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The Paula Lerner Visiting An Exploration of Beheard.world |
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Join us for the 10th Anniversary Paula Lerner Visiting Artist Program!
Performance • Saturday, April 25 • 7:30
A powerful collaboration by eight dancer/choreographers, three poets and a filmmaker, Belonging and Othering explores the intersection of those concepts, opening a window into underlying parts of tribalism and bias that keep us divided.
This multi-media performance piece screens six local storytellers who have experienced being “othered.” They include an African American man, a transgender man, a gay man, Black woman, a Jewish man and an Asian immigrant woman sharing first-hand experiences of exclusion based on racism, religion, gender bias, immigration prejudice or LGBTQ issues. While each storyteller is projected onto a large screen, dancers perform solos to their narratives. In the second part of the show, choreographer Anna Myer melds the movements and phrases from the solo dancers, transforming being othered into what it looks and feels like to belong. “We want to portray how each of our stories and hardships can be reshaped with support,” Myer says, “so we can move together beautifully, and flow."
The original score of Belonging and Othering is by Boston-based musician and composer Nate Tucker, who works regularly with beheard.world to enhance the company’s performances and documentary films. Belonging and Othering was supported in part by The BLOOM Residency and the Movement Arts Creation Studio (MACS). Beheard.world is a racially diverse collective of performing artists, filmmakers and educators in Boston committed to utilizing the arts to make positive change. They create live performances, documentary films, and workshops in response to community needs that advance social justice.
Workshop • Saturday, April 25 • 2:00-4:00
How we Belong and How we are Othered
Explore experiences of being othered using Restorative Justice talking circle practices, then create a non-verbal expression of that memory. Next, a facilitated discussion about belonging -- what it is, what it feels like and ways to achieve it will lead into the beheard.world team helping each participant create movement that captures what it feels like to belong.
Register
(limited to 15 people)
Remembering Paula. Paula Lerner, our dear friend and former Temple member, died of breast cancer in 2012 at the age of 52. An award-winning photographer and journalist, Paula was ceaselessly curious about the world and people. Each year, Beth El Temple Center invites an inspiring artist or group of artists to come and share their art with us.
Please contribute to the Paula Lerner Visiting Artist Fund so that we can offer this free program every year. Choose the Paula Lerner Visiting Artist Fund on the donation page.
