356mission – A Retrospective of Dance Duets by Sophia Wang/Brontez Purnell

A Retrospective of Dance Duets by Sophia Wang/Brontez Purnell

May 6, 2018

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"Sophia and Brontez’s collaboration is defiant, antinormative. They switch from esoteric ritualistic vignettes, through mimed signifiers of everyday melodrama, into a ‘Let’s Get The Party Started, Claim The Floor, Claim The Air!’ exuberance. Their body language is casual and unmannered, bounding, flat-footed, thuddy, gyrating, buttshuffling. When they slip into precisely coordinated movement with shades of ballet and gymnastics, it doesn’t have the machinic synchronicity of formal choreography but is more like two bodies moving with one spirit." – Jeffrey Hutchison and Olivia Mole for Riting
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A Retrospective of Dance Duets
by Sophia Wang/Brontez Purnell

Sunday, May 6
7:30 PM – 9 PM

In 2009 Sophia Wang and Brontez Purnell co-founded Brontez Purnell Dance Company. The duo made a series of co-authored dance duets starting with Making Studying (in collaboration with tooth and Justin Clifford Rhody), which premiered at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives in 2013, followed by Unwanted Conversations (2014), Ceremonious/Unceremonious (2015), and Fake Autobiographies (The Love Story of…) (2016). Purnell and Wang have presented work at the Montreal Pop Festival, Fresh Festival (San Francisco, CA), (Outsider) (Austin, TX), Queer B Academy (Hamburg, Germany), and Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei, Taiwan); Fire Island Artist Residency forthcoming.

A program was distributed as part of this event, a scan of this document can be viewed below:

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