Riverside Art Center
Oct 10, 2025
6 - 9 pm
“to care for ______, &” invites you to an evening of care-focused durational performances. Through repetition and touch, each performance offers the chance to notice what shifts, to discover an alternative.
In repeating and returning, we learn what holds, what transforms, and what grows - in ourselves, our bodies, our communities. As Hiʻilei Hobart writes, “care constitutes a feeling with, rather than a feeling for, others.” In sustaining these interventions, we create an experience of time with the audience, to be shared rather than simply handed off.
Care returns, again and again, to one person, to a group - to a community. These performances are mediations of time transformed into acts of care.
Maps: CG Pierce
Maps is a work of social performance in response to the ongoing crisis of abstraction which plagues our political, social and intellectual lives, resulting in paralysis, dissociation and alienation. By pinpointing participants' physical locations, the performers hope to ground themselves and their collaborators in the present to examine the material conditions that support- or disrupt- communities. Maps asks literal questions and seeks actionable answers. Where are you? Why are you here? Who is around you? Do you know how to keep them safe?
Claudia Grace is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ypsilanti, MI. They are performing alongside Alexis Boyd, Em Roll, and Graham Grubb, all of whom are creative powerhouses in their own right.
Maintenance, 10.10.25: Sky Christoph and Chelsea Koga
For three hours, I looked only at you.
Sky Christoph is an artist and designer based in Detroit, MI.
Chelsea Ayumi Koga is a multidisciplinary artist from southeast Michigan. Her practice ranges from stone lithography to long-form durational performance. "The work is in the living." Tehching Hsieh, New York Times, 2020.
Shadow on the Lake: Kara Roseborough
This durational performance examines the racialized expectations placed on Black ballet dancers through a series of embodied rituals. Over the course of three hours, Roseborough dyes a pair of pink pointe shoes to match her skin tone while the dueling sound scores of Swan Lake and James Baldwin’s Buckley Debate are in the background. Here, the body becomes both site and battleground, where adaptation, erasure, and endurance collide. The tools for beauty, the pointe shoes, go through their own violence and metamorphosis.
Kara Roseborough is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in dance, creative writing, and theatre. She holds an MFA in Dance and a Certificate in World Performance Studies from the University of Michigan as well as a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Utah. Currently a Lecturer at the University of Michigan, Kara also works as a freelance dancer and choreographer. She has performed with Charleston City Ballet, The Ruth Page Civic Ballet of Chicago, South Chicago Dance Theatre, and Pittsburgh Public Theatre. Her choreography has been presented nationally and internationally, including by the Dutch National Ballet. Kara is a longtime artistic associate and content creator of Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre and is the former Artistic Director of Evanston Dance Ensemble 2.
October Community Engagement Forum: DEACTIV8 Consulting Team
"A survey form that hints at care to a bigger purpose is symbolically sacrificed, inviting one instead to a tangible ritual of the form makers and the form fillers. The boundary is the brass vessel, held by hands, that channels the soundscape of the surface, changed by hands, that is searched by the receiver, pressed up by hands. This communal interaction captures the experience of lived change rather than forcing a suggestion into the static shapes of abandoned words. With immense gratitude for your engagement, D-ACTive-8 Consultants"
We are D-ACTive-8 Consultants. We approach every problem through a lens of dynamic problem solving. This allows us to facilitate conversations leading to the solution of any problem, no matter how dynamic it is, and no matter how many conversations need to be facilitated before there is a solution that is dynamic enough for your organization to solve the problem.
I built this for you: Gray Snyder
Supple warmth. Quantified touch. Given and received. I built this for you. A performance about the marks we impart and accumulate during our encounters with one another.
Gray Snyder is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, based in Chicago, IL. They hold a BFA in Art & Design from the University of Michigan. Their work explores themes of intergenerational memory, relationality, and the uses of objects and rituals in healing practices. Snyder works primarily with installation, sculpture, fiber, and video. They are currently interested in using entropic materials as an apt metaphor for otherwise absent
bodies.
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