SPILL: New
Friday, May 12 at 7pm
New
Created by Aretha Aoki
A collaboration with digital and sound artist Ryan MacDonald, New wades through the mud and mystery of family history and explores the relationship between language, translation, silencing, and violence/war as it persists in the body. New longs for a capacious body, one that can channel all the conflicting voices of family, lineage, and memory—in an effort to hold even the difficult, ugly, and paradoxical. Can the body and the space of performance contain all of it?
Primo Tempore
Created by Jessica Nicoll & Barry Oreck
In Primo Tempore, Nicoll+Oreck Dance Theater presents a duet that appears to be a clerical ritual, but morphs into an unfolding dance of seduction. Gregorian chants swirl in and out of sync as the dancers—dressed in red choir robes—veer between being pious and lewd, grounded and untethered, powerful and weak. They seem to grope for higher meaning but find only themselves, alternating between revealing and c Friday, May 12 at 7pm New Created by Aretha Aoki A collaboration with digital and sound artist Ryan MacDonald, New wades through the mud and mystery of family history and explores the relationship between language, translation, silencing, and violence/war as it persists in the body. New longs for a capacious body, one that can channel all the conflicting voices of family, lineage, and memory--in an effort to hold even the difficult, ugly, and paradoxical. Can the body and the space of performance contain all of it? Primo Tempore Created by Jessica Nicoll & Barry Oreck In Primo Tempore, Nicoll+Oreck Dance Theater presents a duet that appears to be a clerical ritual, but morphs into an unfolding dance of seduction. Gregorian chants swirl in and out of sync as the dancers--dressed in red choir robes--veer between being pious and lewd, grounded and untethered, powerful and weak. They seem to grope for higher meaning but find only themselves, alternating between revealing and concealing what goes on under their robes. Saturday, May 13 at 7pm New Created by Aretha Aoki See above description PoolPITT Created by Courtney J. Cook PoolPITT explores the depth and complexities of Blackness, all the while indulging in the nostalgia of my memories as they manifest in my body and voice; a purge and sharing of my Black Woman self and my stories. Exposing the good and bad, gems and poisons, through this sacred art form that has always been known as space of liberation for Black folk. Sunday, May 14 at 2pm New Created by Aretha Aoki See above description PoolPITT Created by Courtney J. Cook See above description glacier sister Created by Lydia Mokdessi and Emie Hughes glacier sister investigates modes of shared embodiment and spontaneous composition, and examines topics of spectatorship, agency, submission, kinship, and subtle leadership, while allowing for unplanned emergence of content. Emie Hughes and Lydia Mokdessi share a vocabulary of scores, dialogues, and rituals, and attempt to develop a practice of mutual decision-making as a method of training sensitivity to desire and mutual intuition. glacier sister models a radical form of deep togetherness. Created in collaboration with performer and musician Benjamin Wagner.