The Show
Dance+ Volume II will feature choreography by Michael Parmelee and Amanda Hameline as they experiment with dance on the internet and the possibilities of our Zoom world.
Around Noon is a performance of fantasy, fixation, and failure. It endeavors to bridge the gap between an artist’s privacy and his need to show off and perform. It lives in the future, ignores the past and considers the things one tells oneself to maintain the dignity of the present. Around Noon asks: Who am I when no one is looking? What does it take to perform? What is needed? What is useless? What can be let go? Using the tools of DIY at-home theater — multiple iPhones, a Macbook, Christmas lights — Michael Parmelee converses with the moon, plays games with citrus fruits, and investigates artist identification from the void.
Where would I be if after birth I just started walking? What if, as it has sometimes felt, my life were one-directionally forward-moving with only momentary glimpses of progress? Jace Weyant and I (Amanda Hameline) have decided to ask these questions by creating Walking After, a new work based on the following principles:
- We each started walking in a straight line when we were born.
- We are walking on the Supersurface, a conceptual, architectural project proposed by the Italian avant garde architectural group Superstudio in 1972.
- We meet at some point, which will be determined through a mathematical equation and interpreted through the choreographic process.
- We dance the same dance in as many different locations as possible.
- “Everydayness appears only in the interstices of the gridlines”
It is a piece about the brutal reality of time and the imaginative contortions that shape our perception of time made by two people, aged 31 and 20, who are definitely too young to comment on such a concept, but still will.
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Dance+
Dance+ is an annual interdisciplinary dance event curated by A+J Founding Director and choreographer Amanda Hameline, and featuring at least one other choreographer and one non-dance artist working collaboratively to build an evening of performance.