SHOW OR TELL

Forstillinger: Club Fisk (Denmark) Choreography: Kasper Daugaard Poulsen; Performance: Anette Asp Christensen and Mari Matre Larsen Utah: Meg Foley / moving parts (Philadelphia) Choreography: Meg Foley Performance: Gabrielle Revlock and JE Kim say no more!: Greg Holt & Sara Yassky (San Francisco / Philly) Choreography/Performance: Sara Yassky and Gregory Holt Fri, June 14, 12:30pm and 7:30pm @ Neighborhood House (Philadelphia) Sat, June 15 and Sun, Jun 16 - 7:30pm @ Abrons Art Center (New York City) How do we encounter two people? How does repetition change our understanding of relationships? This international collection of duets examines our expectations of the interplay of language and definition of space. Club Fisk’s “Forstillinger” plays with a spare Scandinavian structure on repeat, complete with explanation and elaborate costume changes. The two forms in “Utah” create a bodily landscape made of negative space in Meg Foley’s tense investigation. Holt and Yassky’s exploration in “say no more!” employs limitation as a window into revealing relationships.

DINNER DATE

Wednesday, June 12, 9pm @ Neighborhood House FREE EVENT, food and drink available. RSVP requested. Low stakes and high production combine in Dinner Date--an evening that is part performance, part party and part participation (if the mood strikes). We've merged our musician/dancer Blind Dates into a group to explore the continuum between “composed/choreographed” and “improvised”. Philly based artists will try something new. They'll try it for the first time in front of you (or perhaps with you) and with an adult beverage, if you'd like. Join us for a grassroots kick-start to the Dance/USA conference or a midweek jawn with these muses and local guides: Austen Brown, Beau Hancock, Christina Zani, Eugene Lew, Meg Foley, Niki Cousineau, Scott McPheeters. Catering by Sprout.

TABLE TALK

Friday, June 14, 2pm - 4pm(follows performance) @ Neighborhood House FREE, lunch provided. RSVP requested. This kitchen-table conversation centers on the local roots and global presentation of experimental performance. We’ll eat together and chat with peers who are making and showing new work. We're not aiming for a "scalable model" or a list of "best practices" we're making an opportunity to learn from one another, share our successes and maybe find some collective action. We don't see each other enough, with our big country and our small field (with our even tinier segment nestled within that). Help us consider the way that performance is created and consumed in your community during this luncheon/discussion (distinctly without the panel). Catering by Sprout.

Wed, June 12 (Philly)
	DINNER DATE 9pm @ Neighborhood House	FREE EVENT food and drink available	RSVP »
Fri, June 14 (Philly)
	SHOW or TELL 12:30pm @ Neighborhood House	$15 General Admission $12 Students / Artists	Tickets »
	TABLE TALK 2pm-4pm @ Neighborhood House	FREE, rsvp requested. lunch provided	RSVP »
	SHOW or TELL 7:30pm @ Neighborhood House	$15 General Admission $12 Students / Artists	Tickets »
Sat, June 15 (NYC)
	SHOW or TELL 7:30pm @ Abrons Art Center	$15 General Admission	Tickets »
Sun, June 16 (NYC)
	SHOW or TELL 7:30pm @ Abrons Art Center	$15 General Admission	Tickets »

Philadelphia Events - June 12 - 14

Christ Church Neighborhood House
20 N. American Street 
Philadelphia, Pa 19106

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NYC Events - June 15 - 16

Abrons Art Center
466 Grand St New York, NY
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Forestillinger: Club Fisk (Denmark)

Club Fisk is named after a legendary discotheque in Århus, Denmark, the companys’ hometown. The name emphasizes the companys’ local rooting, reflect its’ often alternative and indirect approach to dance and refers to the companys’ productionform that very often asks new guests and collaborators inside.

Club Fisk produces a wide range of pieces, varying from full-evening programs, collaborations with other choreographers, site-specific works, and shorter works on commission from different theatres. These contemporary dance pieces unfold within strong, conceptual frameworks and are characterised by liberating humour and Scandinavian minimalism.

Club Fisk also communicates its’ work and experience in articles and seminars, through special events and workshops for schools, highschools and institutions of higher education and in collaboration with other choreographers and institutions.

