SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER:
2803 Manor Rd.

April 26th @ 6pm

TICKETS: $10
DANCE/VIDEO/FILM

Part 1 in a series of short dance programming featuring snapshots of various dance artists from around the US.

One for Resolve/Emily
A solo by Emily Johnson (Minneapolis)

Exhaustion meets resolve meets exhaustion.
A move from aiming to please to stating the obvious.
A move from living to dying.
A story follows and precedes death and history always alters space and time.
This is a dance with a duck - rough movement flows with expensive looking movement and fiction meets real life.
We all want to live where we are happy.

Performance, story and choreograhy by Emily Johnson
Music by JG Everest and Roma di Luna

Emily Johnson founded her company, Catalyst, in Minneapolis in 1998. In the near decade since, she has created, produced and toured her dance work throughout the USA and in Russia, Amsterdam, and Montreal with support and commissions from the Walker Art Center, Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, the Bush, Puffin, and Jerome Foundations and performances/residencies at Velocity Dance Center, ODC Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Links Hall, and Lombardi Gallery with Dance Umbrella. When she doesn't have a commission, she gets the company in a van and drives to Nebraska to do a show on a farm, or they get on a plane for a week of camping and performing in small, Alaskan bars and art galleries. She writes about dance/performance for the online zine, MentalContagion, produces the dance series Windfarm and co-curates a dance/film series, capture! in Mpls. www.catalystdance.com

Boomer Boots Up and Distillation
Two solo dance films by Al Le Razer and
Lorn MacDougal (Austin)

Boomer Boots Up, 2008, was filmed in the Netherlands where water, sky, and land fuse. An improbable man-made environment of steel, rocks and smoke, drives an equally improbable performance by Le Razer. The world premiere screening will be accompanied by Distillations, 1994, an award winning film in which MacDougal dances in locations such as the now defunct Bethlehem Steel Works.

MacDougal’s dance/film/theater collaborations with Le Razer have been presented in New York City, on national and international tours, and in Amsterdam where the partners were based before moving to Austin this year.