Adrienne Westwood & Angélica Negrón: [ ]
March 21 - March 23, 2025
Preview
ODC Theater
Friday, March 21, 2025 at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 7:30pm
Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 5:00pm
What does belonging mean in a family line? [ ] is a corporeal-sonic exploration into the untold histories of our femme ancestors co-created by choreographer Adrienne Westwood and composer Angélica Negrón, along with an interdisciplinary group of performers and creatives.
[ ] is a dual experience of intimate performance and participatory installation. The work is anchored by an interactive musical sculpture from which “memories”– a collection of simple yet evocative objects – are suspended. [ ] calls in and holds experiences of private and personal memories of family lore, real/imagined histories, and femme ancestor's visible/invisible labor, ultimately asking “What is long ago but still right now?”
Arrive early to explore the musical sculpture that is central to the work. Audiences may experiment with triggering the soundscape themselves by touching its mobile structure. Then, gather at Mission Bowling Club for drinks, snacks, and bowling prior to the performance. Free to the public.
Adrienne Westwood’s multi-layered work incorporates objects into embodied explorations of memory, bringing traces of other times and places into the present. Her work has been called “a finely crafted progression” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and noted for its “precision, attention to detail and unspecific but tangible sense of the barely remembered” (Culturebot). Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón writes music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys, and electronics. Her music has been described as “wistfully idiosyncratic and contemplative” (WQXR/Q2) while The New York Times noted her “capacity to surprise.”
The development of [ ] has been supported, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), NYSCA Support for Artists, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, and by residencies at BRIC Lab, Lincoln Center, MOtiVE Brooklyn, Harvestworks, SLIPPAGE Lab at Northwestern University, Barnard Movement Lab, and the LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island.
Arts Access Tickets
ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.
Accessibility at ODC
ODC is ADA Accessible. Additional wheelchair seating is provided for select shows. Getting to second floor studios in the ODC Dance Commons and ODC Theater involves riding an elevator or climbing one flight of stairs. The majority of the ODC Annex is carpeted. ODC Theater and ODC Annex restrooms are All-Gender, and in the ODC Dance Commons, All-Gender restrooms are located on the second floor. For all ODC/Dance and ODC Theater presented performances, ASL is provided for shows with performed text for at least one performance during the show run.
Land Acknowledgement
ODC is on the ancestral lands of the Ramaytush People in Yelamu. We pay respects to elders past and present, who are still here and part of our community. We recognize that regenerative land management is not new, but is a continuation of practices from Native cultures and from our own ancestors. It is our responsibility to steward the land with care, as our elders did before us.