Line Death Dance

Line Death Dance is an ongoing performance and publishing project self-reminding, celebrating and sharing non-linearity and inter-relatedness of its creative processes. Initially the project served to re-group my relationship to dance and performance in the personal, collective and public realms. Desire grew to involve a diversity of mutual voices into a material and immaterial dialogue about performance culture, non-hierarchical production possibilities, mystery in meaning and the art-life process.

Line Death Dance started as a dance, morphed into a workshop, into a ceremonial performance residency, into a quarantined book and now into a newsletter about the artists involved. All of it seems continuous, messy and steadily revealing sweet relational webs. I see myself as its mistress of ceremony

During 4 two week performance residency phases throughout 2018/2019 Line Death Dance serves as a transition project enveloping The Chocolate Factory Theater’s current space into their new space, coalescing the past and the future into the present process. The project is supported by The School of Dying.

Being In Concrete Light – the first residency phase of Line Death Dance – took place at The Chocolate Factory’s soon-to-be-renovated permanent facility in May 2018.

Instead of an accumulative process towards a final ‘show’, all four phases generate complete cycles and performance events that are effecting each other as part of a relational web. Line Death Dance proposes a non-hierarchical production structure to investigate its performance making and sharing. The project follows a desire to involve a diversity of mutual voices into a material and immaterial dialogue about performance culture, production, meaning and process throughout.

Article in ArtZone New Zealand about Line Death Dance:

https://www.artzone.co.nz/post/dance-cycles

/Spaces and Tones/

In this second phase of the Line Death Dance project, I am collaborating with audio-visual artist Kenta Nagai. As a duo we are returning to The Chocolate Factory Theater after 8 years.
Artist Madeline Best is taking part by lending her eye to the light.”

“Ours is a return, as well as a continuum, an homage, a transition, a sort of a collapse of time to rebuild a performative realm of relatedness between senses, spirits and artistic approaches. It’s a process of engaging with content and production structure equally so it both can feed the animals of our creative desire and unfinished business. We invite your presence to change the tone.”

artists
Kenta Nagai
Melanie Maar

performance events
October 4th, 5th, 6th 2018
The Chocolate Factory Theater

/being in concrete light/

being in concrete light gives this trio of women a frame for their individual ways of perceiving and relating to generate a performance work, an object of attention together. This process is initiating the yet un-renovated new home of The Chocolate Factory Theater by communing with the space and its transitional presence.The events we host for audience offer a performative and a reflective space for all engaged. Rather than a glimpse into our process for a final event, this is the final event at the beginning of a 2 year process. With all knowns and un-knowns becoming the show.

this residency is supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

artists

Lindsay Packer

Anaïs Maviel

Melanie Maar

performance events

May 10th, 12th and 14th 2018

The Chocolate Factory Theater

early related performances:

Rough Dimensions 2016

performance – Melanie Maar and Laurel Atwell

at Roulette Brooklyn, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Gina Gibney studio, Abrons Art Center studio