You are invited to this coming Kinstillatory Fire, Thursday, August 17th, 6-8pm at Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side, Mannahatta. This gathering is an ongoing celebration of community, a practice of showing up in care and action. As always, we recognize fire’s capacity to enunciate with us, our joys, our rage, our needs. We gather with artists Savannah Romero and Abdiel who voice future memory and land-body relations, dance for O’Shea, our transformations and justice. We will send support to our relatives on Maui, in community

The Kinstillatory is an ongoing project of Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet. The fire itself is process, a way to bring us out of the catastrophe of now. A lot is happening in the time/space envelope of the kinstillatory that is care, that is necessary. This is a practice of provocating. This is an offering of seed, of vessel, of protection, of becomingness.

This is the last fire before parental leave and a fire to note a loved community member’s last night in NYC.

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Savannah Romero is an Eastern Shoshone storyteller, writer, poet and educator. She lives in Lenapahoking, also known as Brooklyn, New York. Her poems explore the confluences of colonialism, capitalism, land-body relations, and memory. She is working on a debut collection of fiction stories, is earning her Masters in Fine Arts for Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and serves as a poet editor for Chapter House Journal.

Abdiel (they/them) is a Hustle dance champion, educator, and community organizer dedicated to the cultural preservation and creative expansion of the New York Hustle partner dance style. As co-founder of "Dance is Life"--a communitarian free public dance party event-- Abdiel creates space to facilitate human connection, communal healing, and celebration while revitalizing cultural historical sites where Hustle has been traditionally danced. Abdiel has taught their gender neutral approach to partner dance at the Juilliard School, Harvard University, Stamford University, University of Washington, University of California Irvine, and others. They are also a former Fulbright Specialist with the US Dept. of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and a former Principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter is hosted, held, and lightly curated by Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet. The fire is central and communities are invited to GATHER HERE as artists and organizers articulate our collective futures, our otherwise possibilities. Fireside, we bring practices, grammars and needs forward and through the portals fire allows. The fire itself is process, a way to bring us out of the catastrophe of now. A lot is happening in the time/space envelope of the kinstillatory that is care, that is necessary. This is a practice of provocating. This is an offering of seed, of vessel, of protection, of becomingness.

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Catalyst programs are made possible in part with generous funding from Dance/NYC, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mellon Foundation and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.