Save The Robots!

November 21-23

Save The Robots!  borrows its title from a 1980’s after-hours club in the Lower East Side of NYC. This physically powerful dance is an abstract response to the loss of artistic expression and integrity brought on by gentrification. Contemplating life in a big city-particularly the vulgarity and clumsiness of ’starchitechture,’ the ubiquitous Starbucks and American Apparels, this piece asks questions about how people are considered in the creation of urban spaces. It navigates through the porous and often emotional area between public and private space.

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Friday | Nov 21 | 8.30 pm
Saturday | Nov 22 | 3.00 pm & 8.30 pm
Sunday | Nov 23 |3.00 pm

Ticket Prices: $20, ($15 members, $17 students)

Philippine-born Gerald Casel received a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School in 1991 and an MFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2007 assisted by a fellowship from the Advanced Opportunity Program. He has danced in the companies of Michael Clark, Stanley Love, Zvi Gotheiner, Lar Lubovitch, The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Sungsoo Ahn and Stephen Petronio where he was a member from 1991-1998 and 2001-2005 serving as the Stephen Petronio Company’s Assistant Director and Director of Education. He continues to re-stage Petronio repertory on major companies. In 1997 he was honored to receive a New York Dance and Performance Award “Bessie” for sustained achievement. Casel began making choreography for his company GERALDCASELDANCE in 1998 performing at Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Joyce SoHo, Danceworks (Milwaukee), Conduit (Portland) and ODC Theater (San Francisco). www.geraldcaseldance.com

Performed by Lindsay Ashmun, Gerald Casel, Na-ye Kim, Kai Kleinbard, Toni Melaas, Omagbitse Omagbemi, Nick Strafaccia, Sam Wentz and Isadora Wolfe
Music includes a mix of various dance music and electronica from the 1980’s, 1990’s and today

Photos by Ho Chang