List of Past Shows : AUNTS

Body Blend at Dixon Place Curated by Melanie Maar for AUNTS
Wed Feb 17th, 2010
8pm

Featuring:
Joyce S. Lim
Miranti Kisdarjono
Maggie Bennett
Moriah Evans and Sarah Beth Percival

Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
Between Rivington and Delancey
F/V to 2nd Ave; JMZ to Bowery; 6 to Bleecker, BD Broadway/Lafayette

Body Blend at Dixon Place Curated by Ben Boatright for AUNTS
Wed March 24th, 2010
8pm

Hiding Places
Tess Dworman
Stephen Lichty
Andres Laracuente
Adriane Lee

Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
Between Rivington and Delancey
F/V to 2nd Ave; JMZ to Bowery; 6 to Bleecker, BD Broadway/Lafayette

Body Blend at Dixon Place Curated by Sohpia Peer and Allen Cordell for AUNTS
Wed Jan 20th, 2010
8pm

Featuring
Anna Copa Cabanna
Erika Magrey
Kate Bush Dance Troupe
Jennifer Sullivan
Allen Cordell and James Petz
Sophia Peer and her Parents

Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
Between Rivington and Delancey
F/V to 2nd Ave; JMZ to Bowery; 6 to Bleecker, BD Broadway/Lafayette

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AUNTS dinner and a show
Saturday December 19th, 2009
Dinner: Stone Soup
Cooked by chef Ethan Knetchel
AUNTS will make the soup 2 broths, miso and pork, the audience brings the veggies/meats and beer/wine/cocktails to share.

Featuring performances by Les Vraums, Lady Liberties takes liberties in Art and Soup, and Christine Elmo

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AUNTS Roadshow
Chain Curation Event

Check out the Photos on flickr!
and the video by Jim Byrne on youtube!

*AUNTS Roadshow*
Chain Curation Event

performer-driven event
chain curation DANCE project
4 evenings, 8pm - 11pm
AUNTS has invited a bunch of artists to perform
they then curated another artist to perform, and so on and so on

*Fri Dec 4th at RPPP loft*
59 Jefferson Street, #301, Bushwick, Brooklyn
Take the J train to Broadway/Myrtle

*featuring:*!
Deborah Black and Sasha Welsh
Dudley Lawrence
Vanessa Justice
Levi Gonzalez + Friends
Les Vraoums
HEART THE BEND
Julia Sherman and Adam Katz
Vanessa Anspaugh
Justine Lynch
Larissa Velez
Alison D'Amato
Joanne Cheung
Felicia Ballos
stephe cooper
devynn emory/beast productions
Enrico Wey
Sarah White-Ayón
Madeline Best
Rachael Morrison
Emily Wexler
Ray Roy

*Thurs Nov 19th at The Brooklyn Events Center*
257 Nostrand Ave and Lafayette
G train to Bedford/Nostrand
exit Nostrand/Lafayette

*featuring:*
Veronica Carnero
Ben Boatright
Square One: Danny Johnston, Cassie Mey & Jesse Phillips-Fein
Eleanor Smith
Jess Cook
Jessie Gold
Stanley Love
Sarah Holcman
Leanne Schmidt and Company
Jessica Morgan
xavier cha
Ava Heller and Matthew Ferry
Meghan Milam
Kalamandir Dance Co.
Caitlin Marz
Jennifer Snydor
HeJin Jang
Anna Marie Shogren
Mary Grace
Tess Dworman
Beau Sievers
Melissa SanfIOrenzO

*Thurs Nov 12th location at the St. Cecilia School*
15 Monitor St, between Herbert and Richardson
L Train to Graham Ave

*featuring:*
Christine Elmo
Steven Reker
Will Rawls
Eric Conroe
Marýa Wethers
Jim Byrne
Jen McGinn
Ashley Anderson
J. G. J.
Erika Hand
Shua Group
Dawn Springer
lyndsey karr
Mari Meade Montoya
Ethan Cowan + Lucinda Segar + Tatyana Tenenbaum
Ayo Janeen Jackson/ les libertines
Kayoko Nakajima and Fabrice Covelli
Melissa SanfIOrenzO
Elise aka: The BEST girl ever!

