Mount Tremper Arts Presents An Evening Of New Performance Curated By Monstah Black

Mount Tremper Arts presents Percolate: (The Thirst, the Hum, the Trickle, the Bubble), an evening of new performance curated Monstah Black and produced in partnership with Dixon Place. Taking place on Saturday, August 11 at 8pm, the evening includes performances by Baira, The Illustrious Blacks, Courtney J. Cook, and Greg Purnell. Expect the unexpected as three couples percolate the power of duos balanced between artists genres, communing to conjure a night of unapologetic sounds and ferocious kinesthetics. Percolate: (The Thirst, the Hum, the Trickle, the Bubble) is part of Mount Tremper Arts's Watershed Laboratory 2018, which features contemporary performance and artists residencies in the Catskills.

Through teaching, performance, and lifestyle, Baira (Shaina Branfman and Bryan Strimpel) share and probe further into their philosophy: No matter our differences we all move, so we are all the same. Monstah Black produces and designs multi-dimensional artworks for stage and film, using absurdism and surrealism to magnify the idiosyncrasies of humanity. The Illustrious Blacks are Monstah Black and Manchildblack, a recording artist, impresario, tastemaker, DJ, and Creative Director of Hype Life Music and its annual festival celebrating black and brown artists in dance and electronic music. Courtney J. Cook is a company member and BOLD facilitator with the iconic Urban Bush Women. Greg Purnell is a visual and spoken word artist and performer. His collaboration with Cook and Tendayi Kuumba (FLUXX) premiered at Movement Research in 2017.

Performance Details
Percolate: (The Thirst, the Hum, the Trickle, the Bubble) will be performed on Saturday, August 11, at Mount Tremper Arts at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at MountTremperArts.org, by phone at 845-688-9893, or at the box office one hour before events. Mount Tremper Arts is located at 647 South Plank Road, Mount Tremper, NY.

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Nestled in the Catskill Mountains, Mount Tremper Arts (MTA) is an artist-founded laboratory space dedicated to supporting artists in the creation and presentation of new works of contemporary art. Founded in 2008 by visual artist Mathew Pokoik and choreographer Aynsley Vandenbroucke, MTA cultivates generative artistic communities while making experimental contemporary art accessible to its diverse local community. As the New York Times recently wrote: "[MTA] has become a quietly thriving offshoot of the city's contemporary performance world: a magnet for adventurous urban artists and a devoted local audience."

MTA has hosted more than 250 residencies for performing art companies, 135 public events, and supported a broad range of artists working in dance, theater, music, poetry, opera, criticism, the visual arts, and ranging from emerging to internationally renowned. Notable artists have included 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Robert Ashley, Nayland Blake, Anne Carson, Nora Chipaumire, David Lang, Young Jean Lee, Tere O'Connor, Pam Tanowitz, and International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).

The Watershed Lab locates MTA's work as incubator, residency center, and rural presenter upstream of New York City, where its surging energy sustains a creative symbiosis between rural and urban New York. Its primary streams consist of partnerships with a range of presenters, in which MTA serves as the headwaters-the incubator site supporting the creation of new artworks. Just as the Catskills' mountains, streams, and reservoirs send water downstream to the city, MTA's rural setting generates original works-and relationships-that travel downstream to NYC and beyond.

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