Confessional

Outsight new work by Leimay's commissioning program artist fellows & guest artists

Nana Chinara

LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES SUMMER/FALL 2019: OUTSIGHT

Confessional is a performance ritual, undergoing the research of self intimacy, self healing, and self liberation. Confessional researches the homes held and built within Black bodies, particularly how my body has built a home of numbness, immobility, and pain. Confessional moves beyond that pain and sanctifies a new home within myself, within the garden, and within the witnesses – a home of self intimacy, self liberation, and self surrender. Gil Hodges Garden itself becomes a witness to this sacrament, an installation site of an altar, and a space to hold and engage with affirming witnesses on this self grounding journey.

Documentation

Documentation Images All (Private)

Nana Chinara

23 photos

Nana Chinara [Archive]

219 photos

Object Identifier

AMP.PRG.2019.7000.10

ID number

7000.1

Year Created

2019

Date Created

20190928

Date Recorded

20190928

Performance dates

Array

Language

English

Curated Filters

Space / Location

Premiere Venue

Gil Hodges Community Garden Gowanus
09/28/2019
534 Caroll Street, Brooklyn, NY

Premiere Venue specific dates

Main Credits

Choreography & Performer: Nana Chinara

Presenting/Producing Credits

OUTSIGHT is a performance series co-presented by LEIMAY and the NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT. It features public performances by international and local artists working within areas of dance, theater, performance art and butoh set within one of NYRP’s community gardens.

Development/Funding Credits

OUTSIGHT is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation