Turbulence
(a dance about the economy)
A collective failure instigated by Keith Hennessy
and produced by Circo Zero.
Aaron Scott, Portland Monthly Mag
“Turbulence” is one of the most incoherent, messy pieces I’ve ever seen. Yet... it keeps changing. There are often two or more things happening at once, and the spirit that emerges is funny, permissive, unsensational and inquiring.” Alistair Macaulay, New York Times, Jan 14 2013
“Turbulence (a dance about the economy) is a wreck that resembles a pop-up version of Occupy Wall Street. At any given moment in “Turbulence,” situations, both inconsequential and those charged with political meaning, erupt all over the stage.” Gia Kourlas, New York Times
Turbulence (a dance about the economy) plays with normative
disruptions and calculated disregard for generally accepted rules of
engagement. A collaborative creation, the work is an experimental hybrid of
contemporary dance, improvised happening, and political theater; it is a
bodily response to economic crisis. Instigated before Occupy and engaging
questions of debt, value, and exchange, Turbulence is intended as both
provocation and affirmation of global movement for economic justice.
More frictions that drive the work: economic crisis, disaster capitalism,
debt, precarity, propaganda, torture, union busting, magic, collaboration,
war, and physical performance.
Responding both to economic and ecological crises, Turbulence is an
experiment not only in performance, but also in developing alternative modes
of producing performance. Integrating new cast members as generative
collaborators for each performance, the work resists fixed or predetermined
outcomes. Improvisation is both survival strategy and political tactic. The
economies of making dances and being an artist also impacts our research.
Accumulating dances, images, texts, songs and tactics with each cast, the
process was tested at venues in San Francisco, Stolzenhagen/Germany, Vienna,
Portland, and Pontempeyrat/France from 2010-12.
More information:
Turbulence (a dance about the economy) plays with normative disruptions and calculated disregard for generally accepted rules of engagement. A collaborative creation, the work is an experimental hybrid of contemporary dance, improvised happening and political theater; it is a bodily response to economic crisis.
Instigated before Occupy, and engaging questions of debt, value and exchange, Turbulence is intended as both provocation and affirmation of the current global movement.
NYLA
Unstable structures supported by unsustainable systems, this dance cannot stand up on its own. Turbulence (a dance about the economy) is a bodily response to economic crisis.
Turbulence engages the frictions between economic crisis, disaster capitalism, debt, precarity, propaganda, torture, union busting, magic, collaboration, war, and physical performance.
Instigated before the recent Occupy Wall Street actions, Turbulence is intended as both provocation and affirmation of global movement for economic justice.
Responding both to economic and ecological crises, Turbulence is an experiment not only in performance, but also in developing alternative modes of producing performance. Integrating new cast members (as generative collaborators) for each performance, the work resists fixed or predetermined outcomes. Improvisation is both survival strategy and political tactic. The economy of making dances and being a dancer will focus the investigation of this research-based performance experiment.
Keith Hennessy
Guest artists:
Portland/TBA Festival: Roya Amirsoleymani, Keyon Gaskin, Takahiro Yamamoto
Seattle/Velocity: Markeith Wiley, Joan Hanna, Alice Gosti
San Francisco/YBCA: Ray Chung, Anna Martine Whitehead, Brontez Purnell
New York/NYLA: Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dana Michel (Montréal), AK Burns.
New York/American Realness: Anna Martine Whitehead, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Keyon Gaskin
Hamburg/Kampnagel: Maria Francesca Scaroni, Antonija Livingston, Peter Pleyer
Krems/donaufestival: Amanda Piña, Fahim Amir
Mannheim/Theater der Welt: Jo Koppe, Nadia Buyse
Funders:
(a dance about the economy)
A collective failure instigated by Keith Hennessy
and produced by Circo Zero.
