Not Fragile

I just got back from an awesome week in Marlboro College in Vermont with Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd (Emily Sweeney, bilwa and Zornitsa Stoyanova). We were featured artists at an Embodied Learning Symposium. We spent several days working with a group of students and creating a multi-media performance of music, dance, props and projections. It was a super fun time and I think the people at the school really enjoyed the performance we did.

Coming up this week you can catch some new Mikronesia music playing at NEXUS Gallery for Kathryn TeBordo’s show Not Fragile.

Not Fragile

6pm-9pm | Thursday | April 14
 | Second Thursdays Opening Reception at 
NEXUS/foundation for today’s art

1400 N. American St. Philadelphia, PA 

Choreographed by Kathryn TeBordo, Laura Neuman and the performers
Performed by Sarah Gladwin Camp and Greg Holt
Original score by Mikronesia  

“Now the relation of human nature
to the human mind is this.” – Gertrude Stein

Two bodies, entwined on the floor, move through imagery of wrestling grapples to invoke the battles and reconciliations that happen within each of us as we navigate through life. Playing underneath the surface of antagonistic imagery is a gentle, rhythmic, continuous push and pull between the two dancers. Calm comforting like a heart beat or like breathing, their actions bubble and burst into tiny moments of dancing and laughing.

NOT FRAGILE is a three hour performance sculpture where dancers explode on a scale of centimeters, testing and illustrating the elasticity of the relationship between human beings and their bodies.