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Choreographer Edisa Weeks formed DELIRIOUS Dances to empower people through the immediacy of dance. Weeks creates mixed media work in intimate environments that merge theater with dance, to deliriously explore our deepest desires, darkest fears and sweetest dreams. DELIRIOUS seeks to erase the barriers between art and life, between performance space and audience space, and between mediums. We are interested in finding ways for the audience to interact with and influence the experience of a work. We believe that art re-vitalizes the everyday to reveal something new about ourselves, and the revelation is an energy, a spark that has the power to change the world.“A lot of imagination and a gift for simple but striking visual effects” – The New York Timeswww.deliriousdances.com3 RITES and the ROOTS PARTIES are made possible in part through residencies at BRIC Arts Lab, Choreoquest at Restoration ART/Billie Holiday Theater, Gibney DIP; Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Mabou Mines SUITE Space, Maggie Allesee Center for Choreography, Materials for the Arts, Mount Tremper Arts, Norte Maar @ Socrates Sculpture Park, Snug Harbor Cultural Center; as well as grants from Black Arts Future Fund, Brooklyn Arts Council, Creative Capital, the Harkness Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, New Music USA, The National Center for Choreography at The University of Akron, New York State Council on the Arts, New York State Dance Force; as well as through the sponsorship of The Field; and the generosity of individuals. 3 RITES is a National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network (NPN/VAN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by 651 ARTS in partnership with RestorationART, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, and NPN/VAN.
