Re: Connection will be premiering on YouTube Saturday September 18th at 7:00pm. We have worked together with a team of dancers and poets who have been writing and dancing over the course of the last year. Emma and Casey Brayndick have co-directed and edited the footage to create a twenty minute collaborative dance piece about the need for connection in this time when that feels especially vital.
Seeking Something, a dance piece created this past year by Dancing On The Spot. The ensemble wrote poetry based on questions in prompts written by our friends and family, just like a seek help column, but rather than advice they received poetry. We danced to that poetry alongside live improvisational music. We explored some of the questions people ask themselves about direction, individual integrity, and love in an uncertain world.
https://youtu.be/NaXOWmzWUAo
Fragments/The Catch is an evening of dance in two parts. The first part is a play with movement, Fragments From The Permanent Collection by Mike Brayndick. Directed by Emma Brayndick. Fragments From The Permanent Collection follows a lonely astronomer who approaches a manuscript typist on the majestic central staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago as the arc of a relationship plays out in miniature in a series of intertwining scenes.The second is The Catch an improvisational dance piece which combines dance with music and poetry written by the ensemble about the many meanings of the word "Catch".
https://youtu.be/-2oc0K6T7V0
https://youtu.be/-2oc0K6T7V0
Mot Juste, an improvisational dance piece exploring the many words we need to say just the right thing. Many languages have words which we don't have a direct corresponding word for in English, and they can be poignant, funny, inspiring, and precise ways to express our myriad of experiences and emotions. Along with live music, we used movement to explore language, and language to explore emotion. Join us to see if we can find le Mot Juste--or just the right words.
https://youtu.be/_IX-QgaNTfI
https://youtu.be/_IX-QgaNTfI
What Moves Us. What Moves Us, is a piece from 2018 that connects live poetry with improvisational dance and music. This piece was created by the DOTS ensemble led by Emma Brayndick. It considers why we choose to move, the place art holds in our lives and why people need it now more than ever.
https://youtu.be/wVDek_dzygg
https://youtu.be/wVDek_dzygg
Myriad uses improvisational movement and music to explore the multiplicity of the human experience. The dancers wrote poetry based on their own lives, the process of finding themselves, and building community with others. During the viewing party you will be able to chat live in comments with the director and some of the dancers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQVw9gUly2w&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQVw9gUly2w&feature=youtu.be