Be The Media! Workshop: WAKE
Duration: 60 minutes
Composer Micaela Tobin, choreographer Jay Carlon, and their team facilitate a workshop on their process for choreographing grief. In this Be the Media! workshop, participants learn how the artists draw on personal experience and shared culture to generate interdisciplinary media in performance.
Their collaborative project, WAKE, is a celebratory ritual for grief that centers queer Filipino life and processes both personal and communal loss through a combination of sound, dance, and video projection. Tobin uses electronics to dissect her vocals, creating dense sonic worlds that blur opera, drone, and noise. Carlon’s visual language stages bodily movement and video projection to mediate between performers, audience, and memory. During their Be the Media! workshop at The Sanctuary, the artists screen video material from WAKE and lead attendees through aspects of their process.
Just after the hour-long workshop, hang out with the artists over a bite to eat. The following day, visit EMPAC to experience a live excerpt of the work in progress.
Main Image: Jay Carlon, WAKE (featuring Micaela Tobin and láwû makuriye’nte), Don Quixote, Los Angeles, CA, performance documentation, 2024. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Argel Rojo @argelrojo.
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WAKE is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
WAKE was developed in part with support from residency at WAREHOUSE at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
This screening of WAKE footage is presented in partnership with iEAR Presents, with support from RPI’s Department of Arts and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. iEAR Presents and EMPAC programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
