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Christine Bonansea at JACK

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Photo by Robert Flynt

 

ONLY HUMAN

A solo by Christine Bonansea

APAP SHOWCASE – WORK IN PROGRESS
January 5-7, 2017
JACK
505 1/2 Waverly Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238
TICKETS: $10 advance/online, $15 (cash only) at the door

OnlyHuman is the first installment in a series of four collaborative performances, aimed at creating an interdisciplinary creative environment in which Bonansea’s solo dances evolve through interaction with new musical, visual and movement material created by an international and multicultural ensemble.

Created in collaboration with the composer and performer Nicole Carroll, lighting designer Elizabeth Mak and the visual artists Robert Flynt and Yoann Trellu.

This work draws inspiration from Friedrich Nietzsche’s aphoristic volume Human, All Too Human, a work described by its author as “a handbook for the free spirits.” Bonansea is particularly interested in the stark contradiction between the human capacity for freedom and beauty and its darkest, most destructive and illogical behaviors.

OnlyHuman trailer from christine bonansea on Vimeo.

Shamel Pitts at APAP

 

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Photo by Alex Apt.

 

BLACK BOX:
Little Black Book of RED

APAP SHOWCASE
January 6-7, 2017
14TH STREET Y THEATER
344 East 14th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
TICKETS: $20, AVAILABLE HERE

An enigmatic performance featuring a solo by Shamel Pitts, a former company member of Israel’s iconic Batsheva Dance Company.

Buoyed by his trademark expressive movement, Pitts employs spoken word, evocative lighting, and video to construct a personal, poetic narrative about the search for identity and striving for survival amidst impermanence. Performed in a confined space in nearly pitch-black darkness, the work features recordings of Pitts’ ruminations jotted down during his travels with Batsheva. Obliquely referencing the flight data recorder, BLACK BOX transcends traditional travel journal format, becoming instead a record of a life as – in a nod to Nina Simone –  a “young, gifted and Black” artist, thriving in constant motion.

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