DELIRIOUS Dances

DELIRIOUS Dances Choreographer Edisa Weeks formed DELIRIOUS Dances to empower people through the immediacy of dance. W

Described by the New York Times as having, “a gift for simple but striking visual effects,” Edisa Weeks' work has been performed in a variety of venues including swimming pools, storefront windows, senior centers, sidewalks and living rooms, as well as at chashama theater, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Emory University, Inside/Out at Jacob's Pillow, Works & Process at the Guggenheim Mu

seum, Harlem Stage, The Kennedy Center, The Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, The Mermaid Parade, The National Black Arts Festival, and Summerstages Dance Festival. Most recently DELIRIOUS performed in living rooms in Berlin, Germany, as part of Haus der Kulturen der Welts 50th anniversary celebration.

🧵💃🏽🕺🏽Puppet Fringe Festival 2026!!!August 12-16, 2026The Clemente Center107 Suffolk St. NYC5 days full of exhibitions, w...
08/13/2026

🧵💃🏽🕺🏽

Puppet Fringe Festival 2026!!!
August 12-16, 2026
The Clemente Center
107 Suffolk St. NYC

5 days full of exhibitions, workshops, panels, film screenings, and over 100 performances by groups from around the world.

Theodora Skipitares’ amazing puppets are exhibited on four floors. It is wonderful to see how the puppets evolved over four+ decades. Go EXPERIENCE!!!

The exhibition includes the Benjamin Banneker puppet heads. It was an amazing experience choreographing for the heads ♥️ and working with dancers at the Benjamin Banneker high school😃🧡



🧵💃🏽🕺🏽The Banneker puppet heads by Theodora Skipitares are exhibited at the 2026 Puppet Fringe Festival.August 12-16, 202...
08/13/2026

🧵💃🏽🕺🏽

The Banneker puppet heads by Theodora Skipitares are exhibited at the 2026 Puppet Fringe Festival.

August 12-16, 2026
The Clemente Center in NYC

GO Experience the exhibition, and 5 days of puppet workshops and performances from around the world.

Rehearsal video & photos. It was my first time working with large puppet heads and they are magical.

Many thanks to Theodora for the invitation to choreograph, Francie Johnson the Dance Director at Benjamin Banneker High school, and Rehearsal Assistant Jasmine Oton, and Lafrae Sci for the music 🖤




Lunch with Fabi, Teneil, Dani, & Mari. It is a joy to meet and laugh with these dynamic women and share thoughts about d...
07/20/2026

Lunch with Fabi, Teneil, Dani, & Mari.

It is a joy to meet and laugh with these dynamic women and share thoughts about dance education, working with children on the spectrum, plans for the future, marketing, k-pop demon hunters, and much more!

Proud of each of you and how you are navigating life, love, and the dance field

♥️🎬Deeply grateful to the Staten Island Urban Center for exhibiting the WASTELANDIA portraits!!!The portraits feature ac...
06/27/2026

♥️🎬

Deeply grateful to the Staten Island Urban Center for exhibiting the WASTELANDIA portraits!!!

The portraits feature activists on Staten Island who are making a difference in their communities, as well as words of wisdom from each of them:
Debbie-Ann Paige
Dorcas Meyers Roc-A-Natural Cultural Foundation, Inc.
Heather Butts Heather M. Butts
Jasi Robinson Jasi Robinson
Kelly Vilar Kelly Vilar
Lori Love Medina Lori L💖ve
Petula Gay

I’m also deeply grateful to Maya Gilbert Maya Gilbert who connected and introduced the women to the WASTELANDIA project; to Lai-Lin Robinson Lai-Lin Robinson for Creatively Producing the project; and to You-Shin Chen You-Shin Chen who created the portraits as white lines on black canvases. The murals were then colored in with chalk by people who attended the WASTELANDIA performances and installation at Newhouse Center at Snug Harbor at Snug Harbor in September and October 2025. Dreaming big takes a team!

JOIN US for the exhibition closing on JULY 1, 2026 at 6pm
Staten Island Urban Center
206 Bay Street
Staten Island, NY 10301
RSVP: [email protected]

FYI > If traveling from Manhattan, SIUC is a short ten minute walk from the St. George Ferry Terminal.

Refreshments courtesy of 5boroughcleanup > Thanks Lori Love!!!

🌟🎉Happy Born Day to Maya Gilbert aka Maya Gilbert. You are a woman who carries wisdom in your voice, fire in your heart,...
06/27/2026

🌟🎉

Happy Born Day to Maya Gilbert aka Maya Gilbert.

You are a woman who carries wisdom in your voice, fire in your heart, and community in your hands!

To know Maya is to be inspired! You can wish her Happy Birthday in person at the upcoming comedy themed open mic

THAT’S RIGHT OPEN MIC
July 10th, 2026 from 7pm-10pm
Staten Island Urban Center
206 Bay St.
Staten Island, NY 10301
Tickets: $10 in advance, $15 at the door

*

Thank you Lori L💖ve for commissioning the portrait

GALA TIME!!!Excited for the Movement Research Gala honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born/Sweat Variant, and Eleanor Sa...
05/17/2026

GALA TIME!!!

