2021-23 Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love performs in (Rhy)pistemology! (Or, to Know Through the Rhythm). Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
2021-23 Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love performs in (Rhy)pistemology! (Or, to Know Through the Rhythm). Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
Dancer Jeffrey Clark Jr. performs in (Rhy)pistemology! Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
Dancer Jeffrey Clark Jr. performs in (Rhy)pistemology! Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
A performance of (Rhy)pistemology! (Or, to Know Through the Rhythm), the third installment of 2021-23 Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love's The Auralvisual Mixtape Collection, takes place in the Hearst Theater. Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
A performance of (Rhy)pistemology! (Or, to Know Through the Rhythm), the third installment of 2021-23 Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love's The Auralvisual Mixtape Collection, takes place in the Hearst Theater. Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
A performance of (Rhy)pistemology! (Or, to Know Through the Rhythm), the third installment of 2021-23 Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love's The Auralvisual Mixtape Collection takes place in the Hearst Theater. Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
Composer, Performer, and Visiting Lecturer in the Princeton Atelier DeForrest Brown Jr. performs (Rhy)pistemology! Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
2021-23 Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love. Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
Dancer Benae Beamon performs (Rhy)pistemology! Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
2021-23 Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love. Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
Michael J. Love, Benae Beamon, Jeffrey Clark Jr., Kaleena Miller, Adriana J. Ray, DeForrest Brown Jr. and Ariel “Aryel” René Jackson acknowledge the crowd after (Rhy)pistemology! (Or, to Know Through the Rhythm), the third installment of Love’s The Auralvisual Mixtape Collection, in the Hearst Theater. Photo by Shakiru Bola Okoya
On Feb. 3, the Hearst Dance Theater provided the stage for a showing of a new work-in-progress by 2021-23 Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love. In (Rhy)pistemology! (Or, to Know Through the Rhythm), the third installment in his The Auralvisual Mixtape Collection, the tap dance artist and an ensemble of collaborators mapped the foundational Black histories of techno and house music onto improvisation and choreography that envisions an ‘elsewhere’ of liberatory possibilities. Love and dancers Benae Beamon, Jeffrey Clark, Jr., Kaleena Miller, and Adriana J. Ray worked through an original electronic music soundscape by rhythmanalyst DeForrest Brown, Jr. and traversed a multimedia installation by anti-disciplinary artist Ariel “Aryel” René Jackson.
Love continues his collaboration with Jackson and Brown in co-teaching the spring 2023 Princeton Atelier course, Tap Dance Experiments in Video and Sound/Rhythm: SOIL, SAND, BONE. The course will develop a new multi-channel video and live performance installation—to feature video by Jackson, live performance by the students (choreographed and directed by Love), and an electronic music-based composition by Brown.
