LAB: 4 – 7 August | 10-16h
PERFORMANCE: 9 August | 20h
Darrell Jones is a performer, educator, researcher, and choreographer. He has performed extensively across the United States and globally. He maintains long-term collaborative relationships with Bebe Miller Company and Ralph Lemon. He is currently a tenured professor of Dance at Columbia College Chicago, where he specializes in improvisational processes.
Bebe Miller’s vision of dance resides in her faith in the moving body as a record of thought, experience, and beauty. A native New Yorker, she formed Bebe Miller Company in 1985. The Company has been commissioned by leading venues including BAM Next Wave, New York Live Arts and Wexner Center for the Arts, and has performed worldwide. A Distinguished Professor Emerita at Ohio State University, she was named a Master of African American Choreography by the Kennedy Center and is an inaugural Doris Duke Artist Award recipient. Her longtime creative partnership with Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones informs her current mode of art making, traversing the complications of our times. She currently lives on Vashon Island in Washington State, USA.
Angie Hauser is an award-winning performer, choreographer, and teacher. Her research focuses on the creation and performance of dances for the stage, and is grounded in the interrogation and practice of movement, improvisation, and collaboration. Hauser is a long-time collaborator with the celebrated Bebe Miller Company (USA) which includes her 25+ year creative partnership with dance artist Darrell Jones. Hauser also creates collaborative multidisciplinary performances with dance artist and international teacher Chris Aiken. She is a Professor of Dance and Director of the Graduate Program at Smith College (MA, USA).
MAKING PARTNERSHIP: the creative process and problem of duet collaboration
LAB: 4 – 7 AUGUST | 10-16H
In person with Angie Hauser & Darrell Jones, joined online by Bebe Miller
At the heart of our dance-making are moment-by-moment considerations of movement, relationship and profound play. Crafting dances in collaboration with another calls for a particular regard for these elements. We find that the solo perspective is essential to the duet partnership. We are always alone and always in relationship.
We’ll explore how our dancing is amplified in both solo and partnership, developing choreographic specificity through a range of compositional strategies. We’re interested in the investigation of movement details and dynamics, the choreographic range of relationship, and how the particular speaks to context, bringing who we are into the room (sexually, racially, gendered…) and moving individually and in partnership with that idea.
In our 25+ year partnership with each other and with Bebe Miller, we continually return to the event of touch — noting how the situations that happen before and after the moment of contact supply as much information as the arrival. This is used as a starting place to go into skills such as reading other bodies, perpendicular/parallel relationships and problem solving through movement.
FABLE
PERFORMANCE: 9 AUGUST | 20H
Fable, a duet performance revealing the persistent interpersonal subtext and physical mutuality that drives our particular mode of artistic inquiry. As such, it connects an audience to their own experiences of creative partnerships. It is filtered through the collaboration between Miller, Hauser and Jones that began with the Bessie award-winning Verge (2001), and acknowledges their independent investigations and practices over time. Fable probes findings from a 25-year perspective on the contexts of art making through the body over a lifetime, exposing the collision of their internal processes as dance artists, friends and citizens. It shares that vulnerability in an interactive format, creating something new.
Credits:
Conceived and performed by Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones in collaboration with Bebe Miller
Sound: Hahn Rowe, Michael Wall [TBC]
Video: Lily Skove
a Bebe Miller Company Project, Bebe Miller Artistic Director