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Chris Yon & Taryn Griggs

Christina McKinney — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

Program: YOGGS FAMILY NEWSLETTER, 2014-present
Co-Presented by the Nasher Museum of Art
Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission
Tickets: FREE!

Chris Yon & Taryn Griggs Website

YOGGS FAMILY NEWSLETTER, 2014-present, is an immersive experience where the audience is led through the lobby of the Nasher Museum of Art by Chris Yon and Taryn Griggs alongside their daughter, Bea Yon. The audience is integrated into the trio as momentary chorus members to our family stories, dances, and drawing games. “Dance, for our family, is a parenthesis for life experience. Periods of our lives that we spent working on choreography coincide with periods of major things happening in our lives and the world.” While the dances look “abstract” or non-narrative, this collection addresses how the trio captures experiences, creates memories, and attaches significance to when and where we dance together and who we meet along the way as part of our family story.

“Yon and Griggs are deadpan comics of rhythmized eccentric gesture — loops of simple steps with rock, paper, scissors on top. Part of the comedy lies in the contrast between his melancholy schlumpiness and her manic Broadway flair. With Bea, clearly the child of that combination, they became something like a family in a Wes Anderson film. As they straight-faced through sketches about customer service holds, cut-up poems and layers of cat T-shirts, the incorporation of the preteen increased the domestic charm.”

– Brian Seibert in The New York Times

Access the digital program.

Thursday, September 12 at 6:00 pm

Parking is available for free in the Nasher Lot as well as the Campus Drive Lot, located near the intersection of Campus Dr and Anderson St.

Photo credit: Zoe Litaker

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Londs Reuter

Christina McKinney — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Program: GOOD EFFORT
Co-presented by the North Carolina Museum of Art
World Premiere | ADF Debut
Running Time: 45–50 minutes, no intermission
Tickets: FREE! registration suggested for event updates

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Londs Reuter Website

GOOD EFFORT by dancer and choreographer Londs Reuter is an evening-length performance of attunement, calibration, repetition, trying, and trying again. Choreographed in collaboration with local professional dancers Kaitlin Fox, Kristin Clotfelter, and Anna Maynard, on-site at the North Carolina Museum of Art, GOOD EFFORT asks its performers to be in relationship to effort and sense into what they need to stay together, to lift their leg, or to make it up a hill. For Reuter, effort—whether high, low, or somewhere in between—is a compositional tool and design technique, empowering each performer to exercise their authorship, agency, and invention. What does it take to meet the moment? When does it feel good to give more? When does it feel right to keep 10% for yourself? GOOD EFFORT asserts that no one else might know the effort required for you to do something—but you always do.

The performance will take place outdoors at NCMA in the field adjacent to the Volunteer Garden. Seating is on the lawn. Please bring your chair or blanket if preferred. Limited chairs will be available.
Audio description available here.

Visitor parking is free and available in the Blue Ridge lot, on the right after entering the Museum Drive. Overflow parking is behind West Building, on the left after entering Museum Drive. There will be a short walk (5-10 minutes) from parking to the performance location behind the amphitheater.

Map of venue

Friday, April 19 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, April 20 at 7:00 pm

Photo credit: Alexa Vélez

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Londs Reuter

Christina McKinney — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Access the digital program here.
Know Before You Go

Londs Reuter Website

Map of venue

Friday, April 19 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, April 20 at 7:00 pm

Photo credit: Alexa Vélez

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qUest wiRx co-lab ‘kintsugi’, work-in-progress by nina be

Christina McKinney — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 23:00:00 +0000

ADF is pleased to host free informal showings of dance pieces in-progress in our Scripps Studio. Masking is at the discretion of the artist. Space is limited and registration is required.

‘kintsugi’ is the japanese philosophy of “no-mind (mushin), which encompasses the concept of non-attachment, acceptance of change, and fate as aspects of human life”, also meaning “joining with gold”.

this work is about the journey of fragments from generational trauma. a multidisciplinary work, depicting the phylogeny of living resilience from the difficulty of birthing each unique moment.

we want to open the conversation to normalize suffering as a part of cultural wisdom.

Registration Required! For any questions, please contact Jennifer Scully-Thurston, jscullythurston@americandancefestival.org

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Big Red Dance Project fundraiser, work-in-progress by Gerri Houlihan

Christina McKinney — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:00:00 +0000

ADF is pleased to host free informal showings of dance pieces in progress in our Scripps Studio. Masking is at the discretion of the artist. Space is limited and registration is required.

This event will give Big Red Dance Project the opportunity to share with you some excerpts from two new dances. You will also get to meet seven original members of the group and six new dancers that joined the company during the pandemic.

Gerri Houlihan studied at The Juilliard School with Antony Tudor and members of the Martha Graham and Jose Limon dance companies. She performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, the Paul Sanasardo Dance Company, and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. From 1991 to 1999 she directed her own company, Houlihan and Dancers, based in Miami, FL. During that time, she was on the faculty of the New World School of the Arts.

