PRACTICE by Jonathan Gonzalez

In PRACTICE, Afro-Diasporic cultural idioms are interwoven through dance, sound, speech acts and design to incite the critical through-lines of creolized expressive arts formed within the greater Caribbean and Turtle Island. Performed within the historic open-air setting of La Plaza at The Clemente Soto Veléz Cultural Center, this one-night engagement invites audience members into the performative practice as party-goers to celebrate the gift of gathering, and hold space for the long emancipatory uses of culture by African-descendants in the supposed “New World” for radical place-making and liberation.

Co-commissioned by LMCC and The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center with the support of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Presented in partnership with The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, with additional support from Brooklyn Academy of Music and Dance & Performance Institute, Trinidad & Tobago Presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels