BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange Hosts potential, fantasy and connection Series

BAX / Brooklyn Arts Exchange has announced potential, fantasy and connection curated by Faye Driscoll as a part of BAX's PERFORMANCE & DISCUSSION SERIES.

featuring work by:
Dages Juvelier Keates
Parted in the Middle
Sacha Yanow
SKOBB

Friday & Saturday, February 10-11, 2012 at 8pm

Discussion with the artists following each performance.

Tickets: $15 General | $8 Low-Income [Buy Tickets]

Directly engage the artists as they reveal their creative process. Preview works-in-progress and give your impressions in a moderated post-performance discussion. The curators, either current or former Resident Artists bring the kind of diversity of thought, research, interest, and aesthetics we look forward to and celebrate.

Visit our website for more information on the PERFORMANCE & DISCUSSION SERIES [click here].
Ms. Driscoll's Curatorial Statement:

I had a desire to foster dialogue between these artists and am excited to get them all in a room together. Their work is as different as their primary mediums: Performance, Dance and Writing; yet each of their works illuminates the relationship of the autobiographical, mythical an fantastical through a unique, queer perspective while creating an immersive scene of experience on stage.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

FAYE DRISCOLL, curator
FAYE DRISCOLL is a NY based choreographer who strives to investigate new forms of theatrical experience aimed to provoke feeling, stimulate the senses and activate the mind. Her work has been presented by places like Dance Theater Workshop, the Joyce Theater, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Fusebox Festival and the Chicago Dancing Festival. Driscoll is a 2011 choreographic fellow at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography and an Artist-In-Residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Her new work will premier at the Kitchen April 2012. Driscoll is a 2010 NY Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award winner. www.fayedriscoll.com

DAGES JUVELIER KEATES
DAGES JUVELIER KEATES attended Interlochen Arts Academy, received her BA from Bard College, and is pursuing graduate study on the intersection of performance and religion at NYU. Keates seeks to integrate identities that may appear irreconcilable through her work: a member of an art community defined by its skepticism, she weaves rituals of faith into performance; a queer feminist, she is compelled to investigate Biblical tropes. A member of Company SoGoNo (Dir. Tanya Calamoneri), Keates also makes interdisciplinary performances with SKOBB (Dir. Sarah Cameron Sunde). She has recently danced for Noemie Lafrance, collaborated with Eprhyme on his music video of "Life Sentence" (Dir: Lenny Bass), and played the Insect Queen in "The Art of Dreaming" (Dir.Bob DeNatale ). Keates has recently performed at Alwan Arts, BRIC, Brooklyn Museum, Cornelia Street Cafe, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, Figment Festival, FLICfest at Irondale, JCC-Manhattan, Judson, Merkin Hall, Triskelion Arts, and others. www.dagesjuvelierkeates.com

Cosmosis is a movement meditation on themes of cellular and cosmic connectivity, shadow and persona, stillness and spiral. This piece creates an environment where the viewers and performers meet in an experience of moment-to-moment presence. Embodying the celestial movements of planets, the performers realize the dynamic constancy of creation. Visual design collaboration between performer Adrienne Barr and artist Halsey Chait as well as a soundscape by Soraya Odishoo and Danny Pickering further draw us into spirals within the universe, our DNA, and our life cycles.

PARTED IN THE MIDDLE
AMANDA DAVIDSON writes, teaches, and makes performances. She has presented solo and collaborative works at the &now Festival of New Writing at UC San Diego, SF Camerawork, Artists Television Access, Small Press Traffic, and elsewhere. Her collaborative sound and multimedia projects have been installed and broadcast at the Ourageous Look Gallery in Brooklyn and the Moles Not Molars series in Philadelphia. Her writing appears in Encyclopedia Vol. F-K, Baby, Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing, Famous Magazine and in other journals and anthologies. Through fellowships at the Millay Colony, MacDowell, and Art Farm Nebraska, she recently completed The Writings: A Novel, her first book-length manuscript. She's currently working on a collection of short stories tentatively titled Backyard Waves. partedinthemiddle.wordpress.com

The Empty Chair Technique is a work-in-progress story about longing and debt, told by three performers of any gender who share the roles of a couple, their rivals, and an imaginary baby. Poised at the edge of a collapsing economy, these characters wrestle with the desire to escape, whether through online gaming or conversations with people who might not exist. With spare dialogue and a kaleidoscope structure, The Empty Chair Technique shifts between real, virtual and imaginary worlds to ask: What does it mean to owe someone something? How do we connect under pressure?

SACHA YANOW
SACHA YANOW is an NYC-based performance artist and actor. She has performed in theater, film and dance works by many artists she admires including Karen Finley, Julie Tolentino, Laura Parnes, and Sarah Michelson. Her own performance work has been presented at Dixon Place and The Kitchen and supported by residencies from The Field and Yaddo. As a member of the Dyke Division of the Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, she wrote and performed in Room for Cream at La Mama. She is also the Director of Art Matters and previously served as Director of Operations at The Kitchen. Yanow is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the William Esper Studio's Actor Training Program. www.sachayanow.info

The Prince is a series of solo-performance public service announcements which follows a prince and her struggles with potential, fantasy and connection, as she prepares to be special and never leaves her bedroom. An episodic parable with an intentional DIY aesthetic, The Prince is inspired by the sincerity and awkwardness of educational theater and pre-teen books, the spirit of feminist consciousness-raising groups and the humor of Gilda Radner skits. In this Announcement Three the prince meets her body, a warrior from a band of lovers who invites her to join their movement.

SKOBB
Sunde, Keates, O'brien, Burns & Berg have been working together since January 2011. Our work fluctuates between moments of choreographed precision and improvised impulse. We have the goal of exploring artistic form outside of our own specific disciplines: Christopher Berg (composer/musician), Oliver Burns (actor/performer), Dages Juvelier Keates (dancer/choreographer/food person), Sarah O'brien (costume/visual artist) and Sarah Cameron Sunde (director/theater maker/translator).

No Body -- We are currently examining freedom vs. paralysis, chronemics / different ways of perceiving time, and how a first impulse gets sculpted into something consistently fresh. Straddling precise choreography and spontaneous improvisation, we are embodying the dreams of Apollo and intoxications of Dionysus. A benign anarchy, we seek to create decisions and opportunities through parlance and discourse. Our studio practice requires ample time for work and discussion as we examine our own perceptions of artistic practice, craft, content and form by going outside our comfort zones. We are structured loosely, we work democratically, and we are young as an ensemble with a centuries' worth of professional experience.

About BAX
BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange is a is a multi-faceted community performing arts center located in Park Slope, Brooklyn offering an annual presenting season, artist services, and educational programs for youth and adults. For more information about BAX and its programs please call 718-832-0018 or visit us on the web at www.bax.org.