new directions. There will be physical theater, dance, circus theater, aerial expression, performance art and more. The shows highlight work from artists representing traditionally marginalized communities. Telling their own stories in their own voices.
Allies & Accomplices features performance art by women and non-binary artists, along with activism from two families who take a leadership role in the Black Lives Matter movement. The five sections, though developed independently of one another, contain overlapping themes and expressive similarities that enable the performance to feel cohesive and interconnected.
Noelle Simone (they/them) is a Black dancer who choreographed a solo centering their experience as a Black person. Tessa May (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who wrote a short film arising from the fear she lives with as a Black woman. Bevin Victoria (she/her) is a woman of mixed ethnicities who created a dance and spoken word film about her experiences in the Black Lives Matter movement, and Laura Cannon (she/her) leads a group called the ETC Pro Lab. Her piece, The Remythification Project uses the story of Medusa as a point from which to interrogate women’s roles in Greek Mythology. Laura invited collaborators to explore who they would be if their essential nature was personified as a Goddess. All of the pieces in this collection feature or center the experiences of people of color.
Break the 4th wall! In an effort to capture some of the magic of a live show you are encouraged to stop by Echo to pick up one of our Experiential Kits that are intended to engage your senses. OR, to assemble your experience at home, you’ll need:
- A candle and something with which to light it.
- An orange with peel intact.
- This poem by Audre Lorde
Content is intended to be appropriate for all ages, any sensitive content will include the appropriate warnings.
Selected as part of the 2021 Virtual Fertile Ground Festival http://fertilegroundpdx.org/
Echo Theater Company’s Virual Performance is made possible by support from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and their PDXCARES Venue Support Program.
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Echo Theater Company receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.