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    Moriah Evans:
    Figuring

    Moriah Evans: Figuring

    Tuesday, January 9, 5:30pm
    Wednesday, January 10, 5:30pm
    Friday, January 12, 5:30pm
    Saturday, January 13, 5:30pm
    Sunday, January 14, 5:30pm

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    Originating from internal physical processes, Moriah Evans' Figuring takes micro movements as method. Through the engagement of energies, reactions, and interactions, three female performers make visible and audible internal systems in order to pitch them against the external forces of space and other. Control and loss of control become the borders that the performers traverse in a series of measured movements that attempt to reconfigure the perceived cohesiveness and stability of the human form. Through pacing and scale, physical gestures make malleable the inner qualities of the body, as well as the sensation of time. Figuring brings forth the unseen, yet felt, world of bodies and space.

    Evans examines various methods and manifestations of contemporary dance within her work. By analyzing the recent history of the discipline as artifact, she isolates and reconfigures aspects of its material and cultural legacies. Deconstructing protocols, production mechanisms, modes of staging, and public perceptions, her choreographies navigate the potentials for utopic sentiments, as well as dystopic tendencies, inherent within performance as a collaborative form. She approaches her pieces by moving between the often opposed realms of minimalism and excess, emphasizing the corporeal aspects of both.

    Moriah Evans is a choreographer based in New York. Her choreographic work has been presented by MoMA PS1, Danspace Project, Issue Project Room, Whitney Museum of American Art, Movement Research at Judson Church, American Realness, New York Live Arts, CallT2, Kampnagel (Hamburg), Theatre de l'Usine (Geneva), CDC Atelier de Paris (Paris), and Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai). Evans received a Bessie Award nomination for Emerging Choreographer (2015) and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Grants to Artists (2017). She is Editor-in-Chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal, and in 2011 she initiated The Bureau for the Future of Choreography; a collective apparatus involved in research processes and practices to investigate participatory images of performance and systems of choreography.

    Figuring is commissioned by SculptureCenter and is presented by SculptureCenter in conjunction with American Realness. Figuring is curated by Ruba Katrib.

    Choreography and performance:
    Moriah Evans with Lizzie Feidelson, Nicole Marie Mannarino, and Sarah Beth Percival
    Lights:
    Kathy Kaufmann
    Styled by:
    Strauss Bourque-LaFrance
    Sound:
    Ka Baird

    Performance Schedule
    Tuesday, January 9, 5:30pm
    Wednesday, January 10, 5:30pm
    Friday, January 12, 5:30pm
    Saturday, January 13, 5:30pm
    Sunday, January 14, 5:30pm
    Run time: 90 minutes

    Tickets
    $25 (General Admission)
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    About American Realness

    Created by Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor in partnership with the Abrons Arts Center in January 2010, American Realness is a festival of dance, performance and discourse. Now co-presented between Abrons Arts Center, Gibney Dance and additional participating venues, American Realness is an internationally recognized platform for the discovery of new works from subversive artists, tearing at the boundaries of their forms. The program commands attention for the proliferation of choreographic and performative practices transcending the traditions and rewriting the definitions of American dance and performance.

    Sponsors

    Figuring was partially developed through a residency at MoMA PS1. The piece was also researched and honed through financial, administrative, and residency support provided by the Dance in Process program at Gibney Dance with funds provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. SculptureCenter's presentation of Figuring is made possible with the support of Trudy Gottesman, Tabitha L. Decker, Margaret Gorji, Sheila Ravendhran, and Brooke and Toby Segaran.

    SculptureCenter's exhibition, program, and operating support is generously provided by grants from the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation; the Kraus Family Foundation; the A. Woodner Fund; Jeanne Donovan Fisher; the Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation; New York City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer; and contributions from our Board of Trustees and Director's Circle. Strategic planning support is provided by the LuEsther T. Mertz Fund of The New York Community Trust. Additional funding is provided by the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation and contributions from many generous individuals.

    SculptureCenter's programming is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.