*Thurs Nov 5th 2009 at the Convent of St. Cecilia*
21 Monitor St, between Herbert and Richardson
L Train to Graham Ave

*featuring:*
K.J. Holmes
Melanie Maar
Abigail Levine
Yve Laris Cohen
Miranti Kisdarjono
Megan Byrne
Kennis Hawkins
Sophia Peer & Allen Cordell
Factress
Future Aztec (members of dubknowdub)
Jules Skloot and The Movement
Shizu Homma
Mariangela Lopez
Us
Julie Fotheringham
Maggie Bennett
Mari Meade Dance
Jesse Johnson
Karen Harvey
Kevin Lovelady
Aretha Aoki

*Roadshow was sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC). Thank You.
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I BELIEVE IN YOU.
by AUNTS

performer-driven event
chain curation DANCE project
4 consecutive evenings
3-hours long each
AUNTS has invited a bunch of artists to perform
they then curated another artist to perform, and so on and so on

admission is a contribution to free boutique / free bar
where
everyone shops and drinks for free

nov 19 - 22, 2008

starts around 8pm - 11pm

@ The Event Center
257 Nostrand Ave and Lafayette
G train to Bedford/Nostrand
exit Nostrand/Lafayette

nov 19
Tara O'Con
Leah Ives
Laurie Berg and Liliana Dirks-Goodman
Anne Zuerner
Hanny Ahern
Benjamin Asriel & his hair
Rebecca Wender
Architeuthis Walks on Land-- Amy Cimini, viola -- Katherine Young, bassoon
SHE-DICK
Robot Hands
cakeface
Anna Moench and Meredith Steinberg
Leah Morrison
Dean Street FOO Dance
Ashley Byler
Yoshiko Chuma
Ray Roy
Amelia Uzategui Bonilla and Adam Barruch

nov 21
Sarah Beth Percival
|www.mayumiishino.com|Mayumi Ishino|!
Maggie Bennet
Terry Hempfling
MINA/ Mina Nishimura/Mina CAT/ MOO MAN
|http://www.launchmovementexperiment.com|Launch Movement Experiment|!
Jesse Wintermute (Plastic Consumption)
Christine Elmo
Martín Lanz Landazuri
|http://www.basriel.com|Benjamin Asriel & Leah Nelson|!
enemyResearch
Miriam Wolf, performance adventure
|http://www.myspace.com/rhinocerosevent|Mariana Valencia / Rhinoceros Event|!
Jules Skloot
Christine Coleman
Coco Karol`
New Extreme Dance Explosions Awesomes (NEDEA)
Stephanie Sleeper
*11pm dance afterparty on Christine Elmo's Roof*
-- *Dj Sarah D.*
-- *Band from Norway called thingumajigsaw*
-- *505 Lafayette Ave. Apt 3A*
-- *Entertainment + Catering Provided*!

*This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC). Thank You.

AUNTS
www.myspace.com/aunts
aunts.here@gmail.com

AUNTS is about having dance happen. The dance you've already seen,
that pops into your head, that is known and expected and unknown and
unexpected. Dance that seeps into the cracks of street lights, subway
commotion, magazine myth, drunk nights at the bar, the family album,
and the couch where you lay and softly glance at the afternoon light
coming in through the window. AUNTS constantly tests a model of
producing dance/performance/parties. A model that supports the
development of current, present, and contemporary dancing. A model
that expects to be adopted, adapted, replicated, and perpetuated by
any person who would like to use it. Where performing can last five
seconds or five hours; never a "work in progress." Where the work of
performing is backed by the "land of plenty" rather than "there is not
enough." Where the work of AUNTS defies the regulation of
institution, capitalism, and consumerism. AUNTS is about being
gracious in this world. Thank you.