Created and performed by: Julie Phelps, Emily Leap, Laura Arrington,
Jesse Hewit, Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos, Hana Erdman, Gabriel Todd, Ruairí
Donovan, Empress Jupiter, Jassem Hindi, Keyon Gaskin, Keith Hennessy
Selected as Artist Choice of 2014 by Art Forum
Turbulence is listed in critic's 2012 Top 10 Lists:
Top 10 Dance, Rita Felciano, SF Bay Guardian
Best Ensemble 2012, Robert Avila, SF Bay Guardian
Top 10 New York Theater, Don Shewey
"A glorious mess that's shot through with enough rigor, humor, and heart to entertain and incite." Jesse Hewit, Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos, Hana Erdman, Gabriel Todd, Ruairí
Donovan, Empress Jupiter, Jassem Hindi, Keyon Gaskin, Keith Hennessy
Selected as Artist Choice of 2014 by Art Forum
Turbulence is listed in critic's 2012 Top 10 Lists:
Top 10 Dance, Rita Felciano, SF Bay Guardian
Best Ensemble 2012, Robert Avila, SF Bay Guardian
Top 10 New York Theater, Don Shewey
Aaron Scott, Portland Monthly Mag
“Turbulence” is one of the most incoherent, messy pieces I’ve ever seen. Yet... it keeps changing. There are often two or more things happening at once, and the spirit that emerges is funny, permissive, unsensational and inquiring.” Alistair Macaulay, New York Times, Jan 14 2013
“Turbulence (a dance about the economy) is a wreck that resembles a pop-up version of Occupy Wall Street. At any given moment in “Turbulence,” situations, both inconsequential and those charged with political meaning, erupt all over the stage.” Gia Kourlas, New York Times
Turbulence (a dance about the economy) plays with normative
disruptions and calculated disregard for generally accepted rules of
engagement. A collaborative creation, the work is an experimental hybrid of
contemporary dance, improvised happening, and political theater; it is a
bodily response to economic crisis. Instigated before Occupy and engaging
questions of debt, value, and exchange, Turbulence is intended as both
provocation and affirmation of global movement for economic justice.
More frictions that drive the work: economic crisis, disaster capitalism,
debt, precarity, propaganda, torture, union busting, magic, collaboration,
war, and physical performance.
Responding both to economic and ecological crises, Turbulence is an
experiment not only in performance, but also in developing alternative modes
of producing performance. Integrating new cast members as generative
collaborators for each performance, the work resists fixed or predetermined
outcomes. Improvisation is both survival strategy and political tactic. The
economies of making dances and being an artist also impacts our research.
Accumulating dances, images, texts, songs and tactics with each cast, the
process was tested at venues in San Francisco, Stolzenhagen/Germany, Vienna,
Portland, and Pontempeyrat/France from 2010-12.
More information:
Turbulence (a dance about the economy) plays with normative disruptions and calculated disregard for generally accepted rules of engagement. A collaborative creation, the work is an experimental hybrid of contemporary dance, improvised happening and political theater; it is a bodily response to economic crisis.
Instigated before Occupy, and engaging questions of debt, value and exchange, Turbulence is intended as both provocation and affirmation of the current global movement.
NYLA
Unstable structures supported by unsustainable systems, this dance cannot stand up on its own. Turbulence (a dance about the economy) is a bodily response to economic crisis.
Turbulence engages the frictions between economic crisis, disaster capitalism, debt, precarity, propaganda, torture, union busting, magic, collaboration, war, and physical performance.
Instigated before the recent Occupy Wall Street actions, Turbulence is intended as both provocation and affirmation of global movement for economic justice.
Responding both to economic and ecological crises, Turbulence is an experiment not only in performance, but also in developing alternative modes of producing performance. Integrating new cast members (as generative collaborators) for each performance, the work resists fixed or predetermined outcomes. Improvisation is both survival strategy and political tactic. The economy of making dances and being a dancer will focus the investigation of this research-based performance experiment.
Keith Hennessy
Guest artists:
Portland/TBA Festival: Roya Amirsoleymani, Keyon Gaskin, Takahiro Yamamoto
Seattle/Velocity: Markeith Wiley, Joan Hanna, Alice Gosti
San Francisco/YBCA: Ray Chung, Anna Martine Whitehead, Brontez Purnell
New York/NYLA: Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dana Michel (Montréal), AK Burns.
New York/American Realness: Anna Martine Whitehead, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Keyon Gaskin
Hamburg/Kampnagel: Maria Francesca Scaroni, Antonija Livingston, Peter Pleyer
Krems/donaufestival: Amanda Piña, Fahim Amir
Mannheim/Theater der Welt: Jo Koppe, Nadia Buyse
Funders:
Turbulence (a dance about the economy)
is made possible, in part, by the New England Foundation for the Arts
through its National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, the MetLife Foundation, and the National Endowment
for the Arts. Further support for this project is given by the National
Performance Network Performance Residency Program.
Turbulence is co-commissioned by CounterPULSE and Regards et Mouvements with additional funding from Zellerbach Family Foundation, New Stages in Dance, and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Turbulence is co-commissioned by CounterPULSE and Regards et Mouvements with additional funding from Zellerbach Family Foundation, New Stages in Dance, and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
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