Announcing Performance Mix Festival: 29

April 2, 2015  | emily  | General

New Dance Alliance presents  2015 Performance Mix Festival: 29th Edition @ HERE  Thursday-Tuesday, June 4-9, 8:30PM  Opening / Closing Receptions  Breakfast Mix @ HERE Friday, June 5, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM 

“Rules are made to be broken in the Performance Mix Festival, where the artists explore the rarefied air where the wacky and the engaging never meet.”

—The New York Times

Thirty-three eclectic artists present work that sets out in new directions, challenges the definition of dance, and takes us out of our comfort zones. Performance Mix, more than just a festival, is a community of dance, performance, and video artists from contrasting backgrounds and genres. And you are invited to visit.

“…a world of movement [of the female body] that was dominated by force, vigor and a grim determination that eschewed charm, softness or compromise and engaged an abandoned intense athleticism that was striking and exhilarating.”

—Critical Correspondence, Movement Research

Expect the unexpected from artists near and far, such as:

From New York City: Erick Hawkins Dance, founded in 1951, continues today to develop dances based on Hawkins’ pioneering movement theory, which harmonizes body, mind and spirit; Martita Abril transcends physical and cultural boundaries; Malcolm Low embraces a playful palette with surprising permutations; Michele Beck turns her camera toward recent trends in pole dancing; and devynn emory/beast productions is not making work about being a mixed race, transgender performer.

From elsewhere in the US: Jordan Fuchs (Texas) commits to explorations of form and formlessness, proximity, and physicality and Meg Foley (Philadelphia) embodies potential for a more pliable sense of self and of relationship.

From Canada (Montreal): George Stamos commissioned by Emilie Roberts – a rollerblade athlete going beyond her comfort zone; Dominique Porte, who had a reputation as an intense, precise, and virtuosic performer with Compagnie Marie Chouinard, William Douglas, and José Navas before founding her own company, Système D, in 1999; and Nicolas Cantin, most recently produced at Festival Transamerique, for whom emotional memories and the passing of time crystallize in a scenic object at once elusive and highly efficient. Sara Porter (Toronto) interweaves storytelling, song, dance and surrealism, and if that’s not all, she is damn funny.

“How can it be that one performance can be all three: semi-autobiographical stream of consciousness, navel gazing didacticism, riveting?”

—Brooklyn Rail

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