AMUSEMENT - A NEW DANCE COMMISSION BY ALEXA WEST
“For the twelfth season of Beach Sessions, choreographer Alexa West responds to the Rockaway sand as both substance and stage, in a piece that is seriously investigative yet leaves room for straight-faced wit.”
Working with sand as a responsive material, Alexa West composes a kinetic landscape in which movement and terrain continually shape and remake one another. Drawing on the charged minimalism of the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, West’s work heightens the beach’s inherently voyeuristic conditions before resisting
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them, oscillating between exposure and concealment, intimacy and distance. At once feral and precise, the choreography builds and erodes in real time, proposing the body as both image and force within a landscape that behaves like time itself. Performed by Tim Bendernagel, Isabelle Dayton, Cayleen Del Rosario, Benin Gardner, Amelia Heintzelman, Jordan Lloyd, Owen Prum, Molly Ross Sound Design by Harrison Dramaturgy by McClain Groff Choreographic Assistance by Olive Bonner Scenic Design by Alexa West and David Selig Scenic Fabrication by Ozcelik Carpentry and NYC Parks Department Produced by Morgan Griffin and Sasha Okshteyn
Rockaway Beach
Far Rockaway, Queens — 1-12, 1-98 Cross Bay Pkwy, Far Rockaway, NY 11693
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“For its twelfth season, Beach Sessions, an annual event that brings experimental dance to the Rockaways, moves from August to September. This year’s choreographer is Alexa West, a founder of Pageant, the East Williamsburg studio and collective that had a marathon showing at the M…” via The New Yorker — The Art World (magazine formal reviews) ↗
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