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Harvard Dance Project 2024: Final Season
Harvard Dance Project
April 5, 2024 @ 7:30 PM
April 6, 2024 @ 2:30 & 7:30 PM
Harvard Dance Center
66 Garden St.
**LIMITED SEATING**
Harvard Dance Project (HDP) will present an hour-long durational professional performance for the first time since 2020 at the Harvard Dance Center. The HDP ensemble comprises undergraduate and graduate students who joint and double major at Harvard University: Nancy Hinojos HKS '25, Liliana Price '25, Payton Thompson '25, and Lulu Troyer '26. LROD, the Artistic Director & Head of Dance, designs embodied courses advocating for compelling movement research and creative access in educational settings. The co-creative twelve-week process gathers a team from New York, Rhode Island, and Boston to unfold within an intimate setting around choreographic design. This season, creative professionals joining LROD and the HDP ensemble are Sidra Bell w/ Kimie Parker, Dede Ayite, Sam Tirrell, Jesse Cannon, Callie Chapman, and Andy Russ.
Harvard Dance Project is generously supported by the Bromley Innovation Fund for Dance at Harvard University and Theater, Dance & Media.
Ensemble
Nancy Hinojos – HKS ‘25
Liliana Price – ‘25
Payton Thompson – ‘25
Lulu Troyer – ‘26
Creative
Artistic Director, Head of Dance, Choreographer: LROD
Choreographer: Sidra Bell w/ Kimie Parker
Costume Design: Dede Ayite
Stage Management: Sam Tirrell
Sound Design: Andy Russ
Lighting Design: Andy Russ
Media Design: Callie Chapman
Set Design: Jesse Cannon & LROD
HARVARD DANCE PROJECT 2023
Sidra Bell & LROD
Artistic Director: LROD
Choreographers: Sidra Bell & LROD
Stage Management: Sam Tirell
Assistant Stage Management: Maya Holt-Teza
Production Manager: Andrew Gitchel
Teaching Fellow: Chavi Bansal
Co-Creative Team:
Dede Ayite, Costume Design
Andy Russ, Lighting and Sound Design
Callie Chapman, Media Design
Set Design: Jesse Cannon & LROD
Videography & Editing: Taylor Hutchinson
HDP ENSEMBLE: Joy Ashford, Laura Coe, Mia Hazra, Alma Kent, Doreen Li, Shojeh Liu, Bryce Reynolds, Micaela Rosen, Yuqi Sun
Harvard Dance Project was passed from Jill Johnson to LROD in 2021 as Artistic Director. The model of Harvard Dance Project continues to remain as a support structure for professional choreographers in the field to direct, produce, and dream into life durational co-creative performances. The co-creative and production teams are integrated with care and honor as we explore possibilities of scenic, costume, media, sound, and lighting as a collaborative team. The construction of the Harvard Dance Project enables choreographers to pursue non-heirarchial models of production that are built with respect to labour and equity. The Harvard Dance Project ensemble provides a deep dive for students of all dance backgrounders to explore the potential for durational performance and movement research capacities. The ensemble has agency to be in process with Dede Ayite on costuming so that they feel seen and heard in the costuming process. These responsive and human practices have been found to model a certain expansion of capacity with ease and innovation. Harvard Dance Project honors both the professional and the playful experience.
The score (Awakening Softly Forming) is from the semester long residency the HDP ensemble had with Sidra Bell and LROD. The left side of the score represents LROD’s contributions and the right side represent Sidra’s contributions. Text and movement together anchors inception to navigate artistic possibility and produce resonating movement research outcomes. Creating spaces and worlds to expand is necessary for all who are co-creating towards livability.
@LROD2023
Surrealism - Part 141
Choreography, Costume, Masks, Rope: LROD
Commander: Levi Ryan,
Wolf: Drew Lewis,
Bunny: Hannah McClean
Quartet: Allison P. Burke, Maeve Haselton,
Phenix Laughlin & Julia Sloan
Music: Machine Gun by Portishead, Portal, pt 2 by Aegri Somnia,"Die Walküre, Act 1, Prelude and Scene 1 by Wagner, and sound effects scored by LROD and Brian Murphy
Light design and Technical Direction: Meg Fox
Video/Photography: Joseph Lambert
Note: Surrealism - Part 141 honors the persecuted LGBTQIA communities during WWII using layers of inspiration driven by historical trauma, identity and sexual politics, and surrealism.
