Solace of RED is a performance art residency incubator initiated in 2020 by TRIBE’s Artistic Director Shamel Pitts. Solace of RED intertwines different art languages to create one live performance experience.
Solace of RED is a project of cultivating space to create a platform for TRIBE artist’s singular works. This performance art incubator provides space for each artist’s voice to be expressed while finding solace in sharing the weight of the creative practice alongside one another.
TRIBE aims to extend this work with a multitude of different artists ranging various mediums and locations. From this, the work will re-birth itself throughout TRIBE’s lifetime, as new artists cycle through the kaleidoscopic creative process, led by Pitts, to find solitude, creativity, and solidarity.
Solace of Red – LIVE at The Pocantico Center
The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Tarrytown, NY
September 12, 2024, 7 p.m.
A live event featuring excerpts of TRIBE Artists’ works in progress as part of the performance art incubator Solace of RED, initiated and curated by Shamel Pitts.
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Choreography by Tushrik Fredericks
with performers Minylan Echols, Babou Sanneh, and Tushrik Fredericks
SORE (excerpt)
Concept Direction by Ashley Pierre-Louis
Choreography by Ashley Pierre-Louis in collaboration with Dominica Greene
Sound Collage by Tushrik Fredericks
Performers Dominica Greene and Ashley Pierre-Louis
+ Post-Show Q&A with Shamel Pitts
Award-winning movement artist, choreographer, creator, curator of Solace of RED performance art incubator, and artistic director of TRIBE.
This LIVE event is a part of the Solace of RED – Vol. IV Residency made possible in part with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Solace of Red – Vol. IV
The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Tarrytown, NY
July 26–August 6, 2023
This Residency was made possible in part with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
ARTISTIC TEAM
Concept and Artistic Direction: Shamel Pitts
Choreographer & Performer: Tushrik Fredericks
Choreographer & Performer: Ashley Pierre-Louis
Choreographer & Performer: Marcella Lewis
Artistic Production Manager & Artist in Residency: Rus Snelling
Video Art Installation: Lucca Del Carlo
Collaborating Artist: Taylor Antisdel
Collaborating Artist & Performer: Dominica Greene
Collaborating Artist & Performer: Dave X
Collaborating Artist & Performer: Babou Sanneh
Collaborating Artist & Performer: Minylan Echols
Collaborating Artist & Performer: Eduardo Jiménez Cabrera
Collaborating Artist & Performer: Marirosa Crawford
Collaborating Artist & Performer: Imani Gaudin
Collaborating Artist & Performer: Chip Alexandria
Collaborating Artist & Performer: Amaria Stern
Solace of Red – Vol. III
Baryshnikov Arts Center – Brooklyn, NY
March 2023 & October 2023
A nonconsecutive three week residency awarded through the Princess Grace Foundation-USA Works in Progress residency program.
ARTISTIC TEAM
Concept and Artistic Direction: Shamel Pitts
Direction and Choreography & Performer: Ashley Pierre-Louis in collaboration with Dominica Greene
Performer: Dominica Greene
Choreographer & Performer: Ashley Pierre-Louis
Choreographer & Performer: Tushrik Fredericks
Video Art Installation: Lucca Del Carlo
SORE
“In October 2022, I began developing a solo work entitled SORAYA, exploring the in-between of ‘the beginning of [my] sense of self and the chaos of [my] strongest feelings,’ culminating in a found unassailable power, rooted in the erotic.
This next stage of development has guided me toward collaborating with artist Dominica Greene in creating an evening length work entitled SORE, which will include two, ten minute female solos, and a 20 minute female duet. With SORE, I’m interested in how the conjuring of black feminine erotic power, pleasure, and love physicalizes itself inside of two distinctly individual female bodies. What happens when we each commit to the return of our own authentic self in order to create echo chambers of transformation that invites folks to take up space and feel empowered to discover the pleasures that exist in their bodies? How can they then access these pleasures as a source of unassailable power as they live their daily lives?”
– Ashley Pierre-Louis
ISLAND
– Lucca Del Carlo
Solace of Red – Vol. II
JACK – Brooklyn, NY
September 30 – October 1, 2022
ARTISTIC TEAM
Concept and Artistic Direction & Choreographer: Shamel Pitts
Performer: Ke’Ron Wilson
Choreographer & Performer: Ashley Pierre-Louis
Choreographer: Marcella Lewis
Performers: Marirosa Crawford, Imani Gaudin-County, Kashia Kancey, Chelen Middlebrook
Choreographer: Tushrik Fredericks
Soundscape Artist: TT Britt
Video Art Installation: Lucca Del Carlo
Photographer & Videographer: Itai Zwecker
Marcella Lewis
Spectacle of Ritual
Quartet Rendition
Performance by Chelen Middlebrook, Marirosa Crawford, Imani Gaudin-County, Kashia Kancey
For 2 weeks, 5 multidisciplinary artists a part of the Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE developed 5 individual works, each exploring within the languages of dance, poetry, spoken word, transmedia & visual art, music, and movement in an art residency at JACK in Brooklyn, NY, culminating in two work-in-progress sharings.
Solace of RED – Vol. II shared with audiences at JACK, the development from this unique collaborative residency between artists: Shamel Pitts (Choreographer), Tushrik Fredericks (Choreographer & Performer), Ashley Pierre-Louis (Choreographer & Performer), Marcella Lewis (Choreographer), and Lucca Del Carlo (Transmedia Artist).
[ Friday ] September 30, 2022
Invited Sharing – 8 p.m.
HAIIIRS
Video Art Installation by Lucca Del Carlo
Soraya
Choreography and Performance by Ashley Pierre-Louis
Spectacle of Ritual
Choreography by Marcella Lewis
Performance by Marirosa Crawford, Imani Gaudin-County, Kashia Kancey, Chelen Middlebrook
[ Saturday ] October 1, 2022
7:30 p.m. – [ SOLD OUT ]
HAIIIRS
Video Art Installation by Lucca Del Carlo
Reddy
Choreography by Shamel Pitts
Performance by Ke’Ron Wilson
(territory) of the heart
Choreography and Performance by Tushrik Fredericks
Soundscape Artist TT
*strobe lighting will be used during this sharing*
Solace of Red – Vol. I
Movement Without Borders – Manhattan, NY
Judson Memorial Church
October 2, 2021
Artistic Team
Concept and Artistic Direction, Choreographer, Performer: Shamel Pitts
Poem: Claudia Rankine
Performer: Ashley Pierre-Louis
Choreographer & Performer: Tushrik Fredericks
Performer: Nouhoum Koita
The creation and development of Solace of RED is made possible in part by Movement Without Borders, The Racial Imaginary Institute, JACK, and The Princess Grace Foundation-USA, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council.
Solace of RED has also been developed in part during a residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY and awarded through the Princess Grace Foundation-USA Works in Progress residency program.
Additional TRIBE commissioning, development and core operating support is provided by the Mellon Foundation; Arison Arts Foundation; the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; The Howard Gilman Foundation; Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund, made possible by the Howard Gilman Foundation and Ford Foundation; 92Y Harkness Dance Center; National Performance Network (NPN) Creation, Development & Artist Engagement Fund Project. The Creation, Development & Artist Engagement Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency); New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
