The Space/Movement Project, Rachel Damon/Synapse Arts & Erica Mott

March 8-10, 2012 * 8:00 p.m.    

[The Space/Movement Project is] "stylistically distinct… an anthology of voices united by a shared goal." – Newcity

Receiver is a shared program of premieres by three emerging Chicago voices, exhibiting the varying depths to which theatricality appears in dance. In Kiss Kiss Missiles, dancemakers’ collective The Space/Movement Project uses social dance tradition to assemble surging directional changes, fleeting partnerships and mismatched patterning. Choreographer Rachel Damon of Synapse Arts uses improvisation to challenge her collaborators in real time and invites the viewer to experience morphing body states as they unfold in Without Pause. The music of percussionist Frank Rosaly, performed live, heightens the impact of Damon’s intrepid work. Choreographer and performance-maker Erica Mott uses humor and surprise to explore polar opposites. Incorporating dance, object manipulation, and sculptural costuming, Mott’s Five Gaits, Four Walls, Fourteen Knots is a sweeping landscape of maverick abandon, aggressive territoriality, and lonely constriction.

 

Untitled from The Space Movement Project on Vimeo.

 

5 Gaits, 4 Walls, 14 Knots from Erica Mott on Vimeo.

Other Events

 

Post-Performance Conversation

Thursday, March 8, 2012

 

FamilyDance Matinee

Saturday, March 10, 2012 * 3:00 p.m.    

 

 

 

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The Space/Movement Project, Rachel Damon/Synapse Arts and Erica Mott’s performances at The Dance Center are funded, in part, by The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Sara Lee Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council.

This performance is supported in part by Audience Architects' New Stages for Dance program. Leadership support for the New Stages for Dance Initiative is provided by MetLife Foundation and Dance/USA.