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The Multiple (dance performance) by
Aretha Aoki at A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery
May
31, 2014 at 8:00 pm
Reception
following the performance
Aretha
Aoki is known for
contemplative, probing solos.
…a dancer with an open, generous
presence.
-The New York Times
Las Gravitas is a rare solo that feels personal to her body and aesthetic interest
but also reaches beyond the soloist…a substantial achievement.
-Culturebot,
from a review of Aoki’s solo, Las
Gravitas (2013)
(Northampton,
MA) The Multiple, a new
interdisciplinary dance work by Aretha Aoki, will be performed at A.P.E.
Gallery on Main St, Northampton, on Saturday May 31, 2014 at 8:00 pm.
Starting with the assumption that
the dancer is a medium for the unknown, The
Multiple explores the ghostly presence of actual and imagined beings, and
invites the murmurings of past, present and future into the space of performance.
A solo edges into a duet, into what is seen and unseen, and into the
estrangements and intimacies within and between people and place.
The
Multiple is performed by Aretha Aoki and Julia Gladstone with sound and
video by Ryan MacDonald.
Tickets
$10
There is no late seating. Reception following the
performance.
Seating is limited. Reservations are strongly suggested. To
reserve tickets in advance email lisathompson@apearts.org
or call (413) 586-5553
Funding Support
The Multiple is
supported by the Northampton Arts Council.
About the Artists
Aretha Aoki (Choreographer, Performer) is from
Vancouver, BC. Her choreography has been performed at Danspace Project,
the Academy of Music, Movement Research Festival, CPR, Catch, Exit Art Gallery
(Culturebot’s “Ephemeral Evidence”), New York Live Arts (2011/12 Fresh Tracks
artist), the Kitchen (Emily Roysdon’s A Gay Bar Called Everywhere),
the Chen Dance Center (Newsteps Artist), the Firehall Arts Centre, the Powell
Street Festival, AUNTS, the 92nd St. Y, Studio 303, the Blinding Light Cinema,
and Video In. Aretha is currently making and performing Shore by Emily
Johnson/Catalyst Dance and has danced for devynn emory, robbinschilds, Vanessa
Anspaugh, Rebecca Serrell Cyr, Heather Kravas, Juliette Mapp, Daria Fain, Maura
Donohue, Elizabeth Ward, Martin Lanz, Faye Driscoll, Lisa D’Amour & Katie
Pearl, and others. She is the Editorial Associate at Contact Quarterly
and a Contributing Editor for CQ Journal 39.1. Aretha holds a BFA from
Simon Fraser University and a MFA from Smith College. arethaaoki.wordpress.com
Julia Gladstone (Performer) is a dancer, choreographer, and
videographer living in Northampton, MA. A graduate of Hampshire College, she
has danced throughout the five colleges, collaborates in multiple disciplines,
and has most recently performed in works at Amherst College, Bates Dance
Festival, and the Church of the Little Green Man. In 2013 she attended Bates
Dance Festival and was in residence with PlaceMaker Space at Earthdance. This
summer Julia will be working and dancing at Ponderosa in Stolzenhagen, Germany.
Ryan MacDonald
(Sound, Video) is from Kansas City, Missouri. He has constructed
sound for choreographers Aretha Aoki, devynn emory and Vanessa
Anspaugh. He holds the position of Lecturer at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst where he received an MFA in English and an MFA in Studio
Art. He is the winner of the 2012 American Short(er) Fiction Award. His story
collection The Observable
Characteristics of Organisms will be released in September 2014 from
FC2. Ryanamacdonald.com
