cat mahari
31st&Brklyn Cat Mahari creates work with personal and collective transformational possibilities. She is the founder and director of 31st&Brklyn, a platform for performance art and community engagement. In 2017 Ms. Mahari received a Charlotte Street Foundation Generative Performance Artist Fellow, won Jit Vs House, House 1 v1 in Detroit, MI; and premiered the solo mixtape series Violent/Break: Vol II, a semi-autobiographic video projection mapping performance that explores ontology of violence, fractures and transcendence. She is a 2x SEARCH grant awardee, 2008 Fulbright/Gilman Scholar, for her performance-as-research series on inter-connectivity between Merce Cunningham and breaking, presented at University of Missouri at Kansas City`s Conservatory of Music and Dance, as part of the SEARCH Symposium (2007, 2009). The series explored street dance, chance procedure, film and movement technologies. She received a KCArts Inspiration Award for the interdisciplinary work The Projects (2010) which drew on the heterogeneity of c
kansas city, missouri
I am a beautiful human being experiencing, understanding, and learning in so many ways. I've founded 31st&Brklyn, a contemporary performance art and community venue, with a focus on artist of color in KCMO. I'm going to China, I'm going to the kalari workshop, and I'm going to dance. ...I'm going to Sound Signature party Saturday.
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