Transmuting

Transmuting is the ongoing research of the intersection between physical rigor and sustained repetition and asks: how long can you continue before you are forced to adapt? Using improvisational scores and set material that focus on rigorous repetitive patterning, we witness the physical and mental stamina required to push the body to its limit. The performers are driven by the will and need to keep pushing, keep going, keep moving forward.

Premiered: March 2019
Commissioned & Presented By: Gibney’s Work-up 5.1
Performers: Nattie Trogdon & Hollis Bartlett
Additional Performers: Quentin Burley, Wendell Grey II, Symara Johnson, Emma Judkins, Ariel Lembeck, Nik Owens, Paul Singh, Laurel Snyder, Hsiao-Jou Tang, Carlo Antonio Villenueva, Aya Wilson, Jessie Young
Lighting Design:Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone & Susan Hamburger
Photography: Scott Shaw Billie Grace Ward & Kathryn Butler
Videograph: Gibney & Proteo Media

PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Mad Festival / Nazareth College/ Rochester, NY / October 27, 2019
Swarthmore College / Swarthmore, PA / September 21, 2019
Jack Crystal Theater (PREMIERE) / NYU Tisch/ New York, NY /June 12, 2019
Salem State University / Salem, MA / May 4, 2019
Gibney Agnes Varis Theater (PREMIERE) / New York, NY /March 1 & 2, 2019
Old First Reformed Church / Spoke the Hub / Brooklyn, NY / November 16, 2018
School for Contemporary Dance & Thought (SCDT) / Northampton, MA / Oct 21, 2018
No Theme Festival / Cocoon Theater/ Poughkeepsie, NY / August 31-Sept 2, 2018
Boston Contemporary Dance Festival / Boston, MA / August 11, 2018
Brooklyn Ballet / First Look / New York, NY /July 20 & 21, 2018
Triskelion Arts / Brooklyn, NY / July 11, 2018
The Joffrey Ballet / Slice & Dice with the Lovelies/ New York, NY / July 1, 2018
Hartwell Hall Theater / SUNY Brockport/ Brockport, NY / June 12, 2018


This work was created in part through residencies at the Tisch Summer Residency Festival at New York University, Gibney, The Floor on Atlantic, Brooklyn Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, Peaceable Barn, SUNY Brockport, Triskelion Arts, NYU Tisch, SCDT, Salem State University, Swarthmore College, Nazareth College, and The Dance Complex. Funding support provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation.