Humans within Structure

"Humans within Structure" sees a human on the pedestal where a sculpture would be. It is a dance installation that expands on the image of human bodies amongst the various pedestals and pillars, bases and blocks that are a sculpture gallery’s basic set. Three performers interact with each other and with several boxes - which they at times wear on their heads and at others move in, on, and around on the floor - in a way that brings movement to otherwise static structures, exploring their bodies as individual people, not only as technical dancers. Pathways for the audience in the space make their bodies as integral to the choreography as the performers' bodies. Ultimately, dealing with the concept of “humans within structure" brings up not only the visible, physical frames that contain our lives, but also the invisible, psychological, and societal ones whose boundaries are just as powerful. hewman was co-founded in January 2014 by former Juilliard classmates Jason Collins, James Lindsay Harwell, and Ingrid Kapteyn to serve as a platform for presenting multi-disciplinary performances for fresh audiences in unconventional venues throughout New York City. It aims to bring focus to the human body that is all people’s instrument for living, to reach beyond New York City’s regular dance audience, and to explore the immersion of performers and viewers in the same space.

In keeping with their structural explorations, hewman will present "Humans within Structure" in three unconventional spaces – a gutted tenement, chashama's uptown gallery, and a Chelsea showroom – giving the viewer the option to see the same dance installation performed in three different spaces over three consecutive evenings.

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