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UPCOMING Events

2023

Fall 2023
3 RITES: Life, Liberty, Happiness
651 ARTS PREMIERE


2022

February 12, 2022
Roots Party #1
Are Prisons Necessary? 
Imagine a society that centers freedom and justice instead of profit and punishment.
We invite you to join in the journey of making 1,865 roots out of paper and twine.
3pm-5pm, Virtual on Zoom
 - RSVP

February 16, 2022
Dream A Little Dream
stepping, standing and swinging with Lucille and Louis Armstrong
6pm

A lusciously surreal dance and music film by Dah'Vielle Lucas, that swirls through the garden and
exquisitely decorated rooms of the historic Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens, New York.
The film features signature jazz tunes made famous by Louis Armstrong and performed by the Queens College
Jazz Repertoire Ensemble under the direction of Professor Antonio Hart; and original choreography by
Yin Mei Critchell, nia love, and Edisa Weeks performed by Queens College Dance Program students.
​*
In Person Screening February 16 - Tickets

Virtual Streaming on Youtube February 24-27 - Tickets

February 17, 2022
At Home with Queens College
Exploring the Personal and Political
4pm-5pm

Exploring the Personal and Political will introduce you to methods for using personal stories and political events
as source material for generating socially relevant and gutsy choreography and theatrical work. In this interactive session
you will be guided through movement explorations that can be done sitting or standing, as well as personal writing and a drawing practices, that encourage you to tap into your kinesthetic and theatrical imagination and ability.
Virtual on Zoom
 - RSVP

March 5, 2022
Roots Party
Motion State Dance Festival
12pm- 4pm

Southside Cultural Center of Rhode Island - 393 Broad Street, Providence, RI 02907
The Motion State Dance Festival kicks off with a Roots Party! Multi-disciplinary artist Edisa Weeks invites you
to join her in the journey of making 1,865 roots out of paper and twine. We'll make roots, share a meal, and engage in a
community conversation led by thinkers, practitioners and community members.
RSVP


March 11 & 12, 2022
3 RITES: Liberty
Motion State Dance Festival

The WaterFire Arts Center - 475 Valley Street, Providence, RI 02908
Connected like a puppet to objects that have informed the Black experience in America
(bible, black dick, blonde wig, watermelon, gun, lightbulb, sneakers), multi-media artist Edisa Weeks alternates between
black face, white face, storytelling and visceral dance to dig into the pathologization of African-Americans and the foundations
of Liberty in America. As our nation grapples with confederate monuments, the lynching of Black lives, fake news and economic stratification, 
3 RITES: Liberty humorously and poignantly insists on a reckoning with our past and present.
Tickets


March 19, 2022
Roots Party #2, with Regina Campbell from Rikers Public Memory Project
Are Prisons Necessary? 
Imagine a society that centers freedom and justice instead of profit and punishment.
We invite you to join in the journey of making 1,865 roots out of paper and twine.
3pm-5pm, Virtual on Zoom
 - RSVP

April 23, 2022
Roots Party #3, with Avery from SWOP Brooklyn
Are Prisons Necessary? 
Imagine a society that centers freedom and justice instead of profit and punishment.
We invite you to join in the journey of making 1,865 roots out of paper and twine.
3pm-5pm, Virtual on Zoom
 - RSVP

September 24, 2022
Roots Party #4, with Ashley and Brooke from Free Ashley Diamond Campaign
Are Prisons Necessary? Imagine a society that centers freedom and justice instead of profit and punishment.
We invite you to join in the journey of making 1,865 roots out of paper and twine.
3pm-5pm, Virtual on Zoom - RSVP


Saturday November 12, 2022 at 8pm
Sunday November 13, 2022 at 3pm

ACTION SONGS / PROTEST DANCES
LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College Campus
153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing, NY 11367
Tickets: $20 General Admission; $10 Student with valid ID
Purchase Tickets at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts website
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Kupferberg Center for the Arts presents the World Premiere of Action Songs/Protest Dances,
a live music and dance performance conceived, directed, and choreographed by Edisa Weeks.
The work features five original songs commissioned by composers/musicians Taina Asili, Spirit McIntyre, and Martha Redbone. 
Featured dancers include Noni Byrd-Gibbs, Steven Jeltsch, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Devin Oshiro, and Brittany Stewart.
Three of the songs are inspired by the life, speeches, and writings of civil rights activist James Forman (1928-2005),
whose personal archives are housed at the Queens College Rosenthal Library; and two are about social justice issues in America today.
Together, the songs and dances serve as a call to action, a protest against injustice, and a demand that
America become a more just, equitable, inclusive and truly great nation.
This original work is the culmination of the first-ever Kupferberg Arts Incubator initiative,
an innovative artist residency program launched in 2020.

