The Most Innovative, Daring, and Original Piece of Dance /Performance You Will See this Decade (2012)
The Most Innovative, Daring, and Original Piece of Dance/Performance You Will See this Decade is a solo non-verbal lecture demonstration/dance experience, deconstructing Amy O’s past and recent influences (Hip Hop culture, Classicism, Big Boi, Cyndi Lauper, MTV, YouTube, money, feminism, Dub Step, the economics of the body…) and questions the way art is categorized and sold through the female perspective. Are we damned for selling ourselves in a culture where we are expected to?
Read Amy O’s Essay “Occupy Your Ass”. A response to first work in progress here.
Excerpt of Work in Progress:
Evening length premiere: October 2012 at Velocity Dance Center -Seattle WA
Work in Progress performances: October 28-29th 2011 at Velocity Dance Center -Seattle WA
February 17-19 2012 Memphis, TN
March 31st 2012 Portland, OR
Panel Discussion inspired by the work at Velocity Dance Center Seattle May 10th 2012
Artist talk on the process of the work: December 10th 2011 The Project Room -Seattle WA