Alexandra Beller/Dances

war and other stories

February 25-28

Performance Times: Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 3:00pm

Ticket Prices: $17 ($12 members, $14 students, $10 RUSH ticket)

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*Opening Reception on Thursday, February 25th at 7:00pm

*There will be a free preview of this performance Tuesday, February
16th at 12:15 in DNA’s 2nd Floor Gallery. A brief Q&A session will
follow.

egg

Choreographed & Performed by Alexandra Beller with The Company

Costumes by Karen Young

Sound by David Byrne, Alexander Sergei-Ramirez

Props by god

 

piece

Choreographed by Alexandra Beller in collaboration with Jenna Riegel

Performed by Alexandra Beller, Justin Donham, Jenna Riegel

Set Engineered by Brian Ireland

Film by Martijn Hart

Sound by Lhasa de Sela, Les Yeux Noirs

Costumes by Prancing Leopard and Karen Young

Research & Development, Tom Keasling and Toni Melaas

 

other stories

A World Premiere

Created & Directed by Alexandra Beller

Choreography by Alexandra Beller and The Company

Performed by Toni Melaas, Alexandra Beller, Justin Donham, Milvia Pacheco Salvatierra, Jenna Riegel and Edward Rice

Costumes by Karen Young with items by Prancing Leopard

Live and recorded music by Robert Poss

Text drawn from the poetry of Mark Strand and the writings of The Company

Containing two world premieres and a critically acclaimed solo, war
and other stories is a series of new repertory works that unearths the
vital individual narratives of five mesmerizing performers. Confronting
issues of morality, compassion, greed, manipulation, victim-hood,
power, and absolution, the work traffics through the dangerous
territory of homophobia, sexism and emotional isolationism, attempting
to engage, incite and provoke a visceral response.

Alexandra Beller/Dances is an ensemble of highly skilled
dancer/actors working on the edge between dance and theater. Rich with
personal revelations, performances attempt to move, stimulate,
impassion and incite the audience. Ripe with metaphor, abstracted
narrative and controversial ideas, the dances traffic through the
dangerous territory of homophobia, sexism, and emotional isolationism.
The company seeks to intersect distinctions between races,
nationalities, sexual orientations and political affiliations through a
series of artistic collisions.

Created in 2001, Alexandra Beller/Dances has been extremely active
in the New York scene as well as throughout the United States, Cyprus,
Hong Kong and Korea. The work has been commissioned by and performed at
Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, Joyce SoHo, Danspace Project at St.
Mark’s, University Settlement, Aaron Davis Hall, and other major NYC
venues as well as Jacob’s Pillow, SUNY Purchase, and in Michigan,
Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Arizona. Funding has been received from
HERE Art Space, Dance New Amsterdam, The Foundation for Contemporary
Performance Arts, LMCC, Puffin Foundation, The Trust for Mutual
Understanding, and private funders. Recent projects include an eight
week tour through Oslo, Amsterdam, Poland, and St. Petersburg, Russia
this summer.

This performance is made possible with support from Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Puffin Foundation, Trust for Mutual
Understanding, DNA, Duo Multicultural Arts Center (DMAC), Wearable
Collections, and Prancing Leopard.