PUT AWAY THE FIRE, DEAR + KAYLA FARRISH: DANCE WORKSHOP

Put Away the Fire, dear + Kayla Farrish: Dance Workshop

Friday, March 7
10:00AM - 12:00PM

$10-20

Get tickets to see the March 6-8 performances of Put Away the Fire, dear!

Alongside performances of Put Away the Fire, dear at Chelsea Factory, Resident Artist Kayla Farrish leads a workshop on Conjuring Memory, Reclamation, and Community - How We Rewrite Our Narratives

Class led by Kayla Farrish
Live Music by Alex MacKinnon

This class is a chance to come together. I’m excited for us to be together, to be with the music, our hearts, our rage, our feeling… In this session, we will play through improvisation, writing and text, arc/narrative, and relationships to one another. Dreaming of awakening archives, reroutes, fantasy, listen to memory, and defiantly play. What moves you?

The class will include movement, improvisation, writing, contact work based in consent, storytelling, and some sequences.

Put Away the Fire, dear was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation; commissioned and created in part with the support of The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Creative Residencies Program made possible by lead funding from the Mellon Foundation; supported in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergency Grant; residency support provided by NYU Tisch Department of Dance (2024); supported by Ellis Beauregard Foundation Choreographer Award (2023), supported in part by The Watermill Center and the Nina Von Maltzahn Fellowship (2023); supported in part by Works & Process Showing at the Guggenheim Museum and LaunchPAD Residency at Bethany Arts Center (2024); Donation support by John Robinson (2024); supported in part by La Mama Experimental Theater- La Mama Moves Festival and Mertz-Gilmore Late Stage Grant (2023), Triskelion Theater (2022); and ODC Theater and American Dance Festival where it premiered in 2024. Harkness Foundation for Dance Grant (2025) and Chelsea Factory Artist Residency (2025).

About Kayla Farrish:
Kayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score. Her commissions include Limon Dance Company, Gibney, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Danspace, Little Island, Harlem Stage, BlackLight Summit and beyond. She creates live works, films, site-specific/immersive, and music collaborations. She recently shared Choir (Carrie Mae Weems Exhibition), To Dream A Lifetime (BlackLight), Roster with Melanie Charles, MIXTAPES with Alex MacKinnon and site-specific Broken Record (Little Island) with Brandon Coleman, and Martyr’s Fiction film in edit. Presenting spaces include Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, Symphony Space, and National Sawdust, among receiving support from Works & Process, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, Baryshnikov Arts Center, La Mama Experimental Theater, and others.

She received the Sundance Uprise Grant for Emerging BIPOC Directors, Bessie Awards for December 8th and NYLA’s Motherboard Suite, New York Times’ Top 2021 Dance Performances “Roster” and “Breakout Star.” She is a recipient of the Harkness Promise Award for 2022. During 2023, she created new works for Arizona State University, LINES Dance Training Program, and the University of Arizona. She has been commissioned to create a reimagined archival work for Limon Dance Company, and collaborated with musician Trixie Whitley. In her company project, Put Away the Fire, dear, they tour a narrative group work supported by New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) National Dance Project (NDP) Touring Dance Production Grant. She is also the 2023 recipient of The Watermill Center’s Baroness Nina Von Maltzahn Fellowship and the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Choreographer Award.

Health and Safety Protocols
Chelsea Factory will be implementing the following procedures to help ensure the health and safety of our patrons, staff, and artists:

• Masks are optional.

• While Chelsea Factory strongly recommends vaccination against COVID-19, proof of vaccination is not currently required for audience entrance to performances and public programs.

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