Brave New Works Lab 2024 - OZ Arts Nashville

Brave New Works Lab

FEATURING

Asia Pyron / PYDANCE
Dan Hoy & Sarah Saturday with Garage Collective
Cameron L. Mitchell & Idris Goodwin
Arelys Hernandez with Sandy Perez

May 16-18 at 8PM

Tickets from $20

Celebrate local innovation and creativity with a bold evening of entirely original short-form performances featuring dance, theater, music, and multimedia. The third annual Brave New Works Lab invites daring Nashville artists to transform OZ Arts into a laboratory for the creation and premiere of new works and works-in-progress. Encouraging multimedia experimentation and collaboration across disciplines, the lab creates a safe space for high-risk artistic adventures.

2024 ARTIST LINE-UP

Asia Pyron / PYDANCE

Performed by Madison Tate Brott, Lenin Fernandez, Emma Morrison, Gracyn Preston, Amanda Reichert, and Chris Strauss

With explosive energy and jolting precision, seven of the city’s most intensely physical performers channel the post-punk fury and passion of a young generation at a boiling point in choreographer Asia Pyron’s high-velocity work set to the epic music of cult rock band Chat Pile.

Dan Hoy & Sarah Saturday with Garage Collective | The Galaxy Cut

Performed with Kristen Carrara, McKay House, Emma Morrison, and Amanda Reichert

Cinematic projections evoke an otherworldly setting for this intoxicating blend of original music, movement, and spoken word. Experience a deconstructed and reimagined film script spliced together before our very eyes, with a sublimely cool soundtrack by Sarah Saturday (Gardening, Not Architecture), mesmerizing voiceover from poet Dan Hoy, and dynamic movement by the captivating dancers of Garage Collective.

Cameron L. Mitchell & Idris Goodwin | Regicide

Performed by Myah Jackson, Milton Jackson, Paj Jackson, Cameron L. Mitchell, and Jalin Roberts
Directed by Jon Royal

A live band sets the stage for this highly theatrical work from poet and lyricist Cameron L. Mitchell and national award-winning playwright Idris Goodwin (Def Poetry Jam). Five performers mix rhythm, rap, and rapid-fire raconteuring to explore legendary, infamous, and influential leaders from throughout history who were lost to violence while at the helm.

Arelys Hernandez with Sandy Perez | Gorrión

With projected images invoking her homeland of Cuba, choreographer Arelys Hernandez partners with collaborator Sandy Perez to confront the meanings of home, origin, tradition and community through highly kinetic movement drawing on their contemporary experiences and traditional influences.

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Artist Applications for the next iteration of the Brave New Works Lab will open in Fall 2024

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Through the Brave New Works Lab and other local programs, OZ Arts strives to create meaningful opportunities for artists from Middle Tennessee to imagine, develop, and premiere new performance works. We hope artists can focus on the creative process and collaboration, without being overly burdened by the normal trappings of self-production, such as marketing, administration, detailed technical matters and venue management.

Questions about the Brave New Works Lab? Contact Daniel Jones, OZ Arts Manager of Artistic Programming, at daniel@ozartsnashville.org.

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