{"id":2012813,"date":"2025-09-10T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2012813"},"modified":"2025-09-10T23:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:44:20","slug":"bmac-dance-performance-explores-the-politics-of-water-access-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bmac-dance-performance-explores-the-politics-of-water-access-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"BMAC dance performance explores the politics of water access | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BRATTLEBORO \u2014 The Brattleboro Museum &amp; Art Center (BMAC) presents a multimedia dance performance, \u201cThe Water Runs Through It: Tools for Water,\u201d on Friday, Sept. 12, at 7:30 p.m. Presented in connection with the exhibition \u201cMaking Space,\u201d the performance will be followed by a discussion and Q&amp;A. Admission is free; registration is recommended, but walk-ins are welcome. Register at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/brattleboromuseum.org\">brattleboromuseum.org<\/a> or call 802-257-0124 x101.<\/p>\n<p>The performance brings together visual artists Michelle Samour and Sue Rees with activists and dancers Souleymane Badolo and Abdoul Aziz Derm\u00e9. It is based on an installation by Samour that covers one large wall of the museum, as part of \u201cMaking Space.\u201d The installation features dozens of handmade divining rods \u2014 Y-shaped tree branches traditionally used to locate underground water. Both Samour\u2019s installation and the Sept. 12 performance explore issues related to water access and the ways in which power and politics shape resource distribution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy ongoing work draws on my Palestinian ancestral past to examine how the Israeli government\u2019s control over water access in the occupied territories is used to disempower and disenfranchise communities,\u201d Samour said. \u201cMy art explores the intersections among science, technology, and the natural world and the socio-political consequences of redefining borders and boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Badolo and Derm\u00e9 have addressed water scarcity in their home country of Burkina Faso \u2014 Badolo through activism and investigations into Indigenous divination practices that have led to the repair and construction of numerous wells, and Derm\u00e9 by collaborating with an organization that has created six wells in six villages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking Space\u201d is on view at BMAC through Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>BMAC is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by the Brattleboro Food Co-op, Brattleboro Savings &amp; Loan, Brattleboro Subaru, C&amp;S Wholesale Grocers, and Sam\u2019s Outdoor Outfitters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.reformer.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRATTLEBORO \u2014 The Brattleboro Museum &amp; Art Center (BMAC) presents a multimedia dance performance, \u201cThe Water Runs Through It: Tools for Water,\u201d on Friday, Sept. 12, at 7:30 p.m. Presented in connection with the exhibition \u201cMaking Space,\u201d the performance will be followed by a discussion and Q&amp;A. 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