Dates + Show Times:
Thursday | 10/10/24 | 8pm
Friday | 10/11/24 | 8pm | *Post Performance Discussion to Follow*
Saturday | 10/12/24 | 8pm | Post Performance Discussion to Follow
Sunday | 10/13/24 | 3pm
Run Time: 90 minutes estimated | 10 Minute Intermission | Concessions will be served
Joe Goode Performance Group (JGPG) is pleased to present the third bi-annual GUSH Festival, with premieres of new works by Joe Goode Performance Group in collaboration with Melecio Estrella, along with featuring new works by Molly Katzman, Damara Vita Ganley, and by WITH (Óscar Trujillo, Patricia West, Aja Randall, Frances Sedayao & Damara Vita Ganley).
This year GUSH focuses on artists that are in close relationship with JGPG, bringing forward their unique voices and offering opportunities for intimate dialogues and shared inquiries looking ahead into the future of artmaking with JGPG.
Joe Goode and long-time collaborating artist Melecio Estrella join to premiere a short duet, a seed for the upcoming, Are You Okay? an immersive, site-specific dance theater work premiering in the Fall of 2025. Are You Okay? asks how we are managing in a world that is personally and collectively unstable. In this precarious time when our lives, health, and jobs are in constant flux, Are You Okay? proposes that embodied and collaborative creativity is not a privileged luxury, but a critical survival technique.
JGPG will also share two selections from last year’s celebrated work, As We Go with Wailana Simcock, Felipe Barrueto-Cabello, Marit Brook-Kothlow, Patricia West, Molly Katzman and Damara Vita Ganley.
WITH is a collaboration between long-time friends and thought partners called to explore questions of connection and loneliness innate in our human journey, which has taken a unique twist in our highly digitized reality. Is this increasing sense of powerlessness and distrust so pervasive that true belonging is no longer available to us? Has our collective misunderstanding and dislocation become so familiar that deep connection is out of reach? In Edging, we celebrate our animalness and human kinship as pathways to remembering and harnessing the magic that guides us during the shadowed times.
Damara Vita Ganley and Molly Katman will share Ground Pressure. This dance theater work partners with a truck to investigate and activate questions of complex identity and cracks that allow for unexpected expressions of tender human feeling and connection. Drawn from experiences of their shared rural upbringing Ganley and Katzman examine personal histories, threats, and activations shaped by masculine privileges of space and territorial power. As they unpack and examine their own internalized mythologies they tenderly ask themselves and others – what might different futures feel like where power and fear have been disentangled in our bodies? How can we encourage a rewilding of our sense of ourselves – feeling, sensing, and storytelling our way forward?
Please contact us at [email protected] for access needs if support is required by October 9, 2024.
Dancers : Marit Brook-Kothlow, Damara Vita Ganley, Joe Goode (RESERVE NOW)
Image Description: Artistic Director, Joe Goode, sits in one of three chairs in the Haas Lilienthal house as dancer Damara Vita-Ganley stands with a clip board in her hand talking to Joe and dancer, Marit Brooke-Kothlow who is leaning against a wall that has three framed images to the her left.
Dancer: Molly Katzman (EVENTS)
