“Offertory” will grow out of (and feed) the development of “Liturgy|Order|Bridge,”
Scapegoat Garden's in-process collaborative performance project that invokes the intimacies of care practices, the contrasting spectacle (and absurdities) of religious ritual, and the communal embodiment of black church traditions. In “Offertory” we will employ movement, song, text, object making to ask: What might it mean to engage dance practice as faith practice, performance as communal ceremony, performance space as consecrated site, and audience as a fellowship of shared witness, place, and legacy? How might we nurture shared, though distinct, responsibilities for the dynamism and consequence of the encounter between performance and audience? What is the potential of an organized body of practitioners devoted to facilitating the threshold between performance and the rest of life?
