Annie Kloppenberg Performs in Washington DC and Elsewhere

Associate Professor Annie Kloppenberg works researches performance from the inside and out. This fall she will be performing in “Mid-Tide” (tentative title/work-in-progress), an ongoing. multi-year research process choreographed by Lisa Race (Associate Professor of Dance, Connecticut College) with fellow performer/collaborators Rachel Boggia (Associate Professor of Dance, Bates College) and Kendra Portier (MFA Candidate, University of Illinois) with project dancer Sasha Peterson. The piece will be presented at Bates College’s “Back to Bates” Fall Dance Concert and at the Second Annual Lion’s Jaw Performance + Dance Festival in Cambridge, MA. The work investigates memory, intimacy, uncertainty, and togetherness in the context of spatial maps that are created, fragmented, destroyed, and, ultimately wiped clean.

Kloppenberg will also perform in the evening-length Coldness and Lightness at Dance Lofts in Washington DC.  At once austere and tender, coldness and lightness is an arresting portrait of the moment at which the ground cracks—sudden destabilization. Viewers encircle the performers and are drawn into an intimate experience  with dance up close, yet with a clear distinction between performer and audience. The result is a performance of dance and sound that can be experienced: wholly, physically and intellectually. Directors are Ashley Thorndike-Youssef (Executive Director, Now Next Dance & Independent Scholar/Artist) and composer Peter V. Swendson (Associate Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts & Chair, TIMARA, Oberlin College). In DC, Kloppenberg will teach a professional level workshop as a guest artist at Dance Exchange, founded in 1976 by Liz Lerman and under the artistic direction of Cassie Meador since 2011.