DIRECT ACTIONS

Gathering relations among beautiful strangers to elevate new communities

Our Direct Actions emerge out of eleven years of community relationship building that endeavors to incite movements of compassion in direct sensuous reality for the revitalization of a new South.  Direct Actions were localized in Georgia the first couple of years and then glo opened up our ideas of what community is. The shift attracted all kinds of neighborhoods in the U.S., and abroad, invested in choreography as a toolbox addressing the conviction that bodies of information stored in the daily lives of people are art.

Year-round, communities of advocates, educators, artists, activists, and preservationists come together to construct working residencies with glo platform. Residencies have grown from 4–6 days, to 3–8 months, to long-term projects. In 2024, we awaken to the imminent possibility of a world full of radical sharing, listening, and freedom.

The idea is to foster the creative power in meeting beautiful strangers to initiate a dialogue between history, culture, social structures and dreams.

Each direct action is self-initiated and self-organized by a local team. The organizing of an initiative in itself is an exercise in courage and collaboration. The collective efforts between glo and the local team results in visualization, place identity, and resourcing of the dozens of in-school Movement Choirs, MAPPING, Prairies, and Listening Parlors that shape a residency.

What holds together all of the initiatives, spaces and people is a common goal in what we call “social practice choreography.” Social practice choreography is any collaborative process that uses choreography as a tool to address environmental, economic, social and spiritual revitalization.

Movement building beyond the Creative Catalog of Direct Actions

Every year we face a series of awakenings and opportunities. As a result, the work of glo platform’s Creative Catalog of Direct Actions changes constantly, and there is no fixed formula for how we do this work. But embedded into every residency is deep listening, and a set of principles which glo has infused from our platform after years of embracing failure. These principles are threaded throughout each generative project. Deep listening is what we do. From there, we respond through our creative practice in alignment with what we have been told to offer by those communities.