CROSSROADS by Pioneers Go East Collective. Filmed and hosted by Center for Performance Research. BAIRA, Proteo Media + Performance, Joey Kipp.

Free event & all are welcome!

Featured artists: BAIRA/ MVMNT PHLOSPHY with Shaina and Bryan Baira ; Proteo Media + Performance with Bree Breeden and Kathleen Kelley ; Joey Kipp

A virtual Crossroads video art series curated by Pioneers Go East Collective.

CROSSROADS (CROSSWINDS, CROSSCURRENTS, CROSSFIRES) Performance + art + poetry + music + dance + food + community. A curated series presented by Pioneers Go East Collective. Crossroads Series features artists who explore new genres and known performance and art-making modes to share their creative practices with other artists and their audiences. Each evening we witness different generations of artists dealing with actual, day-to-day, contemporary challenges to further discussion between artists and to activate a network of exchange and inclusion with social and artistic intervention.

Haptic by Proteo Media + Performance

Project: In “Haptic", a performer uses touch and proprioception as a way to speak, summon, and receive through digital, electric and analog connections within the extrahuman environment. Moments of discovery both small and large illuminate the web of connectivity between our bodies and the world around us. “Haptic” is a collaborative duet featuring Bree Breeden as performer and choreographer and Kathleen Kelley as live digital designer.

Proteo Media + Performance. Bree Breeden is from Cheraw, S.C. She choreographs and performs her own work which has been presented at Vital Joint Festival in 2019, Embodied Spaces Festival I and II in 2018, Movement Research’s Fall Festival at Danspace in 2018, and the Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts dance talk series in 2016. Currently, she performs with VON HOWARD PROJECT and Michiyaya DANCE. Kathleen Kelley is an Associate Professor of Dance + Technology at Montclair State University. She is a 2019 Gibney Work Up resident artist, Chez Bushwick Artist in Residence in 2018 and a 2015-2016 LEIMAY Fellow, and her choreographic work has been shown at venues such as Theaterlab, Gowanus Loft, Triskelion Arts, Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick, Movement Research and others. Together they direct Proteo Media + Performance, an intermedia company that produces creative experiences that engage live performers, film, projections, installations and other forms of visual/digital data to explore the rich intersections between technology and the body.

SUSPIRE by BAIRA / Shaina and Bryan Baira

Project: SUSPIRE is a virtual-reality dance theatre film that takes you through a fly-on-the-wall experience of parenthood, pandemic life, and socio-political division. Slipping between mundane reality and fantastical surrealism, witness one family’s effort to contemplate and cope with it all.

Shaina and Bryan Baira are life-partners and co-directors of BAIRA / MVMNT PHLOSPHY, a dance-theatre company committed to understanding the human experience and sharing their perspective through the movement arts. Born in TX and MI respectively, the two found each other 8 years ago in NYC and have since been sharing their work and engaging communities throughout the U.S.A. Their work is known for its bravery, vulnerability and intricately athletic movement language. The couple is currently based out of Detroit where they are Artists-in-Residence at the Music Hall and Wayne State University's Department of Theatre and Dance.

New Work by Joey Kipp

Joey Kipp was born in Brazil and raised in Mtn. View, California. Marymount Manhattan College (BA, Biology and Dance). Gibney Dance For the Moment Walls Down, Gotham Roller Girls Award Ceremony, Roulette, Judson Memorial Church, and Performance Space NY. Joey was recently an Artist In Residence at the Rauschenberg Residency with Heather Kravas and Vic Haven.