Performance

Rants, dance, and chants by Keith Hennessy

Two performances only
This is the last chance to see this work in the Bay Area

Sink’s approach to current politics waivers between punk and contemplative, transformative and fucked. Loneliness, a lifejacket, a white man, a shadow dance, a sad angry song, and love, suspended.

“Sink is a clarion call for justice, the miracle of surviving, and an amazing journey that embraces a volcano of everyday emotions… with wild bursts of sentimentality and moments of savage beauty and grace.” John Wilkens, KQED

The performance is an embodied response to the current political, economic, and social shifts that have produced not only Trump and Brexit, Erdogan and Duterte, but also the massive refugee crises all over the world, the mass shootings in Christchurch, Charleston, and Gilroy, and normalization of precarity in all sectors (financial instability, impossible debt, depression, anxiety, poverty, incarceration, species extinction, climate chaos and existential fears…).

An intimate and confrontational portrait of the current era, Sink features poetic texts, contemplative dances, dark satire, plaintive chanting, re-processed nazi music, and an aerial dance.

Hennessy says, “Sink is a personal experiment… I’m feeling fragile and distracted and that’s partly structural. I’m responding to hate and terror, shame and paralysis, the will to survive competing against the urge to implode/explode. I’m reaching in new and old directions, dancing contemplatively, climbing dangerously, singing my guts out, asking too many questions at once: Is freedom a useful concept to motivate dancing? Can a performance be a spell of support for Syrian and Sudanese refugees or victims of fire, hurricane and government betrayal? Is there a non harmful role for the white and male artist? In our need to create contexts for healing, care, and trauma relief, how can I defend artistic provocation or abstract formalism?”

Sink, verb: going under, to fall or drop gradually, to displace the volume by descending
Sink, idiom: everything but the kitchen sink

SHOW TIMES:
Friday, November 1st, 2019 @8:00pm
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 @7:00pm

Rants, dance, and chants by Keith Hennessy

Two performances only
This is the last chance to see this work in the Bay Area

Sink’s approach to current politics waivers between punk and contemplative, transformative and fucked. Loneliness, a lifejacket, a white man, a shadow dance, a sad angry song, and love, suspended.

“Sink is a clarion call for justice, the miracle of surviving, and an amazing journey that embraces a volcano of everyday emotions… with wild bursts of sentimentality and moments of savage beauty and grace.” John Wilkens, KQED

The performance is an embodied response to the current political, economic, and social shifts that have produced not only Trump and Brexit, Erdogan and Duterte, but also the massive refugee crises all over the world, the mass shootings in Christchurch, Charleston, and Gilroy, and normalization of precarity in all sectors (financial instability, impossible debt, depression, anxiety, poverty, incarceration, species extinction, climate chaos and existential fears…).

An intimate and confrontational portrait of the current era, Sink features poetic texts, contemplative dances, dark satire, plaintive chanting, re-processed nazi music, and an aerial dance.

Hennessy says, “Sink is a personal experiment… I’m feeling fragile and distracted and that’s partly structural. I’m responding to hate and terror, shame and paralysis, the will to survive competing against the urge to implode/explode. I’m reaching in new and old directions, dancing contemplatively, climbing dangerously, singing my guts out, asking too many questions at once: Is freedom a useful concept to motivate dancing? Can a performance be a spell of support for Syrian and Sudanese refugees or victims of fire, hurricane and government betrayal? Is there a non harmful role for the white and male artist? In our need to create contexts for healing, care, and trauma relief, how can I defend artistic provocation or abstract formalism?”

Sink, verb: going under, to fall or drop gradually, to displace the volume by descending
Sink, idiom: everything but the kitchen sink

SHOW TIMES:
Friday, November 1st, 2019 @8:00pm
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 @7:00pm

This intimate evening of dance with the Printz Dance Project will include past repertory favorites along with new company work, a performance workshop piece , and screening of a short dance film.  This event is a benefit show to spark funding for PDP’s 2020 Season, and will include nightly raffles, photo booth, fun giveaways and more.

Choreography: Stacey Printz (with additional work by Suzy Myre)

Lighting/Video Design: Wolfgang Wachalovsky

PDP Dancers/Creative Collaborators: Jenni Bregman, Louis Acquisto, Kim Holt, Sadie Carhart, Katie Wong, Will Woodward, Stacey Printz, Suzy Myre, Niara Hardister

Workshop Participants: Camille Henrot, Jessica Brown, Jen Mayawaka, Jeanette Male, Xiomara Bovell, Kyleigh Carlson, Lindsay Ryan, Elise Johnson, Devon Chen, Jaime Bardacke, Tony Fang, Felice Shieh

Show Times:

Thursday 11/7 /19 @ 8:00pm – Post Show Q&A with the company and opening night reception.
Friday 11/8 /19 @ 8:00pm
Saturday 11/9/19 @ 5:00pm and 8:00pm + Post show Q&A with the company, and closing night reception.
*Saturday 11/9/19 @ 4pm – A FREE 30 min all-levels class (no experience needed)