©LROD2016
INNOMINATE
Installation, Choreography, Masks, Sound: LROD
Dance Artists: Becca Blackwell, Hannah Cavallaro, Scotty Flores, Sierra Hendrix,
Molly Levy, Kate O’Day, Levi Ryan, Kince de Vera, and LROD
Sound: LROD & APPVLLO
Lighting and Technical Direction: Meg Fox
Photo & Video: Devin Munoz - Munozmotions
Base: Experimental Arts + Space
6520 5th Ave S #122
Seattle, WE 98108
Note: INNOMINATE is a interactive and immersive evening length production involving home alters, luchadors, and connection. INNOMINATE works with issues on both sides of the U.S. Mexican border by looking at different narratives of heritage and culture. The audience is choreographed into this evening length performance to give a 360 experience.
*video correction: Levi Ryan
Las Fronteras Suspendidas
The Suspended Borderlands
Durational performance art installation
Installation, Design, Choreography, Masks, Apparel: LROD
Films by LROD: Borderland Vol 1 & 2, Ventilador, Piñata
Dance Artists: Danielle Barker, 李璐妍 Lily Luyan
Committee Chair: Norah Zuniga-Shaw
Committee Members: Crystal Perkins, Paloma Martinez-Cruz
Las Fronteras Suspendidas / Suspended Borderlands is an interactive performance art installation investigating surrealism, chicanafuturism, and the moving body, while playing on sight, cite, and site located along the US-Mexican border. Sites: El Paso, Del Rio, & Eagle Pass
Thank you to Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Balitrónica Gómez, Saul Garcia Lopez, Emma Tramposch (La Pocha Nostra), Rubén Castilla Herrera (RIP), Nick Pasquarello (Trust the Circle), Paloma Martinez- Cruz (Taco Reparations Brigade), Theresa Delgadillo, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Awilda Rodríguez Lora, Michelle Ellsworth, Pamela Z, Susan Kozel, Mitchell Rose, Oded Huberman, mi familia, Eric Howard, and Britta Moe for your support, contributions, and guidance.
MORE VIDEOS AND PICTURES SOON!
Surrealism Part - Fear of the other
A Collaborative Multi-Media Performance Installation
Surrealism Part - Fear of the Other was made possible by Center of Contemporary Art (COCA) in Seattle, WA. The director of COCA witnessed Surrealism - Part 141 earlier in the year and reached out to see if LROD would be interested in designing an installation of the work. Since the layers of the work surrounding the persecution of LGBTQIA communities from WWII could be expanded upon and the symbolism of the pink and black triangles to the queer community are important, LROD + Artists were ready for the opportunity.
Context: Surrealism Part - Fear of the Other is based on an examination of Germany during WWII when Nazis persecuted millions of Jews, along with millions more minorities to uphold their ideology to purify German society and uphold the Nazi idealism. Paragraph 175 of German Criminal Code 1935 was extended to persecute the LGBTQ community during this time and utilized the Pink and Black triangle symbols to define those in concentration camps. It is dedicated to the LGBTQ and minority communities that have been persecuted, banned together and pushed back. Rodriguez’s work carries a strong stance against the political tension, social injustice and brutality facing these communities, while building awareness to propagate a reconstruction for the betterment of humanity.
Design Artist + Choreographer + Mask Maker + Performer: LROD
Installation + Concept Artist: Becca Blackwell
Dance Artist: Levi Ryan, Scotty Flores, Ashlynn Fletcher, Maeve Haselton, Phenix Laughlin
Opening Reception: January 5, 6-10pm. Immersive and Durational Performance.
Open Conversation with Laura Rodriguez: January 7, 12pm.
Exhibit runs January 5 - 26, 2016.
CoCA is located at 114 Third Avenue South, Seattle, WA.
Photos: Warren Woo + LROD
WORD BOX
Choreography: LROD y Artistas
Dance Artists: Becca Blackwell, Allison P. Burke, Hannah Cavallaro, Shane Donahue Scotty Flores,
Sierra Hendrix, Molly Levy, Kate O'Day, Levy Ryan, Kince de Vera and Dustin Durham
Music: Music mixed by LROD Skeeter Davis, End of the World Yann Tierson, Porz Goret
Light and Technical Direction: Med Fox
Video/Photography: Cornish College of the Arts
BFA CAPSTONE: Movement study in “isolation” and “emergency bunker” examination of several end of times themes woven together.