Dates and Times
November 20th 2024 at 6:00pm
December 11th 2024 at 6:00pm
January 8th 2024 at 6:00pm

As a note, each workshop is split into two parts. The first part is the open house dance class that will start promptly at 6:00pm, afterward there will be a short break then the femme tactics for surviving fascism conversation will start at 7:30pm.

Participants are free to stay for both parts or for just one part.

WORKSHOP SERIES:
femme tactics for surviving facism

femme tactics for surviving facism is a workshop & conversation series convened at JACK, in partnership with movement artist Alicia Raquel. In it, we will practice--in word and in body--three main principles: turning toward, aiming through, and engaging femme tactics in relation to the current global rise in fascist ideology. We will invite you to breathe, move together, process information while using somatic tools for settling the body, dream boldly, and crowdsource tactics--toward long term vision and short term survival--from our many lineages. While femme tactics workshops are designed to stand alone, themes for each workshop will connect to dance concepts explored in open house dance (a freedom practice). 

open house dance (a freedom practice) is an all level house dance class beginning at the (afroindigenous, queer-as-in-free) root--vibration, rhythm, breath, connection to the ground, emotion, ancestor veneration, and collective play. All levels and physical abilities are welcome--there will be challenge and space to play for "beginner" and "advanced" dancers alike. While open house dance (a freedom practice), is meant to stand alone, themes from each class will connect to themes in the femme tactics for surviving fascism, held later in the evening. 

About the artist

Alicia Raquel Morales is a genderqueer Boricua dancer & artist, from Oakland & South Berkeley, CA & Maricao, PR, now living in Brooklyn– Lenape land. Their work has been described as sexy, nerdy & spiritual. Alicia grew up dancing outside, building altars & steeped in stories that straddled “real” & unseen worlds. She is a child of street dance. Alicia is a former Dancing Futures & Skylab resident artist, CulturePush fellow & BAAD! Muse. They have danced with Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TRPNYC, Arthur Aviles, consulted with Roots & River Productions (2017), and Sharon Bridgforth’s bull-jean/we wake (2023). Alicia brings a cultural organizing lens to educational spaces, including as co-director of NYU”s mainstage production, Poverty Archive: Box 1 (2023) and a decade plus of work as an arts educator.