Saturday December 10, 2022 at 7:30pm
WATERWORKS EMERGING ARTIST SHOWCASE
Harlem Stage 150 Convent Ave, New York City, 10031

Tickets: $25 Priority Seating; $15 General Seating
Purchase Tickets at the Harlem Stage website

The WaterWorks Emerging Artists program is designed for budding artists of color, to enable and nurture the
developmental process in their creative work, instincts, and business skills. Throughout the one-year commission,
artists develop an original performance piece, culminating in a work-in-progress showcase, at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse.
The yearlong program offers commissioning support, mentorship, critical feedback, and professional development opportunities
for each artist. 
In this culminating performance, Harlem Stage presents: Tariq Al-Sabir, a musician, producer, vocalist, and composer.
An accomplished performance artist,
Jennifer Cendaña Armas. An interdisciplinary artist and poet, Shenny De Los Angeles.
Vinson Fraley, a dancer and choreographer. Edisa Weeks, an educator and choreographer. These visionary and innovative artists have created profound and compelling pieces pulling inspiration from their personal experiences, present-day society, and more.






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​​2021

April 29, 2021
Edisa Weeks ft. on Black Dance Stories
6pmEDT on YouTube
More information 
here

Spring 2021
Remote Residency with Design Team
EMPAC
Troy, NY
More information here

November 16, 2021
Arts and Archives: Creativity During Covid
Queens College Library & Queens Memory Project

How do art and archives intersect? In this roundtable discussion, What Will The neighbors Say?,
Joyce LeeAnn and Edisa Weeks will discuss creative projects undertaken during COVID-19, and their connections
to primary sources and archival repositories.
Livestreamed
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​2020

January 8 -11, 2020

3 RITES: Liberty
651ARTS - APAP SHOWINGS
Wednesday-Thursday, January 8-9 7:00pm
Friday-Saturday, January 10-11, | 3:00pm
Kumble Theater, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
Purchase tickets here

January 23- February 3, 2020
The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker
Directed by Theodora Skipitares
Music by LaFrae Sci
Choreography by Edisa Weeks

Featuring the Soul Tigers Marching Band
*
La Mama, Ellen Stewart Theater | 66 East 4th St. 2nd Fl., NYC
$25 Tickets; $20 Students/Seniors [+ $1 Facility Fee]
For information and tickets click here


February 25 - March 11, 2020
MANCC Residency
Developing 3 RITES: Liberty
Roots Party
More information here

Tuesday, March 31, 2020
3 RITES: Liberty
Hobart and William Smith Colleges | Geneva, NY
​POSTPONED

Saturday July 25, 2020
Roots Party
12pm-4pm
Bailey's Cafe

324 Malcolm X Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY 11233
Please bring a mask to wear and practice social distancing
Kids Welcome. Feel free to come and go
Food and Drink provided

In person at Bailey's Cate and simultaneously virtual on Zoom

Fall 2020
Remote Residency with Design Team
EMPAC
Troy, NY
More information here

Saturday, December 5, 2020
VIRTUAL Roots Party
12pm-4pm
via Zoom / Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh, PA)
RSVP on KST's website​



2019
 
Sunday January 6, 2019
In The Works 2019 APAP Showcase
La MaMa rehearsal studios, 47 Great Jones Street
12:05-12:35pm - 3 RITES: Liberty (excerpts)
4:30-5pm - 3 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, 3 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 - 3 RITES: Liberty
8:30pm Cristina Pitter - decolonizing my vagina
Tickets $15, Student/Senior $10
 Purchase Tickets

