this time with smaller parts
Performance by Laura Ann Samuelson
THURSDAY MAY 27, 2021
Two performances per night, 6:00 PM and 7:15 PM
VENUE: Evans School Auditorium/ 1115 Acoma St, Denver, CO 80204
Email lkargol@redlineart.org with questions or to make reservations.
this time with smaller parts, created and performed by Laura Ann Samuelson, is a new performance work that wrestles with thresholds. It asks how it is that one knows when one is in one kind of moment, one kind of reality and out of another. What are the cues, how do they accumulate, and how do you situate your body in relation to the reality you believe has or has not arrived? Working across dance, sculpture, gender, attachment, loss, love, and text, this time with smaller parts, looks for an opening from inside the in between, attempting to catch a glimpse of where we might be able to go if we learn how to live with overlap.
Laura Ann Samuelson (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist working in contemporary performance, sculpture, and writing. Their work follows the transmission of feeling across objects, sites, and bodies, searching for new strategies to help us bear impermanence, attachments to living, and to one another. Laura Ann's projects have been presented in Colorado, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California, Germany, Sweden, and France, and they have been an artist-in-residence at the Crosstown Arts (Memphis), Denver Art Museum, Dance Initiative (Carbondale), and Skogen Arts (Sweden). Laura Ann has worked extensively with artists Ondine Geary, Emily K Harrison, Joanna Rotkin and Adam Stone, as well as with Colorado-based performance groups such as Joanna and the Agitators, square product theatre, and Buntport Theater. They have toured as a performer with Michelle Ellsworth's POST-VERBAL SOCIAL NETWORK.
In 2020, Laura Ann received an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado-Boulder, with secondary emphases in visual art and somatics, and a graduate certification in Emergent Technologies & Media Arts Practices from the College of Media, Communication, and Information. There, they received the Center for Arts & Humanities Graduate Fellowship & the Charlotte York Irey Scholarship for their creative work and research. Additionally, Laura Ann holds a BA in dance & writing from Hampshire College and is currently a Feldenkrais practitioner in training under Alan Questel. They are a current resident at RedLine Contemporary Arts Center.
Other Performance Dates:
WEDNESDAY MAY 19
THURSDAY MAY 20
FRIDAY MAY 21
Photo Credit: Adam Stone
This performance is part of Checking In, a state-wide collaboration designed to provide platforms of connection between artists, curators, businesses, cultural institutions and communities who have been in isolation but collectively have space or creative works to offer and/or exchange.
