ILLUMINATIONS: A Performance Party
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December 17, 7pm
with Vermont Dance Alliance An evening of performance, featuring new works by Isadora Snapp, Emma Manion, Shannon Kelly, Jessie Owens and Danielle Tekut, and Amy Koenbaugher and Noah Witke. Guest performers include Mary Jo Cahilly-Bretzin, and musicians Michael Manion, Jeremy Frederick and Matt LaRocca. $20-100 sliding scale, no one turned away Learn more: https://vermontdance.org/event/brand-new-a-performance-party-at-the-everything-space |
The Evening will include these performances:
"You are coming to hold each other’s faces"
By: Amy Königbauer and Noah Witke Mele
Live Music by: Steven Lichti and Amy Königbauer
An invitation to participate or observe guided intimacy in action.
Warning: this may feel uncomfortable. It is okay to feel uncomfortable.
Multitudes
Choreographed by: Isadora Snapp in collaboration with Mary Jo Cahilly-Bretzin
Performed by: Mary Jo Cahilly-Bretzin
Costumes by: Emily Reynolds
Multitudes is a solo work in three parts that takes inspiration from the complexities of personality. Expanding on the idea of self, Snapp offers the audience the space to exam their reactions to outward appearance: How much does it alter how we view people? Utilizing chance as a choreographic tool allows the piece to have an element of spontaneity with each new performance.
Two Disparate Things
Choreographed and Performed by: Jessie Owens & Danielle Tekut
Live Music by: Jeremy Frederick and Matt LaRocca
Fueled by the musings of all the best feminist writers they could find on their bookshelves, along with a primer on the joys cheap wine, the performers each dissect and deliberate a very personal and defining life experience in the hopes of coming to terms, gaining wisdom, stretching, growing, or at least uttering a word that doesn’t sound like complete bullshit. Their level of success is still unclear.
“I’ve been good - BUSY. But good!”
Performance by: Emma Manion
Sound: Michael Manion on guitar, composed by Simon & Garfunkel.
Additional music by Bibio and Nina Simone, edited by Emma Manion
Saying thanks to the simpler things and moving from the gut. Gestures at the battle of tapping into creative endeavors because you’re too damn busy.
An Attempt To Be Vulnerable
Performed by Shannon Kelly
Sound by Shannon Kelly and Xavier Jimenez
What is more healing than being seen? What is more artful than the grace of presence and vulnerability?
"You are coming to watch me jump"
By Noah Witke Mele
In this piece Noah will jump.
"You are coming to hold each other’s faces"
By: Amy Königbauer and Noah Witke Mele
Live Music by: Steven Lichti and Amy Königbauer
An invitation to participate or observe guided intimacy in action.
Warning: this may feel uncomfortable. It is okay to feel uncomfortable.
Multitudes
Choreographed by: Isadora Snapp in collaboration with Mary Jo Cahilly-Bretzin
Performed by: Mary Jo Cahilly-Bretzin
Costumes by: Emily Reynolds
Multitudes is a solo work in three parts that takes inspiration from the complexities of personality. Expanding on the idea of self, Snapp offers the audience the space to exam their reactions to outward appearance: How much does it alter how we view people? Utilizing chance as a choreographic tool allows the piece to have an element of spontaneity with each new performance.
Two Disparate Things
Choreographed and Performed by: Jessie Owens & Danielle Tekut
Live Music by: Jeremy Frederick and Matt LaRocca
Fueled by the musings of all the best feminist writers they could find on their bookshelves, along with a primer on the joys cheap wine, the performers each dissect and deliberate a very personal and defining life experience in the hopes of coming to terms, gaining wisdom, stretching, growing, or at least uttering a word that doesn’t sound like complete bullshit. Their level of success is still unclear.
“I’ve been good - BUSY. But good!”
Performance by: Emma Manion
Sound: Michael Manion on guitar, composed by Simon & Garfunkel.
Additional music by Bibio and Nina Simone, edited by Emma Manion
Saying thanks to the simpler things and moving from the gut. Gestures at the battle of tapping into creative endeavors because you’re too damn busy.
An Attempt To Be Vulnerable
Performed by Shannon Kelly
Sound by Shannon Kelly and Xavier Jimenez
What is more healing than being seen? What is more artful than the grace of presence and vulnerability?
"You are coming to watch me jump"
By Noah Witke Mele
In this piece Noah will jump.
Vermont Dance Alliance
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ABOUT VDA
The Vermont Dance Alliance is a foundation for Vermont dancers and a public platform for dance in Vermont. The alliance cultivates deeper relationships between its members, and helps to foster a thriving artistic community, including all dance forms that are represented here in the state. The VDA administration supports dance artists of all genres, educates the public, and brings high quality events to the local community. VDA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, supported by its membership system, which is comprised of dance artists, service partners, patrons, and sponsors, each of whom play a vital role in our ecosystem. |
