Launch!
NOVEMBER 22, 2014, 4:00 PM
Please click on titles, below, to see performance videos and photos
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1. In this Moment
(Please click on the title above, to link to performance video and photos) Twyla Kowalenko Sasha |
Young children inhabit the present moment. Ideologically, this is beautiful, and a teaching for us to bring ourselves into the present. Practically, as parents, navigating the tension between two conceptualizations of the world can be the biggest stress ever. One parent uses dance to non-verbally explore how to find a meeting place to move fluidly with her toddler.
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2. Passage of Equanimity: mono no aware
(Please click on the title above, to link to performance video and photos) Real Eguchi Elizabeth Westley Ryan Genereaux Piera Bonventre Daichi Okada |
The Japanese sensibility of ‘mono no aware’ can loosely be described as a sensitivity to life that directly correlates to the awareness of the impermanent nature of human, biological existence.
This heightened awareness can help enhance our sense of ‘sustainable’ beauty that focuses us in the moment with a unique blend of joy, humility, melancholy, simplicity, peace, warmth and radiance. In this performance we explore ‘mono no aware’ using a diagonal datum, a ‘Passage of Equanimity’ that provides a critical reference for the mixed emotions that we are experiencing. It is a journey in which suffering and existential angst are quietly acknowledged. In the words of Thich Nhat Hanh, ‘Peace is every step’. |
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3. Transformation
(Please click on the title above, to link to performance video and photos) Tonia Cordi (solo) |
This piece is a reflection of the ever-changing evolution that a person goes through in life. I feel that I am always transforming into a new person or peeling away the layers that have suppressed my true self. The music chosen for the piece is a contrast of frustration and calm beauty. Fighting through the storm allows you to see the light and that is essentially what I would like to communicate in this piece.
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4. The Paradox Gateway
(Please click on the title above, to link to performance video and photos) Emily Kedar Caroline Joyal Puja Jones |
This piece was inspired by The Open Floor movement practice workshop entitled "In Good Standing" with Kathy Altman. It represents how someone can cope with two discordant emotions by watching them take form and move in their own rhythm. As the dancer witnesses the two emotions, she starts to dance with them. That's when the healing and magic happens.
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5. Interloper
(Please click on the title above, to link to performance video and photos) Amanda Smith Stefan Alexander David Galloway Elisa Hollenberg Stefan Alexander Elena Andriyashyna |
This piece was choreographed collaboratively, with each dancer contributing ideas and movements. The theme of an "interloper" emerged from the feeling of being isolated, left-out or socially excluded. The theme evolved to represent the coldness, numbness, conformity, and safety in numbers that occurs in the stereotypical "corporate" world. We explored the relationship between finding safety and comfort in groups and our attraction to an "interloper" who "interrupts" dances that are different from her own.
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6. Light Puppet
(Please click on the title above, to link to performance video and photos) Ryan Genereaux |
A journey from the dark to the light.
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7. Go with One
(Please click on the title above, to link to performance video and photos) Carla Melo Elisa Hollenberg Erica McDowell James Andreadis Jonah Hundert Linus Ip Lo Bil Neil Clifford Real Eguchi Suzanne Liska Tess Takahashi |
On this internal solo journey we recall memories of touch, and experience unexpected immediate touch by others. With our eyes closed, our other senses are heightened as a way of understanding the space we’re occupying and our emotional state in relation to the other. The urge to resist our changing situation may be strong, or we may want to completely allow the control of another. When we open our eyes to see the group, our sense of both separateness and connection heightens. We may choose to include one, exclude another, or exclude ourselves. Whatever the choice, we are each on separate journeys and yet together. The audience will observe us making in-the-moment decisions, shifting from one state to another through improvised structures. This spontaneous process demands attention and awareness of ourselves and each other. We will stir intimacy and surprise ourselves, with the intention of offering the audience an embodied experience while witnessing dance.
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8. Bits from Strangers
(Please click on the title above, to link to performance video and photos) Ryan Genereaux Dana Morrison Emily Goulet |
This piece has been inspired by the moments when you overhear something in conversation between two strangers or a passerby on their phone that piques your interest and consumes your focus.
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9. Alone Together
(Please click on the title above, to link to performance video and photos) Pablo Perez Marina Ostrovsky Laura Sniderman Molly Rosen |
This piece explores the shifting nature of solitude and connection, observing how they intertwine together.
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