Photo by Sheridan Telford. Image courtesy the artist.
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ASSEMBLY is a dance theater work created by Caitlin Adams in which narratives emerge and unravel as a cast of seven performers navigate the intersection of movement and text scores. The result is a dissonant, celebratory, and surprising world —punctuated by moments of banality — that asks: where does the stage begin and end? This performance acts as both a reclamation and gathering—an offering of collectivized action where individual modes of leadership emerge as pathways toward social equity and shared responsibility.
ASSEMBLY will unfold over three hours through a looping 30-minute score. Each subsequent loop generates into a new stage of the one before it. The evening invites the audience to witness this unfolding of a living network in real time. Viewers are welcome to enter [and exit] at any point during the three-hour performance.
CREDITS
Director & Choreographer: Caitlin Adams
Music Director & Composer: Jeff Aaron Bryant
Assembly is supported by Creative Heights Society.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Based in NYC, Caitlin Adams is an artist, choreographer, director, producer, performer, writer, and consulting astrologer. Her work emphasizes an expansive commitment to collaboration and community aiming to create worlds that empower and subvert individual experience within a vibrant collective ecosystem. Adams’ work has been presented at Documenta15, Gibney Dance NYC, Triskelion Arts, Prospect 4/New Orleans Art Biennial, MOMA PS1’s Art Book Fair/Printed Matter, NYC Poetry Festival, REDCAT, Human Resources LA, Bates Dance Festival, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Intuition is Bodily: Caitlin Adams Interviewed” was featured in BOMB Magazine in June 2020 where she discussed her embodied relationship to spiritual practice, ancestral memory, and empathy. She is a teacher and student of instant composition studying under pedagogical mentors Julyen Hamilton and Maya Carroll. Adams has brought countless productions to life as a producer/director with many artists and organizations including Performa, Vogue, Triadic, and HERE Arts, to name a few. Adams holds a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography, with a minor in Creative Writing from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). www.caitlinhadams.com
Jeff Aaron Bryant is a composer-performer and sound designer working at the intersection of art and technology. Much of his work is concerned with interactive media and improvisation. As a composer, he’s interested in using aleatory to confuse performance and spontaneously generate form. As a designer, he’s interested in thinking of sound as real objects that inhabit space and has a particular interest in sound that’s playful, generative, and engages with bodies. BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. He studied both composition and computer music, with concentrations in percussion, non-western musics, and technological interventions in concert music. MFA from Calarts. His thesis was concerned with the role of the computer in arts technology and involved performance softwares, live electronics, and interactive controllers for dance. Works for dance and theater include: Jesi Cook’s Whole body in my ear, Blaze Ferrer’s Dick Biter & Gusher, Erin Markey’s Singlet & Boner Killer, Julia Jarcho’s Marie, It’s Time, Ann Marie Dorr & Paul Ketchum’s Good and Noble Beings, Zoë Geltman’s Sea Fraud, and Mallery Avidon’s At the Rich Relatives & TL;DR.