Mercy of Trees
A living embodied epic · 2014–ongoing
Photograph: audience, Jefferson Market Library & Garden, New York City, 2014.
Mercy of Trees is a living embodied epic told through harp, voice, song and step dance — a Romani story of moving with time, carried forward rather than reconstructed. It began as a site performance in Jefferson Market Garden, Greenwich Village, in 2014 and is now in development as a podcast, a video series and an app.
Photographs
Credits
- Performance: Mercy of Trees — September 27, 2014
- Venue: Jefferson Market Library & Garden, Greenwich Village, New York City
- Dancers: Kamaria Dailey, Keelie Sheridan & Russell Patrick Brown
- Choreography & Direction: Luis Villabon & Russell Patrick Brown
- Composer & Harper: Russell Patrick Brown
- Lighting and photographs: audience
- Videographer: James Eden
Follow the work
The first season is in development. Field notes and previews go out through Gypsy Fires.
See Also
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Gypsy Fires
My research and publishing hub — essays, podcast and books on Romani cultural history and the histories carried in the body, from a Bashaldo Gypsy perspective.
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