Tiger Balm
PROCESS DANCE PROCESS
April 17, 2024
Red Eye Theater
EMILY GASTINEAU | TUMELO KHUPE | CARLO ANTONIO VILLANUEVA | LAURIE VAN WIEREN
From dance, to dance, by dance, for dance: for the skeptics, the ambivalent, and the believers
A salve for those who are jaded by talkbacks
An irritant if you insist on a singular lens
An ongoingness, a continuous labor, an unarrival
A viewing practice of holding complexity, difference, context, impact
The pleasure of the sting, the slow burn, and, if you're lucky: an opening.
Four short dance works in process. One running experiment in discussion, together. Because relational, because dance, because dance wants to be in conversations of dance, because dance is what wants.
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
7 pm
Red Eye Theater
2213 Snelling Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404
TICKETS
$5 - $15 sliding scale
ACCESSIBILITY
Red Eye's performance space is fully wheelchair-accessible. To request ASL interpretation, audio description, large-print programs, or other accessibility-related accommodations for any event, please contact us with as much advance notice as possible. staff@redeyetheater.org | 612.870.7531
About the artists
Laurie Van Wieren
Laurie Van Wieren (she/her) grew up on the west side of Chicago and moved to Minneapolis where she fell in with a pack of dance and art makers. Van Wieren has created solo, ensemble, and site-specific works throughout the Twin Cities with many collaborators. She is an artist advocate and has curated and produced performances at the Southern Theater, Ritz Theater, Soo Visual Art Center, and 9×22 Dance/Lab, the monthly inclusive performance/discussion platform that she created (2003 to 2019). Her work has received awards from the McKnight, Jerome, Bush, and Rockefeller Foundations, National Endowment for the Arts, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Minnesota State Arts Board, Sage Cowles Awards for Dance, and an Artists of the Year Award in City Pages. In 2022 she was in residence at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography as part of a McKnight Artist Fellowship. www.laurievanwierenprojects.com
Photo: Dan Norman
Tumelo Khupe
Into Me I See (intimacy) - KRUMP Movement Research
I see the viewers as participants in what is being presented. We all respond to sensory stimuli in different ways. Krump (Kingdom Radically Uplifted Mighty Praise) is street dance characterized by stomps, chest pops, arm swings, jabs and hand gestures. I will be sharing my world with you, but I am curious as to what you see/sense/taste and feel as viewers. Usually we dance to release what is in us, but I am curious to hear what the release reveals in you, if anything.
Tumelo Khupe (alias Melo) is a performing artist, krumper, and emerging choreographer based in the Twin Cities and from Botswana. Her artistry investigates and explores how the body manifests lived experiences through movement. Krump is foundational in her work as it offers endless possibilities for storytelling through its technique and language. She makes use of some elements of theater to reveal these moments through freestyle or improvisation. The four pillars of her artistry are rawness, discovery, individuality, and spirituality.
Emily Gastineau
0, as in, before the beginning, as in, 0, 1, group, ∞, as in, a collective research on collective research
Emily Gastineau is a choreographer, writer, performer, and editor based in Minneapolis. Recurring concerns in her body of work include objects, desire, value, citation, spectatorship, collectivity, and the generic. Her performance work has been developed and presented across North America and Europe, and she engages with language within her choreographic practice as well as through arts writing and publishing. Former projects and affiliations include: Fire Drill, Criticism Exchange, Fresh Oysters Performance Research, DAS Choreography (Amsterdam University of the Arts), and Mn Artists (Walker Art Center). Emily is a Co-Artistic Director of Red Eye, and this spring she is teaching in the art department at the University of Minnesota. www.emilygastineau.com
Photo: Nellie DeBoer
Carlo Antonio Villanueva
Carlo Antonio Villanueva is a Filipino American dance artist and educator specializing in choreographic process, studio practices, performance coaching, and improvisation. This season, he is working on performance projects with Christopher Williams, Faye Driscoll, and Brit Falcon. Carlo is at home in Lenapehoking (New York, New Jersey), and newly in Bde Óta Othúŋwe/Gakaabikaang (Minneapolis) where he continues to seek and build community. In his new position of Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Minnesota, Carlo gathers his experiences in performance to teach dance technique(s) and composition. carloantoniovillanueva.com
Photo: Dylan Singleton
Tiger Balm is supported by a grant from the Jerome Foundation.