DELIRIOUS Dances

05/17/2026

GALA TIME!!!

Excited for the Movement Research Gala honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born/Sweat Variant, and Eleanor Savage!

Tuesday, May 19 2026

6pm | Dinner
8pm | Performance & Party

Location: Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South New York, NY

https://movementresearch.org/events/1426/

05/11/2026

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Celebrating the birth of Darryl Hell

I LOVE YOU and I’m so grateful that our lives are intertwined. I drew this picture soon after Darryl and I first met. I didn’t date the picture, so I’m guessing it was 2004. Based on the scribbled information on the color palette selection page, I probably drew it on a Sunday morning while we were listening to an interview with Dr. Joy De Gruy Leary on LIKE IT IS by Gil Noble.

To know Darryl is to be inspired by his many outlets of creativity:

🌑 The recently released 12 episode documentary series ECHOES OF THE SOUNDS OF NEW YORK which he created and edited. Available exclusively on Vimeo on demand

🌑 Scratching for the industrial, punk, hard rock collective new album APOCALYSE PENDING

🌑 A monthly article > “MECHANIZED RESISTANCE from the mind of Darryl Hell” < for noisewire.org

🌑 PUBLIC DISTURBSNCE his punk band from the 1980’s being re-released on yellow vinyl by

🌑 His transformational work as steward of the Hancock community garden park and teaching and mentoring high school students at Bronx Academy of letters.

If you can give a birthday gift to Darryl > read the articles, watch the series, purchase a record, and/or give Darryl a birthday hug when you see him!

🖤🔥

04/24/2026

LOAM
A Subterranean Requiem

Taking cues from biological processes found in soil as a foundation, LOAM by explores our changing planet through a lens of collective grief. By experiencing movement as a series of slowly unfolding, minuscule moments, LOAM invites us to look closer, breathe deeper, and to challenge unrelenting velocity as a way of life.

Wed. April 29, 2026
6:30pm Doors Open + Free Food
7:30pm LOAM
Admission: Free

Judson Memorial Church
Meeting Room
55 Washington Square South
New York, NY, 10012

CAST
Choreographer/Performer: Cara Hagan
Terrestrial Priestess: Edisa Weeks
Terrestrial Sound Consultants: Allison Teegarden, Jasper Engelhardt, Giovanna Dalla Vacchia D’Assuncao, Sebastian Pray, Rodrigo Pocidonio, Vanda Focanti

Curated by Arien Wilkerson

https://www.judson.org/calendar/notes-towards-4-29-26

04/12/2026

OFF THE RECORD is
an intervention
an invitation
a humorous, delightful, and insightful journey
a call to action
GO Experience!!!!

I’m in awe of how writes and creates a world that is deeply funny, painfully real, and immediately gets me involved in the questions and problem solving.

at now through Sunday April 19 > 146 6th Ave, NYC > a block below Spring St.

OFF THE RECORD: Acts of Restorative Justice
by James Scruggs in collaboration with Thomas Giovanni is an invitation to walk an energizing path from despair to agency. When the American Criminal Justice System holds all the cards, one woman decides to question the game itself. Along the way, she enlists the audience in helping her fight against the forces of capital. The stakes are the soul of the nation itself – what choice do we have but to walk by her side?

https://here.org/shows/off-the-record-acts-of-restorative-justice/

04/03/2026

WOOD SPOONS FOR FREEDOM!!!! ❤

Thank You for capturing this moment at the NO KINGS protest in New York City!

Wood Spoons for Freedom emerges from a desire to have an action, a dance, that can be done at protests. The dance is in the spirit of Toyi Toyi protest dances in South Africa during Apartheid and the Baila Capucha Baila dances against sexism, r**e culture, and other forms of violence inflicted on women in Chile. The movement is rooted in Maculelé a warrior dance from Brazil.

The dance is about solidarity, resilience, tapping into JOY, and resistance to oppression. All you need is two wooden spoons.

Wood Spoons for Freedom is the brainchild of Edisa Weeks and is organized by artists in Circle Up, a group facilitated by Yanira Castro, including Ariel Lembeck, Martha Sherman, Kimiko Tanabe, and Rishauna Zumberg.

Thank you to everyone who joined in ❤

YES to Democracy, and governance by the people for the people
YES to all citizens voting
YES to holding politicians and big corporations accountable
YES to taxing the rich a 5% tax on wealth over $50 million, increasing to 10% for wealth over $250 million.
YES to defending and upholding the USA Constitution and Amendment rights

NO to KINGS and BULLIES
NO to WAR
NO to Corporate Greed and the wealthy crushing workers

03/31/2026

03/21/2026

Democracy doesn’t defend itself, people defend democracy

You are invited to the OLAMINA gathering at BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance:

SUNDAY MARCH 22, 2026
10am-4:30pm
FREE - join when you can!

