Emergent Improvisation is intentional time and space to move in community with others. Troy Ogilvie, uila marx, alexis vinzons and Omar Zubair offer frameworks and living sound environments to nourish the creative spirit. These frameworks often attempt to put into practice elements from adrienne maree brown’s “Emergent Strategy,” particularly ‘fractals’, ‘adaptation’, ‘nonlinear/iterative’, ‘resilience’, ‘interdependence’, and ‘creating more possibilities.’
Troy approaches the practice through an ever-expanding aesthetic lens originally shaped by her work with Sidra Bell, Punchdrunk, Gallim Dance, Susan Misner, and Margie Gillis, prioritizing the curious, playful, weird, joyful, quiet, messy, awkward, and exactly-what-they-are moments/movements that emerge during class; allowing space for digestion, observation, and integration.
Omar's improvisational sound collage acts as a mycelial web connecting the space—pulsing with and responding to the eventscapes that emerge and develop—providing an infrastructure for those present to find and stay in their power while also wandering into the wilderness of their own beings.
performance collaborators include susan hwang, lucia gagliardone, mikaela brandon, rae and evelyn chen. In 2024, all the movers and musicians improvised together in varying formations for Arts On Site and for Bushwick BookClub events at Governors Island (Porchstomp Music Festival) and HOWL! Arts in the East Village.
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