An evening of cinematic, formalist, structuralist, post-everything, re-conceptual, re-archetypal dance-based performance art movement from Santa Monica born, NYC-based Vanessa Anspaugh and San Francisco born, NYC trained and Los Angeles-Detroit-New York based danz group MGM Grand.
"We Are Weather" by Vanessa Anspaugh
A theatrical dance work that explores the ways we resist and simultaneously desire the dynamics of power and surrender that lie at the heart of intimacy. A trio, the piece subtly shifts the roles in this struggle between its three performers. By never declaring a single narrative center, the work underscores the plurality of meaning and experience at the heart of all human interactions. Through a continual wrestling with the temporal and spatial moment, the piece speaks of our attempts to manipulate and control the present in the face of an unamendable past and an unknowable future. At times wry and heartbreaking, We Are Weather exposes the terror and the pleasure of transcending our own subjectivity as we look to each other to find ourselves.
Performed by Aretha Aoki, Jmy Leary, and Lindsay Clark Brooklyn Rail review vanessaanspaugh.com
"Oneness: Making It with Love"by MGM
Dwelling quietly in dino-Land
Not permanently bonded
Once I step off
It's very American
Narrated by the head,
the face
Up and down on the toes
In modesty with morals
performers: Vanessa Anspaugh, Biba Bell, Jmy Leary
tunes: jefrey brown www.moderngaragemovement.com
SUBMISSIONS Highways is opening its 2011 season (February - December 2011) to submissions from artists developing new work. Whether it be performative, sonic, visual, or uncategorizable, all levels of intent, scale, length, and development are encouraged.
Please include a short description of the work, the time frame you'd like to present in, and any support materials (including links).
QUEER MONDAYS Un-Curated by Ian MacKinnon
Last Monday of Every Month, 7:30pm $5
A non-elitist LGBT experimental performance series on the last Monday of every month. It's an ever-changing grab bag of short pieces and happenings that has something for everyone and you never know what you're gonna get! QM is dedicated to providing a consistent venue for the development of new queer work, and is open to all artistic disciplines.
