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Opening reception: Friday, January 16, 5-7 PM
Clifford B. West Gallery and Rebecca Lawrence Gallery: NOVEL FORMATS ON-SITE | A project by Rachel Bernsen and Collaborators: Megan Craig, Chico Eastridge, JAM – Junction Arts & Media, Noah Mease, and Jean Carla Rodea (Click here to read more about the performers).
Novel Formats is a cycle of seven performance works that explore the phenomenal nature of dance in conversation with forms outside itself. Each dance is unique, and each work in Novel Formats is a distinct collaboration between dance, music, and visual art. For each, artists come together from a range of practices and, in varying permutations, engage collectively in performance making. In doing so, they investigate the social and political dimensions of improvisation. The works demonstrate that improvisation can be a shared experience that transcends discipline: it is a communal practice, a way to be in relationship with oneself, with others, and the world. To date, three works in the Novel Formats cycle have been created and performed: #1: A Dialogue, #2: The Set Up, #3: Loop. AVA will be premiering performances of the next two works: #5: For A Time, #6: You Are Here, Change, Change, Change.
- Scheduled performances (below) | Performances begin at 7 PM
- Fri. Jan 23 and Sat. Jan 24: For A Time – Novel Formats #5Â
- In collaboration with sound artist and vocalist Jean Carla Rodea and theater designer and visual artist Noah Mease
- Fri. Feb 6 and Sat. Feb 7: You Are Here, Change Change Change – Novel Formats #6
- In collaboration with visual artist and professor of Philosophy, Megan Craig
