PERFORMANCES
of past, present, and future elasticities
Sh’or-e / Gold
A performance work that explores travels of family from Ireland into a future sense of place. A family rescues a girl in the late 1890s after her trip across the northern sea. I took walks in Griffintown, and traveled to the energies of the St Lawrence River and the Atlantic Ocean to retrace part of their journeys.
Residencies: The Church at Ochre Pit Cove in Newfoundland with Lois Brown, and Studio D325, Montreal
Performances: Studio D325, Casa Popolo
BECOMING A BOOGIE-DOWN RICAN
A solo work about becoming part of a collective South Bronx community. As a mash-up of influences, movement gestures and textual narratives; it’s my experimentation with and reflections of this incredible borough.
Juana Jane links her melodic voice, movement prowess and on beathumor in a daring new performance piece
– Charles Rice-Gonzalez, BAAD!
This piece is about our day-to-day life in NYC that includes all who live in the city, without discrimination towards background, and with a universal movement vocabulary that reaches and touches everyone of us. - Pedrosorio, NYC
BECOMING A BOOGIE-DOWN RICAN
Created and performed by Jane Gabriels
Directorial Consultant: Miguel Anaya
Audio: Arthur Aviles interview, Caridad De La Luz/La Bruja “Nuyorico,” and voice-over by Leenda Bonilla
This work was developed through presentations at BAAD!/Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance in their Boogie Down Dance Series, studio showing at Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, and an excerpt at Pregones Theater. In Manhattan and Brooklyn: SoHo Rep, Dixon Place (at the invitation of Arthur Aviles), Movement Research Judson Church, New York Live Arts/Movement Research studio series, Movement Research Eden’s Expressway, Chez Bushwick, as well as at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), University of Limerick (Ireland), Northwestern University (Chicago), and in Montreal (Canada): Studio303, Casa del Popolo, mange mes pieds studio, La Elastica, and Sala Rossa.
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City Markings
Movement Research at Judson Church
Costume created in collaboration with Leenda Bonilla
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Peau d ’Âne
Created by Valérie Lamontagne, and performed at Studio 303 as part of Concordia University’s Humanities Annual Conference. “Peau d’Âne” creates links between the symbolic percipience of fairy tales and current technological innovation, exploring how wearables can become agents of performativity. photo: (c) Sandra Lynn Belanger, 2007
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Call me
Created by Nikol Mikus in collaboration with Alyson Wishnousky.
https://vimeo.com/12967379
Performances: Café Concret, Theater St. Catherine, Montreal.
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Salon d’art performance royal
In the interests of recognizing our royal selves, I invited a few people to think about a friend or family member also attending the performance and to write down how this person had changed their lives for the better. I read out their qualities, tapped their shoulders with a magic wand, pronounced them to be exceptional and wonderful, offered chocolates and escorted them back to their seat. The picture is a 9-year old who had a very proud mother. Photo: (c) Maxime Popinski Pelletier
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VANITY
Choreographed by Antonio Ramos in collaboration with Jane Gabriels.
Vanity imparted layers of psychological texture and tension. Aftertelling personal stories, they danced an urgent Naked City duet ofintimacy deflected, filled with strutting, street moves, and smallmoments of reflection – Miriam Seidel, The Inquirer (Philadelphia
Performed at Galapagos Art and Performance Space, The Painted Bride (Philadelphia), Theatre La Chapelle (Montreal Fringe), Judson Church (NYC), other downtown clubs.
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In My Skin
Collaboration with Jean Vitrano Danspace Project, Joyce SoHo, BAX
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PROOF
Movement theater inspired by rows of late summer corn, hope, and wild grasses with silver flowers shouting rain. Performances at: BAAD!, Studio 303 (Montreal)
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Becoming
Dixon Place. Photo: Merri Cyr
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