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presented by NYU Tisch Dance's Jack Crystal Theater, 111 2nd Avenue, New York NY Friday May 9th 6:30p performed by Stacy Lynn Smith, Shannon Yu, Nora Alami, Vicky Shick, Mor Mendel & EmmaGrace Skove-Epes live sound design by Shamar Watt lighting design by Shana Crawford directed by marion spencer RSVP /+ more info part of the Thesis Performances for NYU's inaugural MFA cohort in Dance: Interdisciplinary Research- marion spencer May 9th 6:30p @ NYU Tisch Dance Jack Crystal Theater; Tendayi Kuumba May 9th 8p @ NYU Tisch Dance Atlas Theater (directly following marion's); Shamar Watt May 14th 7p @ NYU Tisch Dance Atlas Theater; Xin Ying April 1-13th as part of Martha Graham Dance Company's Season at the Joyce Theater. a b o u t h o r i z o n - h o r i z o n is an interdisciplinary ensemble dance project that calls upon movement, sound, light and materials to interrogate catastrophe, extinction and futurity. Inspired by biological anthropologist Adriana Petryna’s Horizon Work - a radical call to create a deliberative and expansive time and space amid onrushing climate disasters - we study the ensemble as an organism of futurity. Investigating mycorrhizal networks - the roots of fungi that connect tree roots to each other underground, creating a network that shares resources between forest ecosystems - we ask: in a time of extinction, what can we learn from these ancient, non-human teachers that center collectivity, cooperation and curiosity? Through entangled ensemble dance practices, powerful solos, storytelling and worldbuilding with light and a massive golden net, this project proposes the wisdom of the dancer to ground into what we cannot see, but only feel, as the horizon to build and inhabit, together. I remain obsessively distraught with the state of our world, with how we live right now in this era of extinction, climate catastrophe and neo-fascism. And, I remain obsessively hopeful for how we build futures through collective practice and relationships. I make dances about this. I write about this. I read books about this. I listen to podcasts about this. I show up to meetings about this. I get this from my parents, from my education, from my community, from how I was raised to understand the world and to care about the world. I am reminded of this everyday my body returns to the studio: We will keep dancing. I would love to share this work - my next evening-length ensemble dance project that marks the completion of my Masters of Fine Arts degree - with you. I hope you can make it! |
photos of marion spencer & collaborators- performers Shannon Yu, Stacy Lynn Smith & EmmaGrace Skove-Epes- by Rachel Keane, h o r i z o n in-development presented by Movement Research at the Judson Church 3/10/25
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photo by Owen Burnham of SYMPHONY presented by NYU Tisch Dance May 2024