Georgia Sagri "Vitamin Kids for Trio A"
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Artists Space presents Vitamin Kids for Trio A, a one-night event with Georgia Sagri.
Sagri, joined by an ensemble of high school hip-hop dancers (Ronald Coleman, Leny Felix, Robert Heyward, Jomal Jacques, and Jasmine Kamara), will improvise a live composition based on Yvonne Rainer's 1966 dance sequence, Trio A. Archival footage of Trio A found on YouTube--re-filmed by Sagri from her laptop and projected here--will overlay the dance sequence. These components develop a tension between the actions of the body, the vocabulary of street dance, theperception of historical influence, and the live presence of an audience. The result is a study not only of formal elements, but of the structures and dynamics inherent to social forms of dance. Sagri's investigation of movement, both live and re-broadcast, introduces various sources and targets of experience, while similarly casting her in the mutable role of artist, director, participant and observer.
An open rehearsal, broadcast via Skype to the Festival Côté Court, Paris, will take place at 1pm and will include a conversation between Sagri and Nathalie Anglès.
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Schedule
June 19, 2009 from 20:00 to 22:00
An open rehearsal, broadcast via Skype broadcast at 1PM