JPMW presents
Small Dances in the Park
In partnership with SF Recreation and parks
April 8-9, 2022
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ABOUT JPMW
With attention to process, form, and nuance, JPMW creates and presents dance and dance happenings that affirm the meaningful state of our subtle, fragile bodies in relationship to place, phenomena and the present moment.
We use improvisational and authentic movement practices as investigative methods towards sensation, pleasure, and the experience of seeing and being seen. These collaborative, real-time practices dissolve potential hierarchical structures of artistic process as well as habitual, learned movement patterns, and engage the work instead in an ongoing conversation with the body as memory, culture, and place.
We are curious about transferring the raw and spontaneous experience of process into performance, and in the artistic activation of shared space as a form of solidarity and collective care.
Small Dances in the Park
Small Dances in the Park creatively unpacks the stops and starts of making and sharing public art through the recent transitionary waning of the pandemic. Valuing process, form, and an ethics of solidarity care, Small Dances was created with an intentional indirection, focusing rather on the dynamics between pause and possibility, the accumulation of heartbreaks and unknowns, and the sometimes surprising gifts found amidst loss.
Conceived and Directed by Jennifer Perfilio
Performance and Co-Creation by Shareen DeRyan, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, and Phoenicia Pettyjohn
Original Sound Score by Clark Buckner
Site Assistants: Jules Buckner, Cruz Morrison, Sofie Van Natta, Fiona Walther
Styling by Jennifer Perfilio, Indigo Vintage, and Porter Vintage
Run Time approx. 65 mins
Please Click on Performers’ Names above to read their Artist Bio.
With
Shareen DeRyan, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, Phoenicia Pettyjohn
Open Score_1
Shareen DeRyan, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, Phoenicia Pettyjohn
Wreck
Samuel Melecio-Zambrano
How To
Shareen DeRyan, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, Phoenicia Pettyjohn
With Text Written by Emma Lanier
2 Mins
Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, Phoenicia Pettyjohn
Grid
Shareen DeRyan
With Real Time Sound Performance by Samuel Melecio-Zambrano and Clark Buckner
Depth of Field
Shareen DeRyan, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, Phoenicia Pettyjohn
Colors
Shareen DeRyan, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano
Long Time Friend
Phoenicia Pettyjohn
Mapping
Samuel Melecio-Zambrano
With Real Time Sound Performance by Shareen DeRyan and Clark Buckner
Instructions
Shareen DeRyan, Phoenicia Pettyjohn
With Text Written by Emma Lanier
Open Scrore_2
Shareen DeRyan, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, Phoenicia Pettyjohn
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We acknowledge that we gather today on Yelamu, the unceded ancestral lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We honor the Ramaytush Ohlone for their enduring commitment to mother earth, and recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. JPMW has made a donation to the Yunakin Land tax, and encourages all non-Indigenous people living in this region to do the same. We acknowledge that no amount of money will undo the damage caused by colonization and land theft, but that this is one step in the process of repair. ramaytush.org
THANK YOU
Thank you to SF Rec and Parks for their partnership in this project.
Thank you to Clark Buckner for his ongoing inspiration, music-making, support, and creativity within our many collaborations, artistically and beyond.
Thank you to Emma Lanier for her co-creation of this work.
Thank you to Shareen DeRyan, Samuel Melecio-Zambrano, and Phoenicia Pettyjohn for their courage and flexibility, thoughtful practice, commitment to art-making, and generous co-creation in the making of Small Dances in the Park.
Thank you to our Site Assistants Jules Buckner, Cruz Morrison, Sofie Van Natta, and Fiona Walther for keeping the show running smoothly!
Thank You, our audience, who continue to show up. We are ever grateful.
Thank you for supporting JPMW.
Jennifer Perfilio Movement Works is a fiscally sponsored project of Dancers’ Group.
Our not for profit dance organization is committed to fostering the vitality of dance through collaboration, support for other artists, and collective community engagement.
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