SHOW OR TELL

Forestillinger: Club Fisk (Denmark) Utah: Meg Foley / moving parts (Philadelphia) say no more!: Greg Holt & Sara Yassky (San Francisco / Philly) Fri, June 14, 12:30pm and 7:30pm @ Neighborhood House Sat, June 15 and Sun, Jun 16 - 7:30pm @ Abrons Art Center 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 This experiment expands our Blind Date pairings into a dancer and musician working group that has gathered to make an event that explores structures, improvisation and the continuum between “composed/choreographed” and “blind”. Dinner-Date is part performance, part participation, and late night meal of improvisation (that mystical beast). Bring something to share that feeds you physically or artistically for this event, which will be as experiential or observational as feels right.

TABLE TALK

Friday, June 14, 2pm - 4pm @ Neighborhood House This kitchen-table conversation centers on the local roots and global presentation of experimental dance. We’ll eat together and sit amongst peers who are making and showing work, in a rare opportunity to see and hear the (often) disparate community that we keep. Help us consider the way that performance is created and consumed in your community for this luncheon/discussion (distinctly without the panel).

Wed, June 12
	DINNER DATE 9pm @ Neighborhood House	More info coming soon.
Fri, June 14
	SHOW or TELL 12:30pm @ Neighborhood House	$15 General Admission $12 Students / Artists	Tickets »
	TABLE TALK 2pm-4pm @ Neighborhood House	More info coming soon.
	SHOW or TELL 7:30pm @ Neighborhood House	$15 General Admission $12 Students / Artists	Tickets »
Sat, June 15
	SHOW or TELL 7:30pm @ Abrons Art Center	$15 General Admission	Tickets »
Sun, June 16
	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
SUBWAY to Essex, Grand, or Delancey


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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.

 

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

Gregory Holt (b. 1982) 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.