The End is Near!

The End is Near!

September 27-29, 2012

Brooklyn, NY – Director and choreographer Saifan Shmerer announces her newest evening-length work, Nothing Lasts Forever, Nothing is Lost Forever, at The End in Brooklyn, NY from September 27-29, 2012.

Saturated in a cultural obsession with the apocalypse, this roving performance installation--choreographed by Shmerer and the dancers--immerses the audience in a world of archaic beasts, wandering girls, and the last bird on earth. Nothing Lasts Forever, Nothing is Lost Forever allows us to observe how environment, mythos, and our premonitions of the future culminate in a self- fulfilling prophecy of self-destruction. With an original score by Trevor Wilson, costume and production design by Heather Freedman, and set design by Freedman,Greg Kozatek, and George Hoffman, this evening-length collaboration crosses multiple artistic boundaries, incorporating sound design, and installation, into a truly immersive performance event.

All performances (September 27-29) will take place at The End, located at 18 Kent Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Tickets are 5 and are available online at www.brownpapertickets.com.saifan shmerer | SASSON is a project-based performance collective that makes

post-post-modern dance on the rocks with

a twist (and sometimes an olive).

 

SASSON's work is concerned with “the

state of things” in any and all of the

following departments: the

world, love, dreams, the apocalypse, drag, academia,

gynecology,

language, history/herstories, sex, imaginary domains, prophesy,

(mis)representation, sugar and flesh. We are a company of artists

working

collaboratively to scheme, choreograph, incubate, engineer and

Saifan Shmerer is geographically located in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn,

emotionally

trapped between fantasy and logic and psychically

road-tripping between matter

and the moon. Her muscle memory contains 19 years of ballet training, tutus and

pointe shoes, 4 years of

hip-hop and jazz, 8 (plus) years of “modern,”

improvisational practice

and performance theory. Her intellectual capacity is

threatening to

max out at 14,562 GB of radical anti-racist feminism(s), childhood

memories, intensive personal inquiry, the kinesthetic dynamics of

quality

espresso and latte art, and the names of her 11 cats (some

deceased). In the

tradition of name-dropping, Saifan graduated from

New School for Liberal Arts in 2008. She was the 2008-2009 recipient

of the

Van Lier Fellowship at Dance Theater Workshop. She is the

founder/curator/host of VIParty, a Performance Party Series, currently

on

hiatus. Saifan’s work has appeared at The Tank, La MaMa ETC.,

AUNTS,

American College Dance Festival Association (CT & MA), The

(CT), Great Friends Dance Festival (RI) and in her kitchen.