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Natalie Johnson Dance: AGEN

About AGEN:

AGEN, coming from Middle English, is the primary root for three common English words today: "own", "against", and "anew". This piece is divided into three sections that draw upon those words, yet all share the same root. AGEN covers a broad spectrum of movement and tone, ranging from pedestrian to virtuosic, abstract to referential, irreverent to supplicative. But always in common is the root: my fascination with pain, and the transformative process that follows.

Pain is honest, universal, spans the physical and emotional boundaries, and connects all things living. Pain can be self-inflicted, oppressive, enjoyable, humorous, destructive. Pain is a great teacher and a formidable enemy.

AGEN is a story of four people owning, battling, and shedding themselves, through love and pain, to become anew.

About Natalie Johnson Dance:
Natalie Johnson Dance is joyfully dedicated to a generous and open relationship with its community, and an unyielding loyalty to the movement art form. We seek to bring meaningful work to a wide audience through performance, teaching, and service, expanding our connections to people with love and passion.

Our dance is idiosyncratic, drawing from the artists histories, curiosities, imperfections and prowess. With choreography as honest as a diary entry, the audience gets to glimpse the human soul speaking through movement.

Natalie Johnson Dance is fiscally sponsored by New York Live Arts since May 2015, and has performed regularly throughout NYC and across the United States since 2013.