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American Dance Festival and the Nasher Museum co-present an hour of films dedicated to conversations between body and camera.

MASS by Fu Le
Sirens Tango by Lisa Lievre
Ground-Swell by JACKS – Kelsey Kramer and Lexie Thrash
Between Silences by Ali Kenner Brodsky
The Indexical Dance-a-Thon! by Evann Siebens
Strategic Retreat by Marta Renzi

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Thursday, February 20 @ 7:30pm @ Cora Dance, 358 Van Brunt Street Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Suggested Admission: $20 or pay-what-you-can ($5 minimum). Click here for tickets!

The UpRISE Performance Festival continues with Halfsies, a series of performances, each split between two artists, giving both an opportunity to cross-pollinate audiences, share works in development and engage in post-performance conversation.

Each night, Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance previews material from the company’s latest work-in-progress: Grove, an intergenerational collage of bones, muscles, heart, and skin examining how solidarity and adaptability inspire unlikely and transformative power. SH/CD’s work appears alongside JACKS/Kelsey Kramer & Lexie Thrash on Thursday, February 20.

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JACKS presents...
Can you come outside? 
Hosted by NEXT DOOR

Created by JACKS | Kelsey Kramer + Lexie Thrash in collaboration with the dancers: Nicole Assanti, Rebecca Fitton, Maddie Leonard-Rose, Ceci Lynn-Jacobs, Debbie Z Maciel, Debbie Mausner, Ben Roach, Leah Samuels, Libby Wolf

Join us for a participatory performance experience in conjunction with Red Hook Open Studios. Complimentary drinks, yummy food, and joyful company will be abundant as we celebrate the premiere of our new work. Tickets will also be available at the door.

5:30pm | Doors 
6:00pm | Participatory and Movement Experience 
Immediately Following | Dance Party hosted by Chef Lemons (DJ set)

Light food and drink will be shared! The work is all about HOME, and we would love for you to bring a plate of your favorite home-cooked dish if you feel so inclined.

We hope to host an inclusive and accessible performance experience that enables all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage. To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, please contact jackskramerthrash@gmail.com.

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Can you come outside? comes at a time when we're losing, questioning, and finding ‘home’. Equal parts homage to ‘what was’ and determination to identify ‘what is,’ we look at ideas of what and who makes home so sacred. Nine participants remember, map, embrace, define, and share alongside the audience. Through a game-playing structure, each performer processes personal associations with spaces they identify as home. Can you come outside? offers the opportunity for an ensemble of movers to be together in a world of games/tasks, to have the freedom to play, and to decide what the journey looks like.

Stay tuned for a stand-alone short film that will dive deeply into the stories of each of our collaborators based on these movement concepts; projected premiere Fall 2020.

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THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
We are so grateful for the endless support of NEXT DOOR, a newly established community space created by the founders of 618 Design. We would be remiss without mentioning Cora Dance, who gave us space generously to develop this work over the course of this past year. Thank you to the Peaceable Barn Residency for giving us a beautiful weekend in Connecticut to develop the work and to Open Performance at Movement Research, The Craft at Threes Brewing, Summer Rose at Chashama, and Mark Morris Shared Space with the Lovelies for providing opportunities to share the work in its many stages of development. Thank you to Debbie Fong, fearless illustrator extraordinaire; Courtney Barth, costume genius; Robin Ediger-Seto, light! light! more light!; Martin Tugade, aka Chef Lemons; Will Noling, an early thought-giver and outside eye; and Gabbie Burgess, OG dancer gal. 

Event image by Aeric Meredith-Goujon

Excerpt of Can you come outside? with feedback session and facilitation by The Lovelies.

Join us at Mark Morris Dance Center for a night of dance, feedback, encouragement, and community at our upcoming SharedSpace event. The SharedSpace program offers a platform for choreographers in all dance styles to show their in-progress work. Help play a part in a choreographer’s artistic process by participating in feedback conversations guided by an established dance artist following the informal showing.

The featured choreographers are Alexandra Dombroski, JACKS, Aleixa Freire + Molly Kennedy, Brandon Coleman and Adriane Erdos.

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As part of “Summer Rose,” we are inviting friends to join us for an open rehearsal. We are workshopping a few interactive aspects of our newest work and need patient participants to test those out. Please RSVP by emailing jackskramerthrash(at)gmail.com

Excerpt of Can you come outside? OUTDOORS on Governor’s Island!

The Craft is celebrating the summer with our first ever show on Governors Island! Join us for a collaborative evening of performance and craft beer at Threes Brewing on Governors Island, Saturday, August 10th @ 6:00 PM.

*tentative rain delay performance scheduled for Sunday, August 11th @ 3:00 PM*

Performance is free. Donations encouraged.

For venue information and directions, follow this link:
https://www.threesbrewing.com/pages/governors-island

This month's series will showcase works from:
Sean Thomas
JACKS | Kelsey Kramer + Lexie Thrash
Julia Antinozzi
Mia Martelli
Kristina Bermudez
Meghan Rae Mariotti + Emilia Bunich
Paige Werman

Nothing better than great performance, cold beer, and sweet summer bliss.

