A Dixon Place Special Event: LAVA Loving & Daring June 3, 2010

On Thursday, June 3rd at 7:30pm, Dixon Place proudly presents LAVA Loving & Daring, A Dixon Place Special Event. In celebration of a decade of performances, LAVA Loving & Daring is an explosive choreographic re-mix, revival, and mash up of highlights from LAVA’s past productions. The evening will burst with hoop-diving, glistening pink double trapeze, science experiments and LAVA’s own special breed of audience participation. The performance will feature video projections created by visual artist Nancy Brooks Brody, shot in various locales around the world. Matinee performances will include the girls of Magma, LAVA’s junior company.

Whether new to LAVA or die-hard fans of the company, audiences will experience the unforgettable images, wit, empowerment and connection that have come to define the all-female group. LAVA broke new ground with an aesthetic connecting the worlds of dance, circus, feminism, geology, theater, and visual art. LAVA seeks to influence others in its vision of strength and its rigorous exploration of what it means to be a community. LAVA Loving & Daring will reveal the mission of the company’s work and its unique core-- an unending and very physical exploration of the earth’s dynamic forces, both literal and metaphoric.

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

LAVA is a troupe of artists who develop and perform artistic works that combine dance, theater and acrobatics. Founded in 2000 by Sarah East Johnson, LAVA develops original works that integrate athletic physicality, intellectual rigor, social commentary, and relationship exploration. LAVA was awarded an OBIE and a Bessie Award for their show Lava Love, in 2000. In addition to creating and performing original theatrical productions, the troupe offers classes in their unique form of acrobatics and dance at their Brooklyn Studio.

LAVA has performed in New York City at P.S. 122, The Kitchen, The Flea Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, The Joyce Theater, Movement Research at Judson Church, The New Victory Theater, Celebrate Brooklyn, Symphony Space, and Dixon Place.

ABOUT DIXON PLACE:

Dixon Place is a non-profit organization founded in 1986 to provide a space for literary and performing artists to create and develop new works in front of a live audience. While other venues of its kind have since died off, or now only present established artists, Dixon Place remains at the heart of the New York experimental performance scene. Taking risks is crucial to the life of Dixon Place, its artists and audiences.

Dixon Place's primary commitments are to bring artists and audiences together through live performance in order to expand the understanding of the creative process and its final product, and to provide a supportive environment for emerging artists to present new work. Over the last sixteen years, Dixon Place has successfully maintained its intimate atmosphere and unique environment while increasing its programming to fulfill the need for performance opportunities for the New York community of performing and literary artists.