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Simone Aughterlony, Antonija Livingstone & Hahn Rowe
Supernatural
March 11 & 12, Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse, France
Observing the Supernatural grants access to a shared kaleidoscopic body.
With axes, wood, violin, electronics, and the bare body, Simone Aughterlony, Antonija Livingstone, and Hahn Rowe stage an inquiry into vibrant matters. Human and non-human actants camp together on a hot-pink terrain under an unblinking fluorescent sky. Supernatural suggests a wilderness that signifies a plurality of agencies without ontological hierarchy. Queer lives encourage the dissolution of normative identity patterns. Supernatural actively chops up the topography of gender perceptions and welcomes the joyful techno-construction of multiple bodies and pleasures. Is this movement research or fun post-porn practice? Whatever it is, it brings the bodies and companion materials in conversation to know no difference between being excited, being exciting, and being excited with.
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C’est une forêt artificielle et sauvage, d’un rose exacerbé : là, trois protagonistes lunaires établissent leur campement éphémère avant d’entreprendre un étrange rituel : Hahn Rowe improvise une mélodie avec tout ce qui lui tombe sous la main (bouts de bois, violon, objets de toutes sortes) ; à ses côtés, Antonjia Livingstone et Simone Aughterlony coupent du bois, fendent des souches, débitent, tronçonnent. Mais aussi : se prélassent dans la mousse ou s’excitent sur des rondins… Deux bûcheronnes queer tour à tour lascives ou furieuses, le plus souvent dénudées, qui dynamitent la frontière entre les sexes à mesure qu’avec leur environnement elles négocient – mais à la hache – denouveaux horizons possibles.
Supernatural is produced by Simone Aughterlony / Verein für allgemeines Wohl with co-production support from Gessnerallee Zürich, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Theater Freiburg. Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, and Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
photo by Jorge León
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saturday
january 9
11pm-7am
/BROOKLYN
$15 advance
$20 door
The Culture Whore’s DOWNLOAD is a journey through cyberspace, reflecting on how technology has empowered our community, marking this moment in time as a screenshot of love, and archiving our creations for future generations.
A matrix of musical wizards will keep the beat as we scroll through electronic sounds of techno, house, club & disco with DJs Katie Rex, Sadaf, David Sokolowski and JX Cannon. Live performances will celebrate the eclectic virtuosity of our scene with genderbending dance by Davon Rainey, sexy post-Internet industrial sounds by Zebulon Gone, outrageous punk drag from Chris of Hur and and triumphant neo soul from Destiny, formerly Princess Nokia.
Explore the transgressive value of digital reality as we co-opt aesthetics of surveillance in service of narcissistic pleasure. Live feed video installations will act as portals to into the future as they capture the crowd in real time, projecting our bodies into psychedelic screens in an endless loop, inspiring us to keep dancing until dawn.
The Culture Whore is a community of artists exploring queerness in all its forms by creating ephemeral spaces and permanent platforms that cultivate connectivity, inclusivity, free expression, and pleasure.
glistening in a sea of code
we see our reflections
refracted endlessly in the STREAM
documenting potentials
ARCHIVING realities
as we fragment
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akira
banjee report
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doug keeler
julia sinelnikova
lindsay leonard
maria jose
mateus porto
molly rhinestones
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Closing Night Soirée
Hosted by Kickstarter
Sunday January 17, 10:00pm – 12:00am
Beverly’s
21 Essex Street
Close out the 2016 festival with a drink and a toast along with festival artists, staff, audiences and supporters!
Members of the House Champagne Toast
Thursday January 7, 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Abrons Arts Center / Culpeper Gallery
466 Grand Street
Kick off American Realness 2016 with a Champagne toast to celebrate the start of a seventh season of the festival. Open to all donors.
i am black (you have to be willing to not know)
Thomas F. DeFrantz
Sunday January 17, 11:00am
Abrons Arts Center, Room 201
466 Grand Street / FREE
The discourse of race in contemporary performance falls apart when whites try to understand black performance. Contemporary black performance is saturated with experience and complexities that evade easy affiliations or ‘knowings.’ This dialogic manifesto-lecture offers strategies for acknowledging how artists of color and their collaborating audiences of color operate in several keys simultaneously, but are inevitably compelled to reduce their work and experience to the unknowable, shameful category of ‘race.’
A Charming Uproar: On documenting dance
Joshua Lubin-Levy with Thomas J. Lax, Soyoung Yoon, Cassie Mey
Sunday January 10, 3:30pm
Abrons Arts Center, Room 201
466 Grand Street / FREE
Prompted by the work of keyon gaskin, A Charming Uproar brings together the work of scholars, curators and archivists to consider the complex ways that dance translates into other forms. What do we make of the way writing, recording and research on dance relates to the field of contemporary dance practice? And what of the ways in which dancers are made to account for themselves and their work?
How Should the Present Think About the Future?
Claudia La Rocco and Lane Czaplinski with Annie Dorsen, Yelena Gluzman, Katherine Profeta & others
Saturday, January 9, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Abrons Arts Center, Room 201
466 Grand Street / FREE
Claudia La Rocco and Lane Czaplinski present a conversation concerning documentation and archival strategies – how contemporary work is (and isn’t) being contextualized across a range of platforms and media.
Melancholia and Precarious Virtuosity
Jenn Joy and Kelly Kivland with Heather Kravas and Ligia Lewis
Friday January 8, 3:30pm
Abrons Arts Center ,Room 201
466 Grand Street / FREE
In conversation with artists Heather Kravas and Ligia Lewis, Jenn Joy and Kelly Kivland discuss choreographies labor, feminism, melancholia and fierce virtuosity moving from Samuel Beckett to a more punk Richard Serra.
American Realness for dance2016
March 11 – April 13
Centre national de la danse, Les Subsistances & Théâtre Garonne
The Bureau for the Future of Choreography
Score for a Lecture
World Premiere
Friday, January 15, 5:30pm
Saturday, January 16, 2:00pm
Sunday, January 17, 7:00pm
Run Time: 55 minutes
Abrons Arts Center, Underground Theater
466 Grand Street / tickets $20
In Score for a Lecture, a sequence of speech acts choreograph the theater as a medium and institution that literally speaks. Instant collaboration reinvigorates institutional critique as a choreographed blooper. Score for a Lecture creates space to redefine the value of failure while we are inside the theater, the institution, the group, the pair and the self. In Score for a Lecture, as with all projects by The Bureau for the Future of Choreography, everyone becomes an agent of The Bureau.
image by Evelyn Donnelly
The Bureau is an apparatus that collectively builds performance experiences and documents. We strive for group decision making and explore not only group dynamics but also states of embodiment as well as myths of individual and collective authorship. We produce permeating archives of dance/performance and subsequent heterogeneous histories. The Bureau is a state of flux, shifting appearance according to the specific context. Rather than “products,” The Bureau is forever involved in research processes and practices to investigate participatory images of performance and systems of choreography.
“She wears a black jumpsuit decorated with the “LIFE | DANCE | DEATH” Venn-diagram logo of The Bureau for the Future of Choreography, evoking an alternate-universe dance Olympics. The logo is a starkly humorous choice given the Bureau’s eschewal of individual ownership versus Michelson’s cult of authorship.” Claudia LaRocco–Art Forum