AMP returns for 10//X
AMP's 10th Season Performance
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AMP makes a thrilling + long-awaited return to live performances for 10//X to celebrate our milestone 10th Season Performance. Featuring five distinct original works, the electrifying evening of contemporary dance investigates a range of concepts relating to rhythm + groove, landscapes + climate issues, joy, paradox, and transcendence. 10//X showcases AMP’s dynamism and intense physicality that will inspire + delight audiences as we move BIG into the next decade.
WORLD PREMIERES Kristin Howe // Joanna Lees // Erinn Liebhard // Brenna Mosser FEATURED COLLABORATIONS Dameun Strange // Sound Cole Sarar // Spoken Word COMPANY Stephanie Flanagan // Laura K Johnson // Zoë Koenig // Julia Moser-Hardy // Brenna Mosser // Erin Ross // Jesse Schmitz-Boyd // Addie Smith // Bridgett Tegen // Crissy Tolson // Lauren Vanchina WHEN Friday, March 18th - 7:30pm Saturday, March 19th - 7:30pm Sunday, March 20th - 2:00pm // Post Show Q + A, Pay-as-Able, + ASL Interpreted TICKETS - Pre-purchase + SAVE $ General Admission - $20 in advance | $24 at the door Senior - $18 in advance | $22 at the door Student//Children under 12 - $18 in advance + at the door An online/on demand viewing option will be available through our website March 23rd- April 1st. More information and ticketing link can be found here. |
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This is Alternative Motion Project’s first live, indoor, in person theatrical event since canceling our 9th Season Performance in March 2020 due to COVID-19. 10//X will also be Kristin Howe’s last performance acting as Co-Artistic Director. Kristin will be stepping away from this role in August 2022 to pursue other outside interests. However, she will continue to serve on the board and be involved in a more limited capacity with AMP’s future activities.
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COVID PROTOCOLS + INFORMATION
Please note The Southern Theater's COVID-19 Safety Protocols currently in place:
Please note The Southern Theater's COVID-19 Safety Protocols currently in place:
- Mask-wearing is mandatory for all attendees.
- We will require either proof of a completed COVID-19 vaccination regimen or proof of a negative COVID-19 test (taken within 72 hours of the event).
- The COVID-19 vaccination card must show a completed regimen that concluded at least 14 days before the date of the event.
- Proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test must be shown at time of entry and must match the ticket holders ID.
- Attendees may present a physical vaccination record card, a physical negative test result, or a digital document on a mobile device (such as a photo image of a vaccination record card or the Docket app).
More about the show....
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SHINE ON (World Premiere – Co-Director Kristin Howe with Cole Sarar, Spoken Word) - In her final premiere work as Co-Director for Alternative Motion Project, Kristin Howe explores how we can learn from Joy to choose + claim ourselves. With a trio of movers, the cast translates where joy is found, cultivated, and transmitted as a renewable emotion resource. The work highlights spoken word artist, Cole Sarar, as she/they create a radiant world of untapped wonder and elation. SHINE ON challenges the societal pressure to continually pursue happiness and allows oneself to fully be present in the process by becoming repetitively unraveled, only to discover and rediscover radiance.
split (World Premiere – Co-Director, Joanna Lees) - split is a physical investigation of a chaotic, exhausting internal experience in human consciousness. How do we make space for the paradox of being human so that we may simultaneously hold two contradicting yet true ideas? This palpable and intimate duet straddles this tension as the performers journey through autonomy, struggle, teamwork, combat, and reconciliation. Through intention, awareness and acceptance, we can commit to the ongoing process of becoming whole. 
