Tiger Balm
PROCESS DANCE PROCESS
October 9, 2024
Red Eye
Meridian Movement Company | Leslie O'Neill, Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone, and Tamin Totzke | J H Shuǐ Xiān | Threads Dance Project
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, October 9, 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
Meridian Movement Company
Meridian Movement Company is a somatic healing company through hip hop.
Dancers: Colin Edwards, Cecil Neal, Aleeza, Gibran Murrieta, Kieu My, Dexter Friesen
This work is the reimagining of our previous work, Something Out of Nothing. Focusing on finding the beauty in the pain. Seeing the point of the and the purpose of the trials we go through.
Leslie O'Neill, Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone, and Tamin Totzke
Leslie O'Neill, Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone, and Tamin Totzke desire connection, sensation, resistance, and release in their experience of moving together. They welcome the friction and amplification of being witnessed, hoping to deepen relationship and unearth new findings while existing in the questions.
J H Shuǐ Xiān
Judith H Shuǐ Xiān is a choreographer, improviser, and sound artist based in Minneapolis. She is a 2017/2022 Q-Stage: New Works and 2019 Momentum: New Dance Works recipient and was part of the 2022 Red Eye Works-In-Progress cohort. She is currently focused on researching ritual & meditation through experimental performance.
Photo: Elise Radspinner
Threads Dance Project
Abolition In Evolution - part 2: SHOES (work in progress)
This is the second in a planned three-part exploration of what a new abolitionist movement is, how it can possibly manifest in our world and in our bodies. Abolition in Evolution (part 1), created in 2022, was the cursory/summative exploration of abolitionism as a movement to create a utopia in which we are able to live in multiple energies without harm to one another. (Part 2) will explore abolition as a journey through feet. "A person’s feet tell our stories. They carry us through life, moving us from one sorrow and season to the next. Our gait can reveal us to be buoyant or bullish, dispirited or steadfast" (Cicely Tyson). What if we could walk uniquely yet together towards Utopia? What do our shoes reveal about our journey? It uses shoes as a metaphor for identity/difference/community.
Dancers: Nieya Amezquita & Brenna Mosser
Music: Max Richter, Meshell Ndegeocello
Karen Charles is a dedicated educator, choreographer, and the founder of Threads Dance Project. Threads operates in Minneapolis at the Dance Nexus, providing a community space for learning, creating, and connecting. Charles has created over 40 works, including the two-time award-winning film Out of the Ashes. Charles holds a BFA in Ballet and a BS in Computer Science from Texas Christian University, as well as an M.Ed. in Administration from Georgia State University. She has performed with Room to Move Dance Company (Atlanta, GA) and Susan Warden Dance Company (Kansas City, MO), and was awarded a fellowship to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Charles has also served as Director at Perpich Arts High School and was the Founding Principal/Executive Director of Main Street School of Performing Arts. Additionally, she has created and staged works for James Sewell Ballet, Penumbra Theatre, Stages Theatre Company, Carleton College, Macalester College, the University of Georgia, the University of Iowa, and several arts high schools in the Twin Cities. More info: www.threadsdance.org.
Photo: Bill Cameron
Tiger Balm is supported by a grant from the Jerome Foundation.