NEW PERFORMER

New Performer (NP) is anti-generalization (standard narrative, group dynamics, symbolism) and pro-specificity (a reality of you and me). Is it possible to “not-perform”? Searching for what is next, the dancers will find comfort in outright attempts at movement, image-making, presence, language. But, they will also attempt to find a state of “not-performing,” a balancing act of subtlety to slip you self-aware moments. Do you see them? They gaze out at you, too. Are you seen? 1 or 2 dancers, 4 or 7 or 10 minutes counting down. Embrace the collective successes and failures in the pursuit of being together. A process to change the way a performer operates creating a new model of a performance / performance that thinks, that determines its parts, assembles and disassembles them, conducts tests / that asks for intimacy, empathy, and acceptance of failure.

INSTAGRAM

A social image-making experiment and research component of New Performer. Follow @newperformer to find the performers sharing intimate self-portraits performed as selfies and locating intersections of image, identity, reality, and performance.