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