ID... Sunday at Three, 92nd St Y!

[Ashley A. Friend]

Hello fellow dance-techians...

This is an announcement for my latest piece. The piece is a work in progress and the most tech that I have applied are my mean skills of sound editing the Beach Boys... and silence... mixed with a little Aphex Twin... just a sketch. The other view of technology that I hold involves the mechanics of the body and the creation of a movement structure or system that I call the scary body, more below. If you are here in NY please try to attend, thanks a lot.

Ashley A. Friend: The Contemporary Dance Core (TCDC) will be performing the latest evening-length version of the newest piece entitled ID at the historic and celebrated 92nd St Y on Sunday, March 9th at 3pm.

This is such an exciting opportunity to show the new work. Each month the 92nd St Y features one choreographer or dance company. The environment of the 92nd St Y Sunday Afternoon Series is calm and offers a chance for audience response, plus coffee!

Description of ID:
ID is inspired by the relationship between decision-making and self-identification. It investigates health, impact, destruction and construction, and the connections concerning the body and brain. The piece is an exploration of the awkward body and includes a movement vocabulary Friend has titled the scary body; this dance expression was informed by the physical response to ergonomic architectural prosthetic impediments that were placed on the dancers bodies and challenged the way the original movement phrases were executed. These impediments augmented and distorted the already inventive movement and also create another layer of personality and personal intention as related to health and living with epilepsy. Friend has used vocabulary from this method within ID.

Friend has also explores the new concept of Negotiation, Opposition, and Decision (NOD) as she responds to questions within her choreography and movement improvisation with the definitive “Yes” or “No”. She negotiates what the next movement could be through opposition and then makes a decision on the spot. NOD splinters decision-making and the dancer must consider each movement and hold a political forum within the body; Negotiating and Opposing prior to making the irrevocable Decision to move. With NOD as the second basis and her icon of the scary body as the foundation for movement vocabulary construction Friend has plunged head first to confront her own id.

Because of the nature of a solo ID is particularly personal and especially refined with accuracy, precision, and depth to the subject. ID is a voyage of personal identification by means of decision-making both verbal and physical, through dance and storytelling. The piece is riddled with laughter, compulsion, and catharsis.


Thank you so much for your interest in dance, choreography, and art! If you are in the New York area please come to this event. Your presence, individuality, and bequeathed artistic interpretive views will be worshiped by me. Contact the 92nd St Y or myself if you have any questions about the performance or just want to start a ciber-logue.

*Please note that March 9 is daylight savings (spring forward)

All the Best,
Ashley A. Friend

Artistic Director,
The Contemporary Dance Core

website for The Contemporary Dance Core (TCDC)
http://www.dancecore.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYU7wwANYhA

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