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  • I am honored to be performing my new dance installation, “Anna & Her Body,” featuring a costume hand-painted by Jane Lafarge Hamill, at the world renowned Brooklyn Museum on Saturday April 7, 2012. While I have been studying dance for years, my goal has been to take my passion for this medium to art spaces, museums and galleries rather than dance venues or dance concerts. To have the opportunity to do this at such a prestigious venue next to exhibits as profound as Keith Haring (78-82) is a massive honor. I aspire to develop as a professional artist, not a professional dancer and this piece calls on ZERO of my technical training as a dancer and is purely a visual experience. It’s an experiment, so while I can map out what might happen, I can only hope and pray that my expectations are exceeded by spontaneity of the space, the moment and the audience.   The piece is between 6 an 8 minutes long and will talk place in the Beaux-Arts Court on the third floor of the museum around 5:45pm. There will be a screening of“Girl Walk // All Day” at 6pm in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium which is right beside the Beaux-Arts Court. The entire day at the museum is free as part ofTarget First Saturdays and includes a party hosted by DJ Junior Vasquez in honor of the exhibit of his friend Keith Haring’s work which is currently on view at the museum.   This creation began as a fantasy of mine to dance inside one of Jane Lafarge Hamill’s paintings. http://janelafargehamill.com/ I imagined being in her gallery beneath a white sheet which is pulled back to reveal her latest masterpiece. As she is a master of the female form, I spent a lot of time thinking about the female body and chose two women whose bodies played a pivotal role in their lives. The first was Anna Nicole Smith. Her entire biographyis captivating, but I was especially touched by the harm her body suffered. The irony was that her body was her money-maker, yet she abused the shit out of it and eventually it gave up on her. Later I saw the 60-Minutes piece on Lara Logan’s tragic episode in Egypt’s Tahrir Square. I knew immediately that I wanted to make a creation dedicated to her struggle there, and decided that her ability to detach mind from body during the ordeal was not unlike Anna Nicole’s willingness to numb herself to death. You can see Lara’s story here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO12X1nhzzk.   I can’t be sure how much of this will come through during the performance, but as I go through the piece, I hope to detach from my body. The painting Jane has created for the piece is stunning and totally delicate. There is no doubt that you will see this painting suffer some damage by the time the piece concludes and watching the painting suffer this damage is likened to watching Anna Nicole self-destruct or Lara Logan be tortured.   Credits: dance installation by John Doyle costume by Jane Lafarge Hamill music by Prince This piece is dedicated to Lara Logan.

    I am honored to be performing my new dance installation, “Anna & Her Body,” featuring a costume hand-painted by Jane Lafarge Hamill, at the world renowned Brooklyn Museum on Saturday April 7, 2012. While I have been studying dance for years, my goal has been to take my passion for this medium to art spaces, museums and galleries rather than dance venues or dance concerts. To have the opportunity to do this at such a prestigious venue next to exhibits as profound as Keith Haring (78-82) is a massive honor. I aspire to develop as a professional artist, not a professional dancer and this piece calls on ZERO of my technical training as a dancer and is purely a visual experience. It’s an experiment, so while I can map out what might happen, I can only hope and pray that my expectations are exceeded by spontaneity of the space, the moment and the audience.

     
    The piece is between 6 an 8 minutes long and will talk place in the Beaux-Arts Court on the third floor of the museum around 5:45pm. There will be a screening of“Girl Walk // All Day” at 6pm in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium which is right beside the Beaux-Arts Court. The entire day at the museum is free as part ofTarget First Saturdays and includes a party hosted by DJ Junior Vasquez in honor of the exhibit of his friend Keith Haring’s work which is currently on view at the museum.
     
    This creation began as a fantasy of mine to dance inside one of Jane Lafarge Hamill’s paintings. http://janelafargehamill.com/
    I imagined being in her gallery beneath a white sheet which is pulled back to reveal her latest masterpiece. As she is a master of the female form, I spent a lot of time thinking about the female body and chose two women whose bodies played a pivotal role in their lives. The first was Anna Nicole Smith. Her entire biographyis captivating, but I was especially touched by the harm her body suffered. The irony was that her body was her money-maker, yet she abused the shit out of it and eventually it gave up on her. Later I saw the 60-Minutes piece on Lara Logan’s tragic episode in Egypt’s Tahrir Square. I knew immediately that I wanted to make a creation dedicated to her struggle there, and decided that her ability to detach mind from body during the ordeal was not unlike Anna Nicole’s willingness to numb herself to death. You can see Lara’s story here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO12X1nhzzk.
     
    I can’t be sure how much of this will come through during the performance, but as I go through the piece, I hope to detach from my body. The painting Jane has created for the piece is stunning and totally delicate. There is no doubt that you will see this painting suffer some damage by the time the piece concludes and watching the painting suffer this damage is likened to watching Anna Nicole self-destruct or Lara Logan be tortured.
     
    Credits:
    dance installation by John Doyle
    costume by Jane Lafarge Hamill
    music by Prince
    This piece is dedicated to Lara Logan.

    • April 2, 2012 (8:21 pm)
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