Fallacies @ River to River Festival
Jun
8
to Jun 9

Fallacies @ River to River Festival

Thrilled an expanded version of our work Fallacies will be a part of River to River Festival this summer. Shows are free in Rockefeller Park - Battery Park City. Join us for an evening of big dance moves in the park!

https://lmcc.net/r2r/fallacies-nattie-trogdon-hollis-bartlett/

Fallacies
Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett

Performance
June 8 & 9, 7pm
Rockefeller Park
FREE, Drop-In

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Workshop
June 9, 5pm
Rockefeller Park
FREE, Drop-In

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Fallacies blurs the lines between original source and personal interpretation, constructing dance from a dancer’s perspective. Distorting referential choreography to reveal new patterns and physical possibilities, the piece materializes as a Rorschach test of dance. When the movement is stripped down, what do you see? By rendering movement through the lens of its performers, Fallacies makes invisible embodied histories visible.

In addition to performances June 8 and 9, audiences are invited to join a workshop with Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett at 5pm on Sunday, June 9 to learn movement from Fallacies, gaining insight into the piece's various original sources before seeing the performance that evening.

Choreography: Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett in collaboration with the performers

Performed by: Katerina Belmatch, Sienna Blaw, Dwayne Brown, Brendan Drake, and Noa Rui-Piin Weiss

Costumes by: Marlene Hamm 

Sound: "Dehors" and "Dedans" by Francisco Meirino and Bruno Duplant


Presented in partnership with Battery Park City Authority.
Performance length: 40 minutes
Workshop length: 1 hour

This work was developed in part through residences and support from Marble House Project, Coffey Street Studios, Amanda + James,  14th Street Y and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center Residency program. Additionally this project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.


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Improvisation Workshop @ Peridance
Apr
21
1:00 PM13:00

Improvisation Workshop @ Peridance

Sunday Sessions is a workshop series inviting participants to explore improvisational tools & tactics in contemporary dance, and through the lens of teaching artists who actively use improvisation in their generative work. A 2-hour workshop will guide movers through modalities that will help develop individual movement invention and lead into ensemble practices that will open up possibilities of connecting with others as we build each moment together. All levels are welcome!

Come join us!

https://www.peridance.com/workshops.cfm

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Class @ skewl!
Apr
20
12:30 PM12:30

Class @ skewl!

$14.00 - email us for a reduced class rate!

FORMS classes are a grown-up version of your morning technique class. We move big while taking care of our bodies. Come get ready for your rehearsal, your show, your day or you life.

Come dance!

https://www.skewl.org/classes/p/420-nattie-hollis

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Phantasm @ Purchase PAC
Dec
8
to Dec 10

Phantasm @ Purchase PAC

Sharing a new work Phantasm created with these FAB students. Shows run Dec 8-10th at The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. Would love for you to witness! Details below:

TICKETS

Performances

12/8 Friday 8pm
12/9 Saturday 2pm & 8pm
12/10 Sunday 3pm


The Purchase Dance Company’s Fall Concert features an exciting and diverse range of world premieres and renowned repertory works in order to showcase the dynamic range of the company’s professional caliber students and reflect the Conservatory’s stature as a leading center for world-class dance training.

We are thrilled to present seminal choreographer Trisha Brown’s Groove and Countermove (2000), a postmodern masterpiece.  Celebrated Guggenheim Fellow Andrea Miller, Artistic Director of GALLIM dance, will keep the audience riveted with SAMA (2019), a dramatic contemporary work. Two exciting commissions have enabled our students to be an integral part of the creative process as our guest choreographers bring their visions to the stage.  Dance alum Jenelle Figgins, a Princess Grace Fellow, will present SPREAD (2021), a poetic contemporary ballet work first commissioned for our Dance majors during the height of the pandemic. Rounding out the program, innovative duo, and current Conservatory of Dance faculty members, Hollis Bartlett & Dance alum Nattie Trogdon, will premiere Phantasm, a dynamic contemporary piece, created expressly for this season.

The performance on Friday, December 8 will be preceded by an Artist Talk at 7:15pm.

https://www.artscenter.org/events/fall-dance-concert/

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LMCC's Open Studios #2
Dec
2
12:00 PM12:00

LMCC's Open Studios #2

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Sharing part of what we’ve built through the Arts Center residency. An expanded group version of our work “Fallacies”

Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett

Fallacies

Performance/ artist talk (30 min)

With Brendan Drake, Wendell Gray II, Noa Weiss, Katerina Belmatch, Symara Sarai, Nattie Trogdon, Hollis Bartlett 

Fallacies’ is a movement work of reference and research project that culls known dances from pop culture and bodily memory to live in the space between replication and translation. Nattie + Hollis will share movement sequences from this choreographic archival practice and have an open discussion around this work exploring originality, possession, and meaning-making through dance.

