Grant Recipient Details

Location

Holyoke, MA

Artist Website
https://www.jenniferonopa.org
Project Title
Re/emergence
Fiscal Year Awarded
2021
Grant or Program
New Work New England
Grant Amount
$12,000

Re/emergence is a multidisciplinary, immersive performance installation developed by an artistic collective of designers, dramaturgs, and theater directors. Inspired by ancient myths of creation, we examine social transformations of the present moment to ascertain our roles as architects of a new, more equitable future. Our work captures our impressions of the layered and complex metamorphoses of the present, from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic to this summer’s racial justice uprising, and draws parallels to growth and change occurring in the natural world.

Work Samples

On a stage, four women in purple, pink, and green flower costumes perform.
photo by Jon Crispin
From a red curtain, a man in drag is spotlight. Before the curtain, a crowd of men and women in pink dresses hold their arms up.
photo by Jon Crispin