PERFORMANCE:
AUGUST 4, 2019
5PM
$10 STUDENT/ARTIST/UNEMPLOYED
$15 GENERAL ADMISSION
$25 ARTS BENEFACTOR
STUDIO4, 25 MAIN ST, NORTHAMPTON MA
Choreographed by Daniel Bear Davis, Caro Novella, and Anna Maynard
This evening of original dance performance explores bodies in motion, interwoven, in and out of sync, navigating the rhythms and possibilities of bodies together. It will include Spectral Sketchings choreographed by Daniel Bear Davis and Anna Maynard, Cosensing, we are already silkworms, by Caro Novella and choreographed on site, and Des-Echoes, choreographed in collaboration between Daniel Bear Davis and Caro Novella.
Des-echoes
Choreographed by Daniel Bear Davis and Caro Novella
Two bodies, inextricably intertwined, struggle, embrace, disown, and reunite in a dance of negotiated power and fleeting identity. We, multiplicities, in contradiction, choose and cast away our various parts to shape ourselves to our imagination of our self. How do we know the “other” within? To be fixed, we are torn apart, conjoined, dis/membered, and gathered again in forms to re/member. Des-Echoes is a complication of the Spanish, "desechos" - trash. rubbish.
The constantly surprising stream of new bodies, formed from conventional objects, brings us into a morphing reality calling into question clear lines of self and other. We, multiplicities, in contradiction, choosing and casting away our various parts to shape ourselves to our imagination of our self. To be fixed, we are torn apart, conjoined, dis/membered, and gathered again in forms to re/member.
cosensing, we are already silkworms *
A guided imaginary and a textured image by Caro Novella. Choreographed on site with the audience
a relational event. A multispecies intimacy weaving laboratory.
a practice insisting in the possibilities emerging from the dissolution of self.
* this is the study #4 of the ongoing exploration ‘cosensing, we are already silkworms’
Spectral Sketchings
choreographed by Daniel Bear Davis and Anna Maynard
Spectral Sketchings is part of a series of studies exploring polyrhythms in the body and how physio-emotional states transform through nuanced shifts in scale and emphasis. This iteration opens into an exploration of rhythmic and tonal transformation - inviting into our bodies traces and textures of other times, peoples, and places. Bodies in indeterminate rhythm build reaction and resilience through the tensions of proximity and distance. We seek connection and autonomy - dancing alone/together in rhythm as complex and simple as the rain.