October 17-19

DNA presents Jen Abrams and Heidi Latsky Dance in SPLICE: unraveled, a single evening concert of two female choreographers with diametrically opposed styles toying with perspective.

Jen Abrams’ tense and tender INVOLUTION uses dance, theater, text and video to reveal the assumptions and undercurrents that define a series of intimate relationships.
Performed by Jessica Ames, Jessica Dellecave, Ariel Polonsky, Jen Abrams
Photo by Katherine Pradt
INVOLUTION was developed with support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Heidi Latsky Dance presents excerpts of GIMP. A landscape of movement portraits that dives into the heart of difference, voyeurism and the unexpected, GIMP confronts the audience with their preconceptions, challenging us to re-think accepted notions about dance, performance and body image. “GIMP, highlights uncommon virtuosities and the raw beauty of bodies that work in a wide range of “normality” Time Out Chicago, May 2008.
Performed by Christine Briggs Winslow, Jeffrey Freeze, Heidi Latsky, Lawrence Carter Long, Catherine Long
Photo by Carlos Arias

Friday | Oct 17 | 8:30 pm
Saturday| Oct 18 | 3:00 pm & 8.30 pm
Sunday | Oct 19 | 3:00 pm

Tickets: $20, ($15 members, $17 students)

Jen Abrams‘ work has been hailed by The Village Voice as “quintessentially New York,” and her performances “convincing no matter what [she chooses] to do.” Her work has been presented at BAX, HERE, Dixon Place, the Nuyorican Poets Café, and the Bowery Poetry Club, as well as at WOW Café Theater, where she has been an active member for eight years. She was a 2005 BAX space grantee, and an 07-08 Outer/Space resident at DTW. Jen is a Contact Improvisation impresario giving herself to the art form for sixteen years. She is a DNA and Movement Research Improvisation teacher, and relocated to New York City from Chicago where she presented and performed in five full-length concerts with the Contact Improv-based company she co-founded, Limbic Fix. She is a classically trained actor and is also a writer, having given readings of her work to enthusiastic crowds at St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Halcyon, and Bar 13.

Heidi Latsky (Artistic Director/Choreographer, Heidi Latsky Dance, (HLD) and GIMP), has been a moving force in the dance world for many years, as a choreographer for stage, theater and film. Latsky initially received recognition as a celebrated principal dancer for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance. Her work and company have toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe, performing at preeminent venues and festivals like Central Park Summerstage, Dance Theater Workshop and Judson Church in NYC, the Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Festivals in Canada, Switzerland, Croatia and Slovenia. Latsky has received many distinguished choreographic commissions including Cannes International Dance Festival, American Dance Festival, the Joyce Theater, Danspace Project, Teatro Libero (Palermo), The Whitney Museum of American Art and the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Project. The world premiere of HLD’s newest project GIMP, will be at North Fourth/VSA Arts of New Mexico in Albuquerque this fall, followed by a NYC season at the Abrons Art Center.

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