Thursday, May 9, 7:00 - 8:00 pm

Witness the New York City premiere of BODYSONNET’S "please come alone” created and performed live by Moscelyne ParkeHarrison and Mio Ishikawa

A series of solo dance performances exploring what it means to be alone and to come together. Tickets, $20.

ABOUT THE EVENT

From creator-performers Moscelyne ParkeHarrison and Mio Ishikawa of BODYSONNET, “please come alone" is a series of solo dance performances exploring what it means to be alone, and to come together. In the piece, performers participate in exercises to explore their artistic and narrative values as they devise movement solos. Each performer’s process will culminate in a twenty-minute movement score that shares the same music score and includes movement references to the other solo. The soloists rehearse apart from each other, thus experiencing each other's work for the first time in performance. The work was originally performed in The Berkshires, MA in June 2021, and workshopped further with MFA drama students at Yale University in winter 2021 with Dramaturg Hannah Gellman.

ABOUT BODYSONNET

Founded in 2019, BODYSONNET is a collective of contemporary dance makers and performers committed to making work in non-traditional spaces. To create highly collaborative work, BODYSONNET employs horizontal working practices and considers every artist in the room equal parts dancer and creator. BODYSONNET has presented more than twenty original works for site specific locations, film, and fixed mediums in The Berkshires (MA), Cologne (Germany), The Hudson Valley, New York City, San Francisco, Northwest Arkansas, and online. BODYSONNET has received grant awards from notable organizations including Adobe, New England Foundation for the Arts, and MassCultural Council. BODYSONNET is led by three core members, Mio Ishikawa (NYC), Sean Lammer (Cologne, Germany), and Moscelyne ParkeHarrison (San Francisco), and involves numerous collaborators. This year the collective is celebrating Season 5 with performances and community centered workshops in New York and San Francisco.