Mountain Shouting is a trio of dances made in Virginia, North Carolina and Hong Kong, that deal with longing for our native selves and the spaces we may have inhabited. Unfolding within a designated ceremonial arena, part Thai kickboxing ring and part Church altar, the night is an ancestral revival as much as a rehearsal for death. Playfully teetering on the edge of narrative, each dance looks in distinct ways at the sensuous aspects of distance and dislocation-- the impossibility of foreign words in the mouth, the body as it is desperate and uncomfortable, the sticky shadowiness of memory space.

Jennie MaryTai Liu's dance/theater work has been presented at Dance Theater Workshop, WUK in Vienna, CCN Ballet de Lorraine in France, at the American Dance Festival, 2008's Congress on Research on Dance, the Bushwick Starr, as well as in many nomadic dance shows throughout the city. She has performed in the work of Big Dance Theater, Witness Relocation, Cathy Weis Projects, and Nellie Tinder. In 2008 she was awarded a residency at the Yaddo Arts Colony, and is currently an artist-in-residence at HERE Arts Center, and at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She received her MFA in Dance from Hollins University, and is originally from Hong Kong.