Organized by Charles Rice-Gonzalez and Paloma McGregor, the OLAMINA gathering is a convening to share information, identify support, and plan with one another as we engage with what is happening in American society and how this government’s policies are impacting us and the larger world.

From 12pm-1pm I’m teaching WOOD SPOONS FOR FREEDOM PROTEST DANCE. If you have two wood spoons please bring them, or just show up as spoons will be provided.

We have protest songs and chants, and we also NEED A DANCE that is JOYOUS, NOISY, emphasizes SOLIDARITY, and allows people to bring their own spirit, creativity and individuality to the dance.

RSVP:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/olamina-project

03/13/2026

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For the Every Woman Biennial, a group of women-artists, directed by , will use dance and music to activate the BRICK X BRICK jumpsuits originally created by , Nikki Juen, and Sarah Sandman as a performative protest and response to misogyny.

Saturday, March 14, 2026
7:00 PM-8:30 PM
PEN + BRUSH
29 E 22nd St, NYC 10010
Admission: Free

Music performed live by

Choreography: Coco Karol
Designer and Founding creator: Andrea Lauer
Music: Morley
Discussion facilitator: Christie Barron

Performers: Coco Karol, Christie Barron, Edisa Weeks, Wanda Gala, Emily Pope, Sindy Butz, Patty L, Miram Parker, Elena Vazintaris, Remi Harris, and Ceci Lynn-Jacobs

03/10/2026

We’re back!
BAAD! announced the rescheduled date for the Olamina Project for Sunday, March 22. We hope you can make that date!

BAAD! & Angela’s Pulse present

THE OLAMINA PROJECT: The Gathering
Sunday, March 22, 2026 - Doors open at 9:30 am; Event begins at 10 am.
2474 Westchester Avenue, Bronx, NY

We are wiser than we were a year ago, and we have more opportunities to build and thrive. Let’s think together, share together, plan together and gear up for the lives we want to live.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/olamina-project-tickets-1984391708017?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true

SCHEDULE

9:30AM > Breakfast and Gathering

10:00AM > Intro and Framing

10:30AM > Open Facilitated Forum - Facilitated by Paloma McGregor

12:00PM > Break

12:15PM > Movement Workshop: Edisa Weeks - Wood Spoons for Freedom Dance

1:15PM LUNCH

2:15 pm > Teach in/Sharing/Workshop - Charles Rice-González
“I choose to occupy-seeing and living in, pondering and making decisions as if this is the place and now is the time for the juncture between a devolving world and an emergent world.” - Norma Koweloku Wong, When No Thing Works

3:00PM > Wrap-Up

3:30PM - 4:30PM > Libations/Cheese/Music

We look forward to seeing and building with you!

02/15/2026

Greetings All

On Sunday Feb. 22, learn the WOOD SPOONS FOR FREEDOM protest dance during The Olamina Project: Gathering at BAAD! in the Bronx.

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We are gathering folks, again! It’s a new year!

We are wiser than we were a year ago, and we have more opportunities to build and thrive. Let’s think together, share together, plan together and gear up for the lives we want to live.

BAAD! & Angela’s Pulse present
THE OLAMINA PROJECT: The Gathering
Sunday, February 22, 2026 from 9:30am - 4:30pm

SCHEDULE

9:30AM > Breakfast and Gathering
Chill Out Lounge > All day space to relax, write, rest, meditate…

10AM > Intro and Framing

10:30AM > Open Facilitated Forum - Facilitated by Paloma McGregor

12:15PM > Movement Workshop: Edisa Weeks - Wood Spoons for Freedom Protest Dance

1:15PM > LUNCH

2:15PM > Teach in/Sharing/Workshop - Charles Rice-González
“I choose to occupy-seeing and living in, pondering and making decisions as if this is the place and now is the time for the juncture between a devolving world and an emergent world.” - Norma Koweloku Wong, When No Thing Works

3PM > Wrap-Up:
Boundary/Protection Embodied Meditation - Heather Robles

3:30PM-4:30PM > Libations/Cheese/Music

BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Westchester Avenue, The Bronx, NY, USA
2474 Westchester Avenue
The Bronx, NY 10461

RSVP on Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/olamina-project-tickets-1979900771505?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZnRzaAP—SJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeT8UdBIl_-nepCJnVhTacRG2PzsHeXys5Zq5maHJ5aH7Cf1WOVh0XtoNHKGs_aem_d5d68_XHS0B87PHWLgdktw