AUNTS was started by Rebecca Brooks and Jamm Leary.

Past Shows

AUNTS Fall Bashes

Description: The first set of performance parties produced, AUNTS Fall
Bashes were "throw everything in the pot" type of shows. The basic
idea was to have an overstimulation of performance, where during the
show the audience was free to watch what grabbed their attention,
leave what bored them, find another performance to watch, socialize
with other audience members and/or performers, listen to music. It
was about intensifying both the role of the performer and the audience
rather than trying to "blur the line" or follow the typical dance
performance model of audience sit down and performer dance.

October 5 – November 30, 2005 at The Coz and The Event Center (Brooklyn).

October 5, 2005 Participants: Rebecca Brooks, Charlotte Gibbons and
Geoffrey Nosach, Candace Gormon, Halibut, Mechael Helland and Daniel
Linehan , Phi Lee Lam, Melanie Maar, Leah Morrison, Lise Serrell, Sara
Smith
October 19, 2005 Participants: Biba Bell, Gelsey Bell, Dillon De Give,
Eleanor Dubinsky, Walter Dunderville, Stacy Grossfield, Michael
Helland, Jbird Leary, Becky Serrell, Lise Serrell, Tuna
November 2, 2005 Participants: Luciana Achugar, Julie Alexander, White
Crappie, Chim, Alex Escalante, Charlotte Gibbons, Karinne Keithley,
Melanie Maar, Chrysa Parkinson, Sandy Williams, Emily Wexler
November 16, 2005 Participants: Jesse Alpern, Felicia Ballos, Rebecca
Brooks, Milka Djordjevich, Laurel Dugan, Nancy Garcia, Candice Gorman,
Heart the Band, Sam Kim, Wild Laserberry, Isabel Lewis, Stickleback
November 30, 2005 Participants: Felicia Ballos, Gelsey Bell, Rebecca
Brooks, Willa Carroll, Dillon de Give, oikos/eagle-ager, Stephen
Ellwood, Alex Escalante, Nancy Garcia, WILD LASERBERRY, Stacy
Grossfield, Deborah Gorman, Candice Gorman, Peggy Gould, Anneke
Hansen, Lights, David Hurwith, Sam Kim, Heather Kravas, Jbird Leary,
Isabel Lewis, MYSTERY, Justine Lynch, Juliette Mapp, Lise and Becky
Serrell, Anna Sperber, Kayvon Pourazar and Malika Green

BULL YARD BASH

Description: When the curators of the MR Festival 2005 asked us to
organize a panel on the future of dance, we immediately decided to
create a performance situation. In our capacity as AUNTS, we had just
barely started producing events: free performance parties
incorporating elements of rock shows, art shows, and social dancing.
As we started planning for the Bull Yard Bash, we attended a panel
held at DTW focusing on the absurd in dance. We were both bored and a
little appalled. It was a typical panel, with panelists sitting in a
straight line, getting cut off by the next question from the
moderators, checking off a list of prepared questions. The entire
thing ended right when it got going.

The kickoff for the BULL YARD BASH was one question: What is your
grandiose vision for the future of dance? We wanted people to be able
to think of the biggest thing they could for dance in the future.
Really think BIG. The panelists were chosen with the idea of 'grandma
takes the kids to the opera'. A world of no parents, lots of love and
treats. The panelists chosen were in the earlier stages of dance
careers, coupled with some wise sages of the small world of dance,
with a few smart and interested outsiders thrown in.

We thoroughly interviewed every single panelist beforehand to start
them thinking about what they had to say about their own grandiose
vision. Subsequently, we did not have to moderate the panel in any
traditional sense of the word. It was an uninterrupted discussion on
possibilities for dance in the future. The panelists dressed up, sat
in a circle, drank wine, spoke up, and screamed at each other.
Performances took place peripherally during the discussion, and then
the performers joined the conversation. DJ Ingie Pop subtly played
with the varying tones of voice and then kicked ass in the rockin
dance party that finished off the evening.

