Performance Dance Choreography
As I am getting my MFA this year I haven't been doing much public teaching but I am excited about two upcoming events! Things are shifting in my practice so please come out and lets see what we find. 1. Discomfort Camp! JAN 6-10 1:15 -3:15 pm Fresh Festival SF. With remote thinking partner …
Don't miss the chance to get a glance at the upcoming new piece Lindenau (rifle club) Party For The Other Siblings at CounterPulse this week. Created and performed by Abby Crain. Beyond Gravity is a full evening of intersectional performances by the artists served by Gravity’s new Artist Services Programs. Performances by: jose e. abad, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Gabriel …
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July 23rd-27th at Dock 11 - Berlin The good news is that we aren’t dead. The good news is that our humanness is comprised of primarily nonhuman specific components. The question then arises as to why movement studies is still obsessed with kinesiological compliance that is based primarily on human cadaver study. This week let's …
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Swimming Pool is interplanetary time play. Swimming Pool is geologic mutuality. Swimming Pool is lasering between apocalypses and utopias. Swimming Pool is a star expanding and collapsing and then another star expanding and collapsing nearby. Swimming Pool is a really trashy ride. Created and performed by Abby Crain, Layton Lachman and Mara Poliak, with lighting design by Elizabeth Ardent, sculpture …
Drop Your City Armor Retreat with Sara Shelton Mann and Abby Crain Thursday, June 21 to Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Dos Rios, CA (3.5hrs north of SF) Come dance in the barn, swim in the river and discover yourself again unexpected. 5 days of classes with Sara Shelton Mann and Abby Crain. For continuing students …
Lions Jaw Dance Festival, Boston. https://lionsjaw.com/ I will be teaching and performing as part of the Amazing Lions Jaw Dance Festival October 3-8, 2018. Back to one of my homelands! More details to come!
12-15 Februari, 2018. 10:00 – 11:30 at Danscentrum - Stockholm Welcome to daily practice at Danscentrum with Abby Crain. We seek a dynamic, fluid and versatile body that is resilient, powerful, and nuanced, and a moving presence that is both wild and spacious. A rigorous devotion to experimentation is embedded in and crucial to the …
CRAIN/LACHMAN/POLIAK respond to work by Ven Voisey, curated by Jesse Hewit. //////////////////////////////////////// FRICTION / FUNCTION 3: Sat. Jan 6th at 7pm @Aggregate Space Gallery $5-50 suggested donation (NOTAFLOF), with all proceeds going toward the proliferation of Aggregate Space Gallery programming. https://www.facebook.com/events/330632457410549/ FRICTION / FUNCTION is a multidisciplinary collaboration - between ASG and dance artist and …
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TERRARIUM collaboration by Abby Crain / Layton Lachman / Mara Poliak / Sam Hertz ( PART OF A SHARED EVENING WITH VIOLETA LUNA AND CHRISTINE BONANSEA FOR FRESH FESTIVAL 2018) Weekend 4 Friday + Saturday 1/26 + 27 8:00pm Joe Goode Annex – 401 Alabama St. Tickets: $25-35 Three frogs sit on wet grass, but …
Future dreaming body with Abby Crain Monday-Friday, January 8-12 1:30-3:30pm | Joe Goode Annex re wilding entropy tides vertigo mirages dream maps futurology ebb and flood delimitation disaster shifting baseline continuity discontinuity epiphany interruption erosion ignition re sanding memory use of logical and dis-logical landscape and ecologically based evaluative, reductive and creative frameworks to activate the moving …
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