Watermill resident artists BOOMERANG present their work to the public in an open rehearsal at 3:00pm. By pushing physical extremes with sensitivity and rigor in dance and musical performance, BOOMERANG will show a new work commissioned by Dixon Place where it will premiere in March 2016. The artistic team for this project include Matty Davis (BOOMERANG principal performer/co-director), Adrian Galvin (performer/co-founder), Kora Radella (choreographer/co-director), Greg Saunier (drummer), and Will Arbery (dramaturg/playwright). There will be a Q&A session with the artists following this open rehearsal.
BOOMERANG is a daringly physical, poetically nuanced dance and performance project created in 2012 by co-directors Matty Davis and Kora Radella with founding member Adrian Galvin. Recognizing the body as an evolving repository for both physical and psychological life, BOOMERANG sifts through and siphons from the rich, eclectic histories that constitute the personhoods of the people with whom they work. BOOMERANG’s work has been presented in NYC at venues including Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, Dixon Place, Roulette, Triskelion Arts, the Irondale Center, and at the United Nations, as well as in Cleveland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Grand Rapids. They’re also keen on presenting their work in a wide variety of alternative spaces, from parks to vineyards, streets to the mountains, and within academic and school contexts. This past June and July, they made their European debut with performances in Berlin and Barcelona. Most recently, they were shortlisted as 1 of 20 juried finalists for the Grand Jury Prize at ArtPrize7, having been selected as among the top 5 time based artists by Sundance’s Shari Frilot. In March 2016, BOOMERANG will premiere a commissioned evening length, in collaboration with drummer Greg Saunier of the band Deerhoof, at Dixon Place.
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Open Rehearsal | Sophia Brous, David Coulter and Leo Abraham
Following BOOMERANG’s open rehearsal, Watermill resident artists Sophia Brous, David Coulter, and Leo Abrahams present their work to the public at 4:30pm. In collaboration with British multi-instrumentalists David Coulter and Leo Abrahams, Australian interdisciplinary performer Sophia Brous will develop Lullaby Movement: Sophia Brous, David Coulter and Leo Abrahams, a contemporary performance work exploring lullaby ritual from around the world. There will be a short Q&A following Brous’ open rehearsal.
Sophia Brous is an interdisciplinary performer, chanteuse, composer, curator, and festival director. She undertook scholarship study in jazz and improvisation at the New England Conservatory, Boston and Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. A performer with diverse interests, she works and collaborates with a vast range of companies and festivals internationally, including The Barbican, Southbank Centre, MONA, and Sydney and Melbourne Festivals. She also works with artists such as Julia Holter, David Coulter, Mick Harvey, Kimbra, Kirin J Callinan, Belle and Sebastian, HTRK, Mira Calix, Richard Lowenstein and Paul Grabowsky.
Recent and ongoing projects include the Barbican’s world premiere and UK/European/Australian tour of In Dreams: David Lynch Revisited, Marina Abramovic’s Private Aerchaeology for the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart; the Southbank Centre’s production of Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels, with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Mick Harvey’s ‘Intoxicated Man’ Serge Gainsbourg project, the Sydney Festival/Urbantheatre commissioned work Lullaby Movement, and her celebrated solo filmic pop moniker Brous with a forthcoming album released in early 2016.
Brous is also a recognized curator and artistic director. She emerged as one of Australia’s youngest arts leaders when she was made the Program Director of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival at the age of 22 and went on to be the curator of music of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts. She is currently the Artistic Associate of the Arts Centre Melbourne where she is the creator of Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic a major contemporary arts event exploring intersecting states of ecstatic performance.
3:00 – 4:00pm | Open Rehearsal with BOOMERANG
4:30 – 6:00pm | Open Rehearsal with Sophia Brous, David Coulter and Leo Abraham
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Image Credits: Courtesy of Sophia Brous; Jonno Rattman
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