December 18, 2005 at Chashama through the Movement Research Open Festival (NYC).

Panelists: Luciana Achugar, Neal Beasley, Eliza Axelson-Chidsey,
Felicia Ballos, Nancy Forshaw-Clapp
Nancy Garcia, Charlotte Gibbons, Erika Hand, koosil-ja, Karinne
Keithley, Phyllis Lamhut, Isabel Lewis, Daniel Linehan, Sara Marcus,
Janet Panetta, Michael Portnoy, Becky Serrell, Lise Serrell, Ede
Thurrell
Dj: Inge Pop

AUNTS Late Show

Description: AUNTS Late Show was a Saturday Night Live – Pina Baush -
Conan O'Brien dance party. We had a resident dance team that was
directed by a different dance captain each show, two dance guests,
conversationalists whose topics included akward conversation, new
music trends with , and the idealism of 1960's Washington with former
CIA members. Late show was the beginning of the Free Bar/Free Boutique
idea, where admission to the show was a donation to the Free Boutique
such as drawings, clothes, DVDs, books or donation to the Free Bar,
concluding in free shopping at the boutique and free drinks from the
bar during the show. This idea was to foster a non monetary exchange
between dancers, their friends, their fans, people that came to see
the shows. Isabel Lewis now wears Janet Panetta old hoodie. Each show
culminated in "social dancing," a dance party for dancers and everyone
else to boogie down to awesome new music. Dancers, dancing all the
time, have little time to go out and just dance with eachother without
being in rehearsal or class.

March 3, 10, 17 2006 at the Panetta Movement Center and Canada Gallery (NYC).

Dance Team: Andrew Ulrich, Beth Gill, Carla Peterson, Chris Peck,
Errin Delperdang, Isabel Lewis, Jessie Dessus, Jon Monianci, Lise
Serrell, Melanie Maar, Nancy Forshaw-Clapp, Tara Lorenz, Renee
Archibald
Dance Captains: Katy Pyle, Alex Escalante, Faye Driscoll
Converationalists: KJ Holmes, Sara Marcus,
Hosts: RobbinsChilds, Sara Marcus, Claudia Cogan
Guests: shearcon co., Dillon de Give, Erika Hand, KJ Holmes,
Bands: Moore Teeth, Marla Hooch, Black Sounds
Djs: Bianca and Inge Pop

XXOX AUNTS

Description: XXOX AUNTS was a dance video heavy, more gallery like
situation. We wanted to finish off the "year" with a very clean,
efficient show, with a lot to look at – eight videos, a photo gallery,
a cooking show, and a few performances, art/gift bags, the Free
Bar/Free Boutique and the wonderful DJ GaySpirit.

June 6, 2006 at 111B Conselyea Street (Brooklyn).

Participants:
Video: Jesse Alpern, Faye Driscoll, Dillon de Give, Hedia Maron,
Jbird, Jillian Pena, Lauryn Siegel
Performance: Luciana Achugar, eagle-ager, Renee Archibald, Biba Bell,
Margit Galanter, Melanie Maar
Photo: Karen Chang
Plus: Deborah Gorman's cooking show, A.K. Burns' gay dollars, DJ
GaySpirit, Pony Gentile's something….
Free Boutique: Michael Helland and Daniel Linehan

Upcoming Shows

Aut 4 One
A chain curation of dance at The Event Center (Brooklyn).
September 28 – December 7, 2006

AUNTS Half-time show
As part of the rockshow line-up at The Woodser (Brooklyn).
November 11, 2006

STORM by aunts
As part of AMBUSH (formerly known as Chez Bushwick) curated by Jonah
Bokaer (Brooklyn).
November 18, 2006

The Feldman Gallery
The Feldman Gallery in Soho presents AMBUSH (NYC).
December 2006

The Greene Room
AUNTS Fake BBQ Dance Festival (NYC).
Spring 2007