NOW 2015 Program Brochure

Up and coming electronic musician Park employs the Serge
Modular System and Jitter in her
multi-disciplinary project with
choreography by Heeeun Jung.
Using a variety of lighting and
sound tools, bodies become
building blocks for a soundscape,
function as lighting sources, and
create full-blown feedback chains
of kinetic energy flow transforming movement to sound and lights,
and back again.
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With a global fusion of movement and music, Ghandi
explores the personal, familial
and cultural relationship to the
‘divine’ in love, reflecting on the
complex question, “how do you
address your higher self?” She
connects early American Jazz to
East Indian Classical music and
dance, with a soundtrack that
blends contemporary electronic
music, Indian ragas and 1930’s
jazz standards, Rumi’s poetry
and 1930’s love songs, and her
own movement style that began
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Channeling the detached elegance of French chanteur
Jacques Brel, Pennington
explores the intricacies and
incongruities of the pop music
performer—as idol, icon, androgyne, messiah, and martyr—a
hollow vessel where passion is a
meticulously choreographed
exercise. Performed by a multidisciplinary ensemble featuring
collaborators of David Byrne
and Gaetano Veloso, Miranda
July, Miguel Gutierrez, Robert
Wilson, and Yoshiko Chuma.
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Up and coming electronic musician Park employs the Serge
Modular System and Jitter in her
multi-disciplinary project with
choreography by Heeeun Jung.
Using a variety of lighting and
sound tools, bodies become
building blocks for a soundscape,
function as lighting sources, and
create full-blown feedback chains
of kinetic energy flow transforming movement to sound and lights,
and back again.
In the 1930s The Surrealists, led by
André Breton met to discuss sex
and began volatile debates about
bestiality, masturbation, succubi,
making love with nuns...and every
single thing in between. Their
collected writings are turned into
an absurd, hilarious and terrifyingly raw view, careening from
ridiculous objectification into
downright misogyny spoken on
stage by a cast of ten female
actors who fire graphic questions
at each other, replying with raw
facts and figures, lyrical memories,
absurd claims, impassioned pleas,
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In a trans-disciplinarymeditation
on the desire for, and dislocation from, “home,” dance collaborators Nguyen and Gillespie
join with digital media artist,
astrophysicist, and computer
engineer Fabio Altenbach, who
uses the software Isadora to
create an interface for digital
manipulation of dancing and
virtual bodiesaltered to expose
new textures, create ephemeral
space and frame memory as
layered knowledge. Created
over Skype and in Google hangouts, the work continually
evolves to present identities
that are temporary and multi-
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Feminist art-rock power-ballad
pop group” Cassandra, named
after the Greek mythological
prophetess, and the iconic
Wayne’s World character, is a
vehicle for radical social justice,
bringing queer performance
practices to their response to
the recent killings of black people by police officers, and the
national disregard of college
rape allegations. Cassandra’s
manifesto states, “We have glitter in our eyes and fervor in our
hearts. We sing truth to power,
and rage against the violence of
silence.”
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Hall explores the usually
shrouded topic of male-male
intimacy in public toilets, as
documented in the1960s
research of LA based sociologist Laud Humphreys. A
dynamic, ironically “touching”
live performance mixes video
manipulations of early homoerotic photography following a
trajectory of “touches”—from
the illicit to the touch of authority, from oppression to liberation.
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Four performers consider the
ephemeral nature of success
and the unknown potentials of
failure by fracturing recognizable dance motifs into mischievous fragments, unleashing their
inner punk, while making room
for flawed ambitions, interferences, and new pleasures to
disjointedly co-exist, accompanied by music by experimental
composer Jeepneys, and video
by Cari Ann Shim Sham,
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is the best way to experience all three programs
— a total of eight projects developed through this
unique summer performance laboratory.
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