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Founded and directed by Deborah Goffe, the movement company Scapegoat Garden presents Liturgy|Order|Bridge, a participatory dance ritual that calls upon Black church traditions and secular performance modalities within a visual and aural landscape that pushes and pulls ideas of faith, nature, fashion, and experimentation. 

Presented by SPACE in collaboration with Mechanics’ Hall, with support from Indigo Arts Alliance and the New England Foundation for the Arts. Our June performances of Creative Capital Awardee Deborah Goffe’s Liturgy|Order|Bridge will feature the “Threshold Chorus” and a group of “Wisdom Keepers” made up of Portland area community members, artists, and culture bearers.

The dance and movement company Scapegoat Garden, founded and directed by Deborah Goffe, presents the latest iteration of Liturgy|Order|Bridge, a participatory dance ritual that fuses sacred traditions and secular performance modalities to make porous the border between “audience” and “performance.” Calling on Black church traditions, a group of performers along with a chorus of local artists and change-makers, brings guests into a collective score of movement, clapping, and vocalization.

Local performers for this iteration with the Scapegoat Garden company members will be announced here soon. If you are a regional performer interested in involvement or a community member of color interested in being an audience participant for a free open dress rehearsal on Juneteenth (6/19), please email hello@space538.org. This Portland presentation follows a workshop performance at Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford and a winter iteration at Wesleyan University, and anticipates a November 2024 presentation at Bowdoin College.

PLEASE NOTE: There is no late seating for this performance. Runtime is approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

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