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The virtual 2020 Chamber Dance Project season debuting on Friday is not Plan B or C, but … well, choreographer and artistic director Diane Coburn Bruning has completely lost track of which plan this is. The seventh annual season for the District-based company would have been its most ambitious yet, with two weeks of dances accompanied by local chamber musicians debuting in June. Then they downsized to one week in July, or maybe a performance outdoors, and then it was time to grab cameras and improvise. Some of those commissions are now slated for 2021; however, Chamber Dance will unveil three dance films on Friday, for free, for all interested in logging on. Because Chamber Dance is a pick-up summer company, the dancers are based across the United States. Filming took place at a home in Ohio, at Sepulveda Dam in Los Angeles, and at an art museum in Wisconsin. And they are not done dancing yet: On Sept. 24, Chamber Dance will screen a second, more elaborate dance film created by Coburn Bruning and former Studio Theatre associate artistic director Matt Torney. Last year, the pair collaborated on a haunting dance theater adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” So let us go then, you and I, to Zoom to see the dancers come and go. New Works 2020 (and Beyond) debuts at 7 p.m. on July 31. The films are available at chamberdance.org/beyond. Free. —Rebecca J. Ritzel
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A Right to the City
When A Right to the City first opened at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum in 2018, Allison Keyes wrote for Washington City Paper that the exhibit contextualizes current tension over residential development in D.C. with a decades-long history of gentrification. In City Lights, Hamzat Sani called it a “must visit.” But you can’t visit right now—COVID19 forced the museum to close its doors. Fortunately, its online staging is more useful than ever. You’ll start with an introductory sense of the exhibit’s purpose: Having “a right to the city” is grounded in city use, equitable transit and development, quality public education, and healthy neighborhoods. Importantly, community activism against that gentrification is also front and center. You’ll learn the history of a predominantly Black and Jewish community in Southwest and how “urban renewal,” “modernization,” and so-called “slum clearance” tactics continue to jeopardize it and other otherwise thriving neighborhoods. A Right to the City then explores Anacostia, Shaw, Brookland, Chinatown, and Adams Morgan. Between stories of freeway construction, demolished small businesses, and mass evictions, curator Samir Meghelli weaves stories of how these neighborhoods have worked to shape and reshape their identities with shared interests in mind. Ending with a call to action, “Prepare to Participate,” the exhibition makes clear that these aren’t problems of history. Rising real estate prices and deepening inequality are very much problems of today, especially as the country faces down the end of a federal eviction moratorium. The exhibition is available at storymaps.arcgis.com. Free. —Sarah Smith
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By Brendan Emmett Quigley
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