BIM INCUBATOR ARCHITECHNOPOETIC PERFORMANCES
“WHEN BIRDS REFUSED TO FLY”
SATURDAY 4/13 | ARCHITECTURE LAB | 6PM
Titled “When Birds Refused to Fly” this dance piece primarily explores the feel of everyday life in Burkina Faso under military coups and army control from 1966-1970, following independence from colonial France in 1960. The performance at the Architecture Lab and specific set design of wood bricks draws a parallel between the bodily experience of the civilian in that military regime and the charred cityscape indexing the outpouring of pain in black neighborhoods across the US following the assassination of Martin Luther King. In this pairing the collaboration points to a wider mapping of a black diaspora, as well as a potential future of human and machine collaboration that emerges from the Black experience and cultural practices.
Concept, Direction and choreography: Olivier Tarpaga, Lecturer in Music, Lewis Center for the Arts
Architectural concept and set design: Mitch McEwen, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
Performance by: Salamata Kobre, Jean Robert Koudogbo, Michael Nana, Aziz Zoundi, Aicha Kabore, with Princeton students
Co-production: School of Architecture and Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Center for Choreography Development (CDC la Termitiere) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
KYP MALONE (TV ON THE RADIO)
SATURDAY 4/13 | ARCHITECTURE LAB | SUNSET
Kyp Malone is a multi-instrumentalist and member of the bands TV on the Radio, Iran, Rain Machine, and Ice Balloons
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