LineAge by Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects

dixon place and jody oberfelder dance projects presents

LineAge
by Jody Oberfelder

photo by Jillian Patterson)

Wednesday - Saturday December 7-11

Wednesday December 7 at 7:30pm, Gala Opening Night Performance/Champagne Reception: $150

Thursday December 8 at 8pm
Saturday December 10at 2pm
Sunday December 11 at 2pm & 7:30pm
Tickets Dec 8-11 - $20; $12 students and seniors
Reservations: 212.219.0736 x111 or www.dixonplace.org

Dixon Place at The Clark Studio/Lincoln Center: 65th Street & Broadway,
Rose Building 7th Floor

LineAge is a suite of short dances, rendered in audaciously physical and verbal wit, which plays with concepts of lines and age - from tabula rasa to wrinkles. With an acrobatic vocabulary, brimming with stunts, tumbling and physical prowess - LineAge rides the momentum of life's dramatic arcs. A short film augments this live performance. It contrasts the lines of our bodies with lines in landscape--imprints of time in nature and human nature. Shot by Bessie Award winning cinematographer Ronald K. Gray, the film features 80-year- old Martha Myers, a renowned dance educator. A narrative score by Coleman Hough muses on how the lines of our lives form a complex social map unfolding, intersecting, and merging. Transformed into points on a line, the dancers form shapes, break apart and re-form, springing to life in dances that explore reservoirs of human energy.

Choreography: Jody Oberfelder
Text: Coleman Hough
Performers: Elise Knudson, Rebekah Morin, Carlton Ward and Jody Oberfelder
Video: Ronald K. Gray, Janice Ahn and Jody Oberfelder
Lighting: Kathy Kaufman
Dramaturgy: Mercedes Murphy
Costumes: Katrin Schnabl
Original Music: Rachelle Garniez, Elise Knudson, Mistiq, Malina Rauschenfels, Mike Rimbaud
Sound Design: Paul Ruest

Jody Oberfelder has shown her choreography in New York at Lincoln Center's Clark Studio Theater, Dixon Place, Symphony Space, The Jewish Museum, The Flea Theater, Joyce SoHo, PS 122, Judson Church, in DRA's Fire Island Dance Festival supporting Dancers Responding to AIDS. Nationally her work has been performed at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, the Darien Arts Center (CT) and internationally in festivals in Europe and Asia. Venues include The Belgrade Dance Festival (Belgrade Drama Theater and State Theater of Montenegro) The Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Migros Theater in Zurich, Die Werkstatt in Düsseldorf, and the Pusan National Theater in Korea and in the 20th Annual International Festival of Modern Dance in Seoul. Oberfelder has been seen on ABC's Good Morning America as a "Female Atlas" in the prologue introducing segments on women's health. She also choreographed the "open" for ABC's Nightline in Primetime "Brave New World," which won Emmys for Best Design and Graphics. Her dance "Rock Me Mama" was shown on ABC's Nightline, in addition to performances in The Easter Bonnet Contest for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The Women's Health Initiative at both the Palace and the Marquis Theaters on Broadway, and Paul Newman's "Hole in the Wall Gang Camp". "Wanted: X-Cheerleaders," co-directed with Kim Irwin, has toured around the United States as part of the National Performance Network.

This Mondo Cane! commission is supported in part by Jerome Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Peg Santvoord Foundation and Lucille Lortel Foundation. LineAge has received additional support from The Suitcase Fund of Dance Theater Workshop, with funds from the Trust for Mutual Understanding and The Harkness Dance Foundation.