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Note: All three works presented each night.

New Original Works Festival continues with works by Nickels Sunshine, TBOL and Vivian Bang.

Nickels Sunshine: Take Me With You

With smart, lush movement and a notably contemporary “corps de ballet,” Nickels Sunshine beautifully crafts a non gender conforming homage to the distinctive techniques and choreographic styles of such canonical dance pioneers as Vaslav Nijinsky and Martha Graham. Nickels rejoins with the fearless Jmy James Kidd—along with Barry Brannum, Alexx Shilling, Bernard Brown and Maya Gingery—to re-imagine the poetics of movement in shared spaces.

WATCH NICKELS SUNSHINE discuss TAKE ME WITH YOU

Megan Fowler-Hurst, Mackenzey Franklin and Sarri Sanchez (TBOL): A Dismal Glimpse at a Script We Create to Keep Us Moving Forward

Three adventurous collaborators blend capricious theatricality with nuanced choreographic non-sequiturs, working under the collective name Tales Between Our Legs (TBOL). Their satirical multimedia exploration draws from the vocabulary of dance theater, sitcoms and even post-performance discussions to cleverly exploit the contrast between what people say and what they really mean. 

WATCH TBOL discuss NOW piece

Vivian Bang: Can You Hear Me / LA 92

Incisive writer/performer Vivian Bang, one of the original members of New York’s explosively antic Big Art Group, turns her focus to interrogating L.A., where she now has a thriving TV/film career. Bang poignantly re-visits a forgotten history of the 1992 L.A. riots, as recalled from the perspective of Korean-Americans she researched, to create this revealing live documentary that poetically captures a crucial historic moment.  

WATCH VIVIAN DISCUSS HER NOW PIECE "Can you Hear Me / LA92" 

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