the center is everywhere ~PLUS~ Hot! LAVA Jules Skloot ~PLUS~ LAVA
About This Show
the center is everywhere is a duet for twin friends presented through movement, video projection, sound looping, and live-action interviews, in which we show how people map ideas and realities onto each others bodies and onto the world. Equal parts reverent and irreverent.
~PLUS~
LAVA exemplifies feminist acrobatic dance in Hot! LAVA with glimpses into our epic new work, a feminist survival tale told through the voices of landscapes, ancestors, and the intrepid performers of LAVA. With visions of feminist physical training in magical forests, a psychedelic journey to inner/outer space, and an explosion of rainbow utopia celebration, our protagonist travelers see their world transformed from the harsh brutalities of patriarchy into a present possibility of integration, intersectionality, and geologic connection. Hot! LAVA exposes the work to audiences as the artists of LAVA share a creative process that is the synthesis, culmination, and explosion of 15 years of earth moving performance.
About the Artists
the center is everywhere
Jules Skloot grew up mainly in Wisconsin and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to creating multi-media dance performances, Jules teaches dance and health classes to young people at the Brooklyn Friends School, collaborates with Katy Pyle and the Ballez, and works at Opequon Quaker Arts Camp in Virginia. Jules received a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.
Zora Tucker grew up mainly in Virginia and currently lives in Brooklyn and teaches History to 6th graders there. In order to pretend that her life is not run by 11 year olds, she makes music and and fights evil in her off time. She knows Jules through years spent working together at Opequon Quaker Arts Camp, and is delighted and honored to be performing the second incarnation of this piece, their greatest artistic collaboration to date, at Dixon Place.
Hot! LAVA
LAVA is a feminist acrobatic dance company. The company’s unique language of acrobatics and dance invites audiences in to witness the courage, teamwork, humor, and skills of this one-of-a-kind ensemble.. LAVA was founded in 2000 by Sarah East Johnson The company has received an Obie Award and a Bessie award and has presented 13 original productions in New York City at P.S. 122, The Kitchen, The Flea Theater, Dixon Place, Movement Research at Judson Church, The New Victory Theater, Celebrate Brooklyn, Symphony Space and Dancespace. The LAVA Studio in Prospect Heights Brooklyn is a home for the company and has been hosting performances, classes, and events for the community since 2004.
Thursday, July 21 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
Students/Seniors/idNYC
$12
60 minutes
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Credits
the center is everywhere
Performers:
Jules Skloot & Zora Tucker
Video
Aden Hakimi
Photo Credit
Jules Skloot
Hot! LAVA
Created by
LAVA
Music by
DJ Tikka Masala
Photo Credit
Julie Lemberger
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