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Dance
The Artists' Lounge
Laurel Desmaris & Rebekah Hampton Barger
November 4, 2015 at
Appropriate for all ages
The Artists' Lounge
Laurel Desmaris & Rebekah Hampton Barger
November 4, 2015 at
Appropriate for all ages
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
7PM; doors at 6:30PM
Admission Price: Pay what you can (at the door)
Description
Space is the place
Choreographer and educator, Laurel Desmarais curates a movement installation exploring scenes of personal space and awareness featuring the dancers of Nashville’s FALL. Accompanied by live music from cellist Sarah Clanton, this work-in-progress strives to awaken one’s senses and connect to the ever-changing environment.
Presented as the second installment of The Artists’ Lounge at OZ, Desmarais shares this excerpt from a larger work as an early experiment with a live audience.
About The Artists
Dance
has been a movement educator and freelance artist for the past eight years in New York City and is a recent transplant to Nashville. She has taught for institutions as Dance New Amsterdam, Chez Bushwick and the Dance Forum Festival in Sweden. “I am interested in the exchange of knowledge, sharing what I know and learning from others, constantly investigating the language of movement.”
Most recently she collaborated with photographer Emra Islek on multi-media project Subliminal involving pinhole photography and live piano composition. She assisted Max Stone for the Complexions summer dance program and Mathew Bourne’s Swan Lake as well as traveled to Sweden for the annual Dance Forum; a ten day festival bringing together dancers from all over the world.
In 2010 Rebekah Hampton Barger relocated to Nashville after 4 years in Oklahoma City, OK as a company member and choreographer with modern and aerial dance company Perpetual Motion Dance, and a guest performer and faculty instructor with the Oklahoma City Ballet. Upon arriving in Nashville, Rebekah founded FALL, Nashville’s first aerial and contemporary dance company, with a vision to utilize the aerial arts as a means to expand the bounds of contemporary dance. Drawing on her multi-disciplinary background, Rebekah’s work blends classical and contemporary dance with a mixture of invented and existing structures, examining how the use of various apparatus’ can provide a broader range of movement possibilities and create opportunities to explore more dimensions in space.
In addition to directing FALL, Rebekah is the Ballet Program Director at ACSD, a frequent guest instructor for New Dialect’s Contemporary Cross-Training Series, and an Artist-In-Residence with abrasiveMedia.
FALL is a contemporary dance company using all the instruments at our disposal to create art that both inspires and entertains. By incorporating aerial dance, site specific work , more traditional dance elements, and collaborations with other artists and other genres, FALL moves in all dimensions of space to make innovative, exciting, and unexpected art.
Music
Sarah Clanton, described as a hair tossin’, cello wielding, sultry songstress, flips the script with her out of the box approach to a classical instrument. Clanton’s sound is unlike any other and has the power to make the listener drift off into an unknown world of peace and clarity through soothing string sounds and a beautifully harmonious voice.
Eric Loomis is a guitarist who comes from an improvisational background. His experience in the theatre arts and live music realms lend to “on the spot” creative musical contributions that fit the context of many performance styles.
Together, Sarah and Eric are excited to play space is the place which beckons a live, dynamic and uniquely improvised performance, inspired by the movement and story of Laurel’s Desmarais creativity and choreography.
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