Presented and Performed by Anat Shinar
Choreography by: Amal Rogers, Emily Gastineau, Theo Langeson
In Anat Shinar’s newest project, she invites performance-makers Amal Rogers (Miami), Emily Gastineau (Mpls), and Theo Langeson (Mpls) to create something under the prompt: What is a dancer? How does it look and feel to succumb to someone else’s vision? What does it mean to succumb?
The result is an exquisite corpse style show, threaded together through Shinar’s solo performance, exploring ideas of memory, distance (in space, time, and other), sincerity, subjective and objective feelings, risk, rules, authenticity, control, and cumulative knowledge coupled with acute execution.
Amal Rogers experiments with dance performance, teaches movement, writes, provides bodywork, and organizes; but she mostly parents. Amal is a member of the Fempower collective in Miami, FL. She has presented performance in New York, Minneapolis, Oakland, Helsinki, Chicago, and south Florida. She has earned a few degrees and been awarded some residencies. Amal owes a lot to you folks in Minneapolis and is so happy to be here with you. And, she is a very big fan of Anat Shinar.
I began this work interested in what I could remember. Making a mental list of “moves,” I tracked when my memory transitioned from a casual recollection to a formalized score. Anat visited South Beach in December and it rained every day. After her departure, my attention shifted to distance: the obvious distance between us, the distance between memory and truth, between the lover and their beloved, between two feelings, between wanting and receiving, and between what I want to see her doing and how I imagine she wants to be seen.
Emily Gastineau is a choreographer, performer, and writer. Her current research focuses on generic objects and the circulation of affect. Her work has been presented at Frascati (Amsterdam), On the Boards (Seattle), Garage29 (Brussels), Walker Art Center, Soap Factory, and Red Eye Theater (Minneapolis), among others. She collaborates with Billy Mullaney under the name Fire Drill; their work has been shown shown in Amsterdam, Minneapolis, St. Paul, New York, San Francisco, Portland, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Chicago, and commissioned by the Cowles Center, Walker Art Center, and Southern Theater. Her collaboration with Vilma Pitrinaite has been supported by workspacebrussels, Garage29, SE.S.TA (Prague), POST Gallery (Kaunas), and the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Emily produces programs and publications for Mn Artists at the Walker Art Center and is one of seven artistic directors of Red Eye Theater. She completed a master's at DAS Choreography, Amsterdam University of the Arts in 2019. www.emilygastineau.com
Theo Langason is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist and teaching artist based in Minneapolis, MN. A graduate of Rutgers University–Camden with a degree in Theatre Arts, Theo has been working in the Twin Cities as an actor, director, musician, composer, improviser, poet, and teaching artist for a decade. Theo is a Co-Artistic Director of Red Eye Theater, a company member of Sandbox Theatre, a member of Blackout Improv, and a regular cast member of The Theater of Public Policy. As a teaching artist, Theo works regularly with Guthrie Theater, Penumbra Theatre, and Upstream Arts. Theo has also worked with Ten Thousand Things, Park Square Theatre, Pillsbury House + Theater, and Theatre Pro Rata.
Anat Shinar is a Minneapolis-based dancer, choreographer, contemporary multidisciplinary performance artist, educator, curator, and member of Fresh Oysters Performance Research collective. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BFA in Dance and a BA in Visual Arts, and completed her Master’s degree in Arts and Cultural Leadership, also at the UMN. Her choreography has been commissioned by and presented at Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn), The Minnesota Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Pillsbury House Theater, Red Eye Theater, Southern Theater, The Soap Factory, SooVAC, and the Bryant-Lake Bowl. She is the Director of Community Partnerships at Young Dance, a dance education non-profit, as well as a Teaching Artist for Young Dance and the Cowles Center, working with students of all ages and abilities. Anat was a 2018 Naked Stages Fellow at Pillsbury House Theater in Minneapolis.
Photo by Bill Cameron