STACY GROSSFIELD DANCE PROJECTS: HOT DARK MATTER

March 9 - 13, 2016

PERFORMANCES:
Wed., March 9 at 8 pm
Thurs., March 10 at 8 pm
Fri., March 11 at 8 pm and 10 pm
Sat., March 12 at 8 pm
Sun., March 13 at 3 pm

Stacy Grossfield Dance Projects premieres hot dark matter, a work made specifically for JACK’s architecture, with the choreographer and her collaborators molding the performance space into a murky, surreal dreamscape. The piece is a multi-sensory experience – a dreamlike atmosphere in which dancers and other “beings” are seen as apparitions, while the audience’s sense of smell and touch are activated.

Scientifically, “hot dark matter” is a form of dark matter which consists of particles that travel with ultra-relativistic velocities (traveling near the speed of light). Stacy Grossfield: "I became interested in the hot dark matter theory after reading and trying to imagine what it could look like in a theatrical sense. Energetically, I decided to go the opposite route and explore what I believed it could look and feel like if slowed down."

This full-length performance for an intimate audience will feature performers Tuva Hildebrand, Stacy Grossfield, Rebecca Warner, with Dana Florin-Weiss, Monica Hunken, Kadence Neill, and Joomin Hwang, Kevin Luparello & Stephen Zuccaro.

Lighting design by Joe Levasseur
Set design by Stacy Grossfield with Curtis Eller
Video design by Gil Sperling
Wearable Sculptures by Jeremy Lydic

hot dark matter is funded in part by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. ​

STACY GROSSFIELD is a choreographer and dance curator living in Brooklyn since 2003. Her most recent work, fur & tulle, was shown in 2015 and 2014 at the 92nd Y and at Food for Thought at Danspace Project. Her evening-length work, Red, Pink, Black, for which she received a Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant, was performed in a cavernous storefront space in West Soho in 2013. Her previous full-evening work Sugar doesn’t live here was shown at the Studio in Sunset Park, Brooklyn in 2011. She has shown work through AUNTS at various venues including Arts@Renaissance, NADA Art Fair, and the New Museum. She has also shown her work at BAX, BRIC Studio, CATCH, DTW, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and Roulette. Grossfield was a 2008-2009 Fresh Tracks artist-in-residence at DTW. She has recently served on dance panels and teaches a feedback class at Brooklyn Studios for Dance called Show & Listen.

Photos by Maria Baranova