PDP Presents 2010: SCUBA with The BodyCartography Project, Jacinta Vlach, Megan Mazarick March 20, 2010

Minneapolis | The BodyCartography Project | Jump
Dance and video artists Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, co-directors of The BodyCartography Project, present Jump – an exercise in tracking ones attention: focus, breath, physical sensation, boredom, sound, excitement, physical discomfort, joy, sweat, exhaustion. It is an experiment in endurance and decay; a dance of the autonomic nervous system. A video of BodyCartography’s site-specific work will also be screened on this shared bill.

San Francisco | Jacinta Vlach/Liberation Dance Theatre | Animal Farm
Inspired by George Orwell’s classic 20th-century novella of the same title, Animal Farm explores the infrastructure of contemporary politics and propaganda. Blending images of revolutionary poster art as evocative visual narrative, the performance examines how a utopian society is made impossible by the corrupting nature of the very power necessary to create it. Using various dance forms including Step, Dancehall, Jazz, and Urban Contemporary, Animal Farm brings together an eclectic fusion of fine art and working-class sensibilities. The performance features music by Abdullah Ibrahim.

Philadelphia | Megan Mazarick | Avatard
Avatard combines choreographer Megan Mazarick’s adolescent love of fantasy and science fiction with her current passion for creating inventive movement vocabularies. The dance theater narrative explores video game fandom, astronomy, science fiction and pop culture. At once campy and absurd, Avatard evokes the feeling of low-fi, B-grade science fiction of the 1950s.

Part of Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2010, February 26 – March 20
[re]generation | contemporary dance | past meets future
The Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2010 series takes a look back and a look ahead, pairing the next wave of contemporary dance artists with influential choreographers from the 1970s and 80s Philadelphia dance scene.

Official Website: http://www.philadanceprojects.org