FORGE 2023 | Unmasked Seaweed King | Kevin A. Ormsby

FORGE 2023
On November 2-5 2023, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at convened its first annual Future of Rights and Governance (FORGE) Conference. This global gathering of scholars, practitioners, artists, scientists, lawyers, policy makers, among others, differed from panel-based conventional conferences by creating spaces to actively share ideas and develop experiments for change that could transform the fields of global rights and justice. forge-program....
Unmasked Seaweed King
Choreographer: Chris Walker
Artist: Kevin A. Ormsby
Depicts a sort of phoenix rising from the refuse / ashes; addressing human impact on the environment told through a character of ancient wisdom linking Afro-Caribbean mas performance traditions. Seaweed King was developed in collaboration with Laura Anderson Barbata for “What Lives Beneath,” a public performance intervention for The Kula Ring, A Gifting Economy (2016), a transdisciplinary expedition project merging scientific, environmental, and artistic research around ocean conservation and climate change. Unmasked is a solo performance work for the concert stage featuring "seaweed king."
Kevin A Ormsby
Kevin A Ormsby is a Dancer, Choreographer and Artistic Director of KasheDance.
Chris Walker is the Director of the Division of the Arts at University of Wisconsin Madison, Professor in the Dance Department and founding artistic director the the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Program at UW-Madison.
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