Julien Creuzet, Algorithm ocean true blood moves
Choreography by Ana Pi

Presented by Brown Arts Institute
Produced by Performa
Co-commissioned by Performa and Hartwig Art Foundation

Mounted in the Main Hall of Brown’s new Lindemann Performing Arts Center, Algorithm ocean true blood moves features vocalist Malou Beauvoir, bélé drummer Boris Percus, and the Martinican dancehall genre Shatta composed by musician Natoxie. Movement is choreographed by Ana Pi and performed by dancers from The Ailey School, who navigate a multiplicity of the African diaspora's gestures and landscapes that Creuzet and Pi have gathered from the internet and social media. During Algorithm ocean true blood moves the dancers engage with long pole sculptures that are knotted and fringed with the fibrous vocabulary of Creuzet’s sculptural practice. Following the performance the poles will be installed at The Bell as part of Creuzet’s exhibition Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon (2024) for the remainder of the exhibition, a material afterlife rich with the potential kinetic energy that informs so much of Creuzet’s static objects.

Location: Main Hall