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Greg Holt - Centurion
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Centurion will be a collection of 10,000 sequential, unrepeated movements; I'm showing between 1,000 and 2,000 in the mircrofest. 10,000 is both a real goal and also a fiction- it exists at the edge of what I can comprehend, and stands in for orders of magnitude beyond. It's also a provocation which has me constantly revising what defines a movement and the dancing in between them.
Remembering and viewing are both challenged in this performance. The difficulty in viewing individual movements which are never seen again creates a mental space which operates in aggregates, but is filled with a sense of missing something. How can this dance be really seen?
As an epic feat on an individual scale, this piece raises a monument which only exists in action. However, I claim that as a performance, it produces power, and as power, it creates immortality, perhaps even more than material objects which melt away.
///GREGORY HOLT///
Gregory Holt makes dances in Philadelphia. He's like "obviously its better if creative work builds community" and approaches choreography as an organizer. He's also like "dancing cannot be contained!" and sometimes "maybe a performer's fantastic consciousness can stimulate something beyond the present moment?" His work has been shown across the US and in Europe, and has been supported by the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival LAB Fellowship, the Lockwood Fellowship, Workshop Foundation Budapest, Philadelphia Dance Projects, White Pines Productions, and Swarthmore College. He studied linguistics and dance at Swarthmore College, and movement research and pedagogy at the Institute for Dance Art in Linz, Austria.
He has danced for Ishmael Houston-Jones, Christopher Williams, Susan Rethorst, and An Kaler, among others. He is a core member of Green Chair Dance Group, and dances for idiosynCrazy productions, Gabrielle Revlock, and Meg Foley. He has participated in numerous ad-hoc ensembles and collaborative projects.
///a microfestival of stubborn occasions///
a microfestival of stubborn occasions is a weekend of full-length performances by Mascher's artists in residence: Christina Gesualdi, Gregory Holt, and Marcel W. Foster. Gesualdi will present our nebulous motor, a dance installation duet in Mascher's fire escape hallway in which the density of time becomes palpable. Holt's piece Centurion is a solo, an epic feat on an individual scale. #JaneGoodallDrama is a drag-parody interactive performance by Marcel W. Foster of Jane Goodall, the infamous primatologist and researcher. The microfestival as a whole is a space where choreography is given permission to exist in the in-betweens. It is more than the sum of its parts. As a microcosm of Mascher, Christina, Gregory, and Marcel ask, "how can our processes exist alongside each other as we, as researchers and makers, slip deeper into our own distinct approaches: somatic, theoretical, theatrical?" With the Festival Pass, you can affordably experience all three performances (a micro-vacation perhaps?); we intentionally invite shifts of perception from performance to performance.
///Mascher Space Co-op///
Mascher Space Co-op is a home for new dance in Philadelphia. Artist imagined, artist founded, artist shared and run, Mascher provides space that is affordable and versatile. We are a community of support that cultivates a flow of ideas and modes of deep problem solving and inquiry. Bound not by aesthetics, but a common commitment to working cooperatively and sharing administrative tasks and resources, Mascher wildly nurtures the development of its Artists-In-Residence at various stages in their careers, lines of research, and explorations.
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LocationMascher Space Cooperative (View)
155 Cecil B. Moore Ave., 2R
Philadelphia, PA 19122
United States
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