Event: Edible Tales Immersive Dance
Installation Performance
What: Storytelling Food Culture + Food
Sustainability + Social Justice
Location: Good Life Garden, 50 Goodwin
Place, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City
Date: Sunday, October 23rd, 2022
Performance Time: 5:00pm - 7:30pm
Presenter: Dancers Unlimited 501 (c)(3)
Refreshments by Chef Lioness: Small bites
Contest: Salsa-making with $250 prize
sponsored by VERSD
Cost: Free admission/Donations-based
Attendance: RSVP Recommended
Website: https://www.dunyc-hi.com/edible-tales
Stay Connected: 24/7 Access to Videos, Classes, Workshops: DUTV APP
PRESS RELEASE
Dancers Unlimited Launches a Multimedia
Dance Installation at Good Life Garden, Entitled Edible Tales
Let’s explore cultural heritage, social justice
and food sustainability through food-related narratives
In partnership with Guest Chef Lioness to host a salsa-making contest sponsored by VERSD
New York, NY, October 6th, 2022 – Dancers Unlimited (DU), is honored to
launch Edible Tales’ immersive dance installation in partnership with Good
Life Garden in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York. The event is on Sunday,
October 23rd, from 5:00 PM -7:30 PM EST. RSVP is recommended.
Admission to the event is free and in support of all monetary donations at
your discretion to make this event possible. Additionally, a special guest,
Chef Lioness will be hosting a salsa-making contest, sponsored by VERSD
and one winner will receive $250.00.
"Edible Tales is inspired by our community, and guided by our individual
and collective experiences. It's an ode to our shared humanity and an
opportunity to build a better future for the future generations," says Linda
Kuo, Co-Artistic Director of Dancers Unlimited.
Edible Tales is the culmination of over 2 years of community conversations
on Cultural Heritage, Social justice, and Food sustainability that continue to
impact lives through a series of repertoires curated by the DU
choreographers.
Cultural heritage is an identity. The repertoire story tells all walks of life
from the perspective of BIPOC communities, immigrants and children of
immigrants, and refugees, spotlighting life obstacles and the journey of
healing through the transformation of cultural traditions alongside family
practices and the dire need for cultural preservation of your heritage.
The social justice repertoire continues to evolve, as DU continues to
narrate the collective documentaries of human stories and life experiences,
emphasizing the reflection of today’s reality of inclusion, focusing on
opportunities and resources available and the accessibility to all equally.
The food sustainability repertoire features the circle of life as we
acknowledge how the motherland has given us an abundance of food, to
nourish our minds, body, and soul. We, therefore, have to give back to her
by nourishing her with an abundance of our care and love, by eliminating
toxins and pollutants, planting seeds, and nurturing the motherland back to
health.
Join the community. To learn more about DU’s program and services,
including the developmental stages of Edible Tales, please subscribe to
DU TV App, a free 24/7 digital platform that hosts food-related content,
including the latest live performance repertories, documentary videos,
dance classes, and workshops are available to subscribers.
DU’s choreographers have been practicing community-centered creative
processes that turn their food-related stories into impactful and authentic
moveMEANT narratives and a documentary anthology.
Choreographers of the Dancers Unlimited community come from all walks
of life and join together with their common search for healing and
nourishment. As a collective, we continue to evolve as our relationship with
food continues to change in every generation as we reconcile cultural
identity with larger societal limitations and challenges. However,
food-related topics, specifically a type of cuisine, a food group, or a list of
spices, continue to be a reminder of home, traditions, and the endless
journey into healing as we narrate our emotions and experiences through
dance.
Thank you to our funders and collaborators:
● Brooklyn Arts Council
● Dance NYC Dance Advancement Fund
● Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist Residency
● Womenʻs Sports Foundation & Athleta Wellbeing For All Grant
● Brooklyn Grange
● Good Life Garden
● VERSD
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Founder of Dancers Unlimited, Linda Kuo: Dancers Unlimited founder,
Linda Kuo, is an established choreographer born in Taiwan and raised in
Hawaii. Being an immigrant raised in Hawaii has allowed her to be
surrounded by cultural diversity and performing arts including dancing the
Hula. Linda believes that dance is the backbone of cultural identities and
resilience.
Dancers Unlimited: Dancers Unlimited is a bi-coastal 501(c)(3)company
based in NYC and Hawaiʻi. The company creates authentic moveMEANT
narratives for community advancement through community-centered
creative collaboration and social justice work. Established in 2009 as a free
youth dance program, the company has presented work in prestigious
festivals and showings in Hawai’i, NYC and Asia. More information on
Dancers Unlimited is available on www.DUNYC-HI.com.
Chef Lioness: In May of 2019, a fellow creative took a chance and leapt
with her into a food service venture that allowed her to have her first brick
and mortar – Dancing Tastebuds – making her the first
Dominican-American female chef to cook in a deli in the Lower East Side
of Manhattan. Nine months in, the New York Post published an article
recognizing her as the “Deli Influencer" Good Life Garden: The mission is to improve New York City's quality of life through environmental programs that transform communities block by block and empower all New Yorkers to secure a clean and healthy environment for future generations.
VERSD: A company based in New York with the purpose to facilitate
knowledge and culture sharing within and across communities. We work to
empower creators and organizations to share their knowledge with ease
via classes, meetups or events; while making a sustainable income from
their craft