A live streamed, improvisation-based performance created by Jarrel Phillips, presented as part of HMD's 2020 Bridge Project "Power Shift: Improvisation, Activism, and Community" (10/9/2020, San Francisco) --- Free Play: Joy is, both, freedom and resistance. Capoeira is, too.The best part about Capoeira is that you play it. It is pure improvisation. I can't tell you exactly what I'm going to do because it's all spontaneous and in relationship to the music, my partner and the ashé (energy). What I do know is that I'm going to enjoy myself. “In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.” - Audre Lorde Related links: About Jarrel Phillips - https://www.jarrelphillips.com/ About HMD's the Bridge Project - https://www.bridgeproject.art/ About Power Shift - https://www.bridgeproject.art/powershift

Created and Performed by Judith Sánchez Ruíz 10/10/2020, Berlin presented as part of HMD's 2020 Bridge Project "Power Shift: Improvisation, Activism, and Community" ---- “What can I love? a country, an arm, a doll, a new brand? We scratch our hearts with the patience of a farmer in a glittering landscape.” – JSR Encaje is a piece about hypocrisy, and it is inspired by the body of work of writer Anaïs Nin. Working with two concepts, the “diary” and the “radio”. Judith Sánchez Ruíz recaptures the snapshot contents of an archive of her own days approaching dance like a „diary of movement.” with reinvents the untold, the undisclosed presence of disorder and vulnerability. The “radio” concept lets the body jump from one state to another as if someone turned the dial on an old radio trying to find a new frequency, thereby provoking a clash of opposing facts within one life, one body. Related links: About Judith Sánchez Ruíz - https://judithsanchezruiz.tumblr.com/ About HMD's the Bridge Project - https://www.bridgeproject.art/ About Power Shift - https://www.bridgeproject.art/powershift

Created by Judith Sánchez Ruíz Performed by Judith Sánchez Ruíz, with sam wentz. (10/11/2020, Berlin & Los Angeles) Presented as part of HMD's 2020 Bridge Project "Power Shift: Improvisation, Activism, and Community" ---- PURPLE is, the fourth iteration of Judith Sánchez Ruíz’s improvisational duet form in homage to the late choreographer Trisha Brown, takes place over Zoom with fellow Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) alum sam wentz (2009-14). Judith’s homage connects dancers and collaborators from the company’s 50+ year span. Previous renditions of this tribute have been performed with Lance Gries, Laurel Jenkins, and Jodi Melnick. This version of “PURPLE is” connects alumni of the company across both time and space, with Sánchez Ruíz livestreaming from Berlin and wentz from Los Angeles. The distance between the performers--5,781 miles--will produce a 10 second delay in their connection. The performers, in their respective locations, will utilize projectors to engage with life-size versions of the each other. Spanning across geographic, experiential, historical, and temporal distance, the performers will reach for intimacy in isolation. --- Related Links Related links: About Judith Sánchez Ruíz - https://judithsanchezruiz.tumblr.com/ About HMD's the Bridge Project - https://www.bridgeproject.art/ About Power Shift - https://www.bridgeproject.art/powershift

Created and Performed by randy reyes 10/2/2020, San Francisco presented as part of HMD's 2020 Bridge Project "Power Shift: Improvisation, Activism, and Community" ---- "bb, do you notice the things getting in your way? i touch myself first in order to re-member. viscosity through the body until I become the space itself. undoing shame by naming the shame directly. is watching porn bad? does something else exist in the underground of your desire? language drip drips dripping as you find pulsing pleasure practice partners on the dance floor. yearning for...myself? again and again." Related links: About randy reyes - https://www.randy-reyes.com About HMD's the Bridge Project - https://www.bridgeproject.art/ About Power Shift - https://www.bridgeproject.art/powershift