Same Selves
choreography, light, costumes Melanie Maar
performance and creation Melanie Maar, Marilyn Maywald
Inspired by works on metamorphosis and splitting images, this dance is guided by visual musicality and light.
December 4th 2011,The Big Room, NY
December 6th Movement Research @ Judson Church NYC
February 4th 2012, Roulette NYC
Same Selves, photo by Rachel Bernsen
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A Collective
is
Rachel Bernsen, Melanie Maar, Taylor Ho-Bynum, Abraham Gomez-Delgado
Upcoming shows:
4 Sundays -
February 12
March 4
April 1
May 6
at 7:30pm
a
collective of musicians and dancers, performs on a shared bill with dancer Emily Coates &
musician/composer Charlie Burnham. Each evening will include special
musical guests to open the show.
photo by Peter Gannushkin/downtownmusic.net
, photo by Verena Kurz
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Anthony Braxton/Pine Top Aerial Music
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photo by Verena Kurz
Spaces and Bones
choreography, costumes- Melanie Maar
performance and creation- Kenta Nagai and Melanie Maar
light design- Carrie Wood
In Spaces and Bones the
animal and the ego, the mystical and the common and the metaphysical male and
female aspects can dwell in simple space and lights. She collaborates with
audio-visual artist Kenta Nagai to create a context where questions about the
revealing nature of live performance can live. This excavation of two
performers' identity and their practice in dance and music guides the audience into
the realm of the vibrational and the absurd.
Spaces and Bones was commissioned by and and premiered at The Chocolate Factory Theater NYC in December 2010 and was presented at ImPuls Tanz Vienna in July 2011.
Residencies at Vienna Impuls Tanz and at Pieter in Los Angeles made the work possible.
'.., she exuded a banked fierceness. Stripping out of her green- and blue-toned clothing, Ms. Maar wielded a pair of deer antlers in a muscular, primal dance; it seemed that she might transform into a man, a beast or both.'
read the full New York Times review by Claudia La Rocco here:
read an extended Time Out interview by Gia Kourlas here:
