Work Up puts new ideas on stage.

Work Up supports the development of emerging dance and performance artists whose work demonstrates risk, relevance, and research.This April, Work Up presents nine emerging artists on a series of three shared-bill performances, as well as an artist-generated exhibition in the Gibney Dance Gallery.

Work Up 3.3 | Fana Fraser, Beth Graczyk, zavé martohardjono

Fana Fraser
Stillbirth

In Stillbirth, mythic dreams of ovarian teratomas and the vagina dentata collide with Caribbean Carnival practices. Remaining in this wake is an intimate portrait, a glimpse into the crevices of a body steeped in rebellion. With reverence for the almighty uterus, Stillbirth examines loss, the absurd, and making space anew.

Beth Graczyk
Beast

A series of physical micro-worlds emerge and dissolve in Graczyk’s solo, Beast. Humorous, absurd, and as unstable as a live wire, Graczyk guides us with peculiar and detailed logic through a seemingly empty room. Human interactions and objects become necessary partners in bringing forth the unseen as we follow Graczyk’s journey of revelation, rejection, and carnal need, vividly etched through the labor of her imagination. Beast is the inaugural solo for Graczyk’s larger body of work, Desire Motor, which embodies the dissonances arising between internal wants and external realities.

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GENERAL DYNAMICS

Your world is digitally generated, politically extremist, resource-depleted, selfie-obsessed, twerk-a-licious, and pushing at the margins of community sanity. Some might even say we no longer await the apocalypse. Welcome to GENERAL DYNAMICS… a “safe space” for somatic survival in the era of information overload. Join your host and a cast of characters to work out your deepest socio-political anxieties and get the latest wellness tips. Our regimen is sure to help you survive xenophobia, gentrification, global warming, and other fatigue-inducing Amerikkkan phenomena.

Visit gibneydance.org for more info!