Name: FREE Queer Dance: mayfield brooks dArK oXyGen @ Jacob's Pillow (Becket, MA
Start: 2026-01-31T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-31T15:30:00-05:00
Location: Jacob's Pillow

FREE Queer Dance: mayfield brooks dArK oXyGen  @ Jacob's Pillow (Becket, MA

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dArK oXyGen plays with the possibility that entering darkness is a generative process, an exorcism of
the machines that mine our minds & sea

Jacob's Pillow

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Join us for this work-in-process performance in the beautiful <a href="https://www.jacobspillow.org/perles-family-studio/" title="https://www.jacobspillow.org/perles-family-studio/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Perles Family Studio</a> (at Jacob's Pillow) of a new work never seen by an audience before. FREE for Q-MoB Subscribers who register &amp; provide age range, diversity, &amp; isolation data we use to report statistics to the foundation that underwrites part of the costs of our queer arts/culture activities.IMPORTANT: THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT, BUT Q-MOB HAS 7 TICKETS FOR THE FIRST 7 MEN WHO REGISTER HERE ON EVENTBRITE, BUT TO QUALIFY FOR A FREE TICKET YOU MUST PROVIDE YOUR CONTACT &amp; DIVERSITY INFORMATION SO WE CAN REPORT STATISTICS TO THE BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION &amp; JACOB'S PILLOW FOUNDATION THAT UNDERWRITE THIS &amp; OTHER Q-MOB ARTS/CULTURE ACTIVITIES, and we encourage you to <a href="https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/sqXpukhQeFaNTYPSNT4wXw" title="https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/sqXpukhQeFaNTYPSNT4wXw" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MAKE A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE ONLINE DONATION</a> or ON EVENTBRITE to support Q-MoB's on-going queer arts/culture activities, including FREE tickets or discounted tickets on performances like this one. ABOUT THIS WORLD PREMIER PERFORMANCE OF mayfield brooks dArK oXyGen:“My dance disorients, decomposes and becomes wild.”By brooks mayfield’s description, they are a choreographer, dancer, movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and “wanderer.” They are investigating breath, water, and darkness as generative forces, weaving together ecological research and embodied improvisation.During their upcoming Pillow Lab residency (January 21-February 1), mayfield brooks will focus on the development of dArK oXyGen, a sonic dance exploring choreographies of breath and the recent discovery of oxygen production in the deep ocean without sunlight or photosynthesis. This work-in-progress is inspired by the spiritual connection between brooks’ experience as a child singer of Black gospel music, their daily practice of communing with the ocean in Rockaway Beach (New York) where they live, and their movement practice exploring dances moved by breath, water, memory, and song.dArK oXyGen plays with the possibility that entering darkness is a generative process. It is an exorcism of the machines that mine our minds, disconnecting us from the depths of our own psyches, and how that disconnection might be linked to the machines that mine our deep sea ecosystems. dArK oXyGen emerges from brooks’ ongoing ecological and ancestral research, which also informs their multi-year project Whale Fall. Both pieces draw from overlapping lines of inquiry into decomposition, survival, deep sea zones, and the entanglements of human and non-human worlds. Whale Fall is a performance cycle in three parts that examines the life and death cycle of whales and considers what becomes possible when systems break down. The term “whale fall” describes the process of a whale carcass as it falls to the ocean floor and how it provides a sudden, concentrated food source for organisms in the deep sea.mayfield brooks writes that they are “based in Lenapehoking, the unceded land of the Lenape people, also known as New York City.” They teach and perform through Improvising While Black (IWB), their interdisciplinary dance methodology engaging dance improvisation, disorientation, dissent, and ancestral healing. brooks writes, “The seed for IWB sprouted out of my own personal experience of being racially profiled when driving while Black in San Francisco, California. After this experience, I committed to practices of dance improvisation that explore disorientation, dissent, disorder, wildness, rest, and repair work—to claim reparations as a creative process and methodological approach to movement. Over the years my day job as an urban farmer gave me additional language to describe repair work as a choreographic process of dancing and farming. I call this process de-composing dance and choreographing breath. Like an ecology, Improvising While Black continues to evolve as a process that moves in relation to other organisms, environments, and events in order to conjure ancestral healing with human and non-human ancestors. Everything that I create, choreograph, and envision is under its umbrella.”mayfield brooks has received the Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a Bessie Award nomination for their experimental dance film Whale Fall. They served as the Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and the Alma Hawkins Visiting Chair at UCLA with the World Arts and Cultures/Dance program. brooks teaches and performs practices that arise from Improvising While Black (IWB), their interdisciplinary dance methodology which explores the decomposed matter of Black life and engages in dance improvisation, disorientation, dissent, and ancestral healing. Brooks is the editor-in-chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal and is part of the Movement Research teaching faculty in NYC.CARPOOLING/RIDE-SHARE: Carpooling is a great way to get to know other men, save money on gas, and help to reduce your carbon footprint and save the planet. 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