Ms. Houlihan serves on the Advisory Board for the American Dance Festival. She has been on the faculty of ADF from 1981 to 1983 and from 1987 to the present. As an international representative for ADF, she has participated in 17 international linkage programs in such countries as Korea, China, Mongolia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Estonia, Poland, and Russia. She is the recipient of ADF’s Balasaraswati/Joy Anne Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She was Co-Dean and then Dean of the ADF School from 2010 to 2015 and received her MFA from the Hollins/ADF MFA program. She recently retired from Florida State University, where she was the Pearl S. Tyner Distinguished Professor in Teaching and is now Professor Emerita. Currently, she teaches at the ADF studios in Durham and is the Artistic Director of the Big Red Dance Project.

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Stuck In Free Fall, a work-in-progress by Nicola Bullock

Christina McKinney — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

ADF is pleased to host free informal showings of dance pieces in-progress in our Scripps Studio. Masks and proof of vaccination are required for entry. Space is limited and registration is required.

Stuck In Free Fall is a show about Nothing. In this solo performance, which utilizes movement, song, a microphone, and a projection of her artists book by the same name, Nicola guides audience members through a collective reading-and-doing. Featuring poetry, narrative, and love letters to the void, Stuck In Free Fall attempts the impossible task of conjuring, accessing, and experiencing Nothingness together using the only tools we have: our bodies, our voices, and the power of our collective imagination.

Nicola Bullock is a Berlin-based choreographer, dancer, and writer. Her work has been seen at venues and festivals in Canada, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Tunisia, and the US. Most recently Nicola has had the pleasure of collaborating with Pig Iron Theatre Company (The Path of Pins or the Path of Needles) and choreographer Min Yoon | Citizen Truth (Dancing With Violence) on performance projects. She is currently pursuing her MFA in dance at the University of the Arts.

photo credit: Angel Edwards

Registration Required! For any questions, please contact Jennifer Scully-Thurston, jscullythurston@americandancefestival.org

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Living in the Shadows, a work-in-progress by Tony Johnson

Christina McKinney — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

ADF is pleased to host free informal showings of dance pieces in-progress in our Scripps Studio. Masks and proof of vaccination are required for entry. Space is limited and registration is required.

Tony Johnson’s informal showing titled: Living in the Shadows is Saturday, December 3rd at 7:00pm at the Samuel Scripps Studios. Living in the Shadows is a twenty-minute work that reflects on the lives of people living with mental illness and depression. Through movement, Tony will take you on a journey of what it looks like to be living in the shadow of this illness each day.

There will be a post-performance discussion. Registration required! For any questions, please contact Jennifer Scully-Thurston, jscullythurston@americandancefestival.org

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BIG BEATS by Joanna Kotze

Christina McKinney — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 23:00:00 +0000

BIG BEATS by New York-based, “Bessie” award-winning choreographer and dancer, Joanna Kotze is coming to the Triangle!

Danced to a driving sonic rhythm, BIG BEATS is the force of 20 local performers doing complex, synchronized movement. This 15-minute piece will be performed on Thursday, November 3 at 6 pm and 7 pm inside the Nasher Museum of Art (Durham) and on Saturday, November 5 at 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm outdoors at the Village Green in Southern Village (Chapel Hill).

These free performances will be open to the public and viewed in the round. Each performance takes place in public areas and will be an invitation for viewers to stop and watch a group of people working together, dancing together, and being together.

Local performers: Anna Barker, Kristin Clotfelter, Caitlin Dutton-Reaver, Lee Edwards, Faith Fidgeon, Kaitlin Fox, Laura Grant, Taryn Griggs, Gregory Hamilton, Juliet Irving, Janice Lancaster, Laci McDonald, Katie Milani, Alyssa Noble, Alexander Olosu, Sarah Perez, Allie Pfeffer, Londs Reuter, Adie San Diego, and Leah Versola Kallam

Photo by Maria Baranova

ADF’s presentation of BIG BEATS is made possible by the Nathan M. Clark Foundation.

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BIG BEATS by Joanna Kotze

amy — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 21:30:00 +0000

BIG BEATS by New York-based, “Bessie” award-winning choreographer and dancer, Joanna Kotze is coming to the Triangle!

Photo by Maria Baranova

ADF’s presentation of BIG BEATS is made possible by the Nathan M. Clark Foundation.

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BIG BEATS by Joanna Kotze

amy — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 20:30:00 +0000

BIG BEATS by New York-based, “Bessie” award-winning choreographer and dancer, Joanna Kotze is coming to the Triangle!

Photo by Maria Baranova

ADF’s presentation of BIG BEATS is made possible by the Nathan M. Clark Foundation.

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