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I N P E R F O R M A N C E
Never Before Never Again - T H E L I N E U P
WEEK 1
THURSDAY, JAN 9 @ 8
The Lovelies with the Dance for PD® Community
Zoe Rabinowitz + Galen Bremer
J. Bouey
Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett
STäD
FRIDAY, JAN 10 @ 8
The Site Project
Jenn Nugent
SATURDAY, JAN 11 @ 8
Jenn Nugent
The Lovelies + Kirin McElwain
The Architects with Kirin McElwain
Hosted by Donnell Williams
SUNDAY, JAN 12
Workshop: The Underscore with Nicole Touzien @ 1:45pm - 4pm
STAGE DIVE @ 6pm
WEEK 2
THURSDAY, JAN 16 @ 8
Nicole Wolcott
Wendell Gray II
Terrence Diable
The Leftovers: Donnell Oakley, Sarah Chien, Mei Yamenaka + Hannah Wendell
Ani Javian
Hosted by Katy Berry
FRIDAY, JAN 17 @ 8
Troy Ogilvie
The Leftovers: Donnell Oakley, Sarah Chien, Mei Yamenaka + Hannah Wendell
SATURDAY, JAN 18 @ 8
Troy Ogilvie
slowdanger
SUNDAY, JAN 19
Workshop: slowdanger @ 12pm
Workshop: The Lovelies @ 2pm
STAGE DIVE @ 6pm
WEEK 3
THURSDAY, JAN 23 @ 8
I.D.A.
Zoe Rabinowitz + Galen Bremer
Ladies of Hip Hop
Lauren Cox
Betsy Miller + Matthew Cumbie
FRIDAY, JAN 24 @ 8
Jesse Zaritt
The Lovelies + Kirin McElwain
Special show intro by Pam Pietro
SATURDAY, JAN 25 @ 8
Jesse Zaritt
The Site Project
Closing Party @ Triskelion
Purchase tickets before they sell out
Fundraiser - Mark your Calendars!
Feb 14 - info TBA
C L A S S - Wednesdays @ 7
Improvisation @ Mark Morris Dance Center
Dec 4 with Katie + Ryan - Intro
Dec 11 with Lena + Ryan - Advanced
Dec 18 with Joanna + Ryan - Intro
Dec 25 - no class
"...not scared of time & humor"
-audience member
"...this class is the most important aspect of my life here in Brooklyn."
-class-taker
The Lovelies are a compositional improvisation dance company. We show up and pay attention. What we do in the studios we take to the streets and beyond. We laugh, we laugh so hard we cry, and we do it in the moment. We practice telling the truth in the midst of the awkward, the dramatic, the comical and the gems it all reveals.
The Lovelies have been exploring the possibilities of compositional improvisation since 2013. We have had the honor of being presented at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, The Tank, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Shapeshifter Lab, in breweries, salons, parks, hotels and many other theatres and site-specific locations.
The Lovelies teach compositional improvisation at Mark Morris Dance Center and the Joffrey Ballet School and present a space residency and split bill series called The Lovelies Present: Slice & Dice.
Action.
Active. Aliveness.
Actively actioning.
In times of dread
Artists must never choose to remain silent
This is precisely the time
When artists go to work
There is no time for despair,
No place for self-pity,
No need for silence, no room for fear
-Toni Morrison, The Pieces I Am
As everyday seems to begin with even more disparaging news, I shame-spiral into the ways I am inadequate, under-informed, lacking expertise to make a change.
Then a good friend and...
There’s a life-saving and also terrifying aspect of improvisation that I return to – especially when I feel lost in the dance, my choices, my relationships.
Start again.
Whether it’s to re-invest in what’s already there, or rip the sheet from the notebook and stare into an empty page:
Start again.
It’s a ubiquitous mantra – for all aspects of my life (the dances, the choices, the relationships) – and thank The People, I have it when I need it, for tho...
The multi-faceted, yet highly-simplistic, 4-fold way.
As much research as I do, sometimes analysis and logic must reveal themselves when they will, not necessarily when I want them to.
Having JK in town is wild. She’s wild. Her style of teaching, performing, choreographing, loving, all seems to come from this place of abandon.
Free fall. Hurl and thrust. Passion.
Yet there’s years of chops, experience, experimentation, fact, analysis and logic that...
I just completed a 30-day phase of living that included eliminating lots of unnecessary things from my life…sugars, glutens, CHEESE, alcohol, all of those things that I was under the completely false pretense of being necessary until this month-long foray. At about the same time in my life, I had changed jobs, ended an unhealthy relationship and started to examine where else in my life I need to cut out the unneeded. It was an intense and beautifu...
The Lovelies spent the weekend in Northampton, Mass, after being invited to perform at the School for Contemporary Dance & Thought.
Being out of the city is always welcome. Being in a beautiful respite of fall colors, lakes and blue skies is always welcome.
And being one of the Lovelies with the rest of the crew there as the Lovelies was a welcome change I can get used to.
Change in our country’s leadership.
Change in our views of each other, belief s...
“Humans have been around for 200,000 years. For the first 99% of our history, we didn’t do much of anything but procreate and survive. This was largely due to harsh global climactic conditions, which stabilized sometime around 10,000 years ago. People soon thereafter discovered farming and irrigation, and they gave up their nomadic lifestyle to cultivate and tend stable crops. But not all farm plots are the same; regional variations in sunshine, s...
It is rare in the current dance world to be paid well. To be paid as one is deserved for their efforts, attachment to the material and generosity to share it.
I also find it a rare opportunity as an improviser to do much set material. It’s even more rare to be truly interested in the material given, and be given the opportunity to play with the material publicly – while on display – and be given the chance to explore the material over hours and ho...
I haven’t been to MICI since the summer of 2009.
My dad had just died in May, and Amanda, someone I consider a sister, picked me up on her way from Iowa in her grandmother’s red car. She had inherited it and loved having it to drive everyday; a constant reminder of a loved one. It felt good driving in it. It felt good to be with Amanda. Every day since May 28th had been filled with that off-the-rails sort of behavior, feelings and dreams that com...
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