|
|
|
|
Dear Friends:
Please find our recent and upcoming news below. Wishing you a wonderful Fall.
Thank you as always for your support.
With gratitude,
Dahlia
Recent news:
Chicago: Dahlia, Loren and Margaret were thrilled to be in residence at Links Hall in Chicago. We began working our next piece, "from" (working title), as part of Links' Summer Intensive series Co-mission. Continuing our investigation into belonging and non-belonging, deeply personal histories, and our nation’s current and recurring debates over bans, building walls and keeping the “other” out, we ask, "How can we offer destabilizing notions of identity to a world that historically prefers to categorize, reduce, capture, pigeon-hole? Can we be in the presence of the unfamiliar without needing to name it? Can we recognize the unfamiliar as an extension of ourselves? Can the concept of “from” be placeless, inclusive, evade assumptions and vibrate with potential?”
Birmingham:
We are thrilled for our new work to be commissioned by the Alabama Dance Council to premiere in 2019 as part of the state of Alabama's Bicentennial Celebration. The Council will present works in multiple communities small and large touching on themes of "place and home". We will continue to develop this work in the months to come, stay tuned for work in progress showings. To support this work through creative residencies or presenting, please contact our Touring Coordinator, Jane Forde.
Upcoming performances:
Fall Tour Dates 2017:
This fall we conclude our NDP supported nationwide tour of 2125 Stanley Street. We hope you can join us at one of the performances listed below, click on links for details.
Wednesday, October 11th, 8 p.m. The Wriston Galleries presented by the Conservatory of Music at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Residency Master classes and rehearsals October 9-14th. Post-performance multimedia exhibit on display for month of October.
Saturday, October 21st, 6 p.m. Inaugural conference of the Dance Studies Association (Joint Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance and Society of Dance History Scholars) at The Ohio State University, Urban Arts Space, 50 West Town Street, Columbus, Ohio.
Boston University: Thursday, November 2nd @ 7 p.m. and Friday November 3rd @ 8 p.m. 2017: 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA. RSVP required.
Bowdoin College, November 4th: 7:30 p.m. Edwin Arts Center Room 210, New Brunswick, Maine (Open to Bowdoin students, faculty and staff only).
We are grateful for the NDP Touring Award, which has enabled us to continue to adapt the project to new spaces and reach new audiences. Our tour includes performances in a variety of spaces, and residency activities including master classes/workshops with dance/art/film/music/English/History/ American Studies departments, conversations on themes of diaspora and cultural hybridity, on belonging and non-belonging. To inquire about supporting future works at your campus, venue or institution, please contact our Touring Coordinator, Jane Forde.
About the work:
2125 Stanley Street is a contemporary dance performance exploring deeply personal notions of home. Dancers/co-creators Dahlia Nayar, Margaret Sunghe Paek and cellist/composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (see bios below) adapt the work as it migrates to various spaces: a studio, a theater, a gallery, a community grange, a buddhist church. We excavate the everyday and the mundane in search of a poetic consciousness, infusing basic tasks with virtuosity and nostalgia, summoning fragmented multilingual memories and lullabies from our childhoods. Ultimately, 2125 Stanley Street aims to invite the audience into a home that unfolds through movement, sound and intimate exchange, a home that is is both familiar and yet cannot exactly be located. Named "Best of Stage and Screen" 2015 by Downeast Magazine, Stanley Street is a recipient of the National Dance Project Touring Award for 2016-17 . See a video link for the work here.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