April 22-28, 2019
Mount Tremper Arts Residency 
Mount Tremper, NY

Developing 3 RITES: Liberty + Roots Party
*
Friday April 26 at 7pm
3 RITES: Liberty
work-in-progress showing, FREE
RSVP HERE
*
Saturday April 27 from 12pm-4pm
ROOTS PARTY
Discussion on conservation and watershed rights in the Catskills with
Adam Bosch (DEP) and Jeff Senterman (Catskill Center).
RSVP HERE
 
May 29 - June 29 2019
Topaz ARTS
Woodside, Queens, NY
New York State Dance Force Residency to develop THREE RITES: Life
*

Saturday June 29 from 2pm-4pm
3 RITES: Life
work-in-progress showing

June 13, 2019
Chashama Gala
6 PM – Midnight
One World Trade Center, 67th Floor
Including Delirious Hair Designs by Edisa Weeks
For information click here

July 27, 2019
Meeting Point Benefit - Dinner and Performance
Mount Tremper Arts
Featuring an exquisite, multi-course dinner by Chef Ethan Knechel (formerly of Reynard, Spotted Pig)
in collaboration with Mor Pipman and Anna Young, and featuring produce grown by
MTA gardener Anastacia Bolina and local farms. Including performances by
Gelsey Bell, Becca Blackwell, Julie Mayo, and Edisa Weeks
*
Meeting Point supports year-round artist residencies at Mount Tremper Arts
Tickets $125-$250. For information click here

August 12, 2019 - September 8, 2019
NPN Creative Fund Phase II residency to develop 3 RITES: Life
in the Skylight Gallery at RestorationART
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY
*
Friday September 6 from 6pm-9pm
6pm-8pm: 3 RITES: Life
work-in-progress showing
8pm-9pm:
Buen Vivir discussion
with John Gershman
*

Saturday September 7 from 2pm-5pm
2pm-4pm: 3 RITES: Life 
work-in-progress showing

4pm-5pm: Creative Reuse Bead-making Workshop
with Pamela Issac from Materials for the Arts
​For Adults and Children ages 6 and older


September 5 - October 13, 2019
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Presents the World Premiere of
Novenas for a Lost Hospital
A communal experience to remember, honor, re-imagine and celebrate St Vincent’s Hospital.
Inspired by the caretakers and patients of St. Vincent's Hospital, and guided by Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton,
this unique event takes a 60-person audience on a journey from an enclosed garden to
Rattlestick’s intimate West Village theater to the NYC AIDS Memorial Park.
Written by Cusi Cram
Dramaturgy by Guy Lancaster
Directed by: Daniella Topol
Choreography: Edisa Weeks
Costume Design: Ari Fulton
Lighting Design: Stacey Derosier
Set Design: Carolyn Mraz
For tickets and more information click here

September 28 & 29, 2019
FUSION Dance Company Reunion
Brown University, Providence, RI
including workshops taught by Edisa Weeks, Alumni '87

October 2, 2019
Book Launch of 
"I Stand In My Place With My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at the New School"

6:30pm-9:30pm at the New School, NYC
The evening includes an excerpt from THREE RITES: Liberty by Edisa Weeks

RSVP Here

October 6, 2019
Sundays on Broadway
Cathy Weis Projects and guest curator Joanna Kotze present a shared evening of performances by 
Keely Garfield, Ambika Raina, Stuart Shugg, and Edisa Weeks
WeisAcres - 537 Broadway #3, NYC
$10 suggested contribution.
For more information click Here

October 7-11, 2019
Residency at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
*
Thursday October 10 from 4:30pm-7:30pm
ROOTS PARTY
4:30-7:30pm Roots Making
5pm dinner/drinks served buffet style till food runs out
6pm-7pm Discussion on Food Deserts: inequality and access in Geneva, NY
with Teresa Shaffer and Deacon Henry Farrow of Food Justice Geneva
Geneva Public Library
244 Main St., Geneva, NY 14456
FREE and open to the Public


November 16, 2019
ROOTS PARTY in partnership with Urban Bush Women
12pm-4pm
RestorationART | Skylight Gallery
1368 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11216
FREE and open to the Public




​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 3 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
3 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
3 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 3 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
3 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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