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On The Verge (Staged Premiere – Co-Directors, Kristin Howe + Joanna Lees with Dameun Strange, Composer) – Originally premiering in an outdoor alternative performance space in June 2021, On The Verge makes its stage debut. A cast of 9 movers enter a turbulent world to experience the multiverse of limits, possibilities, and connections of the body, space, and identity. A collaboration between AMP Co-Directors Kristin Howe + Joanna Lees with original composition by Award Winning Sound Artist, Dameun Strange.
assemblage (World Premiere – Guest Artist Erinn Liebhard) – Guest choreographer Erinn Liebhard's new work assemblage is a danced ode to the delight that can be found in moving comfortably in and out of familiar units of people, driven by infectious contemporary jazz music. Liebhard enjoyed the opportunity to work with such skilled and curious contemporary/modern dancers to encourage their abilities to access embodied groove, interaction as joy and improvisation as aliveness together in one package as a way to explore innovation on jazz music and movement ideas. |
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Cycles (World Premiere – Company Member, Brenna Mosser Audience Create-A-Dance) – Cycles is a meditation on the night sky. Our minds wander through the landscapes that facilitate our memories of this dark space. We are confronted with how small and insignificant we are, something that is so much easier to fathom when we can see the stars. Yet, we still feel validated that we exist to fulfill our part in the cycle of space, time, gravity, or whatever else we choose to contemplate. We are small. We are essential. We are in cycles of wonder.
Cycles was originally set to premiere in AMP's show, Number Nine, before it was canceled in 2020. It has been revisited and reimagined with the context of the current state in mind. AMP administered a public survey in 2019, giving our supporters the chance to directly affect the creative process and vote on aspects of one of our newest works. These results are the framework for a world premiere by company member Brenna Mosser. |
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MORE ABOUT THE COLLABORATION WITH DAMEUN STRANGE
We asked Dameun some more questions on his perspective on our collaboration for On The Verge:
How is this process similar and/or different from your past collaborations with AMP?
This process is different because I am working with Joanna and Kristin together for the first time. I have composed music for both separately but not together. It's also a new experience write for an outdoor dance experience. You have to think about sound and space differently. I also, know myself a little better as a composer. When I was first working with AMP, I was still understanding my own voice as a composer AND working as a collaborator. Now, I think I know what questions to ask and perhaps I understand how to answer questions from my collaborators. So, altogether, it's been different but still as fun as always.
Why do you like working with AMP?
I like working with AMP because I love the big movement work that they do. They also give me a lot of freedom as a collaborating composer, they are very interested in my sound and my voice and now it's so easy because a lot of that has developed along side of them; already kind of have our language. A lot of the work I have done has had to do with space and time and love, these are all things that I think about in my work, so AMP always seems like a good fit.
What are you most looking forward to with the show?
I am looking forward to showing a different side of my music. The piece has a lot of house and techno elements taking me back to some of my deep influences from high school, things that I have shied away from in my more interpretive compositions. I am also looking forward to seeing the movers in this huge outdoor space that seems to be the perfect setting for AMP.
Learn more about Dameun on his website.
How is this process similar and/or different from your past collaborations with AMP?
This process is different because I am working with Joanna and Kristin together for the first time. I have composed music for both separately but not together. It's also a new experience write for an outdoor dance experience. You have to think about sound and space differently. I also, know myself a little better as a composer. When I was first working with AMP, I was still understanding my own voice as a composer AND working as a collaborator. Now, I think I know what questions to ask and perhaps I understand how to answer questions from my collaborators. So, altogether, it's been different but still as fun as always.
Why do you like working with AMP?
I like working with AMP because I love the big movement work that they do. They also give me a lot of freedom as a collaborating composer, they are very interested in my sound and my voice and now it's so easy because a lot of that has developed along side of them; already kind of have our language. A lot of the work I have done has had to do with space and time and love, these are all things that I think about in my work, so AMP always seems like a good fit.
What are you most looking forward to with the show?
I am looking forward to showing a different side of my music. The piece has a lot of house and techno elements taking me back to some of my deep influences from high school, things that I have shied away from in my more interpretive compositions. I am also looking forward to seeing the movers in this huge outdoor space that seems to be the perfect setting for AMP.
Learn more about Dameun on his website.