FKO 2020: Screenings
Join us for a series of screenings of past Velocity productions, co-productions, and works by our artist residents. Featuring works by Alicia Mullikin, Daniel Costa, Neve Mazique-Ricardi, and Jody Kuehner.
ALICIA MULLIKIN
La Primera Reina and En brazos entre líneas enemigas
September 28, 2020 | 7 PM
Attend this special screening of Alicia Mullikin’s dance films La Primera Reina and En brazos entre líneas enemigas. You also don’t want to miss the post-screening conversation with Mullikin, and collaborators Devin Munoz and Elizabeth Sugawara, and her upcoming work El Sueño.
EL SUEÑO focuses on the experiences of first-generation Americans and the multi-generational pursuit of the American Dream. The work brings powerful female archetypes to life through personal experiences drawn from a multi-ethnic cast of women. EL SUEÑO is a direct message to audiences- This brown girl will resist, rise, and thrive. The work is set to premiere in 2021.
Photo by Stefano Altamura
DANIEL COSTA DANCE
open / shut
September 29, 2020 | 7 PM
Screening and conversation with Daniel Costa
Join us for a screening of open / shut, a dance piece choreographer by Adam Barruch and performed by Daniel Costa Dance performers for CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work festival
Photo by Jim Coleman
NEVE MAZIQUE-RICARDI
Lover of Low Creatures
Screening
September 30, 2020 | 7 PM
Travel down the wonderful and terrifying world of Neve Mazique-Ridardi’s imagination in this multidisciplinary work co-presented by Velocity Dance Center in May, 2019.
Lover of Low Creatures is simultaneously a unique new take on musical and dance theatre, a solo cabaret, and a spiritual ritual take on coming of age and sexual healing. Snow is a mixed race (Sudanese Nubian and Scottish American), physically disabled girl growing up in a forest on a river near a town. She and her white mother’s house is whimsical and magical, filled with friendly animals and butterflies, dancing in the morning, and sleeping spells in the evening. Snow and her mother are scientists, artists, and witches in tune with each other and the natural world. But underneath the flow of their routine, is an entity, or entities, very ancient, and very much alive, following Snow, that she is afraid to face, most of all because she has reason to believe her fate is intricately tied to it, in a way her mother’s is not.
In Lover of Low Creatures, Mazique-Ricardi’s contemporary dance style combines the fearless irreverence of punk, the assured shapes of ballet, and the audacity of Vogueing, with inflections of Zar, a trance ritual dance form originating from the Horn of Africa in which participants dance in an effort to expel the spirits of possessive demons from the body. Perhaps even more daring, in what Mazique-Ricardi calls “true African storytelling tradition” this new work will be entirely danced and sung through, with music that is just as genre-bending and bold as the dance, in equal turns operatic, punk and folk.
Photo by Jenny May Peterson
JODY KUEHNER
Worth My Salt
Screening with a post-show conversation with the artist
October 1, 2020 | 7 PM
Join us for a special screening and conversation with Jody Kuehner, aka “huge-haired, worship-
Drawing on Carl Sagan’s series Cosmos and female icons Kate Bush and Diane Keaton – Worth My Salt looks at the timely theme of gender inequity through the lens of an existential crisis. How do we prove our worth? How do we feel worthy? Cherdonna’s unique vision brings together dance and drag with clowning’s ability to tug on heartstrings, cabaret’s warm intimacy, and performances’ ability shatter taboos to make sharp social commentary.
Featuring costumes by Mark Ferrin (chorus) and celebrated designer Mark Mitchell (Cherdonna), visual design by award-winning performance and film-maker Corrie Befort of Salt Horse, lighting design by Meg Fox, sound design by Dylan Ward, and choreographic mentorship by Guggenheim awardee Dayna Hanson.
Performed by:
Jody Kuehner as Cherdonna Shinatra
Chorus: Jim Kent, Randy Phillips, David Wolbrecht