Welcome Dinner & Artist Talk
KST Presents
with Edisa Weeks
Monday, April 22, 2024
6:00pm – 8:00pm
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $0 – $25
Meet multidisciplinary artist Edisa Weeks over a community dinner! Following the meal, join a conversation with Weeks about her performance, 3 RITES: Liberty and enjoy some crafts time.
Participants will have the opportunity to construct parts of the 1,865 roots out of paper and twine that will be used at 3 RITES: Liberty’s performance installation. The number 1865 represents the last year of legalized chattel slavery in America. In what Weeks describes as “Root Party,” the event will be like a mash-up between a sewing bee and barbershop talk. Participants can further engage in a community discussion connected to liberty in America.
During the 3 RITES: Liberty performance, the roots will be hung from the ceiling to the floor forming a maze of roots. The audience will be separated and move through the roots as if moving through the underbelly of history before eventually meeting the “Liberty” character played by Weeks.
Come and go as you please and engage in whatever capacity you feel comfortable. Children are welcome.
Photo Credit: Mary Weeks, Rebecca Fitton, Julie Lemberger
AND DON’T MISS…
DELIRIOUS Dances / Edisa Weeks
3 RITES: Liberty
Friday & Saturday, April 26* – 27* | *with discussion
7:30pm – 9:00pm (including discussion)
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $15 – $35
Precision & Abandonment
with Edisa Weeks
Co-presented with PearlArts
Wednesday, April 24
9:00am – 10:15am
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $10 – $25
- ABOUT THE ARTIST
Edisa Weeks (she/her) – Concept, Choreographer, Performer – is a Brooklyn, NY based educator, choreographer and founder of DELIRIOUS Dances. She creates multimedia interactive work that merges theater with dance to explore our deepest desires, darkest fears and sweetest dreams. She grew up in Uganda, Papua New Guinea and Brooklyn, NY; and had the joy of performing with Annie–B Parsons Big Dance Theater, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Dance Brazil, Homer Avila, Jane Comfort, Jon Kinzel, Muna Tseng, Reggie Wilson Fist & Heel Performance Group, Sally Silvers, Spencer/Colton Dance, among others. She is a recipient of several awards including a 2022 Creative Capital Grant. She teaches choreography, improvisation, dance technique, and mentors emerging artists at Queens College CUNY.