Anna Sperber Dance Projects presents "Amplifier"
Company:
Anna Sperber Dance Projects
Amplifier
May 23-25th, 8pm at Roulette
Choreography and Direction - Anna Sperber
Collaborating Performers - Emma Judkins, Angie Pittman, Myssi Robinson, Ariana Speight
Original Musical Score - Nate Wooley
"Hero Song’” by Pittman, with Judkins, Robinson, Speight, & Sperber
Lighting - Madeline Best
Creative Producer - Amelia Heintzelman
Amplifier finds activation and power through collective momentum. Sperber and collaborating performers Pittman, Robinson, Judkins and Speight ride shifting energetic states, letting time bend in shared space. They are buoyed through witnessing one another, and through the partnership of the collective group. Through landscapes of both cacophony and silence with an original score by composer Nate Wooley, the performers become satellites of listening and receiving.
Anna Sperber is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer. Her work has been described by The New York Times as “immediately compelling” and “wonderfully strange” with “moments of theatrical magic.” Sperber received a 2022 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Choreographer / Creator for Bow Echo (2021). Her work has been commissioned by The Kitchen, The Joyce Theater UNLEASHED, The Chocolate Factory, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Roulette, Gibney Dance, and Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, as well as by the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC. Sperber has received fellowships and residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Bogliasco Foundation, The Marble House Project, a Schonberg Fellowship at Dance The Yard, Center for Performance Research, Gibney Dance DiP (Dance in Process), Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on Governors Island, and Movement Research. Her work has been supported by New Music USA Live Music for Dance, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, and Brooklyn Arts Council.
Sperber was a co-founder of classclassclass, and has taught as a guest artist at American Dance Festival, Movement Research, FreeSkewl, Pageant, Gibney Dance, Hunter College, George Washington University, and Wayne State University. Sperber founded and ran BRAZIL, a studio and intimate performance space in Bushwick, Brooklyn from 2004 to 2014 and Sunset Space from 2019-2020.
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