Excited for the Movement Research Gala honoring Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born/Sweat Variant, and Eleanor Savage!

Tuesday, May 19 2026

6pm | Dinner
8pm | Performance & Party

Location: Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South New York, NY

https://movementresearch.org/events/1426/

☄️Celebrating the birth of Darryl HellI LOVE YOU and I’m so grateful that our lives are intertwined. I drew this picture...
05/11/2026

☄️

Celebrating the birth of Darryl Hell

I LOVE YOU and I’m so grateful that our lives are intertwined. I drew this picture soon after Darryl and I first met. I didn’t date the picture, so I’m guessing it was 2004. Based on the scribbled information on the color palette selection page, I probably drew it on a Sunday morning while we were listening to an interview with Dr. Joy De Gruy Leary on LIKE IT IS by Gil Noble.

To know Darryl is to be inspired by his many outlets of creativity:

🌑 The recently released 12 episode documentary series ECHOES OF THE SOUNDS OF NEW YORK which he created and edited. Available exclusively on Vimeo on demand

🌑 Scratching for the industrial, punk, hard rock collective new album APOCALYSE PENDING

🌑 A monthly article > “MECHANIZED RESISTANCE from the mind of Darryl Hell” < for noisewire.org

🌑 PUBLIC DISTURBSNCE his punk band from the 1980’s being re-released on yellow vinyl by

🌑 His transformational work as steward of the Hancock community garden park and teaching and mentoring high school students at Bronx Academy of letters.

If you can give a birthday gift to Darryl > read the articles, watch the series, purchase a record, and/or give Darryl a birthday hug when you see him!

🖤🔥

LOAMA Subterranean RequiemTaking cues from biological processes found in soil as a foundation, LOAM by explores our cha...
04/24/2026

LOAM
A Subterranean Requiem

Taking cues from biological processes found in soil as a foundation, LOAM by explores our changing planet through a lens of collective grief. By experiencing movement as a series of slowly unfolding, minuscule moments, LOAM invites us to look closer, breathe deeper, and to challenge unrelenting velocity as a way of life.

Wed. April 29, 2026
6:30pm Doors Open + Free Food
7:30pm LOAM
Admission: Free

Judson Memorial Church
Meeting Room
55 Washington Square South
New York, NY, 10012

CAST
Choreographer/Performer: Cara Hagan
Terrestrial Priestess: Edisa Weeks
Terrestrial Sound Consultants: Allison Teegarden, Jasper Engelhardt, Giovanna Dalla Vacchia D’Assuncao, Sebastian Pray, Rodrigo Pocidonio, Vanda Focanti

Curated by Arien Wilkerson

https://www.judson.org/calendar/notes-towards-4-29-26



OFF THE RECORD isan interventionan invitation a humorous, delightful, and insightful journeya call to action GO Experien...
04/12/2026

OFF THE RECORD is
an intervention
an invitation
a humorous, delightful, and insightful journey
a call to action
GO Experience!!!!

I’m in awe of how writes and creates a world that is deeply funny, painfully real, and immediately gets me involved in the questions and problem solving.

at now through Sunday April 19 > 146 6th Ave, NYC > a block below Spring St.

OFF THE RECORD: Acts of Restorative Justice
by James Scruggs in collaboration with Thomas Giovanni is an invitation to walk an energizing path from despair to agency. When the American Criminal Justice System holds all the cards, one woman decides to question the game itself. Along the way, she enlists the audience in helping her fight against the forces of capital. The stakes are the soul of the nation itself – what choice do we have but to walk by her side?

https://here.org/shows/off-the-record-acts-of-restorative-justice/

04/03/2026

WOOD SPOONS FOR FREEDOM!!!! ❤

Thank You for capturing this moment at the NO KINGS protest in New York City!

Wood Spoons for Freedom emerges from a desire to have an action, a dance, that can be done at protests. The dance is in the spirit of Toyi Toyi protest dances in South Africa during Apartheid and the Baila Capucha Baila dances against sexism, r**e culture, and other forms of violence inflicted on women in Chile. The movement is rooted in Maculelé a warrior dance from Brazil.

The dance is about solidarity, resilience, tapping into JOY, and resistance to oppression. All you need is two wooden spoons.

Wood Spoons for Freedom is the brainchild of Edisa Weeks and is organized by artists in Circle Up, a group facilitated by Yanira Castro, including Ariel Lembeck, Martha Sherman, Kimiko Tanabe, and Rishauna Zumberg.

Thank you to everyone who joined in ❤

YES to Democracy, and governance by the people for the people
YES to all citizens voting
YES to holding politicians and big corporations accountable
YES to taxing the rich a 5% tax on wealth over $50 million, increasing to 10% for wealth over $250 million.
YES to defending and upholding the USA Constitution and Amendment rights

NO to KINGS and BULLIES
NO to WAR
NO to Corporate Greed and the wealthy crushing workers



Address

Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY
11205, 11206, 11216, 11221, 11233, 11238

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when DELIRIOUS Dances posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The School

Send a message to DELIRIOUS Dances:

Shortcuts

Share