Reverie/Revelry

Overview

An immersive occasion in which sensuous DJed and live music, scents, and colorful flags shape a sensorial experience in which guests can interact, dance, and simply co-exist with the woods and creek. The environment heightens sensory perception and in turn responds to the energy of the guests. The piece offers a re-weaving of community, as part of a search for new ways of being with each other and the natural world that sustains us.

Modern dancers will set the tone and “give permission” for you to engage however you want. This event encourages the blurring of traditional performer and audience roles, and investigates how the gentle introduction of a word, sound, movement, or scent can shift perception and flow.

The occasion offers an open score, during which guests may freely enter, exit, and revisit.

We hope to offer an environment in which all people feel invited to explore ways of being a group member, and let the heart open a little more.

 

About the Artist

Vivian Lehrer is a multidisciplinary artist whose work imagines reverent ways of walking with each other and this planet. Integrating natural and recycled materials, ephemeral processes, site-specific performance and community-building, Vivian’s art practice questions the notion of human mastery and dominance over the rest of the natural world, and points instead to our vulnerable interconnection.

A first-generation American raised by Chilean parents, Vivian served for 12 years as founding co-director of Eden Village Camp, a farm-and-arts sleepaway camp with locations in New York’s Hudson Valley and northern California. At Eden Village, Vivian fostered radical inclusivity through imaginative earth-based programming – often involving rite-of-passage challenges, art with biomaterials, song sessions, and parades with giant puppets. Prior to Eden Village, Vivian served Spanish-speaking clients as a public-interest lawyer in NYC. She plays bass in the indie-folk/art-pop duo "Gorgeous Porch", and lives on Lenni-Lenape land (Philadelphia).

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