Helen Wicks Works & Dragons Dance: Power Plays
Text "Wicks Works and Dragons Dance presents: Power Plays" sits on top of a triptych of images featuring three different artists. On the left is an aerial dancer suspended off of a building, sharing expressive gestures while wearing a silver suit. In the center is a drag artist wearing a bright pink outfit made to look like a flamingo wrapping around the body. On the right is the side-body profile of a dancer walking towards a light.
Photo by: from left to right: Kayleigh Shawn, Sam Storch, Robbie Sweeny
Power Plays is a series of new experimental dances that use contemporary, aerial dance, and drag performance to explore themes of pleasure, power, and play.
Project AeriALL, an emerging partnership between Alex Locust/Glamputee and Helen Wicks that reimagines accessibility in aerial dance.
“Run-On,” an interactive solo dance by Erin Yen which honors her late grandmother Honey, explores diverse perspectives within storytelling, and questions the cyclical ways in which people communicate.
Radio Vision, a new solo choreographed and performed by Helen Wicks exploring the first visual broadcast (1925) – coined as Radiovision. The piece will be accompanied by an original score that follows influential and under-recognized music composition teacher Nadia Boulanger’s influence on students like Igor Stravinksy, Quincy Jones, Phillip Glass and many others.
