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Soaking WET -- Sara Hook, Rebecca Stenn, Cat Wagner, Megan Williams
PROGRAM A
Thursday/Friday/Saturday at 7 PM and Sunday at 2 PM
SARA HOOK presents the New York premiere of Is All, a solo created for and performed by Chicago-based artist Katie Williams, set to a spare and elegant score by composer Barry R. Morse. The imaginative team of Hook and Williams began creating the work by asking non-dance folks to imitate the first thing that came to mind when thinking of "Modern Dance." They collected these images on video and thus the initial movement vocabulary of the work was born. After numerous deconstructions and the intermingling of a few iconic dance history remnants added, the dance turns into an unapologetic (if perhaps part nostalgic) invocation of feminist poetic sensuality.
Sara Hook (choreographer) will be remembered as a dancer with the companies of Pearl Lang, Jean Erdman, and the Nikolais Dance Theater and The Bang Group. She is currently Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign.
Katie Williams (dancer) holds a BFA in Dance from the U of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign, where she received the Donald Carducci Memorial Scholarship for excellence in dance performance. Katie is currently an independent dance artist in Chicago.
REBECCA STENN will present Bridge-maker, which the choreographer will perform with Megan Williams. Premiered last March at the BAM Fisher Theater, the duet finds the performers working to blend their distinct movement styles to create an otherworldly, personal duet. Each dancer brings her own sense of physicality, reaction time, interaction, gesture and considered construction to the duet, danced to a music collage compiled by Stenn.
Rebecca Stenn, a founding member of Pilobolus Too, has presented her company, founded 20 years ago, at venues including The Copenhagen Festival, The Edinburgh Festival, Joyce Theater, The Annenberg Center, and Jacob's Pillow. Stenn is currently on the faculties of The New School and Princeton University, and is a choreographer-in-residence at Dartmouth College.
CAT WAGNER premieres the first installation of her newest trio The Lady Kids, inspired by Grimm's fairy tales and the wild woman archetype. Performed to an original text by the choreographer and collaborators Louise Benkelman, Mei Maeda and Imogene Williams, the work intermingles a voracious contemporary dance vernacular with quirky, non sequitur moments and durational tasks.
Cat Wagner is a Brooklyn-based dance/theater artist. She received her MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College, and has taught at Smith, Amherst, and Mount Holyoke Colleges. As a dancer, Cat performed with Danny McCusker, Wanda Strukus, Joan Green and Double Edge Theatre in Massachusetts. She currently teaches at public schools and private studios throughout NYC.
MEGAN WILLIAMS presents Play Like A Girl #2, a quintet inspired by and in collaboration with the music of composer Eve Beglarian. Dancers are Reka Echerer, Hannah Garner, Chelsea Hecht, Imani Simmons, and Emily Tarrier.
Megan Williams' work has been produced by 10 Hairy Legs, Dancenow NYC at Joe's Pub and NYLA, and by the Rivertown Artist's Workshop, Barnspace, MIXT Co., Purchase College and Marymount Manhattan College. Megan has a BFA from Juilliard and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She taught at Purchase from 2000-13 and is currently on the faculties at the Gibney Dance Center and Connecticut College.
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LocationWest End Theatre (View)
263 West 86th Street, Second Floor
New York, NY 10024
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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