[inter/meta/trans] Upcoming performance, 7/19/07: THIS DANCE IS CALLED GREE. IT IS FROM BEDSTUY.

[taisha paggett]

Dear LA friends-

On Thursday July 19th there will be a very special performance event at my
house in Van Nuys by Modern Garage Movement. The group is based in Brooklyn
and their performances are quite awesome and inspiring and a good example of
dances that do something different (in case you¹re looking for such things).
This show is part of MGM¹s larger summer tour across the States and down the
west coast, through dance festivals, backyards, garages and other places. I
hope you can make it. Read details below.

hope you are well, taisha


PS: carpool?... Good idea! We¹re also close to the orange line for those
foot and bike trekkers




THIS DANCE IS CALLED GREE. IT IS FROM BEDSTUY.
kaleidoscopic blinks presented in portable proscenium

thurs  july 19
8pm
"casa de izzy" (Taisha¹s House)
6249 Mary Ellen Ave.
Van Nuys, CA 91401


For directions go to http://maps.google.com/  and enter: "casa de izzy"


details:
myspace.com/moderngaragemovement
    
questions:
moderngaragemovement at gmail.com
646.750.5375

818-749-6044


show runs 40 min  - 1 hr, depending on space
$8 suggested donation


A quality Garage Movement, aka MGM.  Started in San Francisco, based in
Brooklyn, MGM is dancers Felicia Ballos, Biba Bell & JM Leary. Inspired by
hardcore touring rock bands, JM conceptualized MGM into a five week US
touring project summer 2006, dancing in garages, backyards, packing sheds,
wine warehouses, galleries and community centers. The performance of GREE is
an assignment to cultivate urban flowers in secret gardens by grafting the
sounds of Stevie Wonder to Pash(ly), costumes of Neil Greenberg to soccer
outfits and the dances of Youssouf Koumbassa to Sarah Michelson. The show
opens with a dimly lit seating area entirely covered by foliage, which is
then removed by the dancers as the audience members arrive and are
integrated into the thicket. GREE dusts off dance pieces, sets and
audiences, invisibly arousing all growing, moving things. knock-off you've
never seen the original of, THIS DANCE IS CALLED GREE. IT IS FROM BEDSTUY.
is the new dance piece of  renegade touring project, Modern



TOUR SCHEDULE:
June 25 ­ 26        Durham, NC
June 27        Chapel Hill, NC
July 1 ­ 2         Sebastopol, CA
July 4            Arcata, CA
July 5 ­ 8        Portland, OR
July 9            McMinville, OR
July 11            Grass Valley, CA
July 12            Truckee, CA
July 13            Sacramento, CA
July 14            Santa Cruz, CA
July 16 ­ 22        Los Angeles, CA
July 23 ­ 25        Big Sur, CA
July 26 ­ 29        San Francisco, CA

PEOPLE:
Jmy/Jamm/Jbird/Jean-Marie Leary (b. 1979) was born and raised in San
Francisco, California by a former CIA member turned Buddhist, turned
interior designer and a Buddhist Monk. She continues to be influenced in all
aspects of her life by the need to engineer earthquake
resistant infrastructures, buildings as well as water systems, models that
are solid in their flexibility. UC Santa Cruz gave her a BA in
Modern Literature and Theater Arts. She has lived in Brooklyn, NY for the
past six years, been assistant to Karole Armitage, assistant to
and performer with Sarah Michelson, apprenticed for the Merce Cunningham
Dance Company, costumed the work of RoseAnne Spradlin and
Anna Sperber, danced for the late Mel Wong, and currently dances for Luciana
Achugar, Biba Bell, Walter Dunderville, Nancy Garcia and Nancy
Meehan. With Rebecca Brooks, she started producing dance performance parties
as AUNTS (www.myspace.com/aunts). She tours Modern Garage
Movement, which started off as a dance rehearsed, then performed, then
toured, in garages, expanding to galleries, packing sheds, wine
warehouses and community centers.

Felicia Ballos grew up as a ballerina in the suburbs of St. Louis, Mo. Now
she is an artist making dances and lives in Brooklyn. Ballos' work
has been presented at DTW, The Kitchen, The Swiss Institute, AUNTS, Dixon
Place, Champion Fine Art,  at Art Basel in Miami, as well as in
Belgium, Morocco, France, and Japan. Some of her collaborations include
working with Flora Wiegmann, Anna Craycroft, Montgomery Knott,
and Amy Granat.  Currently Ballos is dancing with Jamm Leary (preparing for
the second tour as Modern Garage Movement), making a
new group work, and practicing Kung Fu.

Biba Bell is a choreographer and performer based in SF and NYC. (With
URISOV) she investigates the limits of consistency in regards to
movement, site, music, and attention. Sometimes she writes about this
experience, seeking out single words that might ebb(lack) or
flow(exceed) depending upon time of day, degrees of sunlight, or
neighborhood interaction. She likes to play in this incremental,
indeterminate space. Biba recently received a masters in performance studies
from NYU. Biba practices and ponders yoga, committed to its
gentle framework and tradition... (breathing is certainly something to think
about). She is happy to lead daily yoga throughout the duration
of the MGM tour. Biba grew up in Sebastopol.
(www.urisov.com)(www.bibayoga.org)






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