nowlater! Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDprojectNYC announces new digital project/fundraiser

Isaiah Jones and Johnnie Cruise Mercer (still from PM6: thenowlater (SOUL))

 

The brilliant Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDprojectNYC presents PM6 thenowlater: SOUL -- a project Mercer has described as "a dance film, a crafted gospel to ‘black revelations.' Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and marking the 60th Anniversary of Alvin Ailey’s Revelations, the process memoir, film, and journey is guided by one question: What happens when we burn the flesh, and follow the spirit? The film marks the third journey of four within Process memoir 6: thenowlater, and is an active documentation of the company’s becoming, a shedding towards collective freedom."

 

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/504862359

 

Tickets--by sliding scale donation--are on sale from now through February 28. Reserve your ticket at: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../process-memoir-6...

 

PM6:thenowlater (SOUL) coincides with a four-week fundraiser supporting The City Dance Theater of Richmond at Pine Camp Cultural Arts Center. All proceeds from the watch party and fundraiser will go to building virtual programming, hiring instructors, and supplying artistic resources for the Richmond VA’s Black/Brown youth.

 

 

Adrianne Ansley (still from PM6:thenowlater (SOUL))

Choreographic/Company Director: Johnnie Cruise Mercer

Creative Director/Videographer/Lead Editor: Torian Ugworji

Choreographic/Video Artists: Shanice Mason, Adrianne Ansely, Thomas Tyger Moore, Tabitha Kelly

Music Production/Drummer/Choreographic Artist: Isaiah Jones

Tech Design: Michael Combs

Creative Asst./Guest Artists: Tj Jacobs

Guest Dance Artist: Steven Vilsaint, Reggie Mebane

Editors: Lester Nue Nue Matthews, Johnnie Cruise Mercer 

 

Process Memoir 6: thenowlater marks itself as the sixth of ten chapters within, A Process Anthology: The Decade from Hell, and the Decade that Followed Suite.

 

This film was created, in part, through the Artist in Residence Program at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. The work was also developed in part through New Dance Alliance’s Black Artists Space to Create Residency (curated by Angie Pittman) at Modern Accord Depot in Accord, NY.

 

Choreographic/Company Director: @jcruisem

Creative Director/Videographer/Lead Editor: @t

Choreographic/Video Artists: Shanice Mason, Adrianne Ansely, Thomas Tyger Moore, Tabitha Kelly

Music Production/Drummer/Choreographic Artist: Isaiah Jones

Tech Design: Michael Combs

Creative Asst./Guest Artists: Tj Jacobs

Guest Dance Artist: Steven Vilsaint, Reggie Mebane

Editors: Lester Nue Nue Matthews, Johnnie Cruise Mercer

Music by Jekayln Carr, Tye Tribbett & G.A, Kirk Franklin, Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers Featuring an Original Composition by Guest Music Artist Young Denzel

Poster Design: Amanda Barnes

Icon Design: Corbin Gravers, Hannah Lazarte

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