Photo Credit: Brandy Glover
Performers in Routes: The Dallas Project by Ebony Noelle Golden
Jaime Dzandu, Audrey Hailes, Sanchel Brown, and Vesta Walker
Ebony Noelle Golden has launched Jupiter Performance Studio as the development incubator for new performance work and commissions that will be developed over the next three years. Jupiter Performance Group is rooted in three aesthetic engines: Ceremony. Spectacle. and Flight. Each focuses on the calling together of communities in intentional and transformative ways; the use of public spaces in imaginative and emergents ways, and FREEdom!
Ebony’s current work is rooted in investigating approaches to climate justice, water intimacy, and collective liberation through an explicit womanist and black feminist lens. Over the course of the development process artists, researchers, musicians, scientists, performers, and community members along with a core group of five ensemble members to critically investigate the research questions and prompts guiding the five-part ritual performance cycle that will have showings and premiers alongside partners in Durham, NC; Ashfield, MA; Houston, TX; and NYC.
Ebony has retained X Casting (https://www.xcastingnyc.com) to direct all aspects of the casting process which will begin March 23. Those who are interested should watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14OEz9IjpZs) then follow up with the X Casting to book your audition.
More About Ebony Noelle Golden
Photo Credit: Melisa Cardona
Ebony Golden is a performance artist, scholar, and culture strategist whose work consists of site-specific performance rituals and live art installations that explore relationships between creativity and liberation. She relies on transparent and equitable partnerships with community members, institutions, and creatives in pursuit of social justice. For the duration of her career, Golden has been committed to building performance and public rituals with folks to fight reductive ideas about race, class, sexuality, gender, ability, and more. She centers the brilliant voices of people invisibilized by white-normative power structures and is clear about the wealth of culture and art present in their families and communities. She aims to utilize performance to tell enlivening stories to cultivate meaningful community connections that are viable for collective action and instillation of self-determination. For the last decade, she has collaboratively created site-specific public art performances grounded in authentic community storytelling. Each time, she has felt that those folks who joined herself and her collaborators on their creative journey had been enveloped into the project itself—no longer audience members, but co-conspirators or co-performers. This is the type of connection she strives for and is integral to why she works as a collaborative artist for progressive social transformation.
In 2020, Ebony will launch Jupiter Performance Studio which will serve as the hub for the study of performance and theatre technologies rooted in the African diaspora. The studio will inform the development of a five-part ritual performance cycle to be produced over the next three years with partners in Harlem, Brooklyn, Durham, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. Additionally, Ebony works as the founding strategist and CEO at Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative. BDAC is a consultancy and arts accelerator that devises systems, strategies, solutions as well as arts, and engagement happenings for and with creative, education, public wellness, and culture sectors nationwide.
Instagram: @ebonynoellegolden