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See Same As Sister (@sameassister )โs Emergency Grant-supported performance, โUPSTAIRS, IN OUR BEDROOMโ, at Coffey Street Studio (@coffeystreet_studio ) as part of the Summer Happenings Festival in Brooklyn, NY this Sunday, July 27 at 4:30pm.
Later that evening, 2024 Creative Research Grantee evan ray suzuki (@evanxray ) will also perform in two piecesโone in collaboration with Glenn Potter-Takataโat 7:00 and 8:00pm.
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๐๏ธ Free; available at the link in @amandaplusjames โs bio.
#EmergencyGrants #FCAGrants
Canโt wait to see what these two are cooking up for the far back edge of @coffeystreet_studio . Come by July 27 at 4:30 for some multimedia madness
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Read more about their work above or in the comments and reserve your ticket for day of updates!
More rehearsal highlights and a few inspirations from our time in 3B during last monthโs @irttheater Archive Collective residency with dancers @sabrina_canas & @abbielinnemeyer .
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค-๐ข๐ง-๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ) continues Same As Sisterโs use of friction and contradictions as entry points to both new aesthetic explorations and cross-cultural discourses.
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#sameassisterinresidence #upstairsinourbedroom #irttheater #archivecollective #thecelebrityoftwins #sweetvalleytwins #erikssontwins #olsentwins #thedollysisters #thelovinggeneration #blackandwhite #dance #theater #reenactment #rehearsal #performance #research #nyc
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And thatโs a wrap on SASโs extended Archive Collective Residency at @irttheater , in partnership with @herearts , continuing our research & development for UPSTAIRS, IN OUR BEDROOM.
Stay tuned for more rehearsal highlights with the dynamic dancing duo of @sabrina_canas & @abbielinnemeyer , who helped us revisit some of our 90s twinhood nostalgiaโฆ
๐ Visit link in bio for more info.
#sameassisterinresidence #upstairsinourbedroom #irttheater #archivecollective #sweetvalleyhigh #90s #twins #nostalgia #sentimentalgarbage #beneaththeskin #dance #theater #reenactment #rehearsal #performance #nyc
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Video Description:
An accidental tour of IRT Theaterโs blackbox through the lens of an iPhone camera. Bumpy moving footage captures a black stage, red curtains and rows of upholstered chairs, a ladder climb up to a red carpeted tech booth loft, and two dancers wearing black, gray, and navy sweats and identical long blonde wigs.
#signofthetimes
Go see Reggie Wilson/@fistandheel Performance Groupโs THE RECLAMATION - @nyuskirball , 7:30 PM
Only ONE more night to catch this company doing their โpost-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern danceโ thangโฆ!!
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Choreographer Reggie Wilson is conspicuously reclaiming foundational ideas from his early gestural and โduet-edโ works and landing on provocative questions and surprises fitting to the times we are now experiencing. Wilsonโs meticulous and rigorous kinesthetic reclamation process is asking, if not begging us ๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ค ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐๐ซ๐? ๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ค ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ? ๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐ค ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฉโ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐ก๐๐๐ฉ ๐ข๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ช๐กโฆ๐ช๐ก๐ฉ๐๐ข๐๐ฉ๐๐ก๐ฎ, ๐๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ก๐๐ข๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐ค๐ ๐จ๐๐ก๐, ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐จ๐จ๐๐ง๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ช๐๐ก๐ ๐ง๐๐จ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐?
Taking a moment to send a well deserved shoutout to Peggy Piacenza (@peggypiacenza ) on receiving the @foundationforcontemporaryarts โ 2025 MERCE CUNNINGHAM AWARD!!
SAS is honoured and excited to share the stage with you as we continue our journey into the unknownโฆ ๐ฎ Congrats Peggy!!
#FCAGrantsโ #GrantstoArtists
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ID: Against a grey background is a headshot of Peggy Piacenza, a white woman with blue eyes and shoulder-length brown hair. At the top and bottom of the frame is white text that reads, โFoundation for Contemporary Artsโ and โPeggy Piacenza / 2025 Merce Cunningham Awardโ.
VD: In a dimly lit blackbox theater, Peggy wearing a short brown wig, mic headset, gold blazer, and green dress crosses the stage performing a suspended โspace walkโ in heels. As she exits, Hilary and Briana, biracial black and white twin sisters walk in. A slow-motion video animation of a twin embryo splitting is projected onto the back wall throughout.
A wip excerpt from HERE RAW: UPSTAIRS IN OUR BEDROOM, May 3, 2024 at @herearts .
Co-Direction & Choreography: @sameassister
Performance: @sameassister & @peggypiacenza
Dramaturgy: @susanmarlandau
Sound Design: Arjuna Meadows
Lighting Design: @poe.light
Video Programmer: @kadetskyj
Repost from @instapatzi
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โฅ๏ธ Just leaving this little Then vs Now with @sameassister here for the memories.
First photo was in 2006ish and the next was last week.
20 years sure flies by when youโre writing grants and navigating this *gestures to the state of the world*
Turning back the dial to 4 years ago on this day when we were in nature and process for THIS IS NOT A REMOUNT (2022).
Still feeling the presence and signalling of these beautiful beings:
Jessie Young @jessie.alexandra.young
Annie Wang @snapshotturtle
Alexa Grรฆ @alexa_grae
#tbt #sameassisterenpleinair #thisisnotaremount #themiserereproject #gregorioallegri #rehearsalvibes #healing #prospectpark #brooklyn #nyc
Video Description: A trio of masked dancers rehearse repeated arm and hand gestures throughout the Vale of Cashmere in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
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Same As Sisterโs THIS IS NOT A REMOUNT is a reenactment as tribute to the original cast of Toronto Dance Theatreโs 1981 production of David Earleโs MISERERE. The piece is a meditation on the public and private selves of dancers interwoven with the enduring impact of AIDS on this community.
THIS IS NOT A REMOUNT was an original commission by Danielle Baskerville for The Miserere Project, co-produced by @citadelcie_ โs Bright Nights Performing Arts Series in May of 2022. The piece was choreographed as a response to David Earleโs MISERERE (1981), courtesy of David Earle and Dancetheatre David Earle, and was developed during a Base Residency at @baseartspace in Seattle, WA. The project was supported, in part, by a @foundationforcontemporaryarts Emergency Grant, the Jerome Foundation, and the @qnsarts with public funds from the @nyculture in partnership with the @nyccouncil .
โ๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค, ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ญ, ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ญ๐๐ค๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐จ ๐๐๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐.โ
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Thankful for the last 2-weeks of experimentation and synthesis during our Archive Collective Residency at @irttheater , in partnership with @herearts .
It was an opportunity to reconnect with our collaborators, dramaturg @susanmarlandau and performers @peggypiacenza & @johnhpickup , to delve deeper into research and development for UPSTAIRS, IN OUR BEDROOM.
A special shoutout to our co-producing partner @dancemakersto and private donors for the funding support that made this residency possible.
We canโt wait to return to IRTโs blackbox in the New Year for part two of our residencyโฆ!!
๐ Visit link in bio for more info.
#sameassisterinresidence #upstairsinourbedroom #irttheater #archivecollective #outsider #folk #vernacular #afro #canadian #american #intercultural #dance #theater #puppetry #video #reenactment #performance #storytelling #experiments #toronto #nyc
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