WELCOME
to Alternative Motion Project Presents
ELEVEN
On Demand Viewing
The Southern Theater
April 14-16, 2023
to Alternative Motion Project Presents
ELEVEN
On Demand Viewing
The Southern Theater
April 14-16, 2023
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Artistic + Executive Director
Joanna Lees New Works by Khary Jackson Brianna Rae Johnson Zoë Koenig, Company Member Joanna Lees with Dameun Strange (Sound) Company Movers Kendall Edstrom | Laura K Johnson Zoë Koenig | Joanna Lees | Brenna Mosser | Jesse Schmitz-Boyd | Addie Smith |
Lighting Designer Karin Olson Production Stage Manager Julie Marie Muskat Special Thanks to MRAC, MN Orchestra, Mike Grogan, Stages Theatre Company, Steve Miller, Katy Ross + Joe Lees, Kristin Howe, Stephanie Flanagan, Dameun Strange, Bill Cameron, Eleve Performing Arts Center + all of AMP’s Community of Artists, Board of Directors, Donors and Supporters. |
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council,
thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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Welcome to AMP presents ELEVEN, our 11th Season Performance. On behalf of AMP’s Artists and Board of Directors, we are thrilled to share this time and space with you for a very special performance weekend.
If you are familiar with Alternative Motion Project, then you know each show we perform is wonderfully unique. This show is no different and reflects the distinct perspectives of our Guest Choreographers: Khary Jackson, Brianna Rae Johnson, and Zoë Koenig (AMP Company Member). I am also thrilled to welcome back long-time collaborator and award-winning Sound Artist Dameun Strange. We are working on an ambitious new work that we will continue to research and develop, with another iteration performed in November 2023. We are also celebrating a milestone for one of our company members: this performance marks 10 years Jesse Schmitz-Boyd has been an AMPer.
I encourage you to consider the questions the artists pose. May you get lost in these four worlds that embody their own physical, visual, and conceptual perspectives within the broad umbrella that is contemporary dance. These works are sustained by the dynamic, collaborative, and curious movers that make up AMP’s company. It is truly a full collective effort, supported by our fabulous and creative tech team, Karin Olson (Lighting Designer) and Julie Marie Muskat (Stage Manager).
One of our core values as an organization is collaboration: amongst our artists, between our artists and audiences, and between AMP and the Twin Cities community at large. This is why we have brought back our Audience Create-A-Dance which included a survey where community members voted on frameworks for Zoë’s new work (if you missed out, make sure you are on our email list and follow us on social media!). Lastly, with your presence as an audience member here today, you become an AMP collaborator and an integral part of the artistic process.
Thank you for being here and for what you bring to this community.
We hope you enjoy ELEVEN!
With Gratitude,
Joanna Lees
Artistic + Executive Director
If you are familiar with Alternative Motion Project, then you know each show we perform is wonderfully unique. This show is no different and reflects the distinct perspectives of our Guest Choreographers: Khary Jackson, Brianna Rae Johnson, and Zoë Koenig (AMP Company Member). I am also thrilled to welcome back long-time collaborator and award-winning Sound Artist Dameun Strange. We are working on an ambitious new work that we will continue to research and develop, with another iteration performed in November 2023. We are also celebrating a milestone for one of our company members: this performance marks 10 years Jesse Schmitz-Boyd has been an AMPer.
I encourage you to consider the questions the artists pose. May you get lost in these four worlds that embody their own physical, visual, and conceptual perspectives within the broad umbrella that is contemporary dance. These works are sustained by the dynamic, collaborative, and curious movers that make up AMP’s company. It is truly a full collective effort, supported by our fabulous and creative tech team, Karin Olson (Lighting Designer) and Julie Marie Muskat (Stage Manager).
One of our core values as an organization is collaboration: amongst our artists, between our artists and audiences, and between AMP and the Twin Cities community at large. This is why we have brought back our Audience Create-A-Dance which included a survey where community members voted on frameworks for Zoë’s new work (if you missed out, make sure you are on our email list and follow us on social media!). Lastly, with your presence as an audience member here today, you become an AMP collaborator and an integral part of the artistic process.
Thank you for being here and for what you bring to this community.
We hope you enjoy ELEVEN!
With Gratitude,
Joanna Lees
Artistic + Executive Director
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + LINKS
We acknowledge that we are performing in a venue that was built on stolen land of the Dakota and Anishinaabe Indigenous peoples: Mni Sota Makoce, Land Where the Waters Reflect the Clouds.
