And It Felt Like a Kiss (Excerpts)
And It Felt Like a Kiss (Excerpts) | Brandon Powers & Visager
August 9 - 11, 2016
Anita's Way
137 West 42nd Street
(the through-block connecting 42nd and 43rd streets,
between Broadway and 6th Ave)
New York, NY
Nearest Trains: 1, 2, 3, S, 7, B, D, F, M, N, Q, R
Performances:
Tuesday, August 9, 5-7pm
Wednesday, August 10, 4-7pm
Thursday, August 11, 4-7pm
Excerpts are performed multiple times between 5-7pm on Tuesday and 4-7pm on Wednesday and Thursday. The space remains open to the public throughout and visitors are welcome to join the audience at any point. Performances take place both on through-block stage and in the 42nd Street window box.
And It Felt Like a Kiss, part of the SubletSeries@HERE, is an interactive dance theatre collaboration between director/choreographer Brandon Powers and composer Visager. The excerpts presented at Anita's Way offer an athletic dissection of contemporary intimacy, in which audiences are invited to explore their fractured online lives.
About the SubletSeries@HERE
HERE's curated summer rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment as well as technical support. For information about HERE or tickets to their presentations, visit their site or call 212-352-3101.
About the Composer
Visager is a Brooklyn-based music composer and producer working both independently and in collaboration with other media artists in theater, film, and video games. Using sampling and original recording, Visager’s music blends genres, spaces, and moments in time. Visager was nominated for a 2014 Non-Equity Jeff Award for his original score for PINK MILK, and his music has been featured on radio programs around the US and internationally. Currently, he's making an original soundtrack for the video game Blossom Tales, coming out this fall.
About the Director/Choreographer
Brandon Powers is a director and choreographer from NYC who is committed to creating experiences which blur the lines between theatre, dance, and technology. He co-directed and choreographed The Essential Ella Maythorne, a new play about a student’s experience with sexual violence infused with Britney Spears music, at Dixon Place and directed and choreographed Pink Milk, nominated for four 2014 Non-Equity Jeff Awards--including "Best Choreography" and "Best Ensemble" at Oracle Productions; ALL RIGHT, GOOD NIGHT, a technology driven dance event to memorialize the passengers of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; MUSIC OF THE NIGHT, a dance-driven adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera; and new musicals NIKOLA TESLA DROPS THE BEAT at the Musical Theatre Factory and COMING TO BAD ENDS at Standard Toykraft. Additional choreography credits include: The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley (dir. Lookingglass Theatre Company's David Catlin), The Pajama Game, Grease, and Pippin.
A proud graduate from Northwestern University, Powers has collaborated, worked, and trained with, Feast Productions, The Hypocrites, Mark Morris Dance Group, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Primary Stages, Rady & Bloom, the TEAM, and Woodshed Collective. Last fall, Powers was selected to be an SDC "Observer."
In addition to his work on And It Felt Like a Kiss, Powers is currently developing RIOT ANTIGONE, "a new musical colliding the worlds of ancient Thebes and the Riot Grrrl Movement," with collaborators Seonjae Kim and Erato A. Kremmyda and in the upcoming year, will be premiering new work at The Tank, where he is the reigning xyz-nyc dance series champion.
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