Movements inspired by Strife, Dirge, Limbo, Surge.
Performed: 05/05/2025
Performers:
Johan Beltre, Nadia Mazonson, Benjamin Rozea
Choreography:
Benjamin Rozea, inspired by Ted Shawn
Music:
Jess Meeker, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Archive
Video Documentation:
Holt Daniels, Christine Peng
Photographs:
Brandon Magloire
Costumes:
Benjamin Rozea
Make-up:
Ameer Tarawneh
Lighting Design:
Nathan Scarborough
Developed with:
Edie Fine
FORWARD THRUST
Ecstatic Ritual in Two Acts
Forward Thrust slathers, stimulates, and fondles the 1935 American dance suite Kinetic Molpai, choreographed by Ted Shawn and performed by his Men Dancers, as a utopian performance of radical genderqueer presence. The work converses with archival research, historically-accumulated significations, and embodied research to enact not an otherwise, but a now.
Movements inspired by Strife, Dirge, Limbo, Surge.
Performed: 05/05/2025
Performers:
Johan Beltre, Nadia Mazonson, Benjamin Rozea
Choreography:
Benjamin Rozea, inspired by Ted Shawn
Music:
Jess Meeker, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Archive
Video Documentation:
Holt Daniels, Christine Peng
Photographs:
Brandon Magloire
Costumes:
Benjamin Rozea
Make-up:
Ameer Tarawneh
Lighting Design:
Nathan Scarborough
Developed with:
Edie Fine
FORWARD THRUST
Ecstatic Ritual in Two Acts
Forward Thrust slathers, stimulates, and fondles the 1935 American dance suite Kinetic Molpai, choreographed by Ted Shawn and performed by his Men Dancers, as a utopian performance of radical genderqueer presence. The work converses with archival research, historically-accumulated significations, and embodied research to enact not an otherwise, but a now.
