INTERDISCIPLINARY TAP DANCE ARTIST
The AURALVISUAL MIXTAPE Collection is Michael J. Love's triptych of performance installations that sample and loop various media and sounds to envision sites of liberation. The series includes Part I: GON' HEAD AND PUT YOUR RECORDS ON! as well as Part II: DOPE FIT! and PART III: (RHY)PISTEMOLOGY! (OR, TO KNOW THROUGH THE RHYTHM).
The AURALVISUAL MIXTAPE COLLECTION,
Part III: (RHY)PISTEMOLOGY! (OR, TO KNOW THROUGH THE RHYTHM)
LINER NOTES//
The third installment of Love’s The AURALVISUAL MIXTAPE Collection sees the tap dance artist and an ensemble of collaborators map the foundational Black histories of techno and house music onto improvisation and choreography that envisions an ‘elsewhere’ of liberatory possibilities. (RHY)PISTEMOLOGY! stands as an embodied testimony of the wealth of cultural knowledge stored in Black American forms of movement and music and the generative, life-giving potential available to those who engage in the labor necessary to honor and carry such forms forward.
In the premiere version of (RHY)PISTEMOLOGY!, Love and dancers Benae Beamon, Jeffrey Clark Jr., Kaleena Miller, Adriana J. Ray, and Robyn Watson work through an original electronic music soundscape by rhythmanalyst DeForrest Brown Jr. and traverse a multimedia installation by anti-disciplinary artist Aryel René Jackson.
CREDITS//
As presented in February 2023 during a work-in-progress showing and post-performance discussion supported by the Princeton Arts Fellowship program, the Princeton Atelier, and the Program in Dance at Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts to conclude a week of development and rehearsal and introduce ATL/AAS/DAN 497: "Tap Dance Experiments in Video and Sound/Rhythm: SOIL, SAND, BONE", Brown, Jackson, and Love's Spring 2023 Atelier course:
Written, Choreographed, and Directed by Michael J. Love
Multimedia Video and Sculpture Installation by Aryel René Jackson
Soundscape and Music Composed and Performed by DeForrest Brown Jr.
Original Cast Members include Benae Beamon, Jeffrey Clark Jr., Kaleena Miller, and Adriana J. Ray
Company Management and Production Coordination by Morgan Johnson
Post-Performance Talkback Moderated by Taji Senior
As presented at Fusebox Festival on April 12-13, 2023:
Written, Choreographed, and Directed by Michael J. Love
Multimedia Video and Sculpture Installation by Aryel René Jackson
Soundscape and Music Composed and Performed by DeForrest Brown Jr.
Cast includes Benae Beamon, Kaleena Miller, Adriana J. Ray, and Robyn Watson
Company Management and Production Coordination by Morgan Johnson
Performed at Ground Floor Theatre
Lighting Design by Amber Whatley
Sound Engineering by Schi Johnson