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New Work: Performances

June 14th

Women and Their Work

Women and Their Work brings together four outstanding artists - Guggenheim Fellow Wura-Natasha Ogunji, The Austin Project's Florinda Bryant, Ballet Afrique's Sadé M. Jones and the UT Hispanic Caribbean Ensemble's Natasha Mevs-Korff - for a free evening of new performance works on June 14th at their Women and Their Work downtown gallery. The array of works incorporate dance, song, poetry, movement, video and sound. Space is limited, first come first seated.

In A tortoise walks majestically on window ledges, artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji finds inspiration in her father's dream journals - which offer a 15-year archive of his daily life and dream states. With descriptions of architecture, scenes of flying and space travel, chronicles of romance and love and cryptic signs foretelling his future, the journals become an important source for untangling the past.

Florinda Bryant's Short Walks and Hamhocks is a poetic rumination on births. Through a collection of poems, monologues and song, the artist explores the question of "what comes first, the song or the dance?"

In dancer Sadé M. Jones' My Toughest Critic, the artist explores how every journey to the truth involves a few missteps, followed by regrets. The key to maintain resilience is to forgive oneself in the process. Those who are wholly dedicated to the journey tend to obsess about the overall goal, forgetting about the process. The work is a story of the struggle for self-forgiveness and its effects on the ability to move forward.

For Natasha Mevs-Korff's performance Push Through, the artist sings in Spanish and Portuguese, drawing on her repertoire of South American and Caribbean songs. Accompanied by local musicians, the artist also incorporates video projections into her sonic works as she explores her relationship to song and the sea.

Women and Their Work is located at 1710 Lavaca Street. For more information, call (512) 477-1064 or visit www.WomenAndTheirWork.org.





New Work: Performances June 14th Women and Their Work Women and Their Work brings together four outstanding artists - Guggenheim Fellow Wura-Natasha Ogunji, The Austin Project's Florinda Bryant, Ballet Afrique's Sadé M. Jones and the UT Hispanic Caribbean Ensemble's Natasha Mevs-Korff - for a free evening of new performance works on June 14th at their Women and Their Work downtown gallery. The array of works incorporate dance, song, poetry, movement, video and sound. Space is limited, first come first seated. In A tortoise walks majestically on window ledges, artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji finds inspiration in her father's dream journals - which offer a 15-year archive of his daily life and dream states. With descriptions of architecture, scenes of flying and space travel, chronicles of romance and love and cryptic signs foretelling his future, the journals become an important source for untangling the past. Florinda Bryant's Short Walks and Hamhocks is a poetic rumination on births. Through a collection of poems, monologues and song, the artist explores the question of "what comes first, the song or the dance?" In dancer Sadé M. Jones' My Toughest Critic, the artist explores how every journey to the truth involves a few missteps, followed by regrets. The key to maintain resilience is to forgive oneself in the process. Those who are wholly dedicated to the journey tend to obsess about the overall goal, forgetting about the process. The work is a story of the struggle for self-forgiveness and its effects on the ability to move forward. For Natasha Mevs-Korff's performance Push Through, the artist sings in Spanish and Portuguese, drawing on her repertoire of South American and Caribbean songs. Accompanied by local musicians, the artist also incorporates video projections into her sonic works as she explores her relationship to song and the sea. Women and Their Work is located at 1710 Lavaca Street. For more information, call (512) 477-1064 or visit www.WomenAndTheirWork.org.

		My Father and I Dance in Outer Space, by Wura-Natasha Ogunji

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