Second Thursdays Opening Reception
6:30pm Thursday, September 9, 2010

NOT FRAGILE
by Kathryn TeBordo, Choreographer
Performed by Brandon Beston and Sarah Gladwin Camp
On view during the opening reception only.

“Now the relation of human nature to the human mind is this.” – Gertrude Stein

Two bodies, entwined on the floor, move and are moved through imagery of wrestling grapples and victories to illustrate the battles and reconciliations that happen within each of us as we navigate through life. Playing underneath the surface of this antagonistic imagery is a gentle, rhythmic, continuous push and pull between the two players. Calm comforting like a heart beat or like breathing, the action bubbles and bursts into tiny moments of dancing celebrating the strength and elasticity of the relationship between human beings and their bodies. NOT FRAGILE, in this iteration,  is a three hour performance sculpture that invites you to consider relationships and dualities of all kinds as the ultimate grounds for play.

Line-up:
Ric Royer – performance
Sarah Mann O’Donnell – performance
Workshop for Potential Movement – dance
David Dunn – video
Gene Coleman/Zornitsa Stoyanova – music/dance
Moving Parts/megfoley – dance

The Studio Series is a no-tech monthly showcase curated by Nicole Bindler. It is devoted to experimental work of all media, at all stages of development. StudioSeries has been running almost monthly for 2 years and has featured work by over 70 artists! There’s always a great turnout, enthusiastic and curious audiences and and always excellent, varied performances including music, dance, theater, film, readings, and visual art. More info.

WPM will be showing an excerpt from a new work in progress that ripples between minimalism and maximalism to create an epic intimacy.

8pm Saturday, May 8
thefidget space | 1714 N Mascher St, 19123 | Map it

Do you know Daniele Strawmyer? She is a most awesome, super cool, funny, charming, and sexy friend. And she is embarking on an exciting new phase in her life. And it is to be called readySetGO.

It is a collaborative arts company. And this fundraiser is going to Set her off right. You should GO.

We are going to show one of our “brilliant-ass pieces,” as Kate Wa-Wa calls them. We will be: Brandon Milan Beston, je kim, Laura Neuman, and Sara Nye. Check out the rest of the lineup at readySetGO.

This is so new you cannot find it online people. You have to visit the open house if you want to get in on the ground floor. See you there!

Featuring: Corina Copp, Robert Dewhurst, Maggie Nelson, with dancing by Kathryn TeBordo and her Workshop for Potential Movement and Rebecca Ketchum and Rachel Cohen of Racoco Productions.

Previously, we made a dance to one poem from each reading poet. This time though, it’s gonna be three dances to three poems by Robert Dewhurst. He lives in Buffalo and his poetry has a mean streak that I enjoy.

Visit http://zincbarpoetry.tumblr.com for details.

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Since 2006, me +dancers +collaborators have been finding ways to harness a precision that can only be seen when everyone is dancing on a scale of centimeters.  We have sought a careful calibration and an anthemic unison.

Well now.  It’s time to get sloppy.

This month at Second Thursdays, we are going to throw out a Movement Machine that is meant to be a celebration of drunkenness, but one that also carries the sense of isolation drunkenness can bring.  Made in collaboration with Laura Neuman.

Hope to see you there. (We won’t barf on you, I promise!)

Dorothea Lasky keeps the fire burning in February at Zinc Bar! Warm up with readings by Lee Ann Brown, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Leigh Stein, and Jason Zuzga; and dances by Kathryn TeBordo and Laura Neuman. Cozy!

Visit http://zincbarpoetry.tumblr.com for details.

And find it on Facebook.

Have you ever heard of ‘the empathetic body’? Several people tell me how they notice their own bodies twitching and jumping when they watch our micro movement dances. I know this happens in other cases, too. It’s your empathetic body response that makes you stamp and cheer at a STREB show, for instance. And leap out of your chair during a horror movie, you know?

This spring, Dr. Paul Grobstein of Bryn Mawr College is going to assist our research into mirror neurons, the neurobiological fact behind the phenomenon, and how they link us humans through action and observation, learning and language. This month, at the informal Second Thursdays series, come out and feel for yourself how micro movement choreography can jump from the stage into your own body.

Learn more about Second Thursdays at http://livearts-fringe.org.

Read up on mirror neurons at NOVA and Serendip and The New York Times.

7pm Artist Chat | 8pm Performance | Snacks
Saturday, January 23
Studio 34 | Map It
Suggested Donation $10 – $15

Catch the first glimpse of our new micro movement fantasia.

DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILD BRIDES is definitely dark, definitely funny, perhaps an odd kind of sexy? Let me know. Performed by ten of Philadelphia’s most live dancers: Brandon Milan Beston, Sarah Gladwin Camp, Greg Holt, Laura Neuman, Sara Nye, Naomi Pressman, Daniele Strawmyre, Kathryn TeBordo, Sarah Yassky, Christina Zani. Choreographed by Laura Neuman and Kathryn TeBordo. Created in residence at Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.

Visit phillyfunguide.com for more.

6:30pm Sunday, January 10
Zinc Bar | 82 W. 3rd St. NYC | Map It

Dorothea Lasky is curating a weekly! and I am going to bring the micro to the West Village on this day. Laura Neuman and I will perform three dances- one made for a poem from each reader. They’re good poems. The dancing will be a leeetle bit scary because you will be seeing the first attempt at uniting the dancing with the live reader. No dress rehearsal! Visit http://zincbarpoetry.tumblr.com for details. Find it on Facebook