Wednesday, May 15, 2013

5/21: Sharna Fabiano | 5/24: Laurel Tentindo & Kevin Williamson

Please join us for TWO Chew on This sessions next week!

Tuesday, 5/21 at 12pm,
Kaufman Conference Room

SHARNA FABIANO
Prawns a la Indigo: Tango as Physical Theater

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Friday, 5/24 at 12pm
Kaufman Room 200

LAUREL TENTINDO and KEVIN WILLIAMSON
Neanderthal vs Cyborg

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Tuesday, 5/21 at 12pm, Kaufman Conference Room
SHARNA FABIANO

Prawns a la Indigo: Tango as Physical Theater

In February and March, I had the honor of collaborating with the Czech company Spitfire on a new project: Prawns a la Indigo. Spitfire refers to its own work as “authorial theater” and often seeks to combine genres and styles of live performance. In this session, I’ll give a guided tour of some rehearsal footage and speak about how we assembled physical material generated 1. through tango movement principles, 2. in response to surrealist images, and 3. following an original script, which describes four women who meet in a cafĂ© to start a revolution.
Sharna Fabiano is an internationally recognized tango artist. She was a member of the NYC-based all-woman company TangoMujer from 2003-2006, and ran her own performing group in Washington, DC from 2006-2010, investigating the fusion of tango with contemporary dance and theater. While living in DC, she also founded the nonprofit organization Tango Mercurio, which created outreach programs for urban youth and elders and an all-volunteer tango orchestra for social dancing. In 2008, Sharna was named to Dance magazine's "25 To Watch" list and featured as an emerging artist in the Washingtonian. In addition to her performance work, she also co-founded the Global Milonga, an international benefit for reforestation that links simultaneous tango events through online streaming audio and video, and the Women’s Tango Retreat, a national gathering for women who dance both roles.

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Friday, 5/24 at 12pm, Kaufman Room 200
LAUREL TENTINDO and KEVIN WILLIAMSON

Neanderthal vs Cyborg

Neanderthal vs Cyborg is a sci-fi dance experiment.  Parallel histories morph in and outside of the studio to reveal the absurd and vulnerable.  It is an imagined dance where two people make a show about making a show. Through the vastness of the incomprehensible universe, these two characters are magnetically pulled together.  The responsibility to make an intelligible piece weighs on them.  These fallen heroes exploit one another and themselves while engaging in theatrical impulses,   genre-bending, and improvised dance.  They search for authenticity.  This performance transforms into a party - if everything goes right.   Laurel and Kevin are using Chew on This as an informal opportunity to share this process with the UCLA community and to experiment with technical elements (Thanks to Arsenio!).  The final performance of Neanderthal vs Cyborg will take place at the Electric Lodge in Venice on June 7th at 9 pm the event is FREE.

Laurel Tentindo (laureltentindo.com) and Kevin Williamson(http://kdubdance.org/) are dancers, choreographers and educators, both currently in their first year of the MFA program.

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