The Space Movement Project will present an informal afternoon of works alongside Minneapolis-based April Sellers Dance Collective. In 2017, the organizations co-launched GRUNT, a national touring network that engages artists in touring and curatorial opportunities.
The showing will be immediately followed by an information session about GRUNT's next season for artists interested in applying to join the network.
TSMP & April Sellers Dance Collective
March 18, 2017 at 5pm
VOLTA Performing Arts
2142 N. Milwaukee Ave.
ABOUT GRUNT
Grass Roots US National Tour (GRUNT) is a network designed to support artists who are emerging in their touring experience through a shared curatorial process. GRUNT facilitates cross-community relationships that will simultaneously allow artists to discover mutual trends and challenges within the current domestic dance making climate. GRUNT identifies the need to foster acuratorial lens for contemporary dance by providing mid career artists with the necessary tools to expand their national presence. These artistic voices have garnered consistent support in their local communities and are prepared to expand their performance presence. By building an exchange of regional artist work, presentation and dialogue amongst choreographers, GRUNT seeks to amplify these voices in both the creation of new work and in leadership roles of curator and presenter.
GRUNT seeks to develop new audiences for dance through the national touring of independent contemporary dance and performance. Dance artists working in different communities across the nation inherently reflect the regional concerns in their work. The sharing of original dance works has the opportunity to build a national consciousness and understanding of regional concerns, to showcase the dance communities’ creativity and diversity and to ultimately grow the national appreciation for dance.
ABOUT APRIL SELLERS DANCE COLLECTIVE
Formed by April Sellers in 2000, the April Sellers Dance Collective (ASDC) is nationally recognized for their gender-bending, feminist-infused performances. Led by Sellers’ choreography and fueled by community participation, the ASDC’s work has long explored sexual identity (Jousting, 2014 and In Her Place, 2000), queer feminism (Big Baby, 2014 and Double Drag, 2015), and the vulnerability of the body (The V Project, 2007). ASDC celebrates complex expressions of gender and identity in their highly-crafted performances.
