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mayfield brooks

mayfield brooks improvises while black, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York on Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape people. brooks is a movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer. They are currently a Rosin Residence at Movement Research, and the editor-in-chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal. brooks teaches and performs practices that arise from their life/art/movement work, Improvising While Black (IWB), and was the 2021 recent recipient of the biennial Merce Cunningham Award in dance granted by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.