Acknowledging the suffering and violence of settler colonialism and its devastating multi-generational impact is one way we can begin to dismantle this legacy and better honor the land on which we create and perform. Indigenous communities are not simply relics of the past: Indigenous traditions are still active, alive and relevant today.
We encourage you to join us in the commitment to deepening this work. Consider learning more about Indigenous history, the Mni Sota Makoce Honor Tax, and other reparative actions that can be taken to dismantle the repercussions of settler colonialism where we live by visiting the following links:
MN Honor Tax: https://www.mnhonortax.org/about
Reparative Actions: https://www.intermillconsulting.com/library/reparations-resources/#return_resources=
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As part of an ongoing, long-term call to action, we encourage AMP audience members to join us in our long term support of the Black-led organization, Juxtaposition Arts. Juxtaposition Arts is a black led arts organization serving the Northside of Minneapolis and “is a teen-staffed art and design center, gallery, retail shop, and artists’ studio space in North Minneapolis. Juxtaposition Arts develops community by engaging and employing young urban artists in hands-on education initiatives that create pathways to self-sufficiency while actualizing creative power."
"JXTA welcomes people to commit to long-term support which is essential to address the long-term funding inequalities that black led organizations face in Minnesota and the nation. JXTA values are centered on self-determination and youth empowerment encased within a social enterprise business model. We have worked with, educated, and trained emerging artists of color for 26 years through this lens." - Allison Wagstrom, JXTA, statement from 6/8/21
This is one avenue of AMP's ongoing work recognizing and dismantling systemic racism and white supremacy. We encourage you to check out the valuable work JXTA is doing and join us in monetarily supporting their mission, if you are able. JXTA has a Capital + Legacy Campaign where you can also make a recurring donation.
DONATE TO JXTA: https://juxtapositionarts.org/donate/
Acknowledging the suffering and violence of settler colonialism and its devastating multi-generational impact is one way we can begin to dismantle this legacy and better honor the land on which we create and perform. Indigenous communities are not simply relics of the past: Indigenous traditions are still active, alive and relevant today.
We encourage you to join us in the commitment to deepening this work. Consider learning more about Indigenous history, the Mni Sota Makoce Honor Tax, and other reparative actions that can be taken to dismantle the repercussions of settler colonialism where we live by visiting the following links:
MN Honor Tax: https://www.mnhonortax.org/about
Reparative Actions: https://www.intermillconsulting.com/library/reparations-resources/#return_resources=
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As part of an ongoing, long-term call to action, we encourage AMP audience members to join us in our long term support of the Black-led organization, Juxtaposition Arts. Juxtaposition Arts is a black led arts organization serving the Northside of Minneapolis and “is a teen-staffed art and design center, gallery, retail shop, and artists’ studio space in North Minneapolis. Juxtaposition Arts develops community by engaging and employing young urban artists in hands-on education initiatives that create pathways to self-sufficiency while actualizing creative power."
"JXTA welcomes people to commit to long-term support which is essential to address the long-term funding inequalities that black led organizations face in Minnesota and the nation. JXTA values are centered on self-determination and youth empowerment encased within a social enterprise business model. We have worked with, educated, and trained emerging artists of color for 26 years through this lens." - Allison Wagstrom, JXTA, statement from 6/8/21
This is one avenue of AMP's ongoing work recognizing and dismantling systemic racism and white supremacy. We encourage you to check out the valuable work JXTA is doing and join us in monetarily supporting their mission, if you are able. JXTA has a Capital + Legacy Campaign where you can also make a recurring donation.
DONATE TO JXTA: https://juxtapositionarts.org/donate/
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PROGRAM
Visceral Reality
World Premiere
Brianna Rae Johnson
World Premiere
Brianna Rae Johnson
Direction
Brianna Rae Johnson
Movement
Kendall Edstrom, Brianna Rae Johnson, Brenna Mosser, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, Addie Smith
Music + Sounds
archi soundscape electric1 by Elan Hickler
Breathing man machine by reacthor
Vader Machine by nweckman
Kirkus (Interlude) by Blue Dot Sessions
Drum Machine Battle by Marsel Minga
Sound Editing
Brianna Rae Johnson
Videos
Ben Serviss + Brianna Rae Johnson
Video Editing
Brianna Rae Johnson
Program Notes
What does a visceral body experience in the digital age?
Do we (dis)connect? Can our hearts, lungs, and sensuous skin still keep pace?
