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May 25 & 26 / 8pm
Work-In-Progress Showing of "HOME / MADE"
In this exclusive work-in-progress showing by RedWall Dance Theatre (RWDT), HOME/MADE explores obligatory middle American gender roles for men & women, human connections & of course, feminine hygiene. RWDT Director, Mary Ann Wall, along with guest dancer & choreographer April Sellers will also continue to explore different perspectives of love, life & femininity in a performance of the work Jousting.
| LIU / Pratt Building, #602 | TICKETS: Free! |
| Brooklyn, NY 11201 |
RSVP: maryann.wall@gmail.com |
April 12 & 13, 2012 / 8pm
New York Premiere of "Bowel Movement"
Image By Jeanette Vidalia
Triskelion Arts' 3rd Annual Comedy in Dance Festival / Brooklyn, NY
Bowel Movement is a satirical ballet designed to confront one of the last taboos of man, shit. In this nightmarish dreamscape, we follow a very refined lady as she battles her darkest fear, her own excrement. Horror, humor, wild theatrics, silent movie era kitsch, you truly don’t want to miss this one. Remember, behind even the nastiest crap is a good man or woman- or at the very very least, a great show.
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Triskelion Arts Complex |
TICKETS: $15 |
| triskelionarts.org | |
| Brooklyn, NY 11249 |
RESERVE: info@triskelionarts.org |
October 21 & 22, 2011 / 8:30pm
Premiering "Mixed Marriages"
Premiering "Mixed Marriages"
Image By Andrae Gonzalo
In Mixed Marriages, lovers & collaborators of 8 years, Project Runway Designer Andrae Gonzalo & Choreographer Jamie Benson use juxtaposition to exploit the arc of their relationship, dramatizing everything from their servant origins (rich/poor) to their long distance relationship (NY/LA).
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Highways Performance Space |
TICKETS: $20 |
|
1651 18th Street |
highwaysperformance.org |
|
Santa Monica, CA 90404 |
RESERVE: (310) 315-1459 |
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Sunday, March 6, 2011 / 8pm
Premiering "Mass Transit"
Image By Emily Marchand
The Bootleg Theater presents Jamie Benson & Andrae Gonzalo's Mass Transit, a wildly
theatrical, 40-minute performance installation directly inspired by real life
Metro happenings. Through overlapping vignettes of dance, gesture, noise, and
movement, Benson's hybrid-brand of choreography infuses classic & barbaric
dance techniques with a vaudevillian performance shtick to create a bastardized
Broadway experience.| Bootleg Theater | TICKETS: $18 |
| 2220 Beverly Boulevard | bootlegtheater.org/dance.html |
| Los Angeles, CA 90057 | RESERVE: (213) 389-3856 |
January 22 & 23, 2010 / 8:30pm
Workshop of "Point B"
Workshop of "Point B"
Image By Stacey Adams
In a frenzied exercise of physical & emotional stamina, Jamie Benson introduces a new infectious dance solo called Point B. Inspired by Rudy Perez’s choreographic process of incorporating the use of space, focus, energy along with the bare experience of movement, Benson adds a linear emotional context in order to further dissect jazz and modern dance forms.
|
Highways Performance Space |
TICKETS: $20 |
| 1651 18th Street |
highwaysperformance.org |
| Santa Monica, CA 90404 |
RESERVE: 310-453-1459 |
January 10, 2010 / 4pm
Performing "Whoosh"
LA Improv Dance Festival / Electric Lodge / Venice, CA
DANCE IN LA REVIEW - By Anna Reid
(2nd Paragraph / psst- she didn't love the Perez work but liked my Itch Solo!)
Performing "Whoosh"
LA Improv Dance Festival / Electric Lodge / Venice, CA
DANCE IN LA REVIEW - By Anna Reid
(2nd Paragraph / psst- she didn't love the Perez work but liked my Itch Solo!)
June 6, 2009 / 8pm
Tribute to Rudy Perez
Premiering "Surrender Dorothy"
Premiering "Surrender Dorothy"
Surrender Dorothy, the new work by famed post-modern choreographer Rudy Perez, is a collaboration between Liquid Skin Ensemble and members of the Rudy Perez Ensemble. One of the co-founders of New York's experimental Judson Dance Theatre, a coterie of artists who would define boundary-breaking "downtown" aesthetics in 1962, Perez continues to chart an unwavering course where pedestrian moves transcend the mundane to reveal bold, deep ideas.
| Luckman Fine Arts Complex | TICKETS: $30 |
| 5151 State University Drive | luckmanarts.org |
| Los Angeles, CA 90032-8116 | RESERVE: (323) 343-660 |