no subject lineage / a dance for them -PLUS- Lacuna Lydia Mokdessi and Benjamin Wagner plus MATYCHAK

About This Show

no subject lineage/ a dance for them (pictured)
by Lydia Mokdessi and Benjamin Wagner

A dance theatre work-in-progress created and performed by registered domestic partners Lydia Mokdessi and Benjamin Wagner. The work investigates topics of ancestral, personal, and shared lineage, and draws content from family histories & origin myths, artifacts of personal pasts, and evidence of imprints left over five years of partnership. Concerned with the fixed outcomes of genes / history / choices versus the possibility for perpetual reinvention, Mokdessi and Wagner’s process is centered around a living vocabulary of choreography and monologues drawn from shared research and performative structures that allow for live-composition.

 

Lacuna
by Matychak

Choreographed by Nathalie Matychak in collaboration with the dancers; Performed by Rebecca Allen, Titilayo Derricotte, Sarah Hillmon, Danielle McIntosh, Alex M Schell.

A piece about diving deep into the relationships we are drawn to, but can’t seem to let go of.

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About the Artists

Lydia Mokdessi is a dance artist and writer from Chicago, Illinois, currently based in Brooklyn. She graduated in 2012 from George Washington University where she performed with choreographers Heather McArdle, Anna Sperber, Anthony Gongora, and Maida Withers. She is currently working with choreographers Emie Hughes/Sight Specific, Alexandra Pinel/Urban Matter, Stormy Budwig, and Buck Wanner, and has performed at The Living Gallery Brooklyn, Gibney Dance, The Secret Theater LIC, FIGMENT New York, Spectrum NYC, and The Space with Movement Research, as well as Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art in Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania. Her work has been presented at The Living Gallery Brooklyn, Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway, Triskelion Arts, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She is editor of Culturebot.org and her writing has also appeared in American Realness Reading and Movement Research Critical Correspondence.


Benjamin Wagner
is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary performer and musician originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 2012 from George Washington University with a BA in American Studies, where he acted in theater productions and worked as a percussion accompanist. He currently performs with Lydia Mokdessi and arranges sound scores and live accompaniment for Alexandra Pinel/Urban Matter. He has performed at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Triskelion Arts, The Invisible Dog, Spectrum NYC, and COIL. He is currently working with Andy Horwitz as special projects coordinator for The Talking Band’s 40th anniversary season.

Nathalie Matychak is a graduate of LaGuardia Arts High School (’07) and holds a BFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (’10). Since founding MATYCHAK in 2011, the project-based company has shown work at venues such as Joe’s Pub, Dixon Place, Symphony Space and The 92nd Street Y. She has also been mentored as a choreographer by Stephen Petronio and Doug Varone. In 2013, she co-founded The Breaking Glass Project to provide a platform for emerging female choreographers. Her next large-scale endeavor is setting a new work on LaGuardia Arts High School’s Graduating Class of 2016.

Tuesday, Apr. 14 at 7:30pm

General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Students/seniors
$10

Estimated Runtime
55 minutes

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Credits

Lacuna photo credit
Grayson Dantzic

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