Surrender Dorothy
August 6, 2022, 7pm
Complex@Canal
In-Person Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/383367020077
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An uncertain dance for uncertain times, “Surrender Dorothy” loops through the monotony, the anxiety, the grief, and the bleakness of the new decade. The work explores physical manifestations of intimacy, broaching questions such as: How does the unique dancing body reflect sorrow? How is this melancholy processed, regurgitated, and eventually celebrated? How do we adopt our pain and eventually wear it as armor? Set to a playlist of vibrant pop songs, “Surrender Dorothy” is an immersive dance meant to be viewed up close from a 360 degree lens. The audience is designed to see the moving bodies at their most vulnerable, all the while aware that a unique vantage point will mask elements of the choreography normally, and universally, visible in a traditional proscenium space. In doing so, the work is acutely aware that not everything can be seen, known, digested, and appreciated. |
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Grant Jacoby Biography Grant Jacoby is a New Jersey based choreographer, performer, and teacher. Originally from Wellesley, MA, he graduated Magna Cum Laude from Connecticut College, where he received his BA in Dance and Theater, and from Sarah Lawrence College, where he received his MFA in Dance. He was a company member of Quicksilver Dance and Lorraine Chapman The Company, and has performed in works by Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, David Parker & The Bang Group, Mark Dendy, Annie Kloppenberg, Lauren Simpson, and Audrey MacLean, among others. He has presented his choreography nationally and abroad in venues such as La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Triskelion Arts, Movement Research, Green Space, The Dance Complex, Green Street Studios, AS220, RAW Boston, Les Champs Melisey, and The International Festival of Arts & Ideas. He has set choreographic work at Babson College, Endicott College, and OnStage Dance Company, and has choreographed numerous musicals including the premiere workshop and production of Friday the 13th: The Musical. As a teacher, he has been on faculty at Boston Ballet, The Boston Conservatory, Sarah Lawrence College, and The National Theater Institute. |
Complex@Canal (650 E Kendall St)
Grant Jacoby & Dancers
Street shoes are not allowed in the studio at any time.
