RAW Material

RAW Material, a biannual series showcasing new work from five contemporary choreographers. This season’s program highlights emerging and established artists from the U.S. and abroad. Diverse in content, style and medium, RAW Material encourages artists to bring new and mid-process work to a live audience while experimenting with new ways of crafting their work.

Christina Towle performs Head2Head, a duet that explores the progressive fusion of two bodies into one. Starting with isolated points, two dancers connect to one another by their extremities; their contact eventually diffuses throughout the whole body. Sound, by multi-media artist David Mathias, amplifies the progression of the dancers, capturing their steps, the sounds of their bodies against one another and their breath.

Regina Nejman & Company perform an excerpt from Reveal, a new multimedia dance theater piece that questions the meaning of privacy today. Beginning with the perspective of artists, who by the nature of their craft constantly share their innermost experiences with others, Reveal delves into the relationship between privacy and technology and the impact of this relationship on everyday life. Six dancers explore these themes as they weave pathways through a sonic landscape created by Mio Morales and set by Mark T. Simpson.

Melinda Lee performs And Other Gentle Cruelties, an examination of the art of confession and concealment within a group–and in particular, the family. Bodies and minds contort, shield, seduce, torture, to avoid what has long been unspoken and yet that "every body" knows.

Julie Fotheringham performs How Long Is Now? a piece about repetition and stillness. Music is by cellist, composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, who uses a combination of computer compositions, field recordings, cello, improvisation, tiny instruments, and world music.

Amanda Waal performs edited aim, a piece involving improvised responses to structured sets. She will sing songs and dance on a chair to explore how location and context change interpretations of familiar concepts and objects.