The following events will take place at Chez Bushwick

 

Saturday March 6, 2010

 

1 – 2 PM

 

Jerkilana: LaJerNaKi  

This work is a collaboration by four dancer/choreographers living and creating in Bushwick.  The piece highlights not only a group effort, but also the individual expression that comes with making dance.  LaJerNaKi is a work in progress that has been developed over the course of 6 months.

 

Danielle Russo Dance Company: For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. 

A strict employment of Newton’s Three Laws of Motion: 1) An object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force; 2) The force acting upon an object is a product of its mass multiplied by its acceleration; 3) For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Newton’s theories are not only significant to the study of bodily physics, but also suggestive to the natural forces of human conduct.

 

Jinkyung Chong: washing my sin

 

2:40 – 4:20 PM

 

SAWTOOTH dancers: Did You Hear That Bird? No, No, No You Didn't

 Performed by Cristina Jasen and Cory Antiel, one performer sustains syncopated stomping rhythms whilst belting a melody--in this case, crooning in Italian through a megaphone.  The piece attempts to slowly uncover both characters’ hidden psychological dispositions through loss, solitude, servitude and stifling routine.  It explores gender confusion and conformity--and plays with the themes of voicelessness, futility and dependency.

 

Mari Meade Dance Collective: community : ratio

This piece, inspired by the social structure of ants, explores the tension between an individual’s obligation to the community and duty to oneself. In the DUET excerpt, the electronic sound collage, stark costumes, and physical yet intimate movement create a forbidden yet passionate environment in which two workers discover each other.

 

Stine Moen, Håvard Bjørnevold, Sara Greenfield: The Garden  

A collaborative choreographic experiment that uses movement, partnering, and athletic physicality to explore the concepts of voyeurism, manipulation, dependency, the mechanization of the body, and the evolution of awareness. 

 

Ling-Fen Chien: Relative Position 

A trio performed by Ling-Fen Chien (Taiwan), Lea Lescure (France), and Lize-Lotte Pitlo (Netherlands). The choreographer explores the relationship between dancers as an individual to others, to the space, and to themselves. Through the change of time, the movement delivers different voice, sometimes plain and sometimes rich. It also embraces the simplicity of the natural movement, a small step and an arm gesture are larger than a series of movement phrase. This piece carries a message on human relations: we are in a way all related through different time and space.

 

Amy L Baumgarten: Myopia Youropia 

"Myopia Youropia" conjoins, congeals, masks and unmasks physical nature, as it is contrasted with unbounded space. The androidian sound score mocks the dancers' attempts at remaining distant and removed from the context that space provides. Despite their best efforts, the movers' own physicality betrays their desires for individualism. In the end, it is apparent that what divides them simultaneously unites them.

 

5:00 – 6:30 PM

 

Michael Freeman: Work In Progress

A performance of an extreme nature, for adult audiences only.

 

 

Ana Lola Roman & Matthew Caron: Indigenous

Dancer/Performance Artist Ana Lola Roman interacts within a video sculpture that suggests Technical Cubism. This dance installation conveys Anamorphic Sculpture, Electronic Body Movement and Kabuki along a backdrop of live video which suggests controlled environments in Chroma Glitch Video with live processing.

 

Niall Noel Jones: Crush On You (black is the new gay)

A dance/performance work consisting of three performers. A collusion of dramatics, dance, and song binds. The queer protagonist, the sardonically lovelorn, and those that don't give a shit. This is the only way to make it make sense. The disempowered are the powerful and the lovers are crestfallen.

 

Jessica Finn & Elle Stice: Sexually Transmitted People

A butoh influenced physical theater duo with live music and visually stimulating costumes, and lights. Black light. And bright white light. Shining down on us from above. Taeko drums. Ghosts. Eroticism.

 

7:10 – 9:00 PM

 

Yoo & Dancers: The Last One

At once literal and abstract, the piece explores the concepts of territorial claim and territorial defense. With an eerie, animalistic focus, the dancers move through a series of confrontations – some gentle, some primally vicious – in order to determine the “alpha” status. Though a certain “pack mentality” is at play, it remains unclear which dancer belongs to which warring faction and furthermore, how many factions there are in the first place. The alliances change so often and so suddenly that one can’t tell friend from foe. Only the fittest survive, but the question remains: what determines “fitness”?

 

x-tra bullets: Groove On To Exhale (I can do bad all by myself)

We will construct Hannah Harpole's apartment. We will play a discography of snoop dogg. We will sit at the table and bow. We will plan a city from our deepest imagination. We will create a physical manifestation of our mental landscape. We will lay in the hay. We will be naked.

 

Echopraxia Dance: Fugue Amnesia

A dance duet for two women using edited sound from the movie The Misfits. It’s a tense, rather emotional piece using repetitive movement and eye contact with the audience.

 

Click HERE for SITE Fest day TWO schedule at Chez Bushwick - Sunday, March 7