STATE OF BECOMING – performing co//ective

” It is with pleasure we present ‘state of becoming’ as the culmination of eight weeks of collective creating, exploring, and community building. We began with the fundamental belief that art making and art sharing is transformational to the givers and the receivers, the makers and the takers, the performers and the audience.

As you experience the ‘state of becoming’ take a pause and recognize that we are not giving you a story in linear form. There are moments that beg you to deeply feel it all, or in opposition, release and take a breath of fresh air. There are interactions that give away something that we don’t actually have, that seek to know emptiness. This emptiness sometimes is heavy like baggage, like wood, like earth, or sand, or clay. We simply surrender to it. Other times the state of becoming is a witness to our brokenness and seeks to mend our broken pieces. We ask, can we be willing to open ourselves and see it as beauty, even if it is not pretty? If we can, perhaps we may feel light, unbearably light. It is hard to remember how light. We might even realize later, we forgot what we put ourselves through in order to become who we are. Shall we let it out? Shall we keep it in?  “

 MARY A CHASE , DIRECTOR

• Paintings at Reception – created by Yulia Vergina
• Stumble between two stars – created by Mohammad Othman
• Wanderstroll – created by Gabriella Francesca
• Sensing/Walking – created by Mary Chase
• Baggage – created by Stephanie Tadros
• Onlooker – created by Rashika Ojha
• The Hardest Lesson – created by Jomel Reyes
• Blood Sand – created by Carlos Páez González
• To Be Broken – created by Carmen Panarello
• Force of Existence – created by Asareh Ebrahimpour
• Sensing/Leaving – created by Mary Chase
• Retethered – created by Rawad Raidan
• Sensing/Falling – created by Mary Chase
• Song – created by Carlos Páez González and Stephanie Tadros