See you there.

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Catch a screening of ground-swell at MERDE alongside a huge crew of artists!

MERDE at 7:00
ELLA DAWN W-S
NICO GONZALES
ART SICK LABS
SIERRA ORTEGA
LAUR GEIGER

COCKTAIL HOUR at 8:00
Films by
BITA BELL
JACKS
DJ set by
AMAZING FANTASTIC //
COSIMO MANCINI PORI
GABRIEL COLEMAN

MERDE at 9:30
KELCI GREENWAY
TRAVIS AMIEL
CLAIRE MOORE & COLE HENRY JON­ES
PAUL VAN SICKLE
CAROLINA CAZZULINO

MERDE the PARTY
DJ set by
AMAZING FANTASTIC //
COSIMO MANCINI PORI
GABRIEL COLEMAN

@thefootlightbar
465 Seneca Ave, Ridgewood
5-20 tickets(sold separately for 7 and 9:30)(link for online coming)

ground-swell screening

The "Salon" at Spoke: May Edition, featuring: Dan Rauchwerk, JACKS, Rebecca Van Dover, Lexie Thrash, and Mark Lamb

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Can you come outside? (Work-in-progress showing)

A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion customarily moderated by a current or former Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, where we experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process.

Kayt MacMaster
JACKS | Kelsey Kramer + Lexie Thrash
Julia Gladstone
moderator: Nic Kay

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We are putting on our comedy hats to compete as The Minimalists!

A comedy dance game show in which contestants compete in creating dances inspired by bizarre videos excavated from the depths of the internet. Dancers make the dances. Comedians do the judging. You decide who wins.
Doors 9:00 PM, show 9:30 PM.
Tickets $18 in advance, $20 at the door.
21+ This event is mixed seated and standing room. Seats are first-come, first-served.
REFUND POLICY: Tickets maybe be refunded up to 24 hours before the event. Within 24 hours we may take exchanges for other events at our discretion. No refunds after the event.

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ground-swell screening

30under30 presents GROUND-UP, a night of dance and film featuring life performances by Marissa Finkelstein and VEERdance. Film screening of 'ground-swell' by JACKS, and an accompanying sculpture exhibition by Emily Kohl-Mattingley.

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Join JACKS (Kelsey Kramer + Lexie Thrash) as we premiere our FIRST dance film alongside artists and collaborators Emily KM, Allistair Johnson, Mika Mintz, and Amber Schmiesing.

The evening will feature: 
- TWO screenings at 7pm and 8pm
- visual art pieces created for the film by Emily Kohl-Mattingley
- photographs of our process on display (and for sale!) by Mika Mintz and Brad Johnson
- good food, good drink, and good company
- the announcement of the TITLE of our film!

Our film is the culmination of a beautiful creation journey made possible by a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign. Supporters at the $100 level or above will be on the guest list and need not purchase tickets. All other guests are welcome to purchase tickets on a sliding scale of $7 - 15; cash and Venmo payments will be accepted at the door.

Screenings are presented in tandem with RED HOOK open studios 2018. Spend some time perusing the work of local neighborhood artists that afternoon, and feel free to stop by Cora Dance to hang out with us before the screenings!

Check out our Facebook Event for more information…

Photo by Mika Mintz. Movement creation for this film was made possible by generous space donation from Cora Dance. 

We're moving on a DC rooftop as a part of Housewarming hosted by our dear friends at KIT DISTRICT. 

Details and location TBD, check back on our website and social media pages for details.

Join us as we show the first draft of our dance film based on Table of Contents at Pentworth First Friday. This presentation is made possible by the ever-talented Carolyn Hoehner and KIT DISTRICT. Details to come. Check back on our website and social media pages for more information.

Photo by Mika Mintz

FEATURING WORK BY

Stephanie King
Mollét Contemporary Ballet
Brianna Taylor/Confluence Performance Project
Mariam Dingilian
Madelyn Sher
JACKS I Kelsey Kramer + Lexie Thrash
Aye Eckerson and Kim Sauers

All WAXworks showcases take place on SUNDAYS at 7p at Triskelion Arts: 106 Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY 11222.

Please arrive by 6:45p to claim your ticket.

Tickets are a highly suggested donation of $12.  When you pay the suggested price, you're allowing WAX to continue offering low fees for our participating artists. 

Work-In-Progress showing by:

• JACKS | Kelsey Kramer + Lexie Thrash

• Chloe Marie

• Rebecca Fitton

A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion customarily moderated by a current or former Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, where we experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process.

$3 suggested donation at the door.

Featuring:

• Bobby Morgan & Artists
• Brianna Taylor/Confluence Performance Projects
• JACKS | Kelsey Kramer + Lexie Thrash
• Janessa Clark
• Roza Dance Company
• Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre

A moderated discussion with Green Space's Artistic Director, Valerie Green will follow immediately after the performances.

Admission is: $13 (wine included!) - Tickets available ONLINE or at the door.