The Loving Project: E-Race

Submitted by lschande on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 4:20pm
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Date: 
Friday, June 11, 2010 - 8:00pm - Sunday, June 20, 2010 - 7:00pm
Location : 
DC
Maryland

Dance Box Theater presents:

The Loving Project: E-Race

@ Joe’s Movement Emporium

3309 Bunker Hill Road

Mount Rainier, MD 20712 

 

Friday, June 11 @ 8:00pm

Saturday, June 12 @ 8:00pm (reception in honor of Loving Day to follow this performance)

Sunday, June 13 @ 7:00pm

Friday, June 18 @ 8:00pm

Saturday, June 19 @ 8:00pm

Sunday, June 20 @ 7:00pm 

Tickets $10-$15 - 301-699-1819 

During this two week run at Joe’s, we will also have a free performance of The Loving Project: E-Race on the Millennium Stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Wednesday, June 16, 2010 @ 6:00pm.

 

Created and performed by Dance Box Theater’s Co-Artistic Directors, Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp, with Ilana Faye Silverstein and Mervin Primeaux, featuring a visual component by installation artist Lorne Covington. The Loving Project: E-Race includes a dynamic, interactive environment by Covington that uses specialized video software to analyze the dancers' positions, speeds and gestures.  Covington’s software translates the dance into electronic data, which then dictates vibrant, real-time video projection on the stage.

 

Through a lush tapestry of movement, music, and text, The Loving Project: E-Race explores interracial marriages and nontraditional partnerships through historical and present-day perspectives. This timely and relevant work offers reflections on racism, sexism, and gender bias, and highlights aspects of union that make partnership between "unlikely" couples viable (and desirable) despite an adverse status quo. The work weaves together a tapestry of stories that include: the case of Loving vs. Virginia, which in 1967 overturned the law against interracial marriage in Virginia; the 1930s marriage between Russian Inventor Leon Theremin and dancer with the American Negro Ballet, Lavinia Williams; and the case of Beth and Terence Humphrey-McKay, an interracial couple who in October 2009 were denied a marriage license from a Justice of the Peace in the State of Louisiana. Schandelmeier & Clapp's fifth evening length work, The Loving Project: E-Race celebrates distinctive partnerships and the rare gifts they bring to the world. It is appropriate for audiences of all ages, will be ASL interpreted and will include post-performance dialogue after each performance.  To learn more about this project and the company, please visit www.danceboxtheater.org.

 

Dance Box Theater premiered The Loving Project: E-Race at Dance Place in Washington, DC last October. Since then, we have been working on contextual and structural changes, creating new sections, and collaborating with Covington on the new visual environment. We are very excited to share the work with you and hope that you can join us for this very fun and engaging event!