ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Filming by Muse Motion, Bandits Bend Studio, and Faux Reel Films
2024 ARTISTS
MAY 28-JUNE 4:
ANNA SPERBER & COMPANY
Photos by Maria Baronova
“Immediately compelling , wonderfully strange with moments of theatrical magic”
Classes & Events:
Anna Sperber is a Brooklyn- based awarded choreographer and performer. She is an advocate for dance accessibility and co-founded CLASSCLASSCLASS, designed to nurture new dance teachers while offering reduced class rates. She also founded and ran BRAZIL and Sunset Space, intimate studio and performance spaces in Brooklyn.
Her performances are rooted in the poetic potency of choreography and its potential for perceptual transformation. She creates performances that experiment with choreographic form, situating mystery, animality, and aggression within the feminine. She delves into somatic experiences and the fleshy reality of embodiment within our larger social and cultural contexts. Enacting a tension between formal clarity and chaotic wildness, each site-responsive work orients the architecture of the visceral, moving body inside the physical architecture of the space. Interdisciplinary collaborations are crucial to her work, integrating visual and sonic landscapes with moving bodies.
During their residency with Dance Initiative, Anna Sperber and Company will be working on solos and duets for a new evening length piece. Anna’s solo is envisioned as both an invitation and a personal map, will explore her body’s journey through time, embracing change as a creative catalyst. This piece will also chart the performance space, navigating the performer’s realm and the audience’s shared experience.
Anna Sperber’s work:
Company:
Owen Prum is a New York-based dancer, choreographer and co-founder of the artist-run dance and performance space PAGEANT. He has danced for Neil Greenberg, Yoshiko Chuma, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Elizabeth Dishman, among others. He has been nominated for a Bessie and holds a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Tim Bendernagel grew up in Brooklyn, New York where he continues to live and dance. Most recently, he has collaborated with the choreographers Stacy Spence, Maya Lee Parritz, Sharleen Chidiac, and John Jasperse, among others. Tim began his dance training at Dancewave in Park Slope, Brooklyn under the direction of Diane Jacobowitz. He then graduated from The Ohio State University in 2017 where he earned his BFA.
Dance Initiative’s Artist-In-Residency Program hosts national and international choreographers to create original work, hold open rehearsals, host workshops, and perform for the Roaring Fork community. Dance Initiative is honored to inspire, educate, and spark new (and renewed) appreciation for dance while adding rich and unique cultural experiences to the mountain towns from Glenwood Springs to Aspen, Colorado. This program also allows professional artists to focus intently on their work in a quiet and beautiful environment so that they may take their craft to the next level and generate new works to be seen around the globe.
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