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UPCOMING Events

2020

June 11 – 21, 2020
THREE RTIES: Life, Liberty, Happiness
more information coming

2019
 
Sunday January 6, 2019
In The Works 2019 APAP Showcase
La MaMa rehearsal studios, 47 Great Jones Street
12:05-12:35pm - THREE RITES: Liberty (excerpts)
4:30-5pm - THREE RITES: Liberty (excerpts)
RSVP
In The Works 2019 APAP Showcase includes:
Anna Sperber, BamBam Frost, DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks, Fana Fraser,
Laurie Berg, mayfield brooks, Samlingen
(Amanda Apetrea, Nadja Hjorton, Halla Ólafsdóttir, Stina Nyberg and Zoë Poluch)
In The Works is co-presented by Meredith Boggia (founder) with Magnus Nordberg/Nordberg Movement (Sweden)
and guests Lindsey Dietz Marchant and Marýa Wethers,

Monday January 7, 2019
2pm-3pm
APAP Showing
PMG Arts Management Guest Artist Showcase
Part of Dance Managers Collective City Center Showcases
City Center Studio 4 - 131 W 55th St, NYC 10019
2pm
- DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks, THREE RITES: Liberty & Happiness (excerpts)
2:30pm - Nathan Trice/RITUALS Dance Theater
RSVP

Mon - Wed, February 4, 5, 6, 2019
Mabou Mines SUITE/Space Residency
7pm Edisa Weeks - THREE RITES: Liberty
8:30pm Cristina Pitter - decolonizing my vagina
Tickets $15, Student/Senior $10
 Purchase Tickets

April 22-28, 2019
Mount Tremper Arts Residency 
Developing Three Rites: Liberty + Roots Party
 
June 2019
Residency at Topaz
Developing THREE RITES: Life




​2018
 
Thursday, June 7, 2018
6pm – Midnight
Chashama Gala
4 Times Square, New York, NY 10036
Performances include fantastical, outrageous and elegant hair art by Edisa Weeks/Delirious Hair Designs
Information and tickets available here
 
June 11-30, 2018
DiP Residency at Gibney
Developing THREE RITES: Happiness which investigates how does laughter, pleasure and contentment reside
in the body. During the performance the audience is invited to have their portrait painted, get a Delirious Hair Design,
learn a line dance, share a meal, and come together for a collective celebration of catharsis, uplift and joy.
Music is by the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International.

 
June 22 & 23, 2018
7:30pm - 9pm
Afro Pas De Deux Festival
Featuring RestorationART Choreoquest choreographers
Germaul Barnes, Angel Chinn, Davalois Fearon, Rosamond S. King, Sekou McMiller,
Johnnie Mercer, Nathan Trice and Edisa Weeks

Restoration ART – Billie Holliday Theater
1368 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Tickets: $17.89, available here
 
Thursday June 28, 2018
6pm – 7:30pm
THREE RITES: Happiness - work-in-progress showing
Gibney - 5th Fl. Studio 3
890 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
 
Saturday June 30, 2018
12pm – 4pm
Making Roots
Gibney - 5th Fl. Studio 3
890 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
RSVP
 
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
8:30am - 10am
Keynote Address
Play, Process and Performance
Delving into personal stories to create devised work

5:30pm
THREE RITES: Liberty
Bill Evans Somatic Dance Conference
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
www.billevansdance.org
 
Saturday, July 21, 2018
12pm-4pm
Making Roots
Body Politic / Jill Sigman
Gibney 280 Broadway, Enter at 53A Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007
For information click here

August 10 & 11, 2018
Cornerstone Theater presents
The Cardinal
a new play by Cusi Cram
directed by Juliette Carrillo
original music by Emily Gardner Xu Hall
movement by Edisa Weeks

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Friday August 10 at 8pm + Saturday August 11 at 2pm & 8pm 
Goldstein Theater | 65-30 Kissena Blvd. | Flushing, NY 11367
Tickets are pay what you can afford (suggested donation $10)
Available online at: https://cornerstone.secure.force.com/ticket
or call 1-800-578-1335

September 1, 2018
Meeting Point: Benefit Dinner for Mount Tremper Arts
647 South Plank Rd, Mount Tremper, NY 12457
Inspiration arrives at Meeting Point, a unique feast featuring a multi-course dinner with pairings and offerings
by artists-in-residence Laurie Berg, Paul Pinto and Edisa Weeks, who’ll create signature hair designs for guests.
Mount Tremper Arts Chef Ethan Knechel (formerly of Reynard, Spotted Pig) and a special guest chef
will prepare an exquisite dinner with produce harvested from the garden in collaboration with
MTA gardener Anastacia Bolina, and from local farms.

The funds raised at Meeting Point supports year-round artist residencies.

For more information and tickets click here.

September 8, 2018
10pm-2:30am
WIG OUT
Change your hair, change your life
HOUSE OF YES - 2 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Wigs, headpieces, fabulous creativity! Just Throw something weird and wonderful
on that gorgeous head of yours. Don't have a look - no worries - Delirious Hair Designs/Edisa Weeks
is designing fabulous, unbe-weave-able looks for the evening. Get your hair on!

For information click here.

October 15-21, 2018
Mount Tremper Arts Residency 
Developing THREE RITES: Happiness

October 16, 2018
8pm
The Grey Land
Composer Joseph C. Phillips’s mono-opera The Grey Land explores themes of humanity and identity
in relation to race, class, and power through the lens of a Black mother’s experiences navigating American society
with her son. The piece features 28-piece orchestral ensemble Numinous, as well as soprano
Rebecca Hargrove,
choreography by
Edisa Weeks, dancer Jay Bouey
, and film and video work by Malik Isasis & Xuan Zhang.
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Tickets available here.
 
Saturday October 20, 2018
THREE RITES: Happiness
at Mount Tremper Arts
647 South Plank Rd, Mount Tremper, NY 12457
Tickets: $15, available here
6:30pm – 9pm | Happiness Fête
Pamper your senses and spirits. Experience a Delirious Hair Design,
get a massage, learn a line dance, participate in a raffle, have your portrait drawn and more.
Food and drinks provided

8pm | Performance
with live music by the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International
9pm | Bonfire
Bring an instrument or song to sing/share (weather permitting)

Saturday November 10, 2018
11am-6pm
Roots Party
Weeksville Heritage Center
158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11213
for information click here

December 6-8, 2018
Skeleton Architecture at Danspace Project
Thurs Dec. 6 | Workshop 6pm-9pm - Black Identified Bodies
Fri. Dec. 7 | Workshop 6pm-9pm - Open to All
Sat. Dec. 8 | 7pm Performance - Open to All
On this special evening, Skeleton Architecture will share a performance that emphasizes the
collaborative process and highlights the power of Black womyn within community. This sharing imagines and activates
a site of InterSections – a crossroads, a place of high-stakes, risks and magic — through
improvisation, dance, song, text, and spirit.

St. Mark’s Church, 131 East 10th St., New York, NY 10003
Tickets $10/$5 members - available here


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