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| Courtesy photos Dahlia Nayar |
Award winning artist brings new contemporary dance performance to The Dance Hall
Kittery, Maine - On Saturday, April 11 at 7:30pm The Dance Hall presents Dahlia Nayar's "2125 Stanley Street," a contemporary dance performance exploring deeply personal notions of home. A rigorous collaboration between dancers and co-creators Dahlia Nayar, Margaret Sunghe Paek and cellist/composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, the performance adapts as it migrates to various spaces: a studio, a theater, a gallery, a community grange, a buddhist church.
The trio excavates the everyday and the mundane in search of a poetic consciousness, infusing basic tasks with virtuosity and nostalgia, summoning fragmented multilingual memories and lullabies from their childhoods. Ultimately, 2125 Stanley Street invites the audience into an experience of collective belonging and non-belonging, a home that unfolds through movement, sound and intimate exchange, a home that is both familiar and cannot exactly be located.
About the Artists:
Dahlia Nayar's works have recently been selected for the Venice Biennale/Danza Venezia Showcase
for Emerging Choreographers, Dance Place in Washington DC, the 2012 Next Stage Dance Residency at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, and the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, NY. In addition, her site specific projects have been performed at the National Botanical Gardens, the Kennedy Center and the Complejo Cultural, in Puebla, Mexico. She was a National Dance Project Regional Dance Lab artist in 2007. From 2008-2010, she received the Jacob Javits Fellowship during which time she received her MFA in Dance/Choreography from Hollins University. She has been a guest artist at Salem State College, College of the Holy Cross, Long Island University in Brooklyn, Marymount Manhattan College, Duke University and Smith College. www.dahlianayar.com
Margaret Sunghe Paek is dedicated to collaboration and sees dance as a life practice. She is a Lower Left collective artist (www.lowerleft.org) and is deeply influenced by her relationships with contact improvisation, Ensemble Thinking, Alexander Technique, Barbara Dilley, Nina Martin, Shelley Senter, Dahlia Nayar, Loren Dempster and their daughter. In NYC, Margaret teaches for Movement Research and Manhattanville College, and her work has been presented at the Whitney Museum Biennial 2012, Judson Church, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, and Joyce Soho. www.margaretpaek.com
Loren Kiyoshi Dempster uses a combination of computer, electronics, cello and extended techniques to create and perform music. An active chamber musician, composer, and improviser he performs with the Dan Joseph Ensemble, Trio Triticali, and Left Hand Path among many others. Ever interested in the relationship of movement and sound, he has recently performed for choreographers and collaborators Harrison Atelier, Jonah Bokaer, Merce Cunningham, Chris Ferris, Dahlia Nayar, Margaret Paek, and projectLIMB. www.lorendempster.com
Tickets are $16 in advance and $20 at the door and can be purchased at www.thedancehallkttery.org or www.brownpapertickets.com
Special thanks to program sponsor The Sheraton Harborside Portsmouth.
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