Take Some Leave Some
A collaborative & durational installation using movement and performance to reflect on lessons learned and passed down to Black/Melanin Women.
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We are currently seeking monetary donations that will assist in project material, travel, meals, grant applications, and artist compensation.
Take Some Leave Some collective creates a video installation for the Pullman Laboring Together series hosted by Voices of The City at the Pullman Clocktower Monument.
3Arts Fundraiser Campaign Video
“Wade. Wait. Weight.”
In-progress showing of Take Some Leave Some as a part of Links Hall’s Set Free Program in collaboration with Project Tool.
Atlanta Residency, March 2021.
“Waiting” - Residency in Atlanta, March 2021.
Childhood Altar.
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Funds will go towards travel, materials, meals and artist compensation.
Take Some Leave Some Collaborators
Keyierra Collins: Co-Creator, Performer, Choreographer, Costume Designer
Brianna Alexis Heath: Co-Creator, Performer, Writer, Vocalist, Installation, and Curator
Jovan Landry: Performer, Filmmaker, Photographer, Sound Artist, Media Archivist, and Curator
Brittany Bradley: Project Intern
The Procession: Performance for the Pullman Laboring Together Event, hosted by Voices of the City.
Take Some Leave Some will create a space that acknowledges the Black women in our lives—their labor, courage, and wisdom even in their imperfections. From 2020-2023, collaborators Keyierra Collins, Brianna Alexis Heath, and Jovan Landry will research the relationship between movement and collective healing through performance, sound, visuals, and costume.
Atlanta Residency (Excerpts), March 2021.
“I am creating a collaborative, durational installation set inside a house on the South Side of Chicago that uses movement and performance to reflect on lessons learned and passed down to Black women. For one week in 2023, we will create a live-in residency and performance space during which we will be living in the house, “taking care of home,” and creating a multi-media performance that will run for three nights at the end of the week.
Together we will use the experience to explore who we are, who we desire to be, and our place in the world. As an artist and resident of the South Side of Chicago, I value art that exists for the people—art that recognizes the community as a part of the artistic process and invites them into the process.”
Accomplishments
2020 - 3Arts Crowdfunding Campaign (125% Funded, $6,235 raised of $5,000 goal).
2022 - Voices of the City’s “Pullman: Laboring Together” Grant Awardee ($3000 for 3 commissioned installation performances in May, September, and December 2022).
About The Artists
Keyierra Collins is a dancer, teaching artist, and choreographer based in Chicago. She earned a BA in Dance from Columbia College Chicago. As a dance artist, Collins has collaborated with a number of choreographers, including Onye Ozuzu, Paige Cunningham, Margi Cole, Emily Stein, Anna Martine Whitehead, Dorothee Munyaneza, and Sonita Surratt. As a choreographer, Collins has created work that explores how dance and movement can be used to heal trauma, particularly the collective and individual trauma experienced by people of the African diaspora. Having toured and worked with artists in Haiti and Nigeria, Collins wants to continue to travel and collaborate with artists around the world.
Brianna Alexis Heath (she/her) is a dancer, writer, and curator currently living in Atlanta, GA. Bri is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago (BA) where she studied with Onye Ozuzu, Dr. Raquel Monroe, Dr. Peter Carpenter, Darrell Jones, Dr. Nicole Spigner, and Dr. Erin McCarthy among others. She is a recipient of the 2017 Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award or Outstanding BA Thesis in Cultural Studies for her undergraduate thesis: “Bodies as Living, Twirling, Sacrifices: Performing Black Girlhood, Liturgical Dance, and the Black Church Tradition and the inaugural 2021 Pitts Theology Library Student Research Award for her essay "Frenzied H(e)avens: African American Post Exilic Realities in J'Sun Howard's aMoratorium. Bri currently serves as co-director of D’atè Culture Foundation—an arts and culture organization based in Kaduna, Nigeria that uplifts young, emerging artists of African descent.
Jovan Landry is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist whose mission is to tell the authentic narratives of herself, the world, and others through filmmaking, photography, and hip-hop. Her goal is to reflect a positive influence and accurate representation of her community and other cultures that she contributes to through her art. Jovan disrupts the conventional concept of what it means to be a woman in this industry, not afraid to get her hands dirty, channeling her femininity and masculinity, and serving articulate lyrics as an energetic force on stage.
A Love Offering.