SUMMER NEWS!
Lola Lola is excited to announce that creative director Jessica Bonenfant will be an artist in residence at Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme, France in August 2011. She will be workshopping Sacre Bleu, or Camembert 8 Euros, a solo performance based on investigations into what it means to allow one's self to be seen. The work is a continuation of explorations began in her MFA thesis work Secret Poets of the Crushed Shadows, and draws on travel experiences from Amsterdam, Germany and France as well as the Red Square work of Barbara Dilley.
Keep your eyes open for details about the premiere of Sacre Bleu, or Camembert 8 Euros at Brooklyn's Micro Museum in September!
The Performance Laboratory:
A monthly series of ten-minute experiments
See video here.
(Due to technical difficulties the first two minutes have no sound)
Secret Poets of the Crushed Shadows
See photos of the performance here.
March 25 @ 8:00 pm, March 26 @ 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm
University of Michigan Duderstadt Center Video and Performance Studio
2281 Bonisteel Blvd. (North Campus)
The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance presents En·com·pass, The Department of Dance Master of Fine Arts Thesis Concert.
The performance showcases the 2011 Master of Fine Arts in Dance candidates Jessica Bonenfant, Sean Hoskins, and Susie Thiel.
Jessica Bonenfant, creative director of Brooklyn-based Lola Lola Dance Theatre, presents Secret Poets of the Crushed Shadows, a 25-minute work for five female performers. The work uses the medium of dance theatre and incorporates multimedia technology to evoke images that inhabit the space between dusk and nightfall, the hour when fireflies appear on a mild summer night. The work addresses concepts of exposure: emotional vulnerability, corporeal revelation and photographic processes, all framed by the multi-sensory human experience. Working from embodiment of embedded memories, photographic imagery, and fictional narratives, Bonenfant juxtaposes, superimposes and overlaps collaboratively created vignettes to create an intimate, moving and visually stunning experience.
Much of the imagery is based on travel to Paris, Montpellier and Marseille, France, and Bonenfant herself will be designing an immersive projection environment that will be populated by the moving, speaking and even singing bodies of Jillian Hopper, Isabella Ingles, Julie Learned, Molly Ross and Nola Smith. Set design by Janine Woods. The costumes will be illuminated by LED technology engineered by multi-media artist William Stanton. The sound score will collage American contemporary folk, early country, and indie rock with chanson and French pop music.
Doors open 30 minutes before the show, and seating is limited. Admission is $5 available one hour prior to the performance. For more information contact the Department of Dance at (734)763-5461.
