Mark Schmidt + Remi Harris
Untitled

Through structured improvisation and set material originally created for 15 people and with an ethos of “come as you are”, this dance score reflects a shared value system of community and individual expression.

Mark Schmidt + Remi Harris have been making dances collaboratively since 2018. Together they find a play between camp, performance, contemporary composition, and the joy in movement while attempting to capture the parallel and intersecting paths of a dynamic creative process. Their collaboration continues to address a cluster of physical, aesthetic, and sociopolitical concerns: the idea of and value of performance, dance’s ability to heal and unite, spaces that are designed by and for POC’s and Queer folks, and community activation.

Recent works include: The Civic Social commissioned by American Dance Asylum as part of the IMAGINE Festival (Corning, NY, 2021), Body Comes Apart (Time Piece Collective, 2020), Yes! Yes! Yes! (Triskelion Arts, Bol Theatre, and Kraine Theatre for Estrogenius Festival, 2019), Come As You Are (as part of ¡Spontaneous Combustion!, 2019). Residencies include: Bring It Home with American Dance Asylum in Corning, NY 2019. They have taught master classes and lead workshops at Hofstra University, the online teaching platform freeskewl, and SUNY Brockport’s summer dance intensive.

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www.markschmidt.org

Team Wolcott/Zubair
Welcome to My World

Nicole Wolcott takes a stage dive into a high risk improvisation guided by the incredibly dense sound scape of manifestos, irreverent tongue twisters, and existential questions designed by her partner in crime, Omar Zubair. Set inside the mind, the interior clanging space of her head, she inhabits her new pandemic persona: a red headed punked out puppet. Operating in the moment. The only thing she really owns. The only thing that really is. Wolcott invites the audience to judge her in her vulnerability, her comedy, her success and her failure. To embrace the absurd profundity of life as it is. Now.

Nicole Wolcott is a movement artist living in Montana after twenty years in NY. She co- founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY with Larry Keigwin in 2003 and continues to work with him on a myriad of independent projects, including their recent online collaboration for Guggenheim Works and Process and ‘Bolero Juilliard’ (broadcast on PBS ‘Great Performances’). She is driven by an interest in the flux between the body as an abstract kinetic form in space and an amalgam of qualities and experiences that comprise a human identity; an individual who has history, expression, a sense of humor. She has been in the ensemble and she has been the star. She loves dance.

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Quaba V. Ernest / Venza Dance
Hallucinations? (Excerpt)

Short-term sessions of sensory deprivation are described as relaxing and conducive to meditation; however, extended or forced sensory deprivation can result in extreme anxiety, hallucinations, bizarre thoughts, and depression.This segment looks into the long terms effects of sensory deprivations.

Venza Dance is a series of works directed/created by Quaba V. Ernest. It is a project based collective with the mission of exploring live/digital creations that invoke the viewer to further questions. Placing an emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration it aims to research the endless possibilities of movement, all the forms it exists in, and the countless perspectives to capture it. Using seemingly abstract interpretations the work seeks to turn focus to often overlooked or internalized feelings of identity, race, culture, isolation, and crisis. Pulling inspiration from my own experience and that of collaborators it aims to give a new perspective on everyday life, our roles within, and constantly evolving culture.

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2021 Resident Artist: Aminah Ibrahim
The longest breath

This work in progress sits in the moment when the wind has been taken out of you. You have paused to catch your breath, and the sensation of your pounding heart is ringing in your ears. Heat is steaming from your head, chest, and with sweaty palms you just hold on, while you try to grasp the air. Slowing the pace of the spiral you are granted time for reflection. In this moment of lightheaded sparkle brings a sense of awareness between the fluid boundaries of the corporeal self and the limitless energy observing from within. But how much further is there to go?

Aminah Ibrahim is an interdisciplinary artist, raised in Kuwait and based in New York City. Her work is primarily grounded in the body, connecting somatic movement, sound, and visual documentation. Through meditative modes of improvisation and repetition, and an intimate relationship with ritual garb and adornment, Aminah explores the geographies of identity, body politics, and body as spiritual instrument. Expanding her practice, more sculptural works in progress incorporate organic material, embroidery, and text.

www.aminahibrahim.net
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Terre Dance Collective
Cycle 1

"Cycle 1" is an excerpt of a longer work called "Circulation". The dance is about the architectural design concept of Circulation, which is how light, people, and water move through a building. The layout of a building is determined by the movement that will take place within the structure. The work explores how we inhabit our built environments and question how these spaces affect our interactions with each other.

Circulation is premiering at The Floor on October 30th, 2021.

Terre Dance Collective is a group of movement artists working to create emotionally engaging and physically compelling contemporary dance. Terre was established in July 2017 by Artistic Director Robert Rubama. We have developed and presented choreographed and improvisation-based work in various venues across the East Coast & Midwest of the United States. Exploration and collaboration are a large part of our creative work. We believe that movement is the connective tissue of the universe and brings all bodies together.

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