Process memoir 6: thenowlater
(charted in four journeys)
Process memoir 6: thenowlater is a facilitated journey/lab/testing ground engaging black embodied philosophy, legacy, and its role toward communal freedom. Divided into four parts (Body, Mind, Soul, Heart) the work is a collaborative ‘movement’ documented at the on set of the covid-19 pandemic, PM6: thenowlater acts as an active shedding ritual for the company, as it launches from the contemporary, leading an exodus from the capture of tradition.
An ensemble speaks;
“We declare war on the continuous spread of fixed American ideologies. We speak, with belief, towards the freedom of our people, their thoughts, their futures. We are the soldiers of Neo-tradition.”
Process memoir 6 is the sixth chapter of ten within A Process Anthology: The Decade from Hell and the Decade that Followed Suite.
(BODY)
June 29th-July 9th 2020
IGTV SERIES Hosted on IG
by Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDprojectNYC’s
Image by Torian Ugworji
Featuring Tabitha Kelly, Thomas Tyger Moore, Shanice Mason, Steven Vilsaint, Adrianne Ansley, and Johnnie Cruise Mercer
PM6 (BODY) was crafted as a mixtape of 11 individual Video works called tracks. Part documentary, part creative media; the material processed during this journey became the root of process memoir 6, and the foundation from which the company would artistically explore media, video choreography, and future media based creative PRACTICES. Neo-tradition, freedom, reFoundation, spirituality, collective reflection and belief are all themes dove into within PM6 (BODY).
Catch the full series on IGTV @jcm_redprojectnyc & @baxarts
Choreographic Director: Johnnie Cruise Mercer
Choreographic/Video Artists: Shanice Mason, Thomas Tyger Moore, Adrianne Ansley, Tabitha Kelly, Steven Vilsaint, Torian Ugworji, Isaiah Jones (Drummer)
Editing: Torian Ugworji, Johnnie Cruise Mercer
Features Guest Appearances by Sanchel Brown, and Young Denzel
(MIND)
Sept 25th 2020
A Process Offering
by 92Y Harkness Dance Center
An offering of process later edited and engaged as a creative artifact, PM6:(MIND) follows the TRPNYC artists as they trip into their psyches before the November 2020 election. Documented and crafted in twelve days, the material poured from the body, calling on actions of allowance, surrender, and embrace.
Choreographic Director: Johnnie Cruise Mercer
Choreographic Artists: Shanice Mason, Adrianne Ansley, Thomas Tyger Moore, Tabitha Kelly
Creative Director/Editor: Torian Ugworji
Music Production/Drummer: Isaiah Jones
Tech Design: Michael Combs
Featuring Calligraphy by Myssi Robinson
Featuring / Music by: The Illustrious Blacks and Young Denzel
This work was created, in part, through the Artist in Residence Program at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Jerome Foundation.
(SOUL)
January 31st 2021
Film and Fundraiser
Produced by TRPNYC
w/sponsorship from Brooklyn Arts Exchange Process memoir 6: thenowlater (SOUL) is a dance film, a crafted gospel on ‘black revelations’. Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and marking the 60th Anniversary of Alvin Ailey’s Revelations, the process memoir, film, and journey is guided by one question: What happens when we (our people) burn the flesh, and follow the spirit? The film marks the third journey of four within Process memoir 6: thenowlater, and is an active documentation of the company’s becoming, a shedding towards collective freedom.
PM6:thenowlater (SOUL) coincided with a four week fundraiser supporting The City Dance Theater of Richmond at Pine Camp Cultural Arts Center. All proceeds from the watch party and fundraiser will go to building virtual programming, hiring instructors, and supplying artistic resources for the Richmond VA’s black/brown youth.
Choreographic/Company Director: Johnnie Cruise Mercer
Creative Director/Videographer/Lead Editor: Torian Ugworji
Choreographic/Video Artists: Shanice Mason, Adrianne Ansely, Thomas Tyger Moore, Tabitha Kelly
Music Production/Drummer/Choreographic Artist: Isaiah Jones
Tech Design: Michael Combs
Creative Asst./Guest Artists: Tj Jacobs
Guest Dance Artist: Steven Vilsaint, Reggie Mebane
Editors: Lester Nue Nue Matthews, Johnnie Cruise Mercer
Music by Jekayln Carr, Tye Tribbett & G.A, Kirk Franklin, Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers Featuring an Original Composition by Guest Music Artist Young Denzel
This film was created, in part, through the Artist in Residence Program at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. The work was also developed in part through New Dance Alliance’s Black Artists Space to Create Residency (curated by Angie Pittman) at Modern Accord Depot in Accord, NY.
(HEART)
June 2021
Process memoir 6: thenowlater (HEART) happens as a four (five) part series of community events scheduled in June 2021. Curated as a communal ritual, a documented moment inspired by deeper sensational listening, the fourth and final journey of PM6 sets course on the ocean of freedom, visibly charting TRPNYC’s physical exodus from tradition while proposing;
What is the distance of love?
BAPTISM
June 12th, 2021
Shared by New Dance Alliance
as apart of 35th Annual Performance Mix Festival
A Baptism on Visibility
Brooklyn, NY @Prospect Park
A CURATED RITUAL BY COMPANY ARTIST AND COMMUNITY COORDINATOR, ADRIANNE ANSLEY WITH MUSIC BY LOLA JOHNSON.
A Baptism in Rain
The Courtyard @122 Community Center in partnership with Movement Research
A PROCESS PERFORMANCE DIRECTED AND DESIGNED BY COMPANY DIRECTOR JOHNNIE CRUISE MERCER
FEATURING ARTISTS MICHAEL GENE JACOBS AND TJ JACOBS
Catch both Baptisms on IGTV @jcm_redprojectnyc and @newdancealliance.
REVIVAL 2021
June 25th
In Collaboration with Brooklyn Arts Exchange and The Old Stone House
Brooklyn, NY
@JJ Bryne Playground at Washington Park
A CHOREOGRAPHICALLY DIRECTED HAPPENING, AND MOVEMENT MEDITATION BY JOHNNIE CRUISE MERCER FEATURING MELANINMOVEMENTNYC, ORIGINAL MUSIC BY YOUNG DENZEL, AND THE PREMIERE OF THE TRPNYC MOVEMENT ENSEMBLE. THE EVENING WILL INCLUDE A COMMUNITY OPEN MIC/DANCE JAM, A HAPPENING (THAT WILL TAKE PLACE TWICE WITHIN THE TIME FRAME), AND CONCLUDE WITH A COLLECTIVE PRAYER/MEDITATION ON THE PAST YEAR, AND BEYOND!
COMMUNION: SOUTHERN STIR
June 26th, 2021
Produced by TRPNYC
Brooklyn, NY
A MIXER, AND SALON CURATED BY THE TRPNYC COMPANY ARTISTS, COMMUNION BRINGS TOGETHER THE WORK AND LIVED PROCESSES OF THE ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY.
Communion: Southern Stir Thinkers/makers- BROOKE RUCKER, TABITHA KELLY, ISAIAH JONES, TORIAN UGWORJI, ITALY WELDON, BENEDICT NGUYEN, AND MIKAILA WARE.
PROPHECY 2021: CLOUD 9!
June 27th
Co-Produced by Ping Chong and Company and TRPNYC
East Village, NYC