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Angel

 

AFDT performs "Angel" at ODC Theater, SF, July 19 & 22, 2012

 

Alyce Finwall Dance Theater presents a tour de force performance piece for two dancers.  Influenced by the work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of Her Own”, “Angel" delves into the surreal and unnerving realm of sexuality and aggressions that pits the audience's glare against the demanding physicality and exposure of the performance.  "Angel" is a tightly constructed dance piece that inhabits a quiet, dark and mysterious room.  Music by Biosphere, Carson Whitley, The Beach Boys and Joy Division.

Evenfall

 

Alyce Finwall Dance Theater collaborates with composer Carson Whitley and video artist Andrea Williams on "Evenfall". Created as part of RAW (Resident Artist Workshop) at the Garage Theater in San Francisco, and presented by the Joyce SoHo in NYC, Evenfall investigates femininity, isolation, identity and nakedness, through raw movement, improvisation and theater; a surreal and ever-changing world of explosive movement and intimate emotions come to life. "Evenfall" features eight powerful women, Julia Hollas, Emmaly Wiederholt, Joy Prendergast, Emily Jones, Madelyn Biven, Maggie Stack, Kaitlin Parks and Malinda Lavelle.

 

"Evenfall" has been performed at the Joyce SoHo in NYC and the Garage Theater in San Francisco.

Enter Demeter

 

"Enter Demeter", with an original composition by Jason Hoopes for strings, voice and breast pump, explores humanity within the struggle between life and death through the physical manifestation of nine women in a restricted arena. The entirety of the stage becomes the anointed ground in which these women are enclosed and in which they struggle for autonomy, civility and significance within an often fragile and volatile environment where nothing is to be taken for granted. "Enter Demeter" opposes woman against woman, while also showing the cooperative traits that are imperative to women's existence. "Enter Demeter" showcases the beauty, clarity, value and strength of women through the interrogation of all human values. This piece takes inspiration from "The Voyage" by Eduardo Galeano and Faith Wilding's poem "Waiting", which was part of the performance program of Womanhouse, the seminal feminist art installation that took place in Hollywood in 1972.

 

"Enter Demeter" has been performed at Dixon Place in NYC, the Cowell Theater for the WestWave Dance Festival 2011, Cedar Crest College in Pennsylvania, and Mills College in Oakland.