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ChavasseDance&Performance will present their Ann Arbor premiere of Hunger for the Longing (a biased history of seduction) at the Duderstadt Video Studio on November 11-12 at 8pm. Under the artistic direction of Amy Chavasse, Associate Professor of Dance, this dance/theater/ music collaboration got its start as a work created for the Department of Dance’s annual Power Center Performance Series in 2009. Subsequent performances of Hunger for the Longing took place in New York at Dance New Amsterdam and Triskelion Arts, and then in July 2011 the company traveled to Italy for a residency and performances at Teatro Saschall in Florence and Teatro Traetta in Bitonto in the region of Puglia. Three UM Dance alums, Jae Gerhart, Aidan Feldman, and Sarah Konner, New York based dancers Jessica Jolly and Donnell Oakley and 2011 MFA graduate Sean Hoskins join Professor Stephen Rush and musician/ composer Jeremy Edwards for the Ann Arbor premiere. This project is supported by a 2010 OVPR grant from the University of Michigan and received support from Dansystem, the city of Bitonto and FESR Puglia 200702013 Axis IV for the Italian premiere.

On Friday night, November 11, What Passes for Tenderness, a work created for the 2011 Ann Arbor Dance Works season, will feature current BFA dance majors- Daniela Blechner, Nola Smith, Julia Smith Eppsteiner, 2nd year MFA student, Jillian Hopper, 2009 graduate, Marly Speiser-Schneider and doctoral student in Education, Julie Learned. A duet for Jessica Jolly and Donnell Oakley, Spatula Sound Check (2005), will complete the program.

The Hunger for the Longing (a biased history of seduction) is a project begun in 2009 that seeks to research and find ways to expose the misinterpreted folk mythology surrounding Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” (1940) through movement, theater, video and music. As “God Bless America”, with its themes of overt patriotism saturated the public conscience, Guthrie created this iconic work to counter what he viewed as misleading representations of nationalism and common good. Examining certain facets of the history of seduction and indoctrination by engaging in a lively collaboration with Stephen Rush, Jeremy Edwards, Caroline Chavasse and an exceptional cast of performers from New York, will shape the material.

ChavasseDance&Performance Dance/Theater company - Duderstadt Video Studio
University of Michigan
November 11 & 12, 8pm
Free admission
chavasse@umich.edu

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