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Unsettled/Soiled Group is a group of East, Southeast, and South Asian diasporic movers, makers, and settlers on Ramaytush and Chochenyo Ohlone land. Unsettled/Soiled Group is led by June Yuen Ting, one of CounterPulse's 2022 ARC Performing Diaspora artists and will debut Dwelling for Unsettling alongside VERA!'s Try, Hye!, Thursday through Saturday, December 8-10 & 15-17, 2022
VERA! (they/them) is a queer Armenian American drag king, dancer, and community activist. They are one of CounterPulse's 2022 ARC Performing Diaspora artists and will debut Try, Hye! alongside Unsettled/Soiled Group's Dwelling for Unsettling, Thursday through Saturday, December 8-10 & 15-17, 2022
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Inspired by ancestral, community-centered, and spiritual relationships to land and plants, [and then we must be] by Audrey Johnson is a research and ritual project honoring Black American practices with land and plants through the modes of food, farming, rootwork, and magic. The work honors the practices that get passed down through recipe, spell, and story, as well as the memories active and activated in the body, plants, the land (soil, clay, mycelium, strata), and in spirit.
I was really impressed with Lenora Lee’s Reflections, which was a nuanced modern dance production borrowing from martial arts and lion dance to convey a multi-faceted and emotionally intense narrative.
The incorporation of multimedia was skillful, fresh, and powerful–especially the ending!
As for the first performance, as someone trained in post-modern literary and cultural studies, and a great lover of dance in many forms, I can only say I was deeply disappointed. Post-modern dance, when done well, can reveal truths about humanity. However, I, and my friends (a group pf 5 ethnically diverse, highly educated experienced observers of the arts) found Pretonically Oriented v.3 trite and trying at best.