improvises while black is a performance devised by mayfield brooks who works as an artist scholar, cultural worker and movement-based performance artist. studying contemporary dance at the school for new dance (sndo) in amsterdam, moving on center in oakland, ca, mayfield brooks holds two masters degrees in performance. mayfield investigates “the body” as a questionable conceptual construct & is most curious about intersectional politics, cultural organizing, gender fuck, ancestral memory, dancing flesh, corporeal fragmentation, black lives (don’t) matter, and improvising in interstitial spaces. to find more about mayfield’s work go to: http://adddance.tumblr.com/