WHERE WE GATHER: Animata Arts Performance
Featuring garage collective, Sari Hoke, and Lee Myles
Friday, March 7, 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 8, 7:30 pm
Centennial Performing Arts Studios
211 27th Ave North, Nashville, TN
Tickets: $10
Featuring garage collective, Sari Hoke, and Lee Myles
Friday, March 7, 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 8, 7:30 pm
Centennial Performing Arts Studios
211 27th Ave North, Nashville, TN
Tickets: $10
Join us at Centennial Performing Arts Studios on Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8 at 7:30 pm for Where We Gather, performances by the 2025 Animata Arts Residency Artists. Animata Arts producers Amanda Reichert and Sarah Salim partner with the Metro Parks Dance Division and Friends of Metro Dance to create residencies for Nashville-based artists that provide free and consistent dance studio space for rehearsals, artist stipends, a feedback lab, and professional documentation for the creation of new works. The pieces that have emerged from this process are thought-provoking explorations of the creative process and collective and individual identity.
garage collective, a movement group co-founded by freelance dance artists Kristen Carrara, McKay House, Emma Morrison, & Amanda Reichert and known for creating improvisational structures for live performance will present “Wildest Dream,” a meditative movement score built inside the collective imagination of the group and framed within the nonlinear and distorted context of the dreaming state.
“Creative Process” is a piece about making a piece, in which we, performers and viewers, encounter our own “performance” expectations. Multidisciplinary artist Sari Hoke and her collaborators create the opportunity to dismiss the illusion of rules and parameters in creative and common spaces and reclaim our artistic and everyday freedoms.
Inspired by Monique Moultrie's book, Passionate and Pious, and in collaboration with music artist, Karla Felecia Scaife, movement artist and singer/songwriter Lee Myles explores the journey of a Black woman's oppressive states that require her to be disembodied to achieve respectability, purity, and survival. She uncovers the truth of her inner being by embracing a nuanced and complex identity rooted in a womanist ideology of self-love. The audience witnesses the act of covering and unveiling, creating a tense inner dialogue of deciding what is sacred versus profane. Eventually, the woman creates a ceremonial and sensual embodied practice of seeking pleasure and a fulfilled life for herself, as the audience basks in her glorious newfound freedom from shame.
garage collective, a movement group co-founded by freelance dance artists Kristen Carrara, McKay House, Emma Morrison, & Amanda Reichert and known for creating improvisational structures for live performance will present “Wildest Dream,” a meditative movement score built inside the collective imagination of the group and framed within the nonlinear and distorted context of the dreaming state.
“Creative Process” is a piece about making a piece, in which we, performers and viewers, encounter our own “performance” expectations. Multidisciplinary artist Sari Hoke and her collaborators create the opportunity to dismiss the illusion of rules and parameters in creative and common spaces and reclaim our artistic and everyday freedoms.
Inspired by Monique Moultrie's book, Passionate and Pious, and in collaboration with music artist, Karla Felecia Scaife, movement artist and singer/songwriter Lee Myles explores the journey of a Black woman's oppressive states that require her to be disembodied to achieve respectability, purity, and survival. She uncovers the truth of her inner being by embracing a nuanced and complex identity rooted in a womanist ideology of self-love. The audience witnesses the act of covering and unveiling, creating a tense inner dialogue of deciding what is sacred versus profane. Eventually, the woman creates a ceremonial and sensual embodied practice of seeking pleasure and a fulfilled life for herself, as the audience basks in her glorious newfound freedom from shame.
