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CIRCLES: going in is a full-length dance work celebrating #BlackGirlMagic. Layering dance, visual arts, with pulsing beats and bass lines, the work presents snapshots of popular culture through choreographer Staycee Pearl’s lens as a Black woman. With an ensemble of five dancers, CIRCLES: going in is a colorful, unapologetic, and daring path to self-reclamation. Central to the work is an original sound score of hip-hop, house, techno and ballroom music samples mixed live throughout the performance – bringing the joy, spontaneity and uncensored freedom of self-expression from the club to the stage.

STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos
sum of y’all

New York City Center, Studio 5 | 130 West 56th Street (btwn 6th & 7th Aves)
Pay What Moves You: $20-$35

RSVP: Sandy Garcia 212.278.2777 x3425 sandyg@pentacle.org
Space is limited. Masks required.

What do we add up to as a community? Staycee Pearl’s newest creation with artistic collaborator Marvin Touré invites audiences to reflect on the delicate impermanence of community. Tracing back to memories of historically Black spaces that have been erased over time, sum of y’all highlights the constant and inevitable state of expansion, change and transformation.

A compelling movement work, layered within a multimedia stage installation, sum of y’all draws parallels between gentrification and patterns found in the cellular structures of the human body. Set to an original score by jazz musicians James Johnson III, Erik Lawrence and co-composer Herman Pearl, the score unfolds as dancers flock, disperse and reassemble in blurred unison.

Soy Sos and Ali Berger create a live and on the spot techno and house centered mix, blending seamless layers of bass, rhythm, texture, samples and melody. Dancers from SPdp&SS and the local dance scene will move in the space over the course of the performance. Audience members are welcome to join.

On Saturday, July 17, meet us in the Sculpture Court for Inside Out at the Carnegie Museum of Art for their free summer event series, and experience INTERIM: Amplified Ecoustics, an immersive performance by STAYCEE PEARL dance project and Soy Sos.

A cash bar serving local drinks and Hermes Food Truck will be on site.

Inside Out events are free and most events are open to audiences of all ages. Make a day of it and reserve your timed tickets to visit the museum before or after you enjoy Inside Out!

Props Prompts Play - SOLD OUT

Co-Artistic Directors of STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos, Staycee and Herman Pearl share an evening of multi-disciplinary collaborative explorations. The evenings include new works-in-progress and finished works by SPdp&SS and guest artists Marvin Touré, Barbara Weissberger, and more.

Friday, May 12, 8:00pm

KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $10 – $25

Want to attend our pre-performance VIP Reception?
Learn more about the interim VIP Reception here.

About the Artists

Marvin Touré is an Ivorian-American interdisciplinary artist who uses fictional narratives and the objects of innocence as a vehicle to interrogate themes of love, loss, and memory. In 2014 he received a B.A. in New Media Arts with a minor in Architecture from Southern Polytechnic State University (now Kennesaw State University) in Marietta, Georgia. In 2016 he received an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Marvin has also completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016), the Franconia Sculpture Park (2018), and SVA MFA Fine Arts’s Life on an Island on Governors Island, New York (2019). His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at The AC Institute in New York City (2018), and Haul gallery in Brooklyn, New York (2019 & 2021). In 2020 he was awarded both a Black Artist Fund grant and the Peter S. Reed Foundation grant for Mixed Media/Sculpture. Marvin was also awarded one of two 20th anniversary commissions for the I-Park Foundation’s 2021 Site-Responsive Art Biennale(East Haddam, CT). That same year he was named the inaugural artist-in-residence at Alma|Lewis located in Pittsburgh, PA. Marvin joined Protohaven (Wilkinsburg, PA) and the University of Pittsburgh's Architectural Studies program in the fall of 2022 as a Teaching Fellow and Architecture Instructor, respectively.

Barbara Weissberger is an artist who stages photographs and works with textiles to consider bodies, objects, the weird, and the everyday. Weissberger’s work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous artist residencies in the US and abroad including Yaddo, MacDowell, Camargo, and Bogliasco. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as Silver Eye, PS1/MoMA, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, The Drawing Center, The Mattress Factory, ADA Gallery, and The Missoula Art Museum.  She is currently on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.

taylor knight & anna thompson are co-founding artistic directors of slowdanger, a multidisciplinary performance organism based out of Pittsburgh, PA. slowdanger uses a systematic approach to movement, integrative technology, found material, electronic instrumentation, vocalization, physiological centering, and ontological examination to produce their performance work, which utilizes ritual practice to delve into circular life patterning including effort, transformation, and death. 

Their work has been presented by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Museum of Art, Usine C, Dance Place, The Warhol Museum, and more. slowdanger was one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” and has been supported by The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NPN Creation Fund, NDP/NEFA, and The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Their upcoming work, SUPERCELL, will premier in fall 2023 at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater.

Join Soy Sos for an intimate, immersive sound experience with modular synths, electronics, and a mix of traditional instruments! Soy Sos collaborates with contemporary sound artists to create live, improvised sound-scapes as we, STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos dancers improvise around the room. Audience members are welcome to move throughout the space. 

Friday, April 28, 8:00pm
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $10 – $25

Join Soy Sos for an intimate, immersive sound experience with modular synths, electronics, and a mix of traditional instruments! Soy Sos collaborates with contemporary sound artists Bri Dominique and Buscrates to create live, improvised sound-scapes as we, STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos dancers improvise around the room. Audience members are welcome to move throughout the space. 

Friday, February 24, 8:00pm
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $10 – $25

Presented by Pentacle, STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos share excerpts from CIRCLES: going in at the 2023 APAP Conference.

Join them in person at:
City Center Studio 4
130 W 56th St (between Sixth and Seventh avenues)
New York, NY, 10019

Saturday, January 14, 5:00-5:30pm

RSVP Required. Space is limited. Email sandyg@pentacle.org to RSVP.

As part of the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Music Composition Seminar, Staycee and Herman Pearl lead an Interdisciplinary Performance Laboratory—bringing together a group of performers/creators (writers, artists, actors, filmmakers, musicians) to explore interdisciplinary collaboration and to develop new work in close partnership with members of the Staycee Pearl Dance Project. This event will be a public showcase of the graduate students’ work.

East Liberty Celebrates MLK Day highlights the life, legacy, and activism of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through a day of family-friendly activities and performances, featuring BOOM Concepts, Women of Visions, Anita Levels, Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation, The Alloy School, and PearlArts.

 This event is free to the public

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