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A site-specific dance honoring women with incarcerated loved ones, The Wait Room is the first of three planned works under the banner of The Decarceration Trilogy: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex One Dance at a Time.
Engaging the ideas of waiting and weighting, The Wait Room blends oral history, dance, music and public art in an exploration of the physical, psychic and emotional burdens of prison for women with incarcerated loved ones. Flyway Productions has commissioned longtime company collaborators Sean Riley and Pamela Z to participate in the creation of the work.
Riley will design and construct a mobile set which will travel with the company from the Bay Area to Ossining, New York, outside of Sing Sing Prison, in September 2019. Composer Pamela Z will translate the oral histories of several women with families fractured by incarceration into a score informing the choreography of Flyaway Artistic Director Jo Kreiter, who has assembled a cast of six women performers: Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsheree Giles, MaryStarr Hope and Megan Lowe.
Additional collaborators include lighting designer Jack Beuttler and costume designer Jamielyn Duggan. Joining the project as community partner is Oakland-based Essie Justice Group, an organization of women taking on the injustices of mass incarceration.
"One in four women and nearly one in two black women in the U.S. has at one point had a family member in prison," said Kreiter. "I am one of these women."
http://flyawayproductions.com
Location:
Empty lot opposite the Civic Center/United Nations Plaza
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