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DANCES FOR DOING
2021

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IN 2021, GALASSO WAS COMMISSIONED TO CREATE AN ORIGINAL, SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE IN RESPONSE TO A SOLO EXHIBITION BY ARTIST JEN BERVIN "DOING AND UNDOING" AT THE CATHARINE CLARK GALLERY IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

25 minutes
 

4 performers
 

Dances for Doing features two distinct duets: one for Galasso's longtime collaborators Karla Quintero and Phoenicia Pettyjohn, and another for young dancer siblings Galicia and Santiago Stack Lozano. Galasso will employ the form of the duet to create intricate combinations of everyday gestures, resulting in otherworldly forms both familiar and strange. The duet, staged in the foyer of the gallery, and viewed by the audience from the other side of a glass wall, experiments with narrative, scale, and architecture. Composer Catherine McRae creates a haunting original score using violin, cello, and kalimba that accompanies Galasso’s choreography.

Dances for Doing

Premiere

May 1 & 2, June 27, 2021

Co-Commissioned by

Catherine Clark Gallery, BOXBLUR, and the San Francisco Dance Film Festival

Choreography

Catherine Galasso

Performers

Karla Quintero, Phoenicia Pettyjohn, Galicia Stack Lozano, Santiago Stack Lozano

Music

Catherine McRae and Dave Cerf

Choreographic Contributions

Indah Mariana and Jess Pretty

Support

Arts Brookfield

Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

ODC Theater

Assets 4 Artists Program 

This project is funded, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. 

The project was developed through residencies at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, ODC, and through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Special thanks to all the individual donors who supported "Alone Together"

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