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Meghan Frederick performed with Brian Brooks Moving Company for several years and was a lynchpin in Brooks’ complex patterns. She’s making dances of her own now, and will present “no such thing,” a collaborative duet with musician Ethan Woods at Brooklyn Studios for Dance this weekend. They explore the possibilities of both body and sound – by both of them. Each pushes into the territory of the other, with unpredictable results. The work, which strays into wild images (alien abductions?), is unabashedly funny. Frederick and Woods appear as part of a shared program with BkSD Artist-in-Residence, Barbara Mahler, who offers both her own solo, and a duet choreographed for her longtime dancers Jamie Graham and Trina Mannino. The shared evening opens on Friday, April 27 at 8:00 pm.
Oren Barnoy’s new work at JACK has a title that is not words, but instead just a swirling, winding symbol. In this mysterious evocation, he has cast an impressive trio of dancers: Paul Hamilton, Candace Tabbs, and beautiful mover Molly Lieber. In work that pushes energetically to a pounding beat, the dancers exert themselves relentlessly and wildly in ecstatic, almost religious, rigor. The piece is one of the offerings in the Images/Landscape series curated at JACK by Stacy Grossfield, and opens on Thursday, April 26 at 8 pm.
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Cover: Meghan Frederick and Ethan Woods in “No Such Thing.” Photo © Meghan Frederick.
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