Brianna Rae Johnson
Movement
Kendall Edstrom, Brianna Rae Johnson, Brenna Mosser, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, Addie Smith
Music + Sounds
archi soundscape electric1 by Elan Hickler
Breathing man machine by reacthor
Vader Machine by nweckman
Kirkus (Interlude) by Blue Dot Sessions
Drum Machine Battle by Marsel Minga
Sound Editing
Brianna Rae Johnson
Videos
Ben Serviss + Brianna Rae Johnson
Video Editing
Brianna Rae Johnson
Program Notes
What does a visceral body experience in the digital age?
Do we (dis)connect? Can our hearts, lungs, and sensuous skin still keep pace?
Last Call
World Premiere
Khary Jackson
World Premiere
Khary Jackson
Choreography
Khary Jackson
in collaboration with the performers
Music
Khary Jackson
Movers
Kendall Edstrom, Laura K Johnson, Joanna Lees, Addie Smith
Program Notes
A group of longtime friends go to the club together. They let loose, unwind and prepare to return to the daily ups and downs of life.
Khary Jackson
in collaboration with the performers
Music
Khary Jackson
Movers
Kendall Edstrom, Laura K Johnson, Joanna Lees, Addie Smith
Program Notes
A group of longtime friends go to the club together. They let loose, unwind and prepare to return to the daily ups and downs of life.
Duel Duel Revolution
World Premiere
Audience Create-A-Dance
Zoë Koenig
World Premiere
Audience Create-A-Dance
Zoë Koenig
Choreography
Zoë Koenig
in collaboration with the performers
Movers
Laura K Johnson, Joanna Lees, Brenna Mosser, Addie Smith
Sound Design
Nora Nygard
Sound Editing
Nora Nygard
Costume Design
Zoë Koenig
Costume Assistant
Stephanie Flanagan
Program Notes
Using the Salvador Dalí artwork Duel in the sun (1973), a graph, and variables selected by AMP community members as parameters, Duel Duel Revolution stages the showdowns and reverie born of shared music landscapes. The work considers the choreography of video game combat, the earnestness of underground dance music, and the spectator sport of arcade performance as it finds expression within and outside of preprogrammed movement.
For full results of the Audience Create-A-Dance Survey, click here.
Zoë Koenig
in collaboration with the performers
Movers
Laura K Johnson, Joanna Lees, Brenna Mosser, Addie Smith
Sound Design
Nora Nygard
Sound Editing
Nora Nygard
Costume Design
Zoë Koenig
Costume Assistant
Stephanie Flanagan
Program Notes
Using the Salvador Dalí artwork Duel in the sun (1973), a graph, and variables selected by AMP community members as parameters, Duel Duel Revolution stages the showdowns and reverie born of shared music landscapes. The work considers the choreography of video game combat, the earnestness of underground dance music, and the spectator sport of arcade performance as it finds expression within and outside of preprogrammed movement.
For full results of the Audience Create-A-Dance Survey, click here.
We Are Cosmic
World Premiere
Joanna Lees with Dameun Strange
World Premiere
Joanna Lees with Dameun Strange
Choreography
Joanna Lees
in collaboration with the dancers
Movers
Kendall Edstrom, Laura K Johnson, Zoë Koenig,
Brenna Mosser, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, Addie Smith
Sound Design + Composition
Dameun Strange, Special Guest Artist
Costume Design
Joanna Lees + Stephanie Flanagan
Costume Assistance
Stephanie Flanagan
Program Notes
This work combines concepts relating to black holes, dream states, multiverses, and theta waves to explore humanity’s infinite origins and potential. How can we understand our inherent connection to (and within) a vast and mysterious cosmic universe?
Joanna Lees
in collaboration with the dancers
Movers
Kendall Edstrom, Laura K Johnson, Zoë Koenig,
Brenna Mosser, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, Addie Smith
Sound Design + Composition
Dameun Strange, Special Guest Artist
Costume Design
Joanna Lees + Stephanie Flanagan
Costume Assistance
Stephanie Flanagan
Program Notes
This work combines concepts relating to black holes, dream states, multiverses, and theta waves to explore humanity’s infinite origins and potential. How can we understand our inherent connection to (and within) a vast and mysterious cosmic universe?
Did you enjoy the show?
Please consider supporting this work and these talented artists with a contribution for our Step Into Spring Fundraiser.
April 14th - 28th: Help us reach our goal of $6,000. Every donation will be MATCHED!*
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All AMP Photos by Bill Cameron.
All AMP Photos by Bill Cameron.