SWEAT-Modern Dance

Curator Chris Ferris has assembled an intriguing evening celebrating modern dance through the choreography of Tanya Calamoneri/Company SO.GO.NO, everything smaller, Chris Ferris & Dancers and Erica Rebollar/Rebollar Dance Theatre.

Tanya Calamoneri/Company SO.GO.NO
“Hatch” chronicles the antics of three baby birds as they learn to fly, including running into each other, chasing their shadows, and falling on their faces repeatedly. The piece opens in stark light with an archetypal image of baby birds with open mouths. They awkwardly discover their own bodies and figure out how their wings work. At long last they succeed and reach full flight in flock formation. The costumes by designer Mioko Mochizuki alone are worth seeing!

everything smaller
“Building It Up and Breaking It Down” – This dance is definitely about children and the games they play. This dance is definitely about language and its complexity and its simplicity and the lack thereof. This dance will definitely eventually dissolve into a sort of nothingness. This dance is about adults and the games they play. Gravity is also important and definite. We all definitely fly in this dance. This has some resolve to it. This dance loves you. This dance will kiss you. Repeat all of this 10,000 times over and over and over. It’s hard to do.

Chris Ferris and Dancers
“Carnivore” is a duet choreographed by Chris Ferris based in the enjoyment of mutual aggression. Movement full of explosion and effort erupt out of layers of smooth serine flow. Out of ceaseless push and pull, lift and slam run their courses of exhaustion. The dancers evolve into the appearance of a peaceful state of being separate yet together. Andrew Drury will provide original music on percussion including metal dustpan and drum.

“Duet For Rabbits” is a second duet choreographed by Chris Ferris based on intoxication and its irrational turns verses sobriety and the mindset required to execute its difficult patterns of steps. Movement shifts from the sublime complicated to suddenly drop into the simplistic urgency with out reason. Michael Evans will provide live music on percussion.

Erica Rebollar/Rebollar Dance Theatre
In “Erase,” choreographer Erica Rebollar restricts a singular movement idea and does not stray from this challenge. She is curious about how one idea/movement can be repeated enough times that it can obliterate itself. This piece questions how repetition can cancel itself out, how repetition might lose its subjective reference. How can a process become less about the movement and the intention and more about the method? If she gets rid of a preset idea, a set pattern of movements, is there anything left? After everything else is scaled down to a minimum, what remains?