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Walking piece 2016

Market Thrum

Performance documentation
South Bronx, The Bronx, NY, USA

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Market Thrum by Okwui Okpokwasili was a walk in the South Bronx exploring the creation of an “embodied collective.” Participants engaged in multi-sensory exchange and dynamic movement at the Gold Coast Trading Company. No dance experience required.

Market Thrum by Okwui Okpokwasili was a walk that explored the making of an “embodied collective” in the charged landscape of the South Bronx. Facilitating a multi-sensory exchange with each other and the space, participants slowly walked through the Gold Coast Trading Company (an African market) and worked toward an expansive group practice of dynamic movement. No previous dance experience was required. This walk held 12 people.

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As published on Elastic City’s website.

APA style reference

Okpokwasili, O. (2016). Market Thrum. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/market-thrum/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

skirr

To hurry about in search of something, to take a short walk, to hike. “Send out horses, skir the country round.” (Shakespeare, Macbeth.)from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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