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Events: March 2010

February, 2010       April, 2010

March 3 - March 6
Dansology, Inc./Koosil-Ja Hwang
Blocks of Continuality/Movement-Live Cinema (Blocks) (MAP 2008), a new dance and live cinema work by Koosil-Ja Hwang, that tells three stories simultaneously to simulate our coexistence and our living in the world of digital and flesh.

Dance Theater Workshop

New York, NY


March 4 - April 11
Silk Road Theatre Project
World premiere of The DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and Utter Confusion (MAP 2008), conceived by Jamil Khoury for the Silk Road Theatre Project.

Goodman Theatre

Chicago, IL

 


March 5 - March 6
Springboard for the Arts/Emily Johnson
The Thank-You Bar (MAP 2009), a multi-disciplinary performance centered on dance, storytelling, visual image, and music, choreographed and performed by Emily Johnson with composers James Everest and Joel Pickard, and beadwork by Karen Beaver.

Living Arts

Tulsa, OK


March 5 - March 6
The Field for Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People
The European premiere of Last Meadow (MAP 2008), a new evening length performance/dance piece by Miguel Gutierrez in collaboration with long time lighting design collaborator Lenore Doxsee. A trio with Gutierrez, long time collaborator Michelle Boule, and Tarek Halaby, this piece explores the idea of communication gone awry: the inadequacy, failure, and mystery of language.
March 16 - March 28
Rude Mechanicals
The Method Gun (MAP 2007), a new performance work by the Rude Mechanicals which presents and reenacts the life and tragic death of Stella Burden, a fictional reclusive acting guru and architect of "The Approach," a suite of exercises intended to ground Western naturalism in more physically-based performance rituals.

Humana Festival

Louisville, KY


March 17 - March 20
MAPP International Productions/Yasuko Yokoshi
Tyler Tyler (MAP 2009), a full-evening stage work by choreographer Yasuko Yokoshi exploring the essence of dance regardless of culture, technique and training.

Dance Theater Workshop

New York, NY


March 19 - March 20
New York Foundation for the Arts/Yin Mei
City of Paper (MAP 2009), by choreographers Yin Mei and Sang Jijia, that will explore a Wayang-like shadow world in which ink, video, light, sound, paper and stage architecture converge in a post-modern meditation on history, fact and the mutability of human perception.

Miami Dade College

Miami, FL


March 26 - March 28
The Field/Young Jean Lee
THE SHIPMENT (MAP 2007), a new hip-hop African-American identity politics performance work written by Young Jean Lee, a Korean-American.
March 26
Gametophyte
A work-in-progress showing of Nameless Forest (MAP 2009), a new multimedia performance project by Dean Moss, based on the work of, and in collaboration with Korean sculptor Sung Myung Chun.


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