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zavé martohardjono is a queer, non-binary trans, Indonesian-American artist born in Canada and living in Brooklyn. Working across performance, film, installation, and poetry, zavé uses dance and ritual as primary languages across projects that engage in anti-colonial storytelling. With dreams of a more just future, they make work that contends with the political histories our bodies carry and prompts inquiry into how healing and political education can de-condition the assimilated body and reconjure liberatory memory. They have made documentaries, experimental films, and video works that have shown in festivals and galleries in the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Scotland, Switzerland, and Indonesia. zavé is a 2022 Bessie-nominated performer whose choreographic and live performances have been presented in theaters, museums, and galleries across the U.S. including in New York, Los Angeles, Omaha, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and in Skopje, North Macedonia.
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October 29, 6:30 PM | Interpreting the Designated Mourner
Smack Mellon
Join artist & activist Avram Finkelstein for a 90-minute participatory reading I’m part of, an adaptation of Wallace Shawn’s 1996 script of The Designated Mourner. The play explores love, class, and survival under an authoritarian regime that targets culture and intellectual freedoms. This performative project is curated by Sara Reisman and directed by Sam Feder. RSVP to attend.
November 14, 1 PM | ReMAp Workshop: Resiliency Motions 4 Apocalypse
BAX Annex
I’m offering a workshop exploring our bodies’ regenerative systems and ecological resilience for times of crises. No dance experience is necessary to participate. This is part of a two day workshop weekend with BAX alum teaching artists Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, myself, Adrienne Westwood, Alexandra Pinel, Dani Criss, Edisa Weeks, Kim Katzberg, Kyle Marshall, and Anna Sperber. Sign up for workshops.
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