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Rebekah Windmiller - Beholden (premiere)
Rebekah Windmiller's new solo dance, Beholden, is about the obligations of women. Presented at the Cora Studio Theater in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Beholden explores the ways in which an elusive female persona is compelled to fulfill roles that are chosen or thrust upon her. Working with the legs as a catalyst for expression, Windmiller asks: can the legs alone drive emotional rhythms in a dance and convey a unique language of longing, aggression and vulnerability?
Whether wildly thrown into the air or slowing developing, Windmiller uses her legs to probe the underbellied experience of the feminine. From a debutante slipping off sheer stockings, to a shy young girl becoming aware of sexuality, to a seductress spinning determinedly, reluctantly shedding her clothing, or to a glamorous movie star protecting her image, Beholden exposes and exploits the tension between the inner and outer worlds of a woman ultimately beholden to herself, acutely vulnerable, but very much in control.
With costumes and set designed by Aaron Ethan Green, Beholden is set in a reflective world where images appear and disappear in the mirrored background strewn with diaphanous curtains. Legs, feet, and laced lingerie are revealed and concealed as costumed layers of red satin, gold slippers and white fur lift and fall, finally slipping away. Reflective light ignites the room as Windmiller spins and twirls a circular path over pointed silver mylar sheets that suggest broken glass, creating a drama that shimmers and transcends. Like a luminous ballerina or like a Sufi dancer spinning into trance, Windmiller moves through an airy space outside of time, at once modern and old fashioned. She is mad to pursue the light as she inhabits a frenetic flux transparent to itself and opaque to everything else. Windmiller carefully illuminates each inhabited space as she navigates her way through feminine position and condition; electric fans supply the wind.
About Rebekah Windmiller:
Rebekah Windmiller is a dancer and choreographer who has been making work since 1982. From her beginnings in dance, to more recent forays into voice and theater, Windmiller continues to explore a range of movement-based performance possibilities.
Whistleblower, premiered at the Kitchen in 1993, explored text, story and movement. In Room Under the Roof, Windmiller employed everyday objects into a dance performed in her bedroom, later setting the piece on The Kitchen's stage. Other works have been seen at The Knitting Factory, Spoke-the-Hub, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Construction Company, The Merce Cunningham Studio, Danspace Project and University Settlement, the Ohio Dance Festival, Cleveland Performance Art Festival and the Minnesota Fringe Festival.
Windmiller first received support with a full-tuition talent scholarship at Ohio University, and choreography and performance awards from the American College Dance Festival. Since then, supporting organizations include the Joyce-Mertz Gilmore Foundation, an Emerging Choreographers Space Grant with The Field where she served as a "Fieldwork" facilitator and a 1st place award in Spoke-the-Hub's Winter Follies Series.
In addition to stage performance, Windmiller has created works in parks, on piers and for the camera. Everyday Dance engaged strangers in unexpected movement encounters in NYC parks, and the series of video-taped Dance Diaries was posted on www.youtube.com in 2009. In addition to choreography, Windmiller collaborates and performs with Sally Silvers. Currently, she is creating Beholden, a solo to be presented at the Cora Studio Theater in Brooklyn.
She is a resident choreographer with Dance Under Construction where she continues to perform and create new dances.
About the Cora Theater
The Cora Studio-Theater is an intimate 750 square foot performance space which debuted as a theater in 2012. Home to the professional company Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance and its educational program, Cora School for Dance, the studio is a laboratory for addressing the impediments that keep many underserved populations from taking part in the arts. The theater will host over 20 evenings of live performance in 2013 by Cora Dance, students, guest artists and others. All programs and performances at The Cora Studio are pay-what-you-can and no one is ever turned away based on what she/he can afford. Cora is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. The Cora Studio-Theater is proudly located in Red Hook, Brooklyn at 201 Richards St between Coffey and Van Dyke Streets. For more information, visit www.coradance.org.
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LocationCora Theater (View)
201 Richards St
Brooklyn, NY 11231
United States
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