Jourdan Ash, SKY LAB, Storytelling from a Visual Eye
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OPEN CALL: Solo & Duo Edition
Hi-ARTS is now accepting applications for 2026-27 CRITICAL BREAKS and SKY LAB Artist Residencies. This cycle, we are on the lookout for Solo & Duo projects seeking their next big break.
Placing an emphasis on process and creative exploration, we take pride in providing our artists with financial support, time and space, and public programming opportunities. We do this through two developmental residencies: CRITICAL BREAKS and SKY LAB.
CRITICAL BREAKS is a residency program for artists who are in a pivotal phase of developing new work, while SKY LAB supports artists who center community at the root of creative development, research, and process.
Hi-ARTS and Tribe present ARTIST LAB | In Practice, a movement workshop with award-winning choreographer Shamel Pitts.
Through a 6 Step Program of Artistic Practice | Creation Process, Pitts will explore the following questions:
How do these 6 steps inform the rehearsal & artistic process?
How might what is learned as an artist inform you as an administrator?
How might your Artistic Practice/Artistic Life inform your administration working style/flow within an arts organization?
Attendees should bring pen & paper, and arrive in comfortable clothing, ready to dance as he guides them into movement.
Pitts will also demonstrate how these 6 steps show up inside of the rehearsal process of Touch of RED with dance partner Channce Williams.
Hi-ARTS and TRIBE are pleased to invite you to the film screening of the dance documentary Touch of RED: RECOLLECTION.
Touch of RED: RECOLLECTION is an ethereal dance documentary following MacArthur fellow Shamel Pitts, as he embarks on a storied journey of discovery through multiple art residencies with members of his Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE. The documentary directed by Taylor Antisdel weaves together the threads of memory and experience as we witness Shamel creating his live work, Touch of RED.
Join us for the first screening of this documentary in the heart of our hometown, Brooklyn.
Complete your experience by joining our workshop with Shamel Pitts at Hi-ARTS. More details here.
Free with RSVP
Join us for a monthly dance practice rooted in Zora Neale Hurston’s sacred tools of ritual movement, folktales, and work songs.
Each month, close to the full moon, we will gather to explore the methodology at the heart of The Zora Project. We will activate the earth’s latent energy, make the mundane sacred, and practice what Zora taught us: to be both human and cosmic at the same time.
Led by SPAIR artist-in-residence Tanya Birl-Torres, we will lean into theater, somatic practices, and ritual dance to weave a story of all of us together.
