Desirable Wait

Residency Work-in-Progress

by

Dance Artist, Marielis Garcia 

July 15 - 26, 2024*

*Gallery closed to the public during these two weeks

Informal Showing (invite only) Friday, July 26th | 3PM

More About Desirable Wait Residency 

This two-week residency at GPS will be used as a work session. It is the first residency of about 6 (from various organizations) that will help me develop, and work toward the completion of an evening-length, dance-based, interdisciplinary work rooted in ecofeminism, entitled Desirable Wait. The work seeks to show the linkages in the way we treat the earth and the way we treat women. At its core, Desirable Wait asks: How can we honor the earth’s power and wisdom and explore the sensual potential of patience? 

More About Marielis Garcia 

Marielis Garcia is a Dominican American dance artist who has performed and toured with Brian Brooks, Helen Simoneau, Peter Kyle Dance, iKapa, and Stefanie Batten Bland, among others. She received her MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from City College of New York. Her professional affiliations include being artistic advisor for Judson Memorial Church Arts, writer for the Gibney Journal, curatorial work with STUFFED Arts and associate special programs curator for the Museum of Modern Art in the Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done exhibition. Marielis’ work has been presented both nationally and internationally. She has taught dance, choreographic practices and interdisciplinary digital practices at Rutgers University, North Carolina School of the Arts, Appalachian State University, and Guttman College among others. She was recently named Ballet Hispánico’s, Instituto Coreográfico Resident and was an Alvin Ailey New Directions Choreography Lab Grant recipient. Marielis was the Dance Artist in Residence within The School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland and is now Assistant Professor of Dance at University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Marielis will be joined with other dance artists: Kayla Farrish and Clarice Young