“What Will You Dance For? (The Exuberant Activist Body)”
A participatory experience at Northern Spark
June 14-15
9:00pm-2:00am each evening
**Sign up when you arrive. Each dance is up to 45 minutes.**
Will you dance the Urgent Planet Dance or the Great Impeachment Boogie? “What Will You Dance For?” invites you to practice your wild and embodied resilience and resistance.
FRIDAY
9:00pm - “Urgent Planet Dance”
10:00pm - “Time’s Up White Supremacy Tango”
11:00-11:30pm - Healing Session
11:30pm - “The Great Impeachment Boogie”
12:30am - “Prison Abolition Disco”
1:30-2:00am - Healing Session
SATURDAY
9:00pm - “Hurry Up Gun Control Slow Dance”
10:00pm - “Reparations Revel”
11:00-11:30pm - Healing Session
11:30pm - “The Artists are Essential Grind”
12:30am - “The Queerest Hour”
1:30-2:00am - Healing Session
Try our hybrid form of mind-body training, exuberant art, and street protest. Feel a strange freedom and flow, your brave and loving self. Overcome your fear of making movement in public space. Bring your pocket music, earbuds are provided, and join for one song or more!
What Will You Dance For? is presented as part of Northern Spark 2019, produced by Northern Lights.mn.
THE PROJECT TEAM
Marcus Young 楊墨, founding artist of Don’t You Feel It Too?Laura Levinson, project lead
Nancy Julia Hicks, installation artist / Masanari Kawahara, mask artist
Asher Edes, Project Assistant / Keila Anali Saucedo, Project Assistant
Myra Rucker, healing session facilitator / nathaniel gonzalez, healing session facilitator