Practicing Silence, a year-long interdisciplinary workshop exploring the many meanings of silence, will bring together an interdisciplinary team of artists and scholars at Grace Farms, located at 365 Lukes Wood Road in New Canaan, from June 13 to 17. For the past several months, participants have engaged a rigorous, creative process fueled by experiential and contemplative research, including a visit to The Cooper Union’s anechoic chamber.
On June 17 at 3 p.m. the creative team will present a free public showing in the Foundation’s glass-enclosed amphitheater, called the Sanctuary. This performative new work embodies the group’s conceptual explorations of silence: as present absence, as inner stillness, and as the negated voices of the oppressed. Practicing Silence also responds to poet Ilya Kaminsky’s timely Deaf Republic, a narrative-in-verse, and lectures by scholar Peter Bouteneff of the Arvo Pärt Project at St. Vladimir’s Seminary. In the coming months, the Foundation will continue its exploration of silence through a diverse range of artist-led participatory projects.
The Practicing Silence workshop features contributions by choreographer Silas Farley and dancers Rachel Hutsell, Ghaleb Kayali, Claire Kretzschmar, and Lars Nelson of New York City Ballet; and dancer Cassia Wilson of Ballet Austin; composer and sound designer Pornchanok Kanchanabanca; poet Ilya Kaminsky; drummer and pianist Julius Rodriguez; and The Ase Quartet under the direction of cellist and bassist Noah Jackson.
Please visit gracefarms.org/calendar for more information and to register for the event.
About the Practicing Series: The signature program of the Foundation’s Arts Initiative Practicing is led by Kenyon Victor Adams, Arts Initiative Director and a performance artist, director, and poet. Practicing brings together artists with a range of perspectives to examine universal subjects such as empathy, awe, joy, and now silence.
Dancers from Gallim Dance in the reprisal of Practicing Awe during Grace Farms Foundation’s 2016 benefit. — Contributed photo by Dean Kaufman. A free public showing of Practicing Silence takes place this coming Wednesday, June 17.
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