DNA: This Week in the Theater:

 

 

January 13
CABULA6/Jeremy Xido
The Angola Project

5:00pm Part 1: Lisbon
6:30pm Part 2: Angola  

The Angola Project playfully straddles the worlds of performance and film-making as the audience watches a movie being constructed from fragments of film and narrative right before their eyes, only to crumble again into disarray. Based on Jeremy Xido's true life adventures of trying to make a feature film in Angola, The Angola Project takes us on a dizzying journey through the history of colonial Portugal, the Travelogues of Burton Holmes, the films of Bruce Lee and Jim Kelly, the Detroit race riots/rebellion, Berlin documentary film crews in Africa and the blood-thirsty mechanisms of international film finance. The Angola Project is a funny and moving investigation into global events and the complex unexpected polycultural mash-up identities emerging in the 21st century. 

DNA's SPLICE series brings together unique artists that share a common thread, however subtle, into a performance setting that offers insightful perspectives into the breadth of contemporary dance.This installment features DNA faculty member Kendra Portier and DNA PRESENTS 2011-2012 RAW Directions artists Elke Luyen & Kira Alker. 

 Tickets: Special APAP Deal - general public

Catherine Galasso*
excerpts from Bring On The Lumière! 

 

Studio 2
A CANARY TORSI (Yanira Castro)*

DNA Artists Works in Progress and Lec/Dem Showings 

Studio 2
Alexandra Beller/Dances**
Other Stories 

other stories is a collection of interwoven movement events that highlight the friction between stories. When we are confronted, particularly within an intimate relationship, with a story that diverges from ours, how do we deal with that friction against our reality? Created in collaboration with legendary rock musician/composer Robert Poss and celebrated, dramaturg Katherine Profeta, other stories is a layered multimedia performance that triggers memory, emotion and heightened awareness through deeply personal and evocative movement. 

January 13 at 10:00pm
Antonio Ramos
En la arena no todo es rosado/In the arena not everything is pink 

Inspired by the work of New York City-based photographer Sol Aramendi and "The Art of Toreo" or bullfighting, Ramos created EN LA ARENA NO TODO ES ROSADO/IN THE ARENA NOT EVERYTHING IS PINK. In this work-in-process, Ramos explores themes of sexuality and the disappointments of queer dating after the sudden end of a 13-year relationship. The work shows the everyday struggles of new beginnings. Bullfighting, with its paradox of beauty and cruelty, pits the Toreo (bullfighter) against the brave but suffering bull. Like this provocation, the work shows how we fight for survival in a similar battle to the death. This struggle motivates the emotional and physical content of the work. 

CHOREOLAB is a three-week guided process that allows choreographers to create work within a supportive, safe and inspiring environment. Weekly, the participants will show work in class and will receive feedback from both the group and the facilitator. The workshop will culminate on the last session with a low-tech produced show in DNA's intimate 130-seat theater and participants will have access to reduced-rate and subsidized free studio rentals. CHOREOLAB offers weekly showings & feedback within the class community, the optional opportunity to have showings and feedback videotaped, subsidized studio rental discounted to 2/hour, free last minute studio space and a DVD of the final product of the work shown in the theater. Students are expected throughout the course to be creating work for the CHOREOLAB session.

Choreographers: 
Jamie Boyle, Ariel Jaime, Heidi Kaufman, Belen Labanca, Delaney Larimore, Samantha Pulsifer, Susie Simpson, Jasmin Vrban, and Samsam Yung

Friday, January 11, 7:30 PM 
Saturday, January 12, 7:30 PM

Japan Society's Dance Showcase is back with a thrilling assortment of offerings! This year's line-up includes the new post-post-post-butoh duo dance work from Tokyo, Misshitsu: Secret Honey Room-Duo Version, created and performed collaboratively by Makotocluv founder Makoto Enda and former Dairakudakan dancer Kumotaro Mukai. Also from Tokyo, Send it, Mr. Monster, by award-winning choreographer and singer KENTARO!!, who leads his group TOKYO ELECTROCK STAIRS in a hip-hop dance set to Japanese pop and serenade songs--an organically meshed, unlikely pairing. From Kyoto, Japanese choreographer Kosei Sakamoto's new work HAIGAFURU~Ash is falling, created in contemplation of Japan's nuclear disaster during his residency in Helsinki and performed by members of his company Monochrome Circus. From Taipei, astonishing human body movements are set within a high-tech, real-time interactive space in Seventh Sense, choreographed by Chieh-hua Hsieh and performed by his company Anarchy Dance Theatre. Come check out dance from the other side of the globe without leaving town!

TICKETS: 8/5 Japan Society members