Kasper Daugaard Poulsen (Choreographer) graduated from the Modern Theatre Dance department at Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2002. Since then he has worked as a dancer and performer with Mind The Gap Tanztheater (D), Granhøj Dans (DK), Kassandra Production (DK/S) and W(E)GO (DK/NL) among others. He also works as a choreographer both freelance and for his own company Club Fisk, which he founded in 2003. Since then the company has presented Kaspers work in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany, England, Scotland, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, The United States and Brazil. He received "Helle og Arenth Jacobsens scholarship for young artists" in 2003.

Mari Matre Larsen (Dancer) graduated from the Modern Theatre Dance department at Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2002. Since then she has been working as a freelance performer in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Belgium with i.e. Hooman Sharifi, Kasper Daugaard Poulsen, Sarah Manya and Arthur Rosenfeld.

Anette Asp Christensen (Dancer) works as a performer, choreographer and video- and installation artist. She is trained in new dance and physical theatre and has studied partly in Denmark, Amsterdam and New York. Since 1999 she has worked with i.e. Joao Fiadeiro/Companhia RE.AL, Stuart Lynch, Thomas Hejlesen and Kasper Daugaard Poulsen. Anette is artistic leader of the dance and theatre company Out of Joint produktion.

Utah: Meg Foley / moving parts (Philadelphia)

Meg Foley is a Philadelphia-based performer, dancer, choreographer, and director of moving parts, a name ascribed to various dance- and performance-based acts. Foley composes architectural, movement-based worlds that focus on the sensorial experience of dancing and on the nature of performing itself. Based in the body, in the knowledge of moving, and in precise visual organization, her dances attempt to straddle the fine line between focus and freedom, using formal rigor to unleash reflective consciousness and emotional experience. Foley is a 2012 Pew Fellow in the Arts and 2012 Independence Foundation Fellow and teaches dance composition and performance practice at University of the Arts.

Jungeun Kim (aka j.e.) is a dancer, choreographer and media designer. She holds an MFA in Dance from ADF/Hollins University and an MALS in Visual and Performing Arts from Hollins University. She has been a guest artist at Dickinson College, Hollins University, and The Modern Dance Promotion of Korea. She has worked with artists such as Amanda K. Miller, Sarah Skaggs, Lisa Race, Susan Rethorst, Thomas F. DeFrantz/SLIPPAGE, Adrienne Westwood, Jen McGinn, Helen Simoneau Danse, iele paloumpis and Jane Comfort & Co. Currently she teaches at The University of the Arts. J.e. hails from Seoul, South Korea. jekim.org

Gabrielle Revlock is a dancer/dance-maker. She has appeared in dances by Meg Foley, Christopher Williams, Leah Stein, Susan Rethorst, Jumatatu Poe, Jeanne Ruddy, Sean Feldman, Willi Dorner, Katsura Kan, Lisa Kraus, Suzanne Linke, Mark Dendy, Jane Comfort, and Robert Battle among others. Currently, she is a LAB Fellow with the FringeArts and is working with Nicole Bindler on “The Dance Apocalypse”, the sequel to the AWARD Show sensation “I made this for you”. Her work has been presented in Philadelphia, D.C., New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and The Netherlands. More at www.manodamno.com

 

say no more!: Greg Holt & Sara Yassky (San Francisco / Philly)

Greg Holt and Sara Yassky met at a mutual friend’s house on a summer night. Gaggles of people had searched out an air-conditioned room to watch “The Gymnast”, a lesbian movie about two women who turn to aerial dance and gymnastics to find strength and love. It was a strong foundation. Since then, the two have collaborated on numerous projects and continue to instigate each other from across the country.

Gregory Holt makes dances in Philadelphia. His choreographic work is collaborative and process-driven, driven by the political dilemma of choreography as producer and mediator of shared space, and has been shown around the USA and Europe. He was a 2011 LAB Fellow through the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, and is an artist-in-residence and a core organizer at Mascher Space Co-op. He has danced for Ishmael Houston-Jones, Christopher Williams, An Kaler, Jumatatu Poe, Meg Foley, and Gabrielle Revlock, among others.

Sara Yassky is a San Francisco/Philadelphia based dance artist, performer, advocate, and somatic practitioner. Yassky’s work is steeped in process and fueled by explorations of perception and potential. Their work has been supported by choreographic and professional development grants and residencies in both Philadelphia and San Francisco allowing their work to be presented in venues locally and abroad. Yassky is an active pursuer of performance discourse and experimentation and has danced/been seen in the works of artists/companies such as Willi Dorner, Wally Cardona, Sara Shelton Mann, Jesse Hewitt/Strong Behavior, Meg Foley, Group Motion, SCRAP Performance Group, and Kathryn TeBordo/Potential Movement, among others.