Amber Sloan: Beautiful Little Weirdos
Company:
Amber Sloan
Step into a world of curiosity and contradiction with Beautiful Little Weirdos, an evening of bold, evocative movement by Amber Sloan that celebrates the strange, the surreal, and the deeply personal. The program features the premiere of two works: After the Applause and Echoes of Absurdity.
After the Applause, a solo by Amber Sloan embraces humor, vulnerability, and the unpredictability of an ever-shifting reality. Echoes of Absurdity, a quartet performed by Shawn Brush, Ching-I Chang, Chelsea Enjer Hecht, and Jordan Morley, with sound design by John Glover and costumes by Meagan Woods, navigates the tension between order and disruption, humor and unease.
Through intricate choreography and raw physicality, these works examine the absurdity of existence, the beauty in the unconventional, and the voices that refuse to conform. Join us at Kestrels for a night of compelling performances that challenge perception and invite you to embrace the weird.
Amber Sloan, a choreographer, performer, teacher, producer, and curator based in Jersey City and New York City, was named a 2023 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellow, with her work presented across the US and in Mexico City. Her choreography has been supported by various organizations and foundations including Monira Foundation's Performance Residency at Mana Contemporary, an Artist in Residence at Union Street Dance, Dance on the Lawn's Emerging New Jersey Commissioned Choreographer, the Schonberg Fellowship at The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard, space grants from Gibney Dance Center and Brooklyn Arts Exchange, as well as funding from the Jerome Robbins Foundation. As a performer, Amber is a member of The Bang Group and has danced in works by Doug Elkins, Keely Garfield, Sara Hook, Stephan Koplowitz, and James Waring. She serves on the faculty of the Ailey School as the dance composition teacher for the Professional Division certificate program. As an advocate for the community and fellow artists, she co-directs Women in Motion NYC, serves on the advisory board of Art Omi: Dance, and is the Assistant Executive Director of Arts On Site. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was honored with the Beverly Blossom/Carey Erickson Alumni Dance Award.
*This venue is not accessible. Guests must be able to walk up the stairs to get to the theater.
Photo: BeccaVision; Dancers: Daniel Morimoto, Chelsea Hecht and Jordan Morely
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