An Evening of Hot Dance! Jen Abrams, Isabel Shaida/Rocio Perez & Alicia Bauman-Morales

About This Show

Tiny Hurricane

We love our children. They also destroy us. In Tiny Hurricane, a woman looks the charred wasteland of her pre-partum self dead in the eye, while standing in awe of the luminous, powerful child she has given herself over to. She tells the story of her own destruction through movement, video, and text.

Chair Duet

Chair Duet is a story of two women. They enter carrying their own chairs. They look at the other. They sit. They stand. They reach for the other. They reach away from the other. They are close. They are far.
It is relation. It is competition. It is movement conversation.

Our work is centered around everyday gesture, unison motion, and repetition. We are playing with ways of meeting and organizing ourselves through rigorous physicality and humor.

Excerpt of work in progress: huracán: storm medicine

huracán: storm medicine is a dance altar about translation, queer-light-skinned-Oakland-Boricua-Spanglish-selfhood colliding with the world, and the unseen spirits that guide our steps and trip them, shake us awake and call us home. Featuring video work by Laura Patricia, RA, and Shanti Lalita.

About the Artists

Tiny Hurricane

Jen Abrams is a multi-disciplinary, dance-based performance maker. Before taking a break from performance for six years to become a mother, her work was presented at Dixon Place, LaMama, BAX, HERE, WAX, and at WOW Café Theater, where she was a member for twelve years. Jen has been studying with the SITI Company since 2017. She has taught Contact Improvisation since 1994 and was a co-founder of OurGoods.org, an online barter network for artists.

Chair Duet

Isabel Shaida is from Dobbs Ferry, NY and Bozeman, MT. She recently completed SITI Company’s 2018/19 Conservatory Program. She has trained with Double Edge Theatre as well as Jodi Baker at the College of the Atlantic from which she has a degree in Human Ecology.

Rocío Pérez is from Madrid, Spain. She has trained as an actor in Estudio Corazza para el Actor, and as a dancer and maker in Carmen Senra (Jesus Rubio, Aitana Cordero), SNDO, with Carlos Moya and Catalina Lladó. She is a SITI Company Conservatory artist. She is a cofounder of La Extraña Compañía in Madrid.

excerpt of work in progress: huracán: storm medicine

Alicia Raquel Bauman Morales is a west-coast-Boricua dancer and performance maker seeking realness, connection, and joy through the body.  She is a California Arts Scholar, BAX Space Grant recipient, and co-founder of United Roots Oakland. Her first work, hipshandstongue was presented in the BAAD!Ass Women’s Festival, Upstart Festival, Hot! Festival and the Sanctuary Series. Alicia has performed with Renegade Performance Group, NWA Project, MBDance, Arthur Aviles Typical Theater and Roots and River Productions, and directed movement for Roots and River and Brown Girls Burlesque. She is a proud organizer with ACRE, Artists Co-Creating Real Equity.

Monday, July 8,2019 at 7:30 PM

General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
students/seniors/IDNYC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Estimated Runtime
45 min

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Credits

See all shows in this years HOT! Festival for $72.00

 

tiny hurricane

Choreographer

Jen Abrams

chair duet

Choreographed with

Barney O’Hanlon

huracán: storm medicine 

Creator

Alicia Bauman-Morales

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