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Department of Dance MFA Exhibition: Off the Wall

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January 21 - January 30, 2016
5:45AM - 6:45AM
Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St.

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Add to Calendar 2016-01-21 05:45:00 2016-01-30 06:45:00 Department of Dance MFA Exhibition: Off the Wall Time: various Event Host: Department of Dance and the Urban Arts Space Short Description: MFA Exhibition: Off the Wall The Ohio State University Department of Dance presents Off the Wall, two weekends of master of fine arts (MFA) and bachelor of fine arts (BFA) student work at Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St. in downtown Columbus. This free presentation of creative research brings dance into an unconventional setting.Off the Wall Part I:Thursday, Jan. 21, reception at 6 p.m., performance at 7 p.m.Friday, Jan. 22, 7 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 23, 3 p.m.• Bodybodybodybodybodybodybodybodybodybody, a dance installation for nine dancers choreographed by MFA Rachel Sigrid Freeburg, amplifies the presence of a softer body in dance. It is an exploration in the ways formal technique and high muscle tone distracts from the vulnerability and humanity of the performers. The work incorporates visual design elements by MFA art student Maria Difranco and live music by local musician Sally Louise Polk.•  In MFA Jess Cavender's interactive video installation Uncertain Terms and Conditions, participants find themselves in a surveillance environment where they can transgress, uphold and examine the boundaries we construct between curated social media and unedited life experience.•  Orb is a work created by Ohio State faculty member Dave Covey in collaboration with glass artist and MFA Jonathan Capps.Off the Wall Part II:Thursday, Jan. 28, reception at 6 p.m., performance at 7 p.m.Friday, Jan. 29, 7 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 30, 3 p.m.•  In MFA Sarah Levitt’s Full Will, eight people assemble to attempt an unnamed act, preparing mentally and physically to do what no human being has done before. The performers drive themselves relentlessly through movement drills; hurtle into each other’s arms and up into the air; sing and shout their truths. An installation by Columbus-based artist Leah Frankel and sound design by Stowe Nelson provide the physical and aural landscape.•  BFA Christine Ghinder presents Prism, an improvisational environment for the interplay of four dancers, a musician and a visual artist. The artists respond to shifts in projected color fields as their choreographic cues. The kaleidoscope of movement, music and image makes for a unique work each time it is performed.•  Negus explores the complexities within the stereotypes of the black male in contemporary culture. MFA Quilan Arnold directs this original work based in and around the poetry of rap music, the visual art of Kehinde Wiley and the works of numerous artists used to challenge the image of the black male in American society. Negus features DJ Dorian Ham, and three black male performers.Photo by Jess Cavender. Dancers: Christine Ghinder, Tim Bendernagel, Rachel Sigrid Freeburg, Anna Vomacka  Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St. College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Time: various
Event Host: Department of Dance and the Urban Arts Space
Short Description: MFA Exhibition: Off the Wall


The Ohio State University Department of Dance presents Off the Wall, two weekends of master of fine arts (MFA) and bachelor of fine arts (BFA) student work at Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St. in downtown Columbus. This free presentation of creative research brings dance into an unconventional setting.

Off the Wall Part I:
Thursday, Jan. 21, reception at 6 p.m., performance at 7 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 22, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 23, 3 p.m.

Bodybodybodybodybodybodybodybodybodybody, a dance installation for nine dancers choreographed by MFA Rachel Sigrid Freeburg, amplifies the presence of a softer body in dance. It is an exploration in the ways formal technique and high muscle tone distracts from the vulnerability and humanity of the performers. The work incorporates visual design elements by MFA art student Maria Difranco and live music by local musician Sally Louise Polk.

•  In MFA Jess Cavender's interactive video installation Uncertain Terms and Conditions, participants find themselves in a surveillance environment where they can transgress, uphold and examine the boundaries we construct between curated social media and unedited life experience.

•  Orb is a work created by Ohio State faculty member Dave Covey in collaboration with glass artist and MFA Jonathan Capps.

Off the Wall Part II:
Thursday, Jan. 28, reception at 6 p.m., performance at 7 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 29, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 30, 3 p.m.

•  In MFA Sarah Levitt’s Full Will, eight people assemble to attempt an unnamed act, preparing mentally and physically to do what no human being has done before. The performers drive themselves relentlessly through movement drills; hurtle into each other’s arms and up into the air; sing and shout their truths. An installation by Columbus-based artist Leah Frankel and sound design by Stowe Nelson provide the physical and aural landscape.

•  BFA Christine Ghinder presents Prism, an improvisational environment for the interplay of four dancers, a musician and a visual artist. The artists respond to shifts in projected color fields as their choreographic cues. The kaleidoscope of movement, music and image makes for a unique work each time it is performed.

•  Negus explores the complexities within the stereotypes of the black male in contemporary culture. MFA Quilan Arnold directs this original work based in and around the poetry of rap music, the visual art of Kehinde Wiley and the works of numerous artists used to challenge the image of the black male in American society. Negus features DJ Dorian Ham, and three black male performers.


Photo by Jess Cavender. Dancers: Christine Ghinder, Tim Bendernagel, Rachel Sigrid Freeburg, Anna Vomacka
 

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