Two women explore the creation of intimacy through embodying sex positions in a Church. Join the unfolding of space through practicing viewpoints multiplicity in Lilach Orenstein's latest work in progress, She Will Come on Her Own - Entering the Virtual. Embrace in the unique experience of switching perspectives between various performance captions and curate your own virtual showing.
The project explores a new way to Queer a Space. Queering of Space is the process in which the facilitator creates the conditions in which the participants are able to liberate themselves from the restrictions and expectations culture and society impose on us. It resists the Choreography of Capitalism, the concept of maximizing production by orchestrating physical movements, individuals’ positionings and narrowing one's mind to a singular perspective.
About The Showing
The showing starts with an introduction of The Center at West Park and the performance's main concepts. The audience is then given links, each to a unique viewpoint caption of the show, taken by one of our collaborators. You are encouraged to swap between the different links, exploring different perspectives of the performance. The event concludes with an open Q&A. The event is open to all and free with registration.
About The Artists
Lilach Orenstein is a Choreographer, Performer and Producer best known for combining diverse types of arts from multiple disciplines into poetical synergies. She is an Israeli immigrant with Yemeni-Polish-Romanian roots based in New York City. Lilach earned her B.Dance from The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, majoring in choreography, in 2017 and her M.F.A in Dance from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, in 2019. Among her awards are The Presidential Scholarship (U.S.), Outstanding Dancer from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Excellence Award by The Jerusalem Foundation. Lilach's creations "Dancing from Others", "Reject – Receive > React!", "Territorium", "White on White", "Cēnsēre" and "Onions" were premiered in Israel's main stages and abroad. Recently, she assisted in choreographing the “The Mother of Us All” opera which presented at the Metropolitan Museum featuring vocal artists from The Julliard School and the NY Philarmonic marking 200 years for women’s suffrage. She was recently invited to residencies in L1dancefest2019 – Budapest, EMERGENYC 2020 – NYC, The Center at West Park – NYC, IMPULSTANZ’s ATLAS program – Vienna, Derida Dance Center – Sofia and Machol Shalem Dance House - Jerusalem. www.lilach.art
Jhelan Gordon-Salaam is a native of a small town located just outside of Philadelphia. As a graduate of The University of the Arts Dance program, under the evolving curriculum of Donna Faye Burchfield, she is a twenty-two year old artist seeking to find world peace through her artistic expression. She is striving for independence as an artist with research that speaks to self investigation as a means of relating and looking outward. Since graduating, Jhelan has received not only her Bachelors of Fine Arts, but also a certification in Franklin Method to teach The Art of the Plié. Jhelan is also interested and has been participating in collaborative performance projects such as Camping in Paris and Lyon, France (2017, 2018) and The Browder Project in Philadelphia (2018). With her primary focus in dance, she has recently started exploring other mediums of expression alongside those that pre-exist. She is always in the process of becoming her most versatile self.
Evan Anderson is a lighting designer and musician. Originally from Bainbridge Island, WA, he currently resides in New Haven, CT. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and the University of Washington and a company member of CabinFever. He is the recipient of the 2020 Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship. www.evancanderson.com