Brooklyn Touring Outfit: Co. Incident

August 22 - 25, 2017

Featuring Pepper Fajans with Maiko Kikuchi, Ilona Bito, Stephen Plante and Annie Young

PERFORMANCES:
Tuesday, August 22 at 8 pm
Wednesday, August 23 at 8 pm
Thursday, August 24 at 8 pm
Friday, August 25 at 8 pm

Transforming JACK with an elaborate scenic design, surreal projections, and elegant sound design, Co. Incident is a series of collaboratively-created duets by the Brooklyn Touring Outfit, headed by choreographer Pepper Fajans. For this piece – their second work as a company – real relationships of love and adrenaline are woven into a vaudevillian dance theater.

Part of Stacy Grossfield's IMAGES // LANDSCAPES series at JACK.

Featuring Pepper Fajans with
Maiko Kikuchi
Ilona Bito
Stephen Plante
Annie Young

Sound Design: Joey Wolfslau
Lighting Design: Serena Wong
Projection: Alex Romania

Created by Pepper Fajans & Maiko Kikuchi in collaboration with the Brooklyn Touring Outfit

Please note: a haze machine and strobe light are used in this production. ​

PEPPER FAJANS is the Founding Director of Brooklyn Studios for Dance (BkSD) and the Brooklyn Touring Outfit. Born in 1985, he was the personal assistant to Merce Cunningham and continued to tour with the Cunningham Company as the production carpenter and assistant to David Vaughan through the final world tour. As director of BkSD he partnered with Cadman Congregational Church in 2015 to renovate their 1920's era gymnasium into a burgeoning dance studio offering classes, performances, and community events. The premiere work of the Touring Outft, Co. Venture received a choreography award at the Montreal Fringe and was presented by Baryshnikov Arts Center in 2016. Fajans has performed as a dancer and puppeteer in Hagoromo at Brooklyn Acadamy of Music, The Windup Bird Chronicle at the Ohio Theater, and his solo work has appeared at St. Ann’s Warehouse. He has been featured in The New York Times, The Montreal Gazette, and Culturebot. Fajans is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, a resident of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and a 10-year member of the Seattle’s Royal Famile Ducaniveaux.

MAIKO KIKUCHI (b.1983, Tokyo, Japan) received her B.A in Theatre Arts and Fashion Design from Musashino Art University, Japan in 2008 and her M.F.A in Sculpture from Pratt Institute in 2012. Kikuchi has worked extensively in Illustration, painting, drawing, collages, sculpture, animation and puppetry/performance. Her self-directed object theatre piece No Need For A Night Light On A Light Night Like Tonight premiered at La MaMa's First Floor Theatre in 2015. She performed as a puppeteer and contributed visual designs to Theodora Skipitares’s Six Characters at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre. Her visual art has been featured in NO PARKING at Ca’d’ Oro Gallery, NY and online galleries such as Tuuum, The Art Mint and Walls Tokyo. Kikuchi is O-1 visa holder who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Photo by Alessandra Marconi.