Cellular wrap: existing within each other

This 75 minute session is dedicated to a movement inquiry and experiment through improvised gestures and the sounding body. Using a practice of embodied research that borrows from cellular science, participants are invited to explore senses of closeness between human bodies and land ecologies. What lives within each of them? What does my body sense when moving closely with, not solely across, the land I occupy? How might moving with closeness as a collective help us disrupt uneven systems governing people and land or even find new possibilities for interdependence? The group may engage with a brief text or memory writing in situ and may move or sound as able in the indoor and outdoor space weather permitting. This space is open to everyone. No experience in movement or vocals is required.

Kayva Yang is a performing artist whose movement navigates across visual media, writing, and living material. Her work deals with intimacies between human and land ecologies, which is rooted in embodied research while also draws on memory, science, and archived history. Her most recent projects Lost 40 and Elastic Elm perform choreographed improvisations on public land and on video. Her work has been presented at New York University's Kimmel Center, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, and the Southern Theater, Minneapolis. She was a 2020 Laundromat Create Change Fellow and has been supported by the Jerome Foundation and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She has danced for Jill Sigman, Dustin Maxwell, Pramila Vasudevan, and Dr. Ananya Chatterjea. She holds an M.A. in Arts and Public Policy from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She produces performances at The Museum of Modern Art.