Sunday, December 10, 4:00 pm
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Emerging Choreographers Concert curated by WADE (Wandering Avian Dance Experience)
Anchorage by Elena Wrinkle Garcia
Anchorage presents the desire to hold onto time as it passes. Time can be a person, place, thing or memory, but the subconscious feeling of never wanting to leave it behind. Left alone in the wallowing space of time not ready to go but can’t go back as everyone has already moved on. This piece symbolizes the fear of everything and everyone changing in a split second. Six dancers are used.
Elena Wrinkle Garcia (She/Her/Hers) is a latina artist, choreographer, and current student with NYU Tisch Dance. She began her dance training at Royal Ballet Dance Academy in Dallas, Texas, then moved to Boston, Massachusetts having trained with Boston Ballet Professional Division at Walnut Hill. She now focuses on her contemporary training and choreographic endeavors while currently in her second year at Tisch School for the Arts. Having performed student works with NYU Tisch and repertoire with Sidra Bell, Doug Varone, Gibney, Sean Curran, David Dorfman, and more during residency.
Paradox in Translation by mignolo dance
Paradox in Translation embodyies two poems, creating a vocabulary that exactly maps to the spoken/sung text. This is complemented by more disjointed translations, culminating in a dreamscape that explores the contradictions inherent in love and loss.
Charly Santagado (Mignolo Dance) + Poetry: Matthew Menchaca and Charly Santagado; Music: Emory Campbell and Steve Reich.
mignolo dance is a contemporary dance company founded by sisters Charly & Eriel Santagado in 2017. They are lifelong dance and creative partners dedicated to developing new work that explores elements of various artistic mediums through movement. The company has presented at many festivals including Altofest, Come Together Dance Festival, Dance on the Lawn, Dumbo Dance Festival, FAKI Festival, KoDaFe, Making Moves Dance Festival, the Moving Memory project, New Wave Dance Festival, Triskelion’s SummerFest, and Your Move. Their work has been produced by Arts On Site, The Berrie Center at Ramapo College, Dixon Place, Gardenship Art, HERE Arts Center, and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Their dance film work has been featured at several international festivals including Austin Dance Festival, Dance Days Chania, Leeds International Film Festival, InShadow, New Jersey Film Festival, TANZAHOi, and Utah Dance Film Festival.
To Unfold and Hold by Eilish Henderson
Through landscapes of movement, this work examines connections to other women as an intricate web, causing both intense synchronicity and complications. Expressing falling in love with women through friendship, romance, and all that lies in between, this work focuses on that space which cannot be named or understood, only felt.
Eilish Henderson is a movement artist working primarily with subjects of the body based in NYC. She is interested in nourishing the collective practice of translation through the written word, movement, and drawing. Shuning Huang, born and raised in Nanjing, China, received her MA in Dance Education from New York University, and BA in Dance Studies from Beijing Dance Academy. She started formally studying Chinese dance and ballet at the age of 6, and shifted her focus to modern dance from undergraduate school to continue her studies, her training encompasses Chinese (classical and folk) dance, Modern/Contemporary, Ballet, and Jazz.
Lost Words by Iyanna Jackson
Love , a concept and feeling that is shared throughout the world. But what does this mean in a more negative light? Unhealthy Love, Toxicity, Limerence and Mania - the idea of obsessive love, self destruction, and how it is passed on contributing to the destruction of others. These concepts cause people to lose their consciousness and emote into psychological abuse.
Choreography and Music: Iyanna Jackson. Performers: Matthew Mancuso, Payton Brewster, Sage Sarai, Henry Leef, Lerato Rangontse, Joshua Dawson, Julia Ozdych, Ngoz Mokwunye. Music: Audio edited by Iyanna Jackson “Reach” by Eternal Eclipse , “Bed” by Devonte Hynes , “Intro” by Jcole, “Then I Heard a Bachelor's Cry” by Benjamin Clementine, Ted Talk “Psychological abuse” by Signe M. Hegestand, “8 ways Emotional Abuse Traumatizes You” by Psych2Go, Ted talk “The difference between healthy and unhealthy love” by Katie Hood, Written excerpts/Narration on toxicity by Iyanna Jackson.
Iyanna Jackson (she, her) began dancing in her hometown of Charlotte, NC, at the age of 2 years old. Between the ages 5 and 10, she took a break from formal training but soon resumed back training at 11 years old where she found her passion and followed this by continuing her journey in pursuing dance. She has studied a multitude of styles at local studios in her hometown formerly known as Charlotte Performing Arts Academy, Miller Street Dance Academy, and Havilah Dance Company, and BB Dance Productions. She has gotten the opportunity to work with artists such as Sidra Bell, Evidence company, David Dorfman, and has rehearsed works such as "Storytime" with members of the Bill T company. She’s had the opportunity to perform at places like the Joyce Theater and has made appearances on So You Think You Can Dance, Dance Spirit Magazine, and many more. Dance will continue to be her deepest passion and has continued to be her dream.