SPLIT BILL #39
ANDREA WARD
HUNTER STURGIS
MARCH 30 & 31, 2023
8PM
$20 in advance / $25 at-the-door
Our SPLIT BILL Series brings together pairings of NYC-based movement artists.
ANDREA WARD
Deep Pull
Deep Pull is a contemporary dance embodying a pull into a deep state of being, between sleep, where there exists a raw and direct connection to our spirit and our most vital communications. Two dancers sit by fire in the night, and are pulled into elaborate movement, where visceral inner world imagery carves the physical landscape, ultimately opening the language of the heart onto the stage.
Andrea Ward is a contemporary choreographer creating dance, music, and film that embodies the healing of consciousness. All of her work is an attempt to open the space within audience members that is often subdued by conventional culture.
As a choreographer, Andrea's set work in Madrid Spain as part of a "Choreographic Lab" for Estudio DANZA180. She's also taught for the Dance Italia summer intensive in Lucca, Italy. In 2021, she'd taught in Paris at the Studio Harmonic and also lived in London as a teaching artist at The Hub Studios. Further, she performed her work as a soloist in Amsterdam at the Henny Jurriëns Studio, and in Italy as part of the Mediterraneo Dance Festival. Before her travels abroad, Andrea set work for the Columbia Ballet Collaborative while also developing her own company work, “The Tension of Nature,” though the performance was cancelled due to Covid-19. Prior to New York, Andrea held a choreographic residence at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, FL. Andrea's music is available on all music platforms, and her films can be found on Youtube and Vimeo.
HUNTER STURGIS
HUMANS ARE SUCH EASY PREY
Humans Are Such Easy Prey abstracts the relationship between capitalism and the human body into a modern tale that confronts and wrestles with themes of disposability, toxic love, resistance, and transformation.
This is a story about a creature.
Born inside of a larger creature, it must survive being consumed.
It has eyes all over its body.
It can see everything.
It can see everywhere.
It can see it all at once.
An outside force slashes open the belly of the beast.
Only then can this creature take a leap of faith.
Only then can it embrace the whirling winds of the great unknown.
This is a story about a chance for freedom.
Hunter Sturgis is a queer dance artist, filmmaker, and Pilates teacher from south Texas currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Hunter creates to subvert and challenge oppressive power structures that have taken root systemically, historically, and thusly, corporeally. He uses the power of disruption to open up new spaces where there is deep, uncharted territory of the heart.
@Mercury___007
huntersturgis6.wixsite.com/dance
Photo by Sebastián Sada