For the Every Woman Biennial, a group of women-artists, directed by Coco Karol, will use dance and music to activate the BRICK X BRICK jumpsuits originally created by Andrea Lauer, Nikki Juen, and Sarah Sandman as a performative protest and response to misogyny. Performers wear, move and transform brick-patterned jumpsuits bearing statements of misogynistic violence made by Donald Trump–– both confronting misogyny while exhibiting the power of connection, care, and joy. Music performed live by Morely. A facilitated discussion will follow the performance, intended as a space to process and heal.
Choreography: Coco Karol
Designer and Founding creator: Andrea Lauer
Music: Morely
Discussion facilitator: Christie Barron
Performers: Coco Karol, Christie Barron, Edisa Weeks, Wanda Gala, Emily Pope, Sindy Butz, Patty Lin Miram Parker, Elena Vazintaris, Remi Harris, and Ceci Lynn-Jacobs
COCO KAROL
findingcoco.net
Coco Karol is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher who creates cross-disciplinary performance works about how we make meaning of personal experience and communicate through gesture, touch, and effort. She uses dance as a form of ethnography, and developed a methodology to interview people while moving with them. She has had an expansive dance career in New York and has choreographed works for stage and film as well as for art galleries and public art.
ANDREA LAUER
www.andrealauer.com
Andrea Lauer is an award-winning costume designer and artist as well as the founder of Risen From The Thread. She is also a 2017 MIT Director's Fellow. She has technical expertise in sensors, electronics and material science, that she uses for wearable product design and experiential art installations. Recent credits include Broadway’s Bring It On, American Idiot (Broadway and touring productions), Brooklynite, What’s It’s All About, Murder for Two, STREB’s: Forces and the London Cultural Olympics, in addition to several other theatrical, dance, and opera productions in New York City and Internationally. Also working as a stylist for various artists, commercials, and publications, her work can be seen in Rolling Stone, Vogue, Interview, OUT Magazine, The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, The Tony Awards, red carpet events, and music videos.
MORLEY
morleymusic.org
A featured performer and speaker for TEDWomen and several TEDx gatherings nation wide, Morley created and produces “Circle Round Dignity, Courage and Survival” a performance based round table which has been generously commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center, over the span of four years. Morley spearheaded the successful fundraiser Borderless Lullabies that continues to be a source of revenue for the pro-bono legal defense fund, KIND: Kids – In – Need – Of – Defense, representing unaccompanied refugee minors in court after being separated by ICE.