GOLD SHOW/ROSE SHOW to Run 6/13-16 at The Off-Center

Critically acclaimed dancer/performers Heloise Gold and Julie Nathanielsz join artistic forces to showcase new, exciting work in the Gold Show/Rose Show June 13-16 at The Off-Center, 2211-A Hildalgo in Austin.

The Gold Show/Rose Show marks the first time these two award winning artists have co-produced a performance. Heloise says, "The idea of putting a collection of our work together offers our audience a rare opportunity to view a series of pieces that have many overlaps; an opportunity to see, sense, perceive, and think about work in a rich context of juxtaposition. We thought it would be much more fun to share the challenges of producing by doing it together." The show also incorporates work from composer/sound artist Nick Hennies and features dancers Elaine Dove and Leigh Gaymon-Jones with light design by Stephen Pruitt.

The works appear as two separate shows, with three pieces comprising the Gold Show and two pieces in the Rose Show. Both women incorporate voice, visual media and many different ways of moving, sourced from the senses, perception and spontaneity, rather than a single particular dance technique.

In the Rose Show, Julie Nathanielsz' What is Common, investigates the tangibility of relations between bodies as it simultaneously dispenses with the evidence of individual difference. She describes it as, "... a sequence of augmented and changing steps, a dance for mermaids, lighthouses, and a fantasy band in which each player revels in the details of form."

Nathanielsz' piece was first performed last year at the Fusebox Festival in Austin. For the Rose Show, the dance is reworked from its original staging in-the-round, using what was learned from the original configuration, and radically shifting audience and performers' perspective.

Gold's three pieces are distinct yet connected. The film "Quiet/Noisy Movie" combines movement, texture, landscape, and natural sound into that cinematic medium. Another piece, "Dream Birds" a piece originally premiered in Austin in 1982 to critical acclaim, works with the theme of capturing the underlying essence of these winged creatures in all of their variety, color, and spectacle. "The dances are not imitations but distillations and imaginings of what it must be like to be in the extraordinary body of a variety of birds with their wondrous and unearthly songs. Birds to me are so ordinary, yet they are so completely extraordinary. That is what I am hoping to capture in this dance," she says.

Both dancers have an incredible body of work, with Gold having performed and trained throughout the world with many renowned artists and companies, including the Bolshoi Ballet when she was a young teen. She is also a published author and co-founded non-profit organization Art From The Streets, in addition to teaching T'ai Chi for over 30 years. Nathanielsz has also performed and trained throughout the world notably London and Amsterdam, and has taught improvisation and dance composition at the University of Texas' Department of Theatre and Dance as well as Austin Community College.

For more information visit www.deeplistening.org/heloise or www.julienathanielsz.com and for ticket purchase visithttp://bpt.me/346223.

Gold Show - by Heloise Gold

The QuietNoisyMovie: Spare, elegant, raw and insistent; a visual and aural glimpse through time.

Resonance: A movement and sound duet; Points of meeting where the essence of vibration creates distilled interactions. Performed by musician/sound artist Nick Hennies and dancer Heloise Gold.

Dream Birds: A playful reprisal of Heloise's work "Bird Dream Dances And Songs" first premiered in Austin in 1982 and performed through the years in a variety of settings with many performers and collaborators. Featuring dancers Leigh Gaymon-Jones and Heloise Gold.

Rose Show - by Julie Nathanielsz

What is Common: A work for three dancers, "What is Common" investigates the tangibility of relations between bodies as it simultaneously dispenses with the evidence of distinct individual difference. What is Common is an inventory of augmented and changing steps, a dance for mermaids, lighthouses, and a fantasy band in which each player revels in the details of form. First showed as work-in-process at Fusebox Festival 2012.

Yo, Genesis: "To care about a table setting is to appreciate that we are animals, and that we use tools." (Jan Zwicky). Yo, Genesisis an investigation of structure and cadence in embodied story telling. It is an exploration of interconnections between animal, aesthetic, and context-building elements of dance.

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