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Day 4 PROGRAM:
5-7PM: Swamp Smartweed, a real-time vegetal composition
A new work by choreographer/dancer andrea haenggi
7-9PM: METROPOLIS
Original live score by Joe Fee, Ed Fritz, Mike Sojkowski
Day 4 of the IMPROV SPACES MUSIC FESTIVAL will feature a new work by choreographer/dancer andrea haenggi Swamp Smartweed, a real-time vegetal composition. haenggi teaches Improvisation & Collaboration and Socially Engaged Artistry at the New School and is the Community Fellow at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts.
Swamp Smartweed, a real-time vegetal composition
In a swamp-campground atmosphere, the guests (audience) will join us in search of the endangered plant Swamp Smartweed (Persicaria setacea). This plant may be found in the Village by the Round Lake, according to sources. Emerging from long-term, deep encounters with spontaneous urban plants, artist, dancer, and choreographer andrea haenggi will collaborate with them in their research, creating a dynamic flow of actions: dancing, speaking, listening, touching, and reflecting to develop a poetry of bodies and establish relations with Swamp Smartweed.
PERFORMER BIO:
andrea haenggi
andrea haenggi (she/they), born in a Swiss farming village and residing half of her life in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, is a body-based transdisciplinary artist, choreographer, dancer, improviser, embodied scientist, teacher, land defender, and co-founder of the Environmental Performance Agency (EPA) artist collective. Her self-developed and distinctive research-based ‘ethnochoreobotanic’ performance practice is rooted in co-creating movement with land, plant life, with their inherent intelligence, and more-than-human kin, all oriented to building relationships in the present. Since 2015, urban plants have been her guides, teachers, mentors, and performers; she draws from queer ecology embracing its politics of desire and speculative world-building. Her work responds to decolonization, climate change, feminism, liberation, and care. Her recent work – for instance, “bladderwrack (to be with the shore is all we ask)” (2023), at the NYU Bobst Library, and “Speed Dating your EX” (2022) at the Zurich Botanical Garden in Switzerland – combined art and historical and scientific research to address extinction and the climate emergency. She holds an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute/Plymouth University UK and is a Swiss Canton Solothurn Dance Prize recipient. She is on the faculty at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (NYC) and The New School, where she teaches the courses Improvisation & Collaboration, Socially Engaged Artistry, and ARTSCI-Environment Lab.
The Day 4 evening performance will present a special screening of the Fritz Lang classic METROPOLIS with an original live score by Joe Fee, Ed Fritz, and Mike Sojkowski.
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