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'Do Not Disconnect' is an invitation to connect, to connect with what you are seeing, hearing, feeling, experiencing. It's about connections, connections between movement and sound, flesh and machine, visceral and intellectual, abandon and restraint. In this interdisciplinary performance by Julie Fotheringham and Jarryd Lowder, movement, video and sound are intertwined in a system of cause and effect, intended to cause an effect. We invite you to be affected, to see, to hear, to feel, to 'Not Disconnect'.
julie fotheringham
A bio (from juliefotheringham.org)...
My fascination with movement began with gymnastics then shifted to dance in college.
While completing my BA in dance at UNLV, I performed as an acrobat/dancer in the Las Vegas shows, Imagine and Les Folies Bergere, where I learned how to do the same show, two shows a night, six nights a week, and still appear to be alive and genuine. For the month of August 2000, I performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a trip which introduced me to European aesthetics in contemporary dance. I took a year and a half detour to Tokyo to work as and aerialist for Disney before traveling to Montréal for creative workshops with Cirque du Soleil.
Here I played the role of test-dummy/creative contributor in the building of the multimillion-dollar production that would become KA at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. KA's choreographer Jacques Heim invited me to do a brief project with his LA based company Diavolo Dance Theater, before returning to Las Vegas to perform as a dancer/acrobat/stunt person in KA for two years. During this time, I created my own work for the Dance in the Desert Festival, and Nevada Dance Project, and also returned to UNLV as a guest artist. When the time came to renew my contract at Cirque, it was a choice between the stable, comfortable life I had established in Vegas, or leaving to pursue a life of eternal struggling, I mean my own work, in New York. New York won.
Now I am immersed in a wealth of artistic influences, the overwhelming aesthetics of the city, and people whose talent and intellectual depth are beyond me. In the past year I have shown my short solos at Studio A.I.R, Green Loft Performance Salon, Triskelion Arts, Abrons Arts Center, Spoke the Hub, the Dumbo Dance Festival, the Cool New York Dance Festival, The Bushwick Starr, and Dance New Amsterdam.
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