Filmed in early May of 2020 while most of the world was still under lockdown, dancers used the LFDTCLASS framework to create solo performances informed by our recent project, ‘Mapping Now: Vital Little Plans’, a map inspired by New York City’s grid systems on the Lower East Side. The map is annotated with statements inspired by the writings of Jane Jacobs and are gentle suggestions or prompts that can be taken into action through reflection, in movement, or on the streets.

In response to Jacobs’ prompts and her work’s foundational principle that: any given public space is defined by
the degree to which we participate with it, 101.2 has dancers engage in a movement-based dialogue about the human experience that questions and maps the way we move in public space, and ponders notions of access, of privilege or isolation.

We offer this work as a means to provoke and critically engage in dialogue about the human experience, to question and map the way we move in public space. It offers vital little plans that you may access at any time, in any way you choose to. We made it so that you can layer on layer, level-up your practice of living with awareness over the long term. It’s your choice. Reach for the levity of abstraction, move so that your heart faces it all–or stand firmly on the ground and ponder notions of access, of privilege or isolation. It can guide you, it can support you, it can take you to your edge and make you feel uncomfortable, and it can then comfort you again. It will only be understood fully if you have taken an oath with yourself. Are you committed to a lifelong practice of dismantling oppression? Are you willing to be an accomplice in this great transformation? Will you keep your interrogation open, and never stop asking: Where are we? Where have we been? Where are we going?