Thursday, July 24, 2014

Meet Megan Wilson Stern and Beau Hancock





Megan Wilson Stern will be presenting a new work which is currently untitled. The piece is a solo, performed by Megan, that explores sense of place and relationships to space- the seeking out, the digging in, conforming to, shaping, remembering, re-imagining... Megan is focused specifically on memories of spaces and landscapes from her childhood and with the space(s)/place of her own body.

Having taken break from choreographing to focus on performance and improvisation, this is the first piece Megan has choreographed in two years and her first time showing work in Philadelphia. She is excited to be re-engaging with the choreographic process and re-examining her relationship to improvisation, choreography, and performance practice.





For his new dance Mooring Field, Beau Hancock found inspiration in the drifting rhythms of boats moored in Maine harbors. Dancers Marie Brown and Melissa Chisena complete the complex choreography without moving through space, tethered to a single spot. The work also includes a haunting new score from composer Jason Carr and costumes subtly dyed with patterns of the world’s ocean currents from designer Patricia Dominguez. 











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