ARIANNE HOFFMANN
KEITH GLASSMAN
CARMELA HERMANN
Arianne Hoffmann & A Group of Movers is performing a new work in which bodily expulsions take the shape of a dance. What experiences haunt us? What does it look and sound like if we try to expel them? Spontaneous movement joins a structured approach to dance-making, resulting in a touching and captivating piece.
Keith Glassman presents Dancing With Ghosts, a septet performed by an intergenerational cast accompanied by old and new accordion music that uncovers some of the reasons why we are who we are today. What went on back then that we seem to hold on to and why do we grasp it so tightly? Is it possible to resist the pull of the past on our current psyches? Will supernatural events bring us the answers or will the questions remain unsolved for eternity? Performers include Louie Cornejo, Sara Fenton, Klyda Mahoney, Edgar Miramontes, Ken Takemoto and Gloria and Margarita Tinajero, with video by Glassman and Frank Peikert.
Homestretch, choreographed and directed by Carmela Hermann in collaboration with Terrence Luke Johnson, is a non-linear, post-modern soap opera told in movement and words drawn from the last five years of Carmela and Luke’s (the two creators) lives. Vignettes of conception, birth, chocolate issues and child rearing to retirement, lifethreatening illness and late-life sex are interwoven with movement drawn from dance history, childhood development and the quirkier corners of real life. The piece plays games with identity, time, and continuity.
FRIDAY 3/4 8pm
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