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CLAY PRACTICE

RECENT EXPERIMENTS IN MOVEMENT/SOUND/MATERIAL FROM SHANNON BROOKS

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CREATED AND PERFORMED WITH:

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AUBREY DONISCH

KIMYA IMANI JACKSON 

LU DONOVAN


A SMALL CHORUS EXPLORING SOUND AND MOVEMENT

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AND A PILE OF CLAY

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3/16 at 7PM 

3/17 at 3PM

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The Rotunda 

4014 Walnut st. Phila. PA

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Suggested donation $5-$30

 

pay at door

absolutely no one turned away for lack of funds. 

IMAGINE A PILE OF CLAY IN THE MIDDLE OF A ROOM 

CLAY PRACTICE is somewhere between a practice and a performance.

 

CLAY PRACTICE grows our trust in impulse and experiments with sensation.

 

In this practice we move and sound with clay to experiment with our senses, and to  s t r e t c h out time into the space between each clay particle - into the time and space between each cell in our bodies -  to explore questions like:

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  • What is there to feel? How does it feel? How do we know and take action through touch?

  • How do we feel into each other and ourselves? How do we connect to the memories, ghosts, and histories embedded in our environments, bodies, and imaginations? 

  • How do we erode? 

  • What are the edges of our capacity? What is burden? 

  • What is impossible? What do we believe?

  • What is excavated? What do we build? And who profits?

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CLAY PRACTICE is deeply influenced by personal experiences with low-vision/blindness, madness, and chronic illness.

FAQ:

ACCESSIBILITY:​

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  • PLEASE TAKE  ACCESSIBLE ENTRANCE INTO THE ROTUNDA. The accessible ramp entrance is on the right side of the building toward 41 street. Take the concrete path from Walnut Street and you'll find the ramp. If you're reading this you will probably be one of the few people who aren't shocked when they realize the not-accessible entrance is locked on purpose - that is the first part of the "show" - enjoy! 

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  • This is a 100% masked event. Please bring your own masks! There will be a small box of K/N95 masks available.

 

  • If you are sick or are feeling any symptoms please stay home! A recording of this event will be made available. 

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  • There will be a HEPA filter in the space borrowed from The People's Filter PHL. You can reserve tickets to sit by the filter by filling out our RSVP form. 

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  • There is a driveway adjacent to the ADA entrance, anyone is welcome to use that driveway to get out of their vehicle.

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  • The Rotunda has an ADA accessible restroom on the first floor. This restroom serves one person at a time and is also equipped with a changing station. All of their restrooms are gender-neutral.

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  • As with many materials, working with clay comes with risks. The clay used in these events will remain moist for the entirely of the event to mitigate dust particles. Please read more information on the risks of working with clay HERE.

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TYPES OF SEATING:

 

There will be designated areas where there can and can't be clay. You have the choice to sit:

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• On a canvas drop cloth, close to the clay, with the option to physically interact with clay. 

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 OR

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• Off the canvas drop cloths with no option to physically interact with the clay.

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There will also be seats available next to the HEPA filter borrowed from the People's Filter PHL.

 

RSVP is highly suggested. Please reserve your seat via our RSVP FORM. 

FULL CREDITS:

 

Created by Shannon Brooks

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Created and performed with:

Aubrey Donisch 

Kimya Imani Jackson 

Lu Donovan

 

Chorus: 

Cedar Becher

Tori Breen

Alanna Bozman

Marielle Burt

Julia Havard

Leigh Huster

Jenny Sawyer  

Teresa Silva

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​Production: Elissa Fredeen and Gladys Nobriga

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Hydrophone Audio Stony Fork Gorge Virgo Season by Elissa

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Thank you to Gina Renzi and the Rotunda team

 

​This project is funded out of Shannon's pocket and cannot exist without generous donations from people like you. Thank you:

  • Ellen Schonfeld

  • Max Bienstock 

  • Annie Heath 

  • Gavin Riley 

  • Kelsey Lurie

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If you would like to make a donation you can! Please CLICK HERE to make a Paypal donation. You will be emailed by me to confirm and thank you for your donation. OR you can come with lots of cash to one of these events! 

INFLUENCES and

THANK YOUS:

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  • Leah Stein

  • Pauline Oliveros

  • Rocks

  • Krishna Washburn 

  • Kayla Hamilton 

  • Blindness/low-vision

  • PTSD

  • Lea Keiffer 

  • Hana van der Kolk 

  • Asimina Chremos

  • The idea and practice of magic. 

  • SinsInvalid 

  • Ana Mendieta

  • Samita Sinha

  • Leigh Huster

  • Annie Wilson

  • Annie Heath 

  • The sound and texture of someone moving close to you. 

  • Rocks in Ireland 

  • Fleisher Art Memorial  

  • The Leeway Foundation

  • All the fruits. 

  • Josie Smith

  • Pochinko clowning taught through Donna Oblongata 

  • Everyone in Hook&Loop and UNDUE BURDEN​

  • The song "sorrow" by life without buildings. 

  • A phone call with bad connection. 

  • Running into a friend unexpectedly 

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