Performers for Elements

Women Manifesting Systems of Care will open with Elements, a new interactive performance directed by Alona Weiss, in collaboration with performers: Kris Lee, Rachel Mellis, Mor Mendel, and Saretta Morgan.
Elements will present a celestial online conference with a group of 5 performers who will perform a ritual, embodying the spirits of worldly elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether. Each spirit will log-in from her respective sphere of strength to share an offering for the collective ritual, summoning the spirits of divine futures to inspire us to care, move, change, heal, and listen.

Be sure to RSVP here for your free spot!

Kris Lee is a Philadelphia based Performer and DJ, she received her BFA in Dance at The University of the Arts. Recently she has been on tour with Nora Chipaumire and her trilogy (#Punk,100% Pop,*N!GGA)

Flutist Rachel Mellis is a Los Angeles-based performer and recording artist. She specializes in Classical, Contemporary, and Film/TV/Video Game music, in addition to regularly performing and recording on flutes from around the world.

Mor Mendel is a Brooklyn based performance artist, choreographer, and educator. She is invested in somatic and dance as therapy and a healing tool and leads a practice of movement exploration and therapy to diverse populations. She believes and follows the wisdom and knowledge of the moving and breathing body. 

As a writer and artist, Saretta Morgan’s current work uses text, etching, sculpture, and video to engage relationships between ecology, Black diaspora, and migration in the United States Southwest. She is based between Phoenix and Mohave Valley, Arizona where she teaches creative writing at Arizona State University and is an active member of the grassroots humanitarian aid organization, No More Deaths Phoenix, which supports the safe passage of migrants in the U.S. Mexico borderlands. 

Saretta is author of the chapbooks, Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), and room for a counter interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2017). She has received support from the Jerome Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, Virginia Piper Foundation, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. Recent work can be found at Triple CanopyThe Colorado Review, and Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day

Alona Weiss is a Brooklyn based visual artist who works with video, performance, text, graphic design, and installation. Through her practice, she explores the transient nature of belief systems and the interpretation of public monuments. 

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