Choreography, Performance: mayfield brooks
Cellist: Dorothy Carlos
Audio description: Monique Smith McDowel
Audio description dramaturgy: Naomi Sanfo-Ansorge
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds (HKF) and Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt (IMPACT Förderung).
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Dorothy Carlos (she/her) is an experimental cellist and electronic musician working in improvised performance and multi-channel sound in New York City and Chicago. Her work utilizes randomized electronics and extended techniques to explore fragility and imaginaries. Solo performances have been presented internationally by e-flux, Experimental Sound Studio Chicago, Big Ears Festival, default, Center for New Music and Associated Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley, Chicago Jazz String Summit, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from New York University where she studied classical cello and anthropology on full scholarship, and an MFA in sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Monique Smith-McDowell (she/her) is a British performer and choreographer that weaves together the creative languages of dance, creative audio description and music to highlight the perspectives of the marginalized in relation to sociopolitical issues. Monique has had the pleasure to collaborate with artists such as Michael Turinsky, Ursina Tossi, Jerron Herman, Zwoisy Mears- Clarke and Richard Alston to name a few.
Naomi Sanfo-Ansorge (she/her) is a visually impaired dance educator, performer, access dramaturge, and audio describer. She lives and works in Hamburg and researches, among other things, as a dancer with the dance company Chorosom, the diversity of audio description, and dance that can be experienced with all senses.