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Snug Harbor Dance Festival
Sep
23
to Sep 24

Snug Harbor Dance Festival

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sharing a new work in process at the Snug Harbor Dance Festival.

Admission is pay what you wish and performances will be happening all day long throughout the ground of Snug Harbor. RSVP for the evens here!

The second annual Snug Harbor Dance Festival is a two-day event celebrating an array of dance styles, featuring site-specific performances, workshops, film screenings, and a panel discussion.

WHEN: Saturday, September 23 and Sunday, September 24, 2023 | 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
WHERE: Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301 (View campus map and directions)
ADMISSION: Pay what you wish | Day pass reservation requested here

The Snug Harbor Dance Festival creates space for artists and communities to get inspired, create, and connect through movement, with performances and activations by Bonita Oliver, J. Bouey & George Del Barrio, Kinesis Project dance theatre, Anabella Lenzu, Amelia Heintzelman, Psychic Wormhole, Nattie & Hollis, Lydia Bellach Ruocco, and more!

The Snug Harbor Dance Festival is supported by The Audience Building Project, a program of the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Governor and New York State Legislature. Additional support provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation, Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Saturday, September 23, 12 PM – 8 PM

12 – 8 PM: Dance films, Gallery G
Participating festival artists

12 PM: Bonita Oliver
Starting point: Octagon Room at the Carpenter’s Shop

1 PM: Kinesis Project community workshop on site-based dance
Shinbone Alley

2:15 PM: Kinesis Project Dance Theatre
Shinbone Alley

3 PM: Amelia Heintzelman
Carpenter’s Shop

4 PM: Nattie & Hollis
The lawn between Bldgs. G & F

1 PM, 3:30 PM, 5 PM: S A T U R N, an installation by J. Bouey and George Del Barrio with performance by DJ NYX
Newhouse Center, Gallery G

6 PM: Psychic Wormhole
Location: TBD

7 PM: Dance Party with DJ Nutmeg
Carpenter’s Shop

Sunday, September 24, 12 PM – 8 PM

12 – 8 PM: Dance films
Participating festival artists

12 PM: Performance by Lydia Bellach Ruocco
Newhouse Center, Building C front steps

12:30 PM: Panel Discussion: Preserving local dance histories and cultures with Candace Thompson-Zachery, Pia Agrawal, and Emily Hawk
Newhouse Center, Gallery G

2 PM: Kinesis Project Dance Theatre
Shinbone Alley

3 PM: Amelia Heintzelman
Carpenter’s Shop

4 PM: Nattie & Hollis
The lawn between Bldgs. G & F

5 PM: Anabella Lenzu
Gallery G

6 PM: Psychic Wormhole
Location: TBD

Informal post festival social after last performance on September 24

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Residency @ LMCC Arts Center on Governors Island
Aug
21
to Dec 15

Residency @ LMCC Arts Center on Governors Island

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Thrilled to continue working on Fallacies through LMCC Arts Center Residency. We’ll be out here August - December in our workspace continuing our practice of archiving, decomposing, and recomposing dances of our lineage. We’re thrilled to have this space and time to deepen into this research and are excited to be collaboration with sound designer Vasu Panicker, video and projection designer Alex Romania, archivist Myssi Robinson and dancers Wendell Gray II, Brendan Drake, Symara Johnson, Noa Weiss and Kat Belmatch.

The Arts Center at Governors Island is home to year-round artist residency programs for artists working in any discipline. LMCC’s residency programs aim to meet the immediate studio space needs of the artist community we serve by converting unconventional, vacant spaces into work and process space for artists. With the Arts Center at Governors Island, LMCC established our first permanent location for artistic process, presentation and gathering. LMCC’s residency programs are a vital part of our commitment to ensuring artists have free, collaborative space for creative development and production in New York City today and long into our shared futures.

The 2023 Arts Center Residency will offer residencies to artists and creative practitioners, currently in need of studio space to support their practice, who are interested in a short-term residency experience focused on experimentation, ongoing development, and being in dialogue with fellow residents. LMCC welcomes applications from artists whose practice is self-directed and process-based and would benefit from the unique resource of the Arts Center at Governors Island serving as an incubator for research and interdisciplinary collaboration.

https://lmcc.net/resources/artist-residencies/arts-center-residency/

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May
30
1:45 PM13:45

Contemporary Practice Class @ Gibney

Teaching an ongoing class for the spring @ Gibney.

Contemporary Practice
Tuesdays 12-1:45pm
Gibney 280

This class is a highly physical, deeply researched and sweaty exploration of our past and present selves. Our movement is rooted in improvisation and our post-modern dance lineage, and we use a rigorous exploration of line, shape, and form as the physical mediums for our research. In class there will be improvisational scores, anatomical awareness, body conditioning, expulsive exercises, discourse, discussion, and phrase work. Our interest inside of a class space is tied into our making and performance practices and everyone who attends class has knowledge that is vital and necessary for building these spaces together.

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"Fallacies" New Work @ Sightlines Festival
May
18
to May 25

"Fallacies" New Work @ Sightlines Festival

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Sightlines is a new dance residency and performance program featuring four new works by a group of choreographers sharing their work in conversation with each other.  Presented at Coffey Street Studio, a 19th-century warehouse in Red Hook, the artists will have three weeks to develop their pieces within this unique space. The festival will culminate in a rotating series of split bills May 18-25, so no two evenings are the same. We hope this curatorial collage will provide a new perspective on each piece, informing both our own creative process and the audience experience. The choreographers will also share their research and practice through free open classes.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Thursday May 18 – JESSIE YOUNG and WENDELL GRAY II

Friday May 19 – WENDELL GRAY II and AMANDA HAMELINE

Saturday May 20 – NATTIE + HOLLIS and JESSIE YOUNG

Sunday May 21 – AMANDA HAMELINE and NATTIE + HOLLIS

Wednesday May 24 – NATTIE + HOLLIS and WENDELL GRAY II

Thursday May 25 – AMANDA HAMELINE and JESSIE YOUNG

Purchase tickets HERE

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Big Kmart Film @ New Zeiteron
Feb
1
7:00 PM19:00

Big Kmart Film @ New Zeiteron

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UNCONVENTIONAL DANCE: Big Kmart screened as part of the Motion State Dance Film Series at the Zeiteron Theater in New Bedford, MA.

Tickets are Free!

Presenting highlights from the first four seasons of the Motion State Dance Film Series!

Motion State Dance Film Series is the only short film festival in New England devoted to showcasing the diversity of contemporary creative voices exploring the medium of choreography for the camera.

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Decomposing Dances - FREE Workshop
Jan
31
6:00 PM18:00

Decomposing Dances - FREE Workshop

Free Workshop through Pioneer's Go East Collectivepcoming @ 14 street Y.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/next-workshop-with-hollis-bartlett-nattie-trogdon-tickets-503515577647

More workshop info below:

In our current research we are “decomposing” dances that have significantly impacted our personal dance lineage- sourcing from music videos, iconic moments of pop culture and our post-modern dance training (ie. Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, Napoleon Dynamite’s talent show dance, Cats the musical, and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Fase).

In this workshop we will be teaching some of these dances from our lineage as well as sourcing from the group’s collective movement lineage to recompose our own collaged polytheistic dances. We will discuss the impact these movement sequences have on us as movers, allowing for a reimagining of how dance exists in our spaces and in our bodies.

We recognize that everyone who attends this workshop has knowledge that is vital and necessary for building these spaces together. We work to craft the container for our workshops, while making space for varied contents. Our teaching practice does not have definitive answers, but rather leaves us with questions which we are asking ourselves, the spaces we hold, and the world around us. Anyone with a movement practice is welcome to join.

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The Ailey School's New Directions Choreography Lab
Jan
25
to Apr 21

The Ailey School's New Directions Choreography Lab

Thrilled to be the 2022/23 choreographers for the New Directions Choreography Lab through The Ailey School. We’ll spend the spring creating and researching with students from The Ailey School and with out creative advisor Kimberly Bartosik.


Final Showing: Friday April 21st @ 2pm EST @ The Ailey Studios

The New Directions Choreography Lab (NDCL) is a creative residency program hosted by Robert Battle and The Ailey School. The program was initiated by Mr. Battle in 2011 as a response to what he identified as the biggest detriments to creativity in the choreographic process: lack of time, space, artistic and financial resources. The primary mission of the lab is to cultivate an environment in which choreographers are free to take creative risks and explore new ideas. Four artists will be selected annually to receive a monetary stipend, access to dancers from The Ailey School and studio time at The Joan Weill Center for Dance for the purpose of choreographic exploration. 

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UNCONVENTIONAL DANCE in Austin Texas
Oct
16
to Oct 22

UNCONVENTIONAL DANCE in Austin Texas

A weeklong workshop + performance centered around our current project UNCONVENTIONAL DANCE.
Spearheaded by Blipswitch Performance Collective.

Registration + Ticket Info

Workshop - a morning dance warm up + collaborative studio time where will dive into some of the scores and questions we’re building into UNCONVENTIONAL DANCE

Workshop dates:
Monday, October 17 - Friday, October 21
Dance Practice 10:00-11:30AM
Unconventional Structures 12:00-2:00PM
The Long Time | 5707 Dunlap Rd. Austin, TX

Performance
Saturday, October 22
Gallery & Bar 5:00PM
Performance 5:30PM
The Long Time | 5707 Dunlap Rd. Austin, TX

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