Movement Lab Performance and Talk: Apollo by Pioneer Winter Collective
Pioneer Winter Collective presents — Movement Lab Performance and Talk: Apollo
Friday, March 21st | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Apollo is a dance-theater work exploring intergenerational queer dynamics, memory, HIV/AIDS, and legacy. The work comes from a deep desire to explore the complexity of community, mentorship, and the ever-evolving landscape of the queer experience. A biomythography, Apollo delves into the intersection of cultural memory, myth, and storytelling.
Pioneer Winter Collective will be using their time in the Movement Lab at Barnard College to experiment with the integration of live sound and live feed camera (operated by the performers) with pre-recorded video and photography from the archives of the performers. Time will be dedicated to exploring how the video, sound, and live performance elements support one another.
Pioneer Winter Collective’s Apollo is made possible by a 2022 Creative Capital Award. Apollo is a 2024 National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Miami Light Project in partnership with Carolina Theatre of Durham and NPN.
Doors open and the event begins at 6:00 PM
To visit, please RSVP and contact us via email at movement@barnard.edu at least 24 hours before the event. We will coordinate your entry through the main entrance (3009 Broadway). Visitors with Barnard/Columbia IDs can walk in.
Capacity in the lab is capped at 40 audience members. Attendees who have RSVP'd before the event will have priority, and admission will be determined on a first come first serve basis on arrival. If you RSVP before the event but arrive late, we reserve the right to give your spot to someone on the waitlist.
Attendees who have not RSVP'd will be put on a standby waitlist if they arrive in person before the event.
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Pioneer Winter
Pioneer Winter (he/they, b. 1987) is a Miami-based choreographer and artistic director of Pioneer Winter Collective, an intergenerational and physically integrated dance-theater company, rooted in social practice and community, queer visibility and beauty beyond the mainstream. Recognized in Dance Magazine's 25 to Watch, Pioneer Winter's work democratizes performance in public spaces, museums and galleries, stage, and film.
A major objective continues to be expanding the definition of all that dance is and can be so that all bodies survive, thrive, and are witnessed in spite of constant erasure based upon race, body type, age, and ability - this goes for both the artists as well as the audience. Pioneer has been commissioned by Miami Theater Center, Karen Peterson and Dancers, Tigertail Productions, Jacksonville Dance Theatre, FundArte, and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, where Pioneer was the Center's first Artist-in-Resident collaboration in a decade (2019-21).
Pioneer has been a guest artist at universities, including Miami Dade College, Nova Southeastern University, Broward College, and Florida State College. Most recently, Pioneer's work has received support from NEFA's National Dance Project Award, MAP Fund, the Knight Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and Creative Capital.
An extension of his creative practice, Pioneer has curated and directed ScreenDance Miami Festival since 2017, presented by Miami Light Project; Pioneer’s own films screen internationally.
Pioneer serves as Assistant Teaching Professor in the Honors College and College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts at Florida International University. Pioneer is affiliated faculty at the Center for Humanities in an Urban Environment (CHUE) and an inaugural Fellow in the Miami Studies Program.
Pioneer Winter Collective
Established in 2016, Pioneer Winter Collective (PWC) is a physically integrated and intergenerational dance theater company that creates performances in public spaces, museums and galleries, stages, schools, and film. The work PWC creates seeks to expand the definition of all that dance is and can be, so all bodies survive, thrive, and are witnessed. Pioneer Winter Collective creates work that is queer, experimental, and fluid, embodying the complexities of identity and community in an ever-changing world. Performances are living, breathing works - embracing risk as a vital, dynamic force to push boundaries - in both movement and thought. PWC is driven by the need to challenge convention, constantly reimagining dance and performance as spaces of innovation and transformation.
We believe that every body dances, and every body has capacity for virtuosity.
Photo credit: Mitchell Zachs (2017)