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what the body remembers

Posted by Amy on 10 Aug 2016 / 0 Comment

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Upcoming Performance:

Part of the 3rd Annual “SEATTLE ➡ TO ➡ FRESNO” event; sponsored by the Rogue Festival to bring first-class fringe theater performances to Fresno year-round!

3 Performances:

Thursday September 8, 6:00pm

Saturday September 10, 4:30pm

Sunday September 11, 9:00pm

Tickets: $10

Location:

Mia Cuppa Café 620 E Olive Ave Fresno, CA 93728
– NOCO returns to StF for the 3rd year! In typical NOCO form, what the body remembers is an original 50 minute dance show created by one of the collective members, Elijah Muñoz. The show features a cast of dancers as movement-researchers; they’ll perform tender and visceral choreographed dances, live improvisational experiments, all the while listening to what their bodies remember. Don’t miss this experience to see dance up close! –

“A brilliant young virtuoso, Elijah Muñoz is one of Fresno’s rare unicorns and emerging dance professional, dripping with ideas, ingenuity and talent. His work is polished and edited, it is as oozy, luscious, tender and human as it is athletic, syncopated, and complex. He’s a perfect paradox, and it makes me feel alive to see dance expressed this way”  -Amy Querin, NOCO founder & artistic director.

 

CAST:

Kelsie Barry
Zach Garcia
Justine Johnson
Elijah Munoz
Jessie Santos
Alex Tiscareno
NOTES FROM THE CHOREOGRAPHER:
“Everything that I have ever been and everything that I have ever experienced lives just beneath my skin; sometimes, most times, I forget to listen to what’s there.

‘what the body remembers’ is a non-narrative exploration of the body; the perceptions, value systems, biases, and inclinations both viewers and performers have on the body; and the relationship the body has with the mind, the self, other bodies, other minds, and other selves.
Incredibly discouraged with classicism and traditional theory of beauty and aesthetics, I sought for permission—both internally and externally—to step out of the learned sphere. I sought to challenge my assumptions of dance in terms of how I generate movement, what movement is acceptable to utilize depending on valued aesthetics, and whether or not movement needs to be generated with an inherent sense of meaning.
Instead of completely disregarding classicism, ‘what the body remembers’ functions by creating space for the movement patterns that live inside my body and the bodies of the performers to exist within and outside the context of trained technique. Improvisational and choreographic techniques will be utilized to explore and research availability and physical intelligence.” _ Elijah Muñoz



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