RECESS

RECESS is a monthly performance series where both works-in-progress and established pieces can be shared in an intimate setting. Innovation. Experimentation. Deep dives. Creative reviews. It’s all welcome here! RECESS is a safe space for exploration and forging new artistic connections. We offer a public program, performance series, network, platform, and ongoing opportunity to engage performers, patrons, artists, and audience members in a night of performance and creative dialogue. RECESS continues to promote and celebrate the work of diverse artists, in solidarity, throughout 2025 and onward.

 
 

RAYMOND PINTO

VALENCE

Valence is a choreographic system that explores how dancing bodies negotiate and transform patterns of coordination, shaping rhythmic relationships through shifting proximities, reciprocal exchanges, and interlinked responses. Movement unfolds as a dynamic conversation, where spatial and temporal frameworks expand, shift, and are continuously reimagined. No form remains static—weight is redistributed, spirals unravel, and a logic of choice yields with each interaction.

The choreography embraces the fluidity of time, balancing structured patterns with the spontaneous emergence of movement. Through multimodal communication, the performers will engage in a dialogue where physicality, gesture, sound and rhythm function as language, a proxy for meaning that exists beyond words set to backdrop of time codes. As rules and exceptions blur, grids bend, openings emerge, and points fold into each other; movement becomes a conduit for connection, shaping an evolving syntax of embodied expression.

 

Chez Bushwick branch of JBAF
304 Boerum Street #23
Brooklyn, NY 11206
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RECESS Membership brings together entrepreneurs, creative­ thinkers, philanthropists, young patrons, curators, and artists.

RECESS Annual Membership offers access to:
Exhibitions and Openings
Local Receptions
Studio Visits
Prestige Dinners
Access to VIP Seating at Public Programs

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