Wednesday, October 19, 6:45 pm
Presented
alongside the opening reception for I stood before the source
This talk is FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
Keith Hennessy: Performance Lecture
Wednesday, October 19, 6:45 pm
Presented by the Blackwood Gallery alongside the opening reception for I stood before the source
Keith Hennessy shares the content, forms, tactics, and contradictions of the collaborative performance Turbulence (a dance about the economy). Instigated before Occupy and engaging questions of debt, value, and exchange, the project is intended as both provocation and affirmation of global movement for economic justice— an experimental hybrid of contemporary dance, improvised happening, and political theatre.
This talk is FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
A FREE shuttle bus will depart from Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West) at 5:30pm and return for 8:30pm.
Keith Hennessy is a performer, choreographer, teacher, writer, and activist. Born in Sudbury, Canada, he lives in San Francisco and tours internationally. His interdisciplinary research engages improvisation, ritual, and public action as tools for investigating political realities. Ideas and practices inspired by anarchism, critical whiteness, punk, and queer-feminism motivate and mobilize Hennessy’s creative and activist projects. Hennessy directs Circo Zero, and was a member of the collaborative performance companies Contraband with Sara Shelton Mann, CORE, and Cahin-caha, cirque bâtard. Hennessy has an MFA in Choreography and an unfinished PhD (ABD) in